Colorado Experience: The Stanley Hotel

Widely known as serving inspiration for Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining, The Stanley Hotel’s legacy goes beyond a history of paranormal activity. When Freelan Oscar Stanley arrived in Estes Park in 1903, he was not looking for a Hotel location, but instead the climate cure for his bout with Tuberculosis. After recovering, Stanley - of Stanley Steamer fame among others-decided to open a Hotel with every luxury catered to his circle of New England elite. Travel the haunted halls and discover the architectural glory of the infamous hotel that influenced National Parks and sparked early tourism.
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[@NickyLee-wn9uv]

This is the homeland of the Ute Nation, we are still here, "The Shining Mountain People"

[@reneebarger5194]

When we lived in Boulder, we would go to Estes Park. I've stayed at the Stanley several times, but never had anything but a good nights sleep. It is a beautiful place.

[@julie804]

How sick it is that native American lands were ripped from them and given freely away to non-natives 160 acres at a time😡

[@twistoffate4791]

I agree! So unfair.

[@peterswift9474]

My grandfather in law was the architect for the Stanley. Sorry he (T. E. Weiger) wasn't mentioned despite the fact that the architecture was often spoken of in this film. The story about how the owner discovered him is interesting. Weiger's grand daughter was my girlfriend, and she is a nurse (RN). Working at the Longmont hospital, the owner was her patient. He said he was the owner of the Stanley and was looking for the architect. She smiled and said he was in luck, she was his granddaughter. Subsequently she provided him with a lot of written and photographic information. He then arranged for us to be married at the Stanley and surprised us by having a bronze plate hung to the right of the main entrance with T. E. Weiger as the architect on that day. A beautiful wedding! Very kind fellow.

[@Errcyco]

What a neat story! Thanks for sharing. Did you guys spend a few nights there or just during the daytime for the actual wedding?

[@faeriesmak]

What a wonderful story!

[@karenhaupt4321]

Very cool story, thanks for sharing!

[@babasheeny3634]

Could u shed light how the Stanley Hotel gained notoriety from The Shining? Because all outside shots were taken at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and most indoor shots were on a movie set. Thx!

[@peterswift9474]

@@babasheeny3634 Right, but I thought that Stephen King stayed there and was captivated by the place. The story evolved with descriptions of the Stanley but the filming was moved to other places. I guess the authenticity held by the Stanley as the original is based on King's experience and narrative description...if memory serves.

[@karenbartlett1307]

They ran off all the Indians who hunted there to build a private hunting reserve for aristocrats, then built a hotel for the rich friends of some Yankee? What a shame.

[@harrisonhunter9433]

Steven King was not a struggling author when he wrote The Shining, and it wasn't his first big hit. Carrie, King's first novel, sold nearly 1 million copies after its release.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

The hotel had seen better days by that point, tho...

[@dianemccamy2568]

Because of his wife telling him to finish it! He threw it down away!

[@SmilerORocker]

In the same way as there's no such thing as an Irish Baron.... He was an English landlord living in Ireland, in fact, he probably only visited Ireland occasionally. Gotta stick to being pedantic... Otherwise history gets written incorrectly.

[@masonkanterbury3007]

I stayed at the Stanley Hotel in 2005 for Christmas. The town was practically empty it seemed. Nothing going on at all. The cost of a room was very reasonable during off-season. We got to stay in the infamous room. I remember it being the cleanest hotel I've ever stayed in. The smell is what I noticed first as being exceptional to other hotels. My daughters and I had the run of the place and we went around trying to spook ourselves. In the morning, we all had the same story to tell--each of us woke up groggy in the middle of the night to see a woman standing at the foot of our bed. Nothing too frightening at the time though.

[@adrianojames5828]

The physic looks like she has those 2 twin girls floating around inside her....definitely demon possessed.

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

I used to work in Estes Park, and being an architecture fan, I had to go check out the Stanley Hotel. It is an outstanding place! As I was passing through the lobby, a guest asked the desk clerk "Where's Johnny?" With a deadpan look on her face, she just replied _"Timberline Lodge in Oregon"..._

[@donosodemaistre2764]

Midnight, the Stars and You / Midnight and a rendez-vous / Your eyes held a message tender / Saying "I surrender all my love to you..." :-D

[@donosodemaistre2764]

@Lavern In the elevators. Just before the blood comes... :)

[@novascotiaskater1868]

We stayed in Estes Park for a week in June this summer, unfortunately the Stanley Hotel was closed due to Covid 19 and was opening the day we left but Estes Park is a beautiful town!

[@YuTuboTuTubas]

Did you went to room 217?

[@unrulyjulie4382]

Who noticed the wind rustling the owners hair at the very end when he said he thought that the spirits would be pleased with what he has done? 👻😱

[@jcee2259]

Nature and I came to an agreement already.

[@dannisurya3042]

I'm from Indonesia. When I attended a short course at Colorado State University in 1996 I had a chance to visit Estes Park. I only saw Stanley Hotel from a distance, it is indeed an amazing building surrounded by beautiful hills.

