The Stanley Hotel
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The Stanley Hotel is in Estes Park, Colorado it is a 138 room hotel which has amazing view of the Rocky Mountain National Park. The Hotel was opened in 1909 by American businessman, Freelan Oscar Stanley. Stanley suffered from Tuberculosis in 1903 and was asked to move west in order to help his recovery, while staying in a log cabin in Estes Park he instantly loved the area and he decided to build The Stanley Hotel there.
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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nice site, i am also interested to know much about haunted places.
I would like to share a story about a haunting that took place at Florida Hospital
of Sebring Florida. There was a report of a man with short black hair dressed in all black, a black oxford shirt buttoned to the neck with black pants & shoes similar to a priest roaming the halls in this place. It would go from room to room going into the room and staring at the patients in bed not saying a word. When they asked him a question he would leave the room quickly. One report was that it went into a room of a man and stood at his bed and broke his foot. That man reported this to the nurse and she reported the man for a psychiatric evaluation in which the man was diagnosed as being under the influence of morphine at the time, but was cleared by the doctor as a sane person. but not everyone who has seen this man in black was under the influence of morphine. That how unbelievers deal with things like these. The encounter was spread all throughout the hospital by the nursing staff and has quickly became know as “The Man in Black” I had a chance to verify this story by the man it happened to directly. By Ghostboy132010 please show my name for credit.
okay so like i wuz in my room one time and i saw somthing moving.. it wuz rlly weird.. so i wuz all like omg. so i went to go see whut it wuz… and guess WHUT!@@@@@@@@ It wuz my dog
So on a recent family vacation, we stopped in Estes Park. I had really wanted to see the Stanley Hotel for myself. I knew ahead of time that it was haunted and wanted to see if I got anything myself. So we were walking up to it and I walked over to the pool area and took a picture of the front of the hotel and then one of each of the front side wings. I didn’t notice it at the time I took the picture but the one of the windows on the front left side has what appears to be an apparition in it. As it turns out with some investigating that I just did, it’s room 217, the same room that Stephen King stayed in and reported a maid’s ghost in it!!
When on a tour at the Stanley Hotel in 2001 we were in the ballroom, I noticed a antique looking wooden grand piano. I went over to look at it and when I touched it I was shocked. Not in awe but physically was shocked. It felt like when you rub your feet on carpet and then touch another person or metal. But this piano was WOOD! How do you get a shock from wood!?! It freaked me out and my mom looked at my face and asked if I was ok. Maybe Mrs. Stanley didn’t want me touching her piano! Just a thought!
Stayed there on business this week and it is definitely haunted. Three of us stayed in separate rooms and all experienced the same thing. The ghost of Lord Dunraven visited the first night and touched me on my back. He does this to women and sometimes pulls their hair while sleeping. The next night was the sound of children playing in the hallway and a loud party, but when we would open the door, no one was there….this was on the 4th floor, the most haunted of the floors. Stay in 412, 414, 416, or 418 to be sure of being “visited.” And don’t watch The Shining until your last day there. The entire hotel is very eery.
i am completely fascinated by all these hauntings and stuff and am a Christian but how do we know what these are? if you die, generally, you stay dead. you either go to Heaven or Hell. your body goes in the ground, your soul and spirit go to heaven/hell, and you stay there. why on earth (haha, no pun intended.) would you come back? and if you do, why??? is this possible? if you have answers email/text/facebook me at:
hannahscheufler@yahoo.com
Hannah Renee [facebook]
thanks!
We usually stay here at least 1 or 2 times a year and we never leave disappointed!! Last time there, we did the flashlight trick when you take a twist flashlight, and ask spirits to turn it on and off.(Very simple)So, we put it up in the “Red Rum” staircase right next to Lord Dunraven’s room, and we got it all on film. We would ask the spirit to either turn it on or off, and it would! Also, one time while sitting in a chair at the manor house, my Dad and I looked through the window and saw a black figure walk by. We ran right after we saw it to the gates, but they were locked. Still wondering if that was a person or spirit to this day. We’ve had a lot of encounters at the Stanley. My first time there I sat in the fourth floor hallway on the “Haunted Couch” this was the day we were leaving, and we were just talking. Then, I heard a whisper in my ear, and my face went completely pale and I was shocked. Later that day, I saw I had a very faint scratch below my ear, which had not been there before. I’ve seen so much more, and I definitely do think the hotel has some paranormal activity!
me and my husband stayed at this hotel and we stayed in room 212 it was horrable i got woken by children calling my name and then i get pulled out my bed it was horrable i had marks all over my legs and arms from getting pulled i still wake u screaming now… do not stay there
My Husband and I just stayed at the Stanley Hotel last weekend. I wanted very badly for any visitation to happen to us but we found the hotel very peaceful during the night we were there. Even as we wandered the halls at 3:00 am. Well, other than the incredibly creaky hallway floors, that is.
