Haunted House of the week
by chuckofish
Well if we’re going to get into the spirit of the season (pun intended), a good place to start is San Jose, California’s Winchester House, reputed to be the most haunted house in America. Now it’s big business but once it was just the happy home of a nutty old lady who was convinced that if she stopped adding on to the house, she would die. Here’s a quote from the web site which you can see


un-be-FREAKing-leavable!
I believe this house served as the inspiration for Shirley Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House — she was born in San Francisco, wasn’t she? Her grandfather was a prominent architect who built a lot of the mansions in the area…