The Winchester Mystery House has been a source of public fascination for over a century. It was the brainchild of Sarah Winchester, widow of William Wirt Winchester, the charmingly alliterative founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, makers of “the gun that won the West.” After his death in 1881, Sarah began construction on the mansion, a sprawling, multi-acre monument to affluence featuring over 150 rooms, including two ballrooms, presumably in case one gets dirty.

Sarah Winchester’s enigmatic personality, combined with the dubious nature of the money behind the project, led to an almost immediate position for the house in the annals of urban legend. Biography reports rumors which have circulated for years, claiming that Sarah was convinced by a medium that she was cursed, and that the only way to keep that evil at bay was to keep adding to her house. Another popular belief states that the mansion is haunted by all of the unfortunate souls killed by Winchester rifles. Whether those spirits can be properly captured via GoPro is up to you to determine.