Tyler Henry’s 1860 repeating rifle that Oliver Winchester adapted and improved upon to produce his first repeating rifle, the Winchester Model 1866. See the collection of guns that preceded the famous Winchester Rifle, including B. The “Gun that Won the West” is the main attraction in the Firearms Museum, one of the largest Winchester Rifle collections on the West Coast. Sorry, due to safety concerns, children 9 and under and babies are not permitted. The Behind-the-Scenes Tour is limited to those 10 and older. You will also learn about Victorian architecture as your guide points out the many features used in the building of the Winchester mansion. You will go into the stables, dehydrator, Plumber’s workshop, the unfinished Ballroom, and one of the basements. The Behind-the-Scenes Tour is a guided tour which takes guests into areas which had been unexplored for over 75 years. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82! Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous “Gun that Won the West” and help her attain eternal life. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Tour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters’ hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. There have been the sounds of haunted footsteps etheral music and many a banging doors too often one hears mysterious echoing ghostly voices several unexplainable cold spots strange moving lights and orbs in ghost photos witnesses have seen doorknobs that turn by themselves… and don’t forget the scores of people who have their own claims of phenomena to report but just are to afraid to do it. In the years that the house has been open to the public, employees and visitors alike have had one to many unusual encounters with ghost. Many many psychics have visited the Haunted house, most have come away actually convinced, that Sarah Winchester and many other tormented spirits still wander the Great maze of rooms. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. This Haunting makes the top ten in the USA, Number 4 Haunted House in America. There have been a number of strange events reported at the totally unique Winchester House for many years and they still continue to be reported today.
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