The Haunted Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel has many stories but no of which have been violent, so it appears that the ghostly residents are just that, residents. Hotel workers and guests have commented on hearing the piano in the Ballroom being played, when it is investigated no one was found at the piano or even in the Ballroom. The employees of The Stanley Hotel believe that it is the wife of Mr Stanley that is the ghostly piano player.

Room 418 is said to have the most paranormal activity and the full 4th floor has the majority of the paranormal activity, the sound of children playing in the halls has been heard on a few occasions even though there have been no children around. There are reports of people seeing a man standing in their rooms and then running into the rooms closet, others have said they have seen someone standing in the middle of there room and then just disappearing.

The most prolific story to date is the one from GhostHunters TV show, while the camera crew were changing the tapes in their cameras a table had jumped two feet into the air! Now this would have been great evidence if caught on camera. Also, Ghost Hunter Jason stayed in the room of which a spirit stealing from guests is said to stay during the night he claims that the bed moved, closet doors locked and unlocked and his glass at the side of his bed cracked open from the inside.

I have been looking around for some stories about The Stanley Hotel and here is one that sticks out. A person was on a ghost tour of the hotel and happened to take this picture just out side the hotel. As you can see the window has a child at it, but the figure is very hazy when it shouldn’t be because that window is actually opened. The person that took the photo investigated into this photo and called the hotel. This is the response he got:

OK, the room number is 1211. Last Friday, there was a single man checked in that room who was part of a business conference. That doesn’t mean he DIDN’T have a child with him, but it is unlikely that he did. — Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel - A ghost at the window

Source: about.com

The paranormal activity present in The Stanley Hotel is a lot, I do have no reason to think that there are any violent or bad spirits present. So if you are ever near The Stanley Hotel and are need of a hotel for the night, you know where to go.

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The story goes that Crenshaw had a habit of kidnapping and torturing these workers. He used to imprison them in the narrow rooms of the mansion and put them in chains. He regularly used to torture them and even bred some slaves. When these evil practices were brought to public knowledge, he gave it up and became a farmer.

However, people who started visiting the place from the year 1920, when it was thrown open to the general public, reported hearing moans of pain and whispers coming from the lofts of the mansion.

The happenings intensified when a reputed ghost hunter Hickman Whittington took the trouble of going to the attic and tried to spend some time there. He was discovered dead after a few hours though he was in perfect health at the time he visited the mansion. After that, though many people have tried to spend some time at the attic, none of them have been successful as they had to leave the place after being scared out of their wits.



They reported hearing all sorts of vague noises including a lot of groaning and sobbing. One person who managed to spend the night at the loft also reported hearing such noises and he mentioned that he was really scared from the experience.

This mansion is now the property of the State of Illinois and has been declared a historic site.

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In the US, there are many locations that lure tourists by virtue of them having been declared as haunted. Some of the more common ones are as under:

• Cemeteries
Some of the most haunted cemeteries can be found in New Orleans and it is not clear whether the fact that this city was built under the sea level is one of the reasons. The St. Louis Cemetery No.1 and No. 2 are particularly well known for ghosts. Tourists who have visited these places talk of hearing all kinds of banging and moaning noises and they seem to come from underneath the crypts.
Those visiting the nearby tomb of Marie Laveau, who was a well known black magic practitioner have noticed and taken snaps of strange looking apparitions and orbs that seem to be rising from the grave of this lady. There are other equally haunted cemeteries in Illinois, Ohio and Maryland where people have witnessed apparitions weeping.

• Battlefields
Researchers believe that the chances of spirits remaining attached to the battlefields are very great and visitors to these sites have often experienced paranormal activity. The most well known is the Gettysburg battlefield, which was where the American Civil War was fought and the other ones are the Chickamauga Battlefield at Tennessee, where the Old Green Eyes ghost succeeds in scaring the wits out of people. Some accidents have taken place near this site as the drivers lost control on seeing the two burning eyes of Old Green Eyes on the road and also heard some groaning sounds.
Visitors also talk of seeing strange apparitions on dark nights with strange sounds accompanying them at this place.

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