Winchester Mystery House and Sarah Winchester's continuous construction legend

The Winchester Mystery House is a Victorian mansion in San Jose famously expanded by Sarah Winchester and her household from the 1880s until her death in 1922. Local lore holds that after consulting a medium she continued building to appease or confuse spirits allegedly connected to the Winchester rifle fortune. The house today is a documented tourist site noted for its maze-like additions, stairways to nowhere, and architectural oddities. The claim that she built continuously specifically to placate spirits is part of local lore and is debated by historians.