After her daughter and husband died, heiress Sarah Winchester became obsessed with the idea that spirits haunted her and to appease them she had to have a house continuously built for them. So she did - 24 hours a day for 38 years.
Josh and Chuck dive into the bizarre true story of the Winchester Mystery House, the sprawling Victorian mansion built by Sarah Winchester, widow of the Winchester rifle fortune heir. After consulting a medium following tragic family losses, Sarah believed she was haunted by the spirits of everyone killed by Winchester rifles and spent decades constructing an ever-expanding, architecturally impossible house to appease them. The hosts explore the mansion's famous features like staircases leading nowhere, doors opening to walls, and the non-stop construction that continued 24/7 for nearly four decades until Sarah's death.
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