"Only God is right all the time."

[onager]

7. San Jose? There's some irony.

San Jose is home to the Winchester House.

Named for Sarah Winchester, widow of the Winchester Arms founder, who suffered the deaths of her husband and her only child in quick succesion.

With the poor woman driven half-crazy by grief, naturally a phony medium stepped in to solve all her problems.

The medium told her she was being haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles. And she could only remove the curse if she built a house large enough for all the dead people to live in!

Mrs. Winchester continuallly worked on her house for nearly 40 years. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, her bedroom door shifted and trapped her alone in her bedroom for hours. Which probably drove her even crazier.

The house is definitely worth a visit if you're ever in the neighborhood. Stairs go up into blank walls, doors open to nowhere. The kitchen features 13 drainholes in each sink and 13 panes of glass in each window.

Every Halloween, someone spends the night in Mrs. Winchester's bedroom. Usually a skeptical journalist type. No one has ever reported anything weird, other than the normal sounds expected from an old house.

Of course, the woo-woos insist the place is still haunted, bla-bla-bla...