Tonight the Travel Channel will broadcast live from the Winchester Mystery House. The show starts at 9pm Eastern/Pacific, and is planned to run all night.
From the Travel Channel website description of the show:
” After their successful investigation at Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary, the ‘Most Haunted Live’ team returns to the United States to investigate the Winchester [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.
When you leave the Daisy Bedroom, you’ll follow your guide up a short flight of normal stairs to the third floor of the mansion. The rooms [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

Although most people don’t know it by name, the Daisy Bedroom holds a close second to the Seance Room as the most famous room in the [...]

 
Last night, we hunted ghosts with a true professional. The San Francisco Ghost Hunt tours the Pacific Heights district of SF nightly with guide Jim Fassbinder.
One of the spirits Jim introduced to the crowd struck a particular chord for us. Mary Ellen Pleasant (pictured above) controlled great wealth, was reputed to practice strange rituals, and [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

The tour script describes these rooms as guest quarters, and the revelation that a famous recluse built guest rooms in her mansion usually stirs up some [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

This room, named for its most prominent feature, sits at the top of the main staircase. Starting here, the tour begins to explore the portion of [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

The tour script for the linen rooms focuses on the built-in wooden cabinets, painted with a faux wood grain to simulate maple (a common Victorian-era technique), [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

Stop 11: The Oriental Bedrooms
It is a well-known fact that Mrs. Winchester lived alone in her mansion, with frightened servants as her only companions. Only her [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.

Stop 10: The Hall of Fires
According to the tour script, the heat generated by four fireplaces in a relatively small room would have soothed Mrs. Winchester’s [...]

Editor’s note: Every weekday in October, former Mystery House blogger Stephen will post an excerpt from his in-progress guide to the Winchester Mystery House. Previous entries can be found here.
Stop 9: The North Conservatory
As you leave the Unfinished Dressing Room, the guide will direct you across a hallway and into the North Conservatory, one of [...]