The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, was the home of Mrs. Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, from 1884 until her death in 1922. Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a spiritualistic medium that the lives of her husband and baby daughter had been taken by the spirits of those killed by the "Gun that Won the West", and that she too would share their fate unless she would begin building a mansion for the spirits on which work would never stop nor ever be completed. The sounds of the carpenters tools could be heard 24 hours a day for almost 38 years. Cost of construction was... (see more)