Vacation Mysteries

Hey everyone,
Just got back from California. What a fun place!
Anyways, near where we were staying, there are two places that seem really interesting. One is called the Winchester Mystery House, the other is called the Mystery Spot. We went to neither of these places, as it turns out, because of time issues...but we talked about them quite a bit because their stories are strange...

The Mystery House


This place was occupied by the widow of the Winchester rifle inventor. She moved in in 1884, and for the next 38 years, carpenters and builders worked 24 hours a day adding additions to her house. They were building up until her death. This widow visited a psychic who told her that she had to build a room in her house for every person that was killed by the Winchester rifle. As long as the workers were building, she was told, the spirits would leave her alone. Up in the attic, there are still doors and windows that were never installed because she died while all of this was ongoing. As you can see from that picture, though, this place is massive. Besides building lots of rooms, she also had things like stairways that led to nowhere, and optical windows so she could look through without her glasses on. This place is right outside of San Jose.

The Mystery Spot
This place had maybe the worst vacation brochure I've ever seen. That's probably why I grabbed it in the hotel we were staying in. Anyway, this place is 10 minutes north of Santa Cruz. This place is supposedly where gravity works differently. Some people theorize aliens buried something under it to make gravity go nuts. I don't really understand that part of the story, but I found this video that you should watch, which explains a little better.