Beyond the Ghost Stories of the Winchester Mystery House 

This is the first video I've seen that's treated the Winchester House as a proper house and not just some creepy ghost destination. Great video, that house is architecturally amazing!

This is the first time I’ve heard of Sarah Winchester referred to as an innovative pioneer and not some crazy, insane, haunted, troubled woman. Thank you for this respectful depiction!!

If there are really ghosts in that house, those ghosts must be have a high taste of art and really appreciate her works

Ultimate hide and seek venue

Thank you so much for providing a more honest portrail of Sarah and her home. I have been researching her and the Pardee, Merriman, Winchester families for over 20 years. She was not crazy or haunted. The was a brilliant, college educated, independent women at a time when women had no rights. She ran a working farm, orchards and dehydrating plant. She paid her workers well and provided benefits at a time when it was unheard of. A truly wonderful person who does not deserve to be slandered and have the macabre be her legacy.

Sarah was an engineering genius, she sure knew how to make life easier for herself and for the house staff. That house is beautiful and an engineering marvel.

I loved that it was about her and not about the crazy ghost fearing nut job people make her out to be

Wow have a completely different opinion on her and that house now. She really was a creative spirit.

I want those corner pieces😁😁 this house is a museum of decoration, and she was probably one of the first interior designers ever

I am most impressed with the stairway corner pieces which blocked dust. You don't here of a lot of super wealthy people who show any concern for their servants. I hate that they have made up this ridiculous horror movie because that is what people will remember of her.

I Lived on Santa Row, and my balcony faced the Winchester house. It was definitely a cool neighbour to have.....the tour is very cool, it's definitely a must see!!

Ahhh. The good old days. My first job. I had some wild ass times working at that house. Made some awesome friends. My favorite thing to do in the house besides giving the tours was cleaning time, when some of the guides would break up slow days and clean. If you think its truly haunted, it's not really. Peaceful actually. Nice and quiet and beautiful on sunny winter days. Cleaning the ballroom was always fun with my headphones on and just slipping around. Of course the 3rd floor is the least appealing, but it was the servants quarters after all, and also mostly blocked off by really hard to see through glary reflected window panels. I enjoyed working at the WMH. Good ass times man.

My great grandmother was a house maid there during Mrs.W's day

What an amazing woman she is ahead of her time. Her home is a work of art. ❤️

Wow! I love haunted house stories, but this perspective of Sarah Winchester as an endlessly creative innovator with a passion for Aesthetic design is even more fascinating. I'd love to see and hear more.

i hope she is now at peace with her family beautiful lady

I love that they weren't focused on her supposed 'ghost issues' where she was using the house to hide herself or build for 'spirits.' We don't know that for certain. But here, they are focused on the way she adapted, the way she thought, her aesthetics and gave an insight into the way she lived, and I think that is amazing! She was way ahead of her time, amazing with engineering and smart! Who knows how quickly the world could have adapted or evolved its engineering if everyone was as good at coming up with new ideas such as these?

I grew up near this house! Love that it's making a Hollywood debut! Actually, San Jose has quite a few very interesting sights! There's an Egyptian museum, and Japanese tea garden.

As a kid I used to look at black and white pictures of this house in a ghost book my sister had in the 90's. It's cool to see actual video from it.

What a wonderfully smart woman! This is extremely intresting!

honestly it would be a dream come true to play hide and seek in that house

This house alone being built in the late 1800s was so creative. Imagine her being an architect in a time like today. She was really wise that’s what’s spooky to me. Completely ahead of her time.

So lovely to see the true story about this legendary “ghost” house, she was ingenious! What a dame!

when she liked something she just went for it all the way, amazing 👏👏

this kind of explanation about Sarah Winchester and her house is what I LIKE. Salute.

wow that house is actually incredible, i just thought she was crazy but actually she's an ingenious designer

it’s so refreshing to not hear about spirits and ghosts. i look upon this house as Sarah’s R & D house where she was constantly trying out new products and ideas. Amazing testimonial to a brilliant woman.

Great video!! Luv'd that the focus was on the logistics of the house. Most videos focus on the myth surrounding Sarah & her house. I liked the realistic reasoning for why she was so into physics & séances. Present day observers continue to make it seem like she was the odd ball for participating in such activities, when actually during that time such activities were VERY popular. So popular in fact that pyschics were used for entertainment at large parties. By the 1920s their popularity had died down due to investigaters exposing some as frauds.

