Lost & “Unhinged” at The Winchester Mystery House with Walter Magnuson

Recorded Live from the World famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, Bridget special guest is the GM of the worlds most unusual mansion, Walter Magnuson.  The Winchester Mystery House® is an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, CA that was once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester® Repeating Arms fortune. Tragedy befell Sarah – her infant daughter died of a childhood illness and a few years later her husband was taken from her by tuberculosis. Shortly after her husband’s death, Sarah left their home in New Haven, CT and moved out west to San Jose, CA.  There, she bought an eight-room farmhouse and began what could only be described as the world’s longest home renovation, stopping only when Sarah passed on September 5, 1922. But what remained is indeed a mystery.   Even before her passing, rumors of a “mystery house” being built by an eccentric and wealthy woman swirled.    Was she instructed to build this home by a psychic? Was she haunted by the ghosts of those felled by the “Gun that Won the West”?  Did construction truly never stop?  What motivated a well-educated socialite to cut herself off from the rest of the world and focus almost solely on building the world’s most beautiful, yet bizarre mansion? Find out on this episode of Ghost Magnet.   Ghost Magnet Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/Ghost-Magnet-with-Bridget-Marquardt-2480154975336666/   Bridget Marquardt Bridget Marquardt is best known to television audiences and pop-culture connoisseurs as the sweet and brainy star of E! Networks’ wildly popular reality show “The Girls Next Door.” After moving out of the Playboy mansion in January 2009, Marquardt hosted “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” a sixteen-episode series on The Travel Channel in which she traveled the globe searching for the world’s best surf, sand, and sun in countries including Croatia, Jamaica, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and the United States.    @BridgetMarquardt on Instagram @Bridget on Twitter @BridgetMarquardt on Facebook       Lisa Morton - Ghost Reporter Everyday is Halloween to award winning horror author and Ghost Reporter Lisa Morton. She has published four novels, 150 short stories, and three books on the history of Halloween. Her most recent releases include the anthologies Haunted Nights (co-edited with Ellen Datlow) and Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense (co-edited with Leslie Klinger), both of which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly. She lives in the San Fernando Valley, and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com .   https://lisamorton.com/zine/   Amazon Link:  https://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Morton/e/B001JRZ8NC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share       About Walter Magnuson       Walter Magnuson, General Manager of Winchester Mystery House, is responsible for overseeing one of Northern California’s premiere attractions, a national and state historic landmark and one of America’s most extraordinary homes. Celebrated in legend for over 90 years, the Winchester Mystery House has hosted over 12 million guests, plus curious media from the four points of the globe. Honored among the “40 Under 40” for 2017 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Magnuson leads a staff of 110 that operate the world-famous tours of the sprawling 160-room mansion, located in San Jose, California. Since 2015 the venerable attraction has undergone a remarkable period of growth, with construction and changes rivaling the era of Sarah Winchester herself.  Within the past two years the Winchester Mystery House has debuted its first all-new tour in over 20 years (opening areas never-before accessible to the public) and complete remodel of the gift shop now known as The Mercantile. A state-of-the-art shooting gallery has been added, closer community partnerships have been formed (especially with the Sharks Foundation), and collaboration is