The new movie "Winchester" is a paranormal horror film about one of the largest haunted houses in America. The story is based on the life of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the company that created the ...

Where history meets mystery, San Jose's Winchester Mystery House held their grand opening on Friday for Festival Fright Nights. This year's experience is set in 1924, two years after the death of ...

Sarah Lockwood Pardee was born in 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. At the age of 23, she married William Wirt Winchester, the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a once prominent American ...

Winchester Mystery House historian Janan Boehmewill discuss parallels between Sarah Winchester’s famed San Jose estate and her sister Isabel Merriman’s Los Altos home at the Los Altos History Museum ...

Sisters Isabel Merriman and Sarah Winchester called the house on Edgewood Lane in what is now Los Altos “El Sueño.” Courtesy Los Altos History Museum. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose is an ...

When the Winchester Mystery House celebrated its 100th anniversary two years ago, Robin Chapman was one of several historians asked to speak to mark the centennial. Intrigued by what Sarah Winchester ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - One of the most famous mansions in the Bay Area is upping the ante this Halloween season. The Winchester Mystery House is adding a new experience: Festival Fright Nights. On the ...

Among the Pardee sisters born in New Haven, Conn., much is known about Sarah—heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Less is known about Winchester’s younger sister Isabel Merriman, an ...

For 38 years, construction never stopped on the Victorian home. Oct. 27, 2008 — -- For 38 years workers never stopped building. With 160 rooms, including 40 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, 40 staircases ...