![]() ![]() Well, turns out Mallon owned Pacific American Decorative Company. Recently, architectural historian Jim Wolf dug into the mystery of who actually created them, and he landed on the answer that it was actually glassworker John Mallon. This discovery confirmed something that many historians had a hunch about: the true artisan who made its impeccable stained glass windows. According to the Times Union, workers were removing parts of the wall when they noticed something peculiar: a beautifully preserved envelope tucked inside from 100 years ago from the Pacific American Decorative Company. In September 2019, one of the many mysteries of the Winchester House, as the National Registry of Historic Places refers to it, was solved during restoration work in one of its many dining rooms. Courtesy Winchester Mystery House Ongoing Renovations ![]() The home was designated a historic landmark in 1974, and it's listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. The couple opened the house up to the public in 1923 and eventually bought the property (which is now owned by a privately held company that represents their descendants). It was then leased to John and Mayme Brown for a 10-year period. The rumors only grew after her death, when the property sold at auction to a private investor for around $135,000-today just north of $2 million. She later subscribed to many magazines and journals on the subjects and taught herself the craft. And, of course, the truth is likely bit simpler: Sarah's father had been a carpenter during the height of the Victorian period, and so she grew up loving design and architecture. Historians have never been able to corroborate the visit with the medium, and many of Sarah's longtime employees and friends denied the story both during and after her lifetime. Unfortunately for her, the ghosts followed her to California, so she tried to outsmart them by building a rambling home with a tangle of hallways. Other versions of the story purport that Sarah was driven west because she was being haunted in the family mansion in New Haven. According to folklore, Sarah was motivated to build a home with such odd features because a medium told her that the ghosts of those killed by the Winchester rifle would haunt her until the day she died unless she went out west to build a house with room for all of them. In order to make sense of this perceived monstrosity in what was then a rural community, rumors began to swirl about her motivations. It's a question people have asked ever since Sarah started construction. David Swann Is the Winchester Mystery House Haunted? Or, if you'd like to take it a step farther and get spooked on a virtual tour of the estate, click here.The kitchen. If you're too scared, you can always just watch the video in the player above. If you dare to take a trip down Sarah Winchester's hallowed halls, you'll notice the eerie feeling of history creeping up on you. When I got into the room, all three cabinet doors were wide open! I checked every place a person could hide or slip out, but there was no one."- M.K The cabinets had been closed and they're very difficult to open, especially in a short amount of time. "I was standing in her bedroom once when suddenly I heard noise coming from the cabinets the dressing room nearby. "I often hear footsteps going all the way up the main staircase and then stopping at the top, but there is no one walking up." - K.C. ![]() Footage before and after did not contain this type of video static and it was only centered in the center of the frame almost as if something was walking in circles in front of us." - V.S. When we went to the editing bay to put the footage together we were surprised to find that video taken of the various boilers in the basement had a distinct ripple effect in the middle of the shot. "We were in the house in spring of 2017 shooting video of various locations. You were waiting for the ghosts, right? Well, here are some of the most vivid accounts of paranormal activity in the Winchester Mystery House, courtesy of the estate itself The inside of the house is pretty baffling, but the outside garden areas are home to some curious things as well, including a $20,000 English Yew tree that towers over 12,000 boxwood hedges, 1,500 major plants, shrubs, trees - and even greenery called Monkey Puzzle, which is native to Chile. ![]() Winchester has a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous house construction - 38 years! The only time work slowed down was after the 1906 Earthquake rocked the estate and the Bay Area causing damage that is still visible in the home today. TIME Magazine has ranked the South Bay attraction among the Top 10 Most Haunted Places alongside the likes of The Amityville House and The Tower of London. ![]()
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