As I took many pictures of the outside of the building, I noticed that several of the screens in the second story windows and the fourth story windows were stained
and from years of a fan blowing through them. These stains looked just like that image of the”child” shown above. I noticed these stains and took several pictures at different times of day. They never changed. It was very easy to see what these”images” really were. And they were not ghosts.
Despite a general feeling of uneasiness throughout my stay, overall my visit was unremarkable in terms of anything paranormal. The floorboards in each hallway are noisy, and the walls are thin. Attempting to fall asleep was a challenge, due largely in part to the television of my neighbor and the ghost seekers traipsing in the halls. I ended up checking out a night early so I could get some rest.
i recently visited to the stanley hotel i did not stay that but i did go on the tour and in the beginning of the tour i got taken to the music room. i didnt yet experence anything until the end. but for now i tried to take a picture of the little girl kay-ty however i did not get a picture, but a woman next to me did. it was a little yellow figure she clamed. well anyways our tour guied asked the little girl to come and play with us and so she did and she started to pull on the guides pant leg. and while this was happening i was very close and i felt as if the girl kay-ty was almost taking my energy to do this i started to feel light headed and so did the lady. in the end of the tour i wentinto the cave part of the tour and i did not expereance eneything but i did take some pictures inside of the cave and believe i caught small orbes. anyways that raps it up for me im going on facebook!!! haha gewd night guyss(:
-emilia
@ emilia
Please share the pictures of the orbs with us.
Thanks a lot!
just as an FYI, there is no room “1211″ in the Stanley Hotel, and the room pictured in that photo above wouldn’t be 211 either as that is on the West side of the hotel (the above photo is of the East side of the hotel right above Cascades Restaurant)
@Katie
Thanks for your comment.
I have enquired about the room number with the Stanley Hotel, and they were so kind to send the following answer:
Good Afternoon Mark,
I hope this email finds you well. The room you were inquiring about is room 1211 in the Manor House building. If you should have any more questions please let me know.
Kind Regards,
Michael Napieralski
Front Desk Manager
The Stanley Hotel
Direct 970.577.4037
http://www.stanleyhotel.com
ok so i went to the stanley hotel yesterday with my mom even though the creeky hallways and the unchilling feeling is unbareable we went through everything and i mean everything but as we were leaving i took a picture of a cool mirror and my mother had left already to the car there was no one around but in the picture there was a person very blury person just standing as if he as looking right at me but the whole picture was crystal clear except him and he wasnt moving its weird cause it was just me and i wasnt even in the picture
Way back in 1973 when I was serving with the army down in south Armagh border in Northern Ireland this was at the height of the IRA troubles . Anyway , one night I was left alone with my little ole machine gun whilst my other buds crept off to carry out a covert op on someone. I was all alone at approx 2 am in the morning sitting at a T junction amongst builders rubble that had been dumped at the side of the road.
The night was moonless an still and being alone I was a little nervy to be be honest, so all of a sudden a noticed movement to my left and I turned my head slowly to observe an was shocked to see a hooded figure like a monk move slowly across my front approx 8/9 feet in front of me. Not wanting to move I held my breath and fingered my weapon slowly turning the barrel towards the obje t at which the figure stopped and stunned staring in my direction then it moved on in the same direction it was going. Well, I can tell ya what I saw was real and scared the jitters out of me.
So Katie is right, there is no 1211 room in the Stanley, but there is room #418 which is suppose to be one of the scariest, not to mention its on the 4th floor which is considered the “kids” floor because back in the 1900′s the kids had their own floor. It’s is said that the children come out to play between the hours of 3-5am. I was also told they LOVE candy, so my husband and I left some candy in the room and when we woke up it was unwrapped and left for us I suppose!!?? I recommend this hotel to anyone and everyone who wants nothing more than a great scary fun-filled time, with some spook!!!
Edit by admin: As by the official statement by the Front Desk Manager of The Stanley Hotel the room is number is indeed 1211.
NEVER EVER STAY IN ROOM 5! Apparenty, two ladies were driven insane in that room. They were supposed to stay for the weekend but ended up staying for a few months. When the owner came to collect rent, he heard an angry growl that did NOT sound human. He had to get the police to drag her out of her room, screaming and growling the whole time.