And the arms started to sway like they were dancing,” she said. “I just kind of kept singing, I don’t know why. She thought a friend was playing a joke on her, but when she turned around, no one was there.
In preparation for the new tour, she was cleaning the room of cobwebs and singing to herself when she felt two arms wrap around her. The room’s peaked roof creates a unique capability: If you stand in a certain place, your voice resonates to create an eerie surround sound effect.Įvery tour guide has a ghost story to tell, and Foster says the Witch’s Cap is also where she had her own inexplicable experience back in January.
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The new tour allows visitors to get a close-up look at the Crystal Bedroom, named for the glimmering mica embedded in the room’s wallpaper, as well as an attic-like storage space in the house’s north wing where windows and balustrades from the fallen seventh-floor tower are on display.īut the highlight has to be the South Turret Witch’s Cap, the only circular room in the house and the place tour guide Jamie Foster said Harry Houdini once held a seance in 1924. At one point, visitors are required to don hard hats - branded with the Winchester Mystery House logo, naturally - because of the low ceilings and exposed pipes. (A new guest book awaits them at the end of the Explore More tour - if they make it out, of course.)įrom the front door, the tour winds through the house in disorienting fashion, creaking through narrow hallways and up and down staircases that will be new to even frequent visitors. As the first tour groups - which included San Jose City Councilman Chappie Jones - passed through the threshold, they were greeted with a guest book signed by visitors from 1924.
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