Unhinged: Nightshade’s Curse (review)
Winchester Mystery House resurrects its Unhinged Halloween show, restoring the scares and adding a few new ones Unhinged: Nightshade’s Curse,
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Winchester Mystery House
525 S. Winchester Boulevard
San Jose, CA 95128
winchestermysteryhouse.com
The Winchester Mystery House is a tourist attraction in San Jose that bills itself as an authentic haunted house. The former home of the late Sarah Winchester (who allegedly kept building so that the sounds of construction would distract restless ghosts killed by Winchester rifles) is filled with architectural oddities (doors that do not open, stairs that lead nowhere). The location presents historical tours during the day, spooky candlelight tours at night, and sometimes a haunted house event during October.
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Miniature Mystery House
Looking down at this miniature of the Winchester Mystery House makes me feel like Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980).
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Hollywood Gothique goes Unhinged
Sorry, Los Angeles – we have abandoned you this weekend, heading north to the Bay Area to visit Unhinged: Nighshade’s
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Review: Winchester’s All Hallow’s Eve gets lost in the Mystery House
Lighting & visual effects fill the venerable tourist attraction with the spirit of Halloween, but this new production is no
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Los Angeles Halloween 2019 Recommendations: What To See in the Final Week
It’s the final weekend before Halloween, and time is running out! What destinations absolutely must be on your to-do list?
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Immersive Theatre: The Future of Halloween in Los Angeles?
As popup haunted houses shutter their doors, a new form of entertainment rises from the crypt: interactive theatre and immersive
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Video & Review: An “Unhinged” Halloween at Winchester Mystery House
Wondering what “unhinged” secrets reside within the Winchester Mystery House? Then come along with us…if you dare! After a six-year
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M.I.A. at Winchester Mystery House
The last time the Winchester Mystery House put on a full-blown Halloween haunt was in 2012, and for a while it
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Winchester Mystery House New Candelight Tours for Halloween 2016
With the demise of so many Los Angeles Halloween haunts this year, ghost-addicts may be looking elsewhere to get their ectoplasmic
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Winchester Mystery House Flashlight Tours in October
Though the Winchester Mystery House’s full-blown Halloween extravaganza, Fright Nights, appears to be in permanent limbo since running for a
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2012 Halloween Haunt Awards
Cue the scary organ music, for it is time to announce Hollywood Gothique’s annual Halloween Haunt Awards, recognizing the finest
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The Mourning After Halloween 2012: Those Haunts That Remain…
It’s the morning after Halloween – but that’s no reason to be mourning. With October 31 having fallen in the
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2012 Bay Area Haunt Review: Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights
Hollywood Gothique was unable to travel to San Jose last Halloween for the debut of Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights;
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