December 17, 2011. San Jose, California. Somehow, California has managed to turn some absurdly rich, short, and crazy old lady's house into a popular tourist attraction. The premise is that a superstitious widow used her inheritance to hire carpenters to renovate her home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 38 years--in order to create rooms sufficient to house the many ghosts killed by the winchester gun. Dave and I finally gave in to requests and toured Sarah Winchester's Mansion last Saturday. I was not impressed by the tour; price was too high, tour was too crowded, and tour guide was not very interesting. I was looking forward to hearing all the ghostly rumors about Sarah and the mansion, but instead we just got facts of the house and its construction. There were more spooky details in a book at the gift store. The stairs to nowhere? Mere renovations that rendered them useless. The window in the floor? A simple skylight. The marketing team for this mansion has done a very good job capturing attention. Visiting the mansion, not highly recommended...unless maybe on Halloween night when the tour guides are less likely to disappoint.
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