When I went to San Jose, Winchester Mystery House was at the top of my places to visit. So worth it! I went at Christmas when it was open late and decorated for the holidays, it was spectacular!

This is lovely. Though I'm a fan of ghost stories, it's so refreshing to hear about the woman and her house without the ghost element. What a cool house on its​ own.

I love the idea of making even everyday items beautiful somehow. These items were made by true master craftsmen. They built her a work of living art & she was a genius at design too.

I first toured the Winchester House in 1969 and Their was No Talk,Rumors,Of it being haunted.Curious as to why it is now considered to be one of America’s most haunted houses.Tourism?

It was cool learning about this side of the Winchester House vs just the haunted side that everyone knows.

What an interesting an informative video. I knew about the mystical side of Mrs. Winchester and how it related to her house, but learning about the fascinating design era she lived in and the brilliant adaptation of making her home functional not only for herself, but for her staff is very impressive. I now want to plan a trip to California to take a tour(s) of her home and learn more extrodinary information about her and her house. Thanks for this wonderful video.

If the house used to be seven stories could those old doors and stairways that go nowhere simply be doors and stairways that use to go to higher floors? I’ve only heard that she built them for spirits which could be true as well, but also wonder if they used to go to higher stories.

I love how they give information about this house without making it really scary 😂🙃

Wow she must’ve been rich. Who was the heir to her fortune and this house?

I'm inspired by Sarah Winchester's Creation. It's like a maze. A very elegant maze.

I want to go there sooooo badly!

What a very well done video, thanks so much for sharing : Loved the way it was done..

I don't feel scared, I FELT LOVE!

I am fortunate enough to have attend such unforgettable event, the Winchester Premiere Party and a chance to see inside the house for the first time! 🖤

One thing I found amazing was how she used the skylights to create natural light on the ground floor. In spite of the fact that she had electricity she also had natural light from overhead sources. She was able to employ artisans from all disciplines to practice and perfect their craft as a benefactor

Wow!! What a beautiful story I didn't know this side of it, makes me want to go there even more so!!

Thank you for this. I'm in awe. I love this side of her that only a few knows about. I will never see her as the crazy lady again. You opened my eyes to something magical.

Just started working there as a tour guide I’m very stoked to be able to see this place on a daily

there is really no proof that she was a Occultist, more of a numerologist and keeping busy after loosing her only child as a baby and then her husband and being the wealthiest woman in the world , she could afford to indulge her interest in architecture and build this big home, and keeping busy she could maybe forget for a while about her child and husband . Her servants said no seance was done in her time, in the "seance room",

Sad how everyone around her thought “such a weird house, she MUST be crazy” instead of “such a weird house, she’s so artistic!” Did anyone even speak to her about this wonderful and beautiful art piece? Maybe if they did they wouldn’t have judged her so harshly… It’s clearly vent art. This video is like the only time I’ve seen someone speak of Sarah so politely

Its an amazing work of art.

When you’re a massive supernatural fan and get confused when someone has the last name Winchester... 😅

When I visited California 3 years ago. I made a special trip to the Winchester mansion. It was a place that I had wanted to visit ever since I was a child in the 80s and saw it featured on Ripley's Believe it or Not. It did not disappoint.

How charming! I wish I could visit the house, it must be stunning.

Mrs Winchester wasn't insane! She's innovative to make it easy for her house staff. An employer would never thought of making a servant's life less unbearable At least in her time.

Amazing house and an amazing woman!

Wow, wow and wowwww...... Just brilliant. And beautiful--the house and its owner! But how sad she lost her baby and husband so early.

Awesome ... SaraW had the "je ne sais quoi" that IS this Valley. She is first on my list of "The Women of Silicon Valley" ... before Marissa Mayer, before Sheryl Sandberg, before Sister Assumpta (well maybe not her ... 2nd grade teacher BTW). I worked the "house" as a kid and I'm here to say that this video tells an authentic story. The story nails it exactly the way I lived it ... told from the inside like only the few who worked all 160 rooms ... "keeeeep building" ...

I've toured this house before and it is soooooo beautiful and interesting!

American Horror Story NEEDS to do a season about this!!!

