The following excerpts and personal accounts are summaries of actual and unexplained experiences of past and present employees, guests, members of the press, and psychic researchers while inside the Winchester Mystery House™. These are but a few of the experiences that continue to evolve from Sarah Winchester’s World Famous Victorian mansion.

Recent Incidents

While taking the tour, we were joined by an 'orb', it followed our mentally disabled son, rapping on the floors and walls, laughing, and generally entertaining him. We think it was Sarah playing with him, he kept telling us there was 'the girl' with us. It was clearly a friendly, happy soul, we enjoyed her company very much.
10/17/05, 10:00AM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom by Goldenthrush

While taking a tour, I was taking pictures with a digitial camera and after getting pics placed on a cd i looked at the fireplace wall and captured a image of a lady who looks like she was screaming (Have pics can send so you can see image)
07/07/08, 10:45AM at the Grand Ballroom

I have forgotten the exact time and date. The room was freezing cold when I stepped in and I had to put on my jacket even though it was a hot day. as we were leaving the tour guide mentioned that this was one of the rooms that lacked air-conditioning. Spooky
06/28/05, 12:00AM at the Seance Room

I visited the W.H. last summer and captured a mysterious picture. I don't know the name of the room it was taken in, but there was a mirror in the room. the room was plain and seemed like a storage room. I took a picture of my boyfriend and I in the mirror and a 3rd person appeared next to my boyfriend. the figure is obviously a person, but there was no one standing next to my boyfriend during the photo. we even looked at everyone in the group to find that not one person looked like the figure in my pic. I still can't get over the picture. i went through every scenario of who or what the 3rd person could have been right after taking the picture, and there is no explanation. The photo was not manipulated in any way. Everyone that i show the picture to is blown away.
06/09/09, 4:30AM at the Other by Angela M

The basement was colder than upstairs, so i knew it was filled with ghosts
03/29/10, 12:00AM at the Basement by nutcase

In 2000, watched the chandelier in the grand ballroom swinging back and forth then suddenly stop.
03/25/10, 12:00AM at the Grand Ballroom by noname

I was a tour guide from 1986 to 1988. On my last day I was cleaning in Mrs Winchesters Bedroom and before i left I paused to say goodbye. I told her that it was my last day and thanked her for building the house because it gave me my first job. As I turned to leave something brushed past me and it felt for all the world that someone had kissed my cheek.
08/16/88, 4:30PM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom

I felt like the the group wasnt alone. i felt a presence that was cold and disturbing.
03/17/10, 12:30PM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom by creeped out in california

i saw a figure standing in the door way when i came closer it disapered then i turned around and it was standing not 2 feet from me
03/16/10, 2:00AM at the Basement

In Arcade Room, loud bang from 1906 Earthquake machine. Not running at the time.
03/13/10, 9:30AM at the Other by carman

i was driving by and i saw a lady in a big white old fashion dress then when we drove in, we later found out that room was sarah winchester's! =0
08/01/09, 12:00AM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom by mizz_haunted

it was like a lady standing their just looking at us
03/08/09, 12:00AM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom

i saw it and i loved it so much
03/01/10, 2:45AM at the Hall-of-Fires by love

My son took a picture in the fruit drying place on the behind the seens tour and there is a object in the upper left corner its very cool, I have the pic but need to know how to upload it.
03/06/10, 2:00PM at the Other

Is there a ghost named Clyde?
02/25/10, 12:00AM at the Other

there was a whispering sound and is sounded like it was saying Sarah!
02/08/10, 1:30AM at the Other by MooMama

I have felt by ghost is toching my neck but i yell come and toch me in oct 31,2002 , time i think is 815 pm or 8:30 pm that it happen to me .
02/21/10, 8:45PM at the Sarah Winchester Bedroom by Archie L. C.

We heard what sounded like a piano playing in the room. When we entered we thought it was a speaker but no speakers could be found and no one was in the adjacent room.
02/04/10, 1:00PM at the Bradley Bedroom by Christine Ford

I was in the hallyway on the floor where Mrs. Winchester was in and I ran into a man dressed as the appropite time frame butler, I asked if he works there and he said h used to work Mrs. Winchester, when I realized he was dead, I turned to talk to him again and he was gone! (twilight zone theme).
02/19/10, 12:00AM at the Other

WE SAW IT! WE SAW THE GHOST OF THE LEGENDARY CARPENTER! BEFORE WE WERE QUICK ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT OUR THERMAL CAMERAS - IT DISAPPEARED! DANG I WISH WE HAD THAT OUT AND READY (Takes about 10 min. to set up..or warmed up as we say in the ghost hunting biz.)
02/16/10, 4:15AM at the Carpenter Workshop by a&m ghosthunters 4 lyf 2010

While on a tour, I was in the back of the group and I felt someone blow on the back of my neck. There was no one behind me and no vent anywhere. This happened twice.
06/27/05, 12:00PM at the Other by Jenny

i was in the hall of fires, and i felt a strange breeze coming up from the vent on the floor.then i looked behind me and i saw someone walk past real fast.
02/08/10, 2:00PM at the Hall-of-Fires by john

Don't remember exactly which room I was in, but looking out the window of th3e room we were in, and into a window on an upper floor where there shouldn't have been anyone, I saw what looked like the profile of someone watching us shuffle through the house.
02/06/10, 2:00PM at the Bradley Bedroom by Roy

I saw a ghost in the seance room. It was an old lady hunched over and facing the wall. Whilst I was watching she disappeared.
02/07/10, 2:15PM at the Seance Room by billy22

i was by the front steps and i thought i heard my mom call my name i looked over my sholder and i could have swore i saw sara winchester go around te corner. it was sooo scary
02/01/07, 12:00AM at the Back Porch Steps by :P ghost fan

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