This switchback staircase turns nine times. Many of the staircases had very low steps like the ones you see here (the steps are only about 2-3 inches high). Although this staircase has 44 steps, it only goes up 9 feet. The tour guides call these types of stairways "easy risers" -- easy for Mrs. Winchester to use because she had arthritis. Another theory holds that she built the stairs that way to confound the spirits.
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