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Where To Spend February's Friday The 13th? How About On A Winchester Mystery House Flashlight Tour?

Tickets are on sale NOW, and they will sell out. There also is an upcoming contest to be the day's honorary bell ringer ...

From the Winchester Mystery House:

FLASHLIGHT TOURS

Tickets for February, Friday the 13th are on sale now!

Since her death, millions of people have visited her home and many report the sightings of ghosts. Was the house built solely as a monument to the dead or do the phantoms Sarah communed with in life, or perhaps Sarah herself, still lurk nightly in the maze-like corridors of the Winchester Mystery House™?

The tradition of Sarah Winchester’s bizarre legacy continues...

Tickets for special events are available in advance online.
Special 55 minute Flashlight Tours of the Winchester Mansion are given every Friday the 13th and on select evenings in October.

You’ll tour the rambling, mysterious mansion at night with only the moonlight, a souvenir flashlight, and your imagination to provide illumination through the bewildering maze of rooms and stairways. But watch your back, Sarah could be waiting around any turn. This is one open house you’ll never forget.

With admission, also enjoy extra entertainment on the estate from awe-inspiring magicians, to balloon artists, to caricature illustrators! Entertainment varies per evening, all entertainment is included in the cost of your ticket - limited availability, first come, first served on items such as caricature art.

Due to the popularity of the Flashlight Tours, we highly recommend you purchase your tickets ahead of time. Tickets for February 13th are on sale now! This event WILL sell out and when it does, tickets will not be available at the Box Office on the night of the event.

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Friday the 13th Honorary Bell Ringing Ceremony

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In tribute to Mrs. Winchester’s fascination with the number 13, celebrity Bell Ringers sound the old tower bell 13 times at 1300 hours (1:00pm) every Friday the 13th.

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Past Honorary Bell Ringers have included Dan Boyle from the SJ Sharks, Bela Karoyli and Shannon Miller of Olympic gymnastics fame, KRTY’s morning hosts Gary Scott Thomas & Julie Stevens, and professional Ultimate Frisbee star Beau Kittredge from the San Jose Spiders.

You can be the Honorary Bell Ringer!

For February 2015 we will give Winchester Mystery House fans the chance to be our special guest and “Bell Ringer”. If you want to ring the bell 13 times at 1300 hours on February 13th, enter our Facebook contest between 1/23/15- 1/30/15, and with a bit of luck we will pick you as the winner! The lucky one will also get a pair of complementary Mansion Tour Tickets.

Facebook page is here.

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