I think she was afraid to be alone and this was her way of keeping people around. My mother's worst fear was loneliness and she had one of my sisters move in with her boyfriend after my father died. Something she would never had allowed prior to his death.

The architecture and craftsmanship of this home is simply amazing! I've always heard the ghost stories but it's nice to see the house appreciated for its uniqueness and detail.

wow this is Winchesters everyone knows about them thanks to #supernatural Ahahahah

I love how this video talks about the beauty, history, & innovation of the house & Mrs. Winchester in a positive light instead of trying to make it seem so mysterious, creepy & scary like many other depictions of her & her house.

Some pretty good style for a 100 year old house

Damn. This woman was ahead of her time. 💙

She was bloody brillante she was.

Thank you for sharing this tour! This home is brilliant!

what an inspirational, innovative and creative lady! thank you

Wow an architect ahead of her time. I came looking for anything related to Sarah Winchester after knowing that there was a movie about the house,and I came across this video upload. All I can say is how majestic the Manchester house is. Sarah is a genius.

SARAH had a intriguing/intresting mind. Loved how she worked through her ideas. This lady could teach us a few things today.

The video quality is AMAZING! Her house is even more beautiful! I would LOVE to see it in person and take a tour!

An interesting video, that shows the house as the crazy wonder that it was. There is no need to put a supernatural sheen on something that is already a wonder in itself.

they only recently started marketing it as haunted. my dad toured it when he was younger and they just marketed it as an eccentric old woman. that should tell you something then huh?

I'd like to visit once in my life...Sarah is so genius. It's so different from movie's image. I like her.

She's very smart😊

Sarah would be FLOORED if she knew that all of the orchards around her house, are now shopping, restaurants, Santana Row. Crazy how time marches on and on...

Wow certainly the best made video I've seen on this incredible house. Sarah was an engineering genius!! Thank you for sharing ❤️

The mansion is so amazing but I can’t imagine being lost in that house... it might took forever for me to find my room 😂

My heart breaks for Sarah - losing her baby girl . Losing those she loved . I feel so deeply for her ❤️

This home is so very unique colorful and not creepy as they often said. It is very beautiful and very complex. Thank you for presenting it in such a special way. Most interesting indeed.

Wow she’s so amazingly smart!

Ok, can we move Sarah to the left for just a second and focus on the incredible skill of the craftsmen who put this together? I mean, some of the details in this home stand​ as a portfolio for the hands who crafted it ....my stars!

Wow! What a masterpiece of extreme architecture. Mind boggling.

The staircase to know where could be the staircase to the top levels before the earthquake

I would rather live there alone and peacfully with no noises crowd people.

my aunt jan's been there, she sead , IT'S A AMAZING PLACE TO SEE!!

THANK YOU for this video!! ♥️

If the top floors were removed, that explains staircases to nowhere.

Much better than the way Unsolved Mysteries made her out to be some sort of weirdo

Lots of history. Before silly con valley. Worked on property. Friend was care taker. Other friends granddad was heir to some property, later donated by grandma for Westmont High School. You can walk the garden and visit the gift shop and cafe for FREE!

I have looked at pictures and videos of this house in the past. Happy to see the house in a new light. Very colorful Love all the small details.I think she was a genius 😃

Wow this is amazing what a smart women !

I’m on a mission to find every single room of that house and map it out

The Winchester Mystery House. It’s an amazing.. stunning place.. Been there a couple of times.. an experience you’ll never forget.. I’ve never seen anything like it! Excellent video..thanks for sharing.

Very informative and I was always wanting to know more about the architecture and not the sensationalism of the place. Thank you so much!

I love the way her story is told here. I wonder had she been born in a different era she could have been a great architect.

I always figured that the movie ROSE RED was a take off of this house.

Thank you for this video. It explained so much more than the tour ever did that I went on years ago. This tells you the actual history of the home and the woman and how much love she put into the home.

She sounds like she was a fun woman! I imagine she just enjoyed the motion of life, and the constant change as well. Like she saw problems and could think of solutions. A creative thinker :)

Those are Tiffany and co window glasses. I went into that spirit room and gaves me headache three days. She's has bullet floor. There is so much about this mansion.

I can remember the movie tht made me fascinated with this house, Stephen King's Rose Red, I was jus in awe when I found out it was an actual house similar to tht, thx for sharing.