[@nickbiddle3445]

GO RAMS!

[@LChavez7007]

I went two summer's ago. It is grand. Come here if you can, you won't regret it!

[@lorraineevans3657]

L chavez Yikes only if you like ghosts. I went last year and decided not to stay after the bartender made us a red rum and told us the ghost stories even Stephen King fled in the middle of the night. Have you seen Ghost Adventure's when they were in the carriage house

[@TheSensfan09]

As long as I don't see any ghost twin females I will be okay.

[@lorraineevans3657]

Michael Kingsbury After a few red rums you will be seeing twins LOL actually it's a very scary hotel been there even Stephen King fled in the middle of the night

[@fisherman2359]

That actually sounds like a good time.

[@netero6751]

There’s no such thing as spirits that’s a lie it’s a normal Hotel

[@P51foxpilot]

The reason why the Stanley Hotel was built because Stanley was escaping Tuberculosis and he said the mountains had a cure to Tuberculosis at that point during the Epidemic

[@nicolas2970]

On describing Mr. Stanley the correct word is 'Conservationist' not "Conservationalist"! lol

[@riverraisin1]

Well, she's not very bright. Just a grifter selling silly ghost stories to gullible people.

[@darkkiss7247]

Who's here because of Stephen King?

[@DylGonZo]

more than 75% of us most likely lol

[@sunsetlights100]

Room 217 moon

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

*REDRUM*

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I'm here because my friend told me the stories were TRUE. She was there. No party, but they HEARD one.

[@RayMak]

So extremely beautiful

[@_xoxtic_1432]

Ray Mak But Aint Inside

[@thislookslikeyouyeet4785]

wth i see u here niw

[@GabeGidbits]

Never thought I’d see you here

[@denverdanoreno]

Researched a bit on current owner John Cullen, apparently not a very good employer to work for. Staff are what makes or breaks any business especially guest service industry. Until a progressive type like Cullen understands incentivizing employees with a great compensation plan that is fair and just for great performance, the Hotel will be sub-par, 2-3 star or diamond, pick one. I'm sure there are many ways too manage but I've worked and visited many 5 star resorts, happy work is well paid.

[@miapdx503]

Well said 🌺

[@joemackey1950]

In 1965 in high school in Colorado Springs I helped a teacher (Joel Pittenger), from Estes Park, restore a 1914 14 passenger Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon that had been used at the hotel, ferrying guests from the station to the hotel. Mr P had restored other Stanley's as well and returned to Estes Park a year later.

[@friesandshake]

That's so amazing 🥰

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Glad to hear that! I grew up a town over from where Stanleys were built: Newton, Mass. Somehow as a kid I became enamored of Stanleys, including their 127MPH Land Speed Record 1906. The Stanley Mountain Wagon is a wonderful vehicle. Steam develops tremendous torque right from zero revs. Stanleys were great at mountain climbing. In NH, they regularly won the Mt Washington Auto Road Climb, early 1900's. There's a movie clip somewhere of a Stanley Mountain Wagon, working for a Colorado hotel, chuffing up a mountain road, full of hotel guests and luggage.

[@kmarchman1047]

So where are the native original American Indians now? Let me guess.

[@niteowl365]

I wish those homesteaders had held on to their acreage. What a typically loathsome aristocrat. Or better still, if the land had been left to the First Nations.

[@amandadassonville4043]

I was thinking about the same thing niteowl. 🤔

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

That was the Irish Lord, for clarification. Stanley was well liked, and generous in town.

[@adamlop7623]

Here’s Johnny 😂

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Sir DD you want to borrow my ax

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

I had a nursing travel assignment, in Denver, back in 1993. Stayed at the Stanley Hotel for 2 nights. And got the history, and about Stephen King's stay. Awesome, beautiful, historical.....the Stanley Hotel is truly, an American icon.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

And the movie plays on one of the hotel tv channels at all hours. If you miss a bit. You only have to wait to catch up. After the TV was made there . They now also show it on occasion. Even though the tv series was fully shot inside the hotel not on external sets. And you can find all the areas they filmed the TV series by walking around. Only difference is in the TV didnt use the main stair well in the series. The stairwell they used was the private stairs that FO Stanley built for his personal use. And what the tv series lobby was actually FO Stanley's private office. Yes that fireplace is actually real. And it's huge. The FO Stanley's place had been all but unused for years when the tv show was shot. They had to restore ALOT of the wall wood etc. The fireplace was left original except for to restore it to make it usable again.

[@jinxmas]

I've just learned that the ghost in the bear costume from the movie "The Shining" is canon.

[@grisleeadam7041]

At first I read that as "the bear in the ghost costume". It was extremely funny to me.

[@TsukiTenshi]

There should have been a pause after the part where "if you threw a stone, you'd hit a Stanley somewhere" funny.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Sounds painful for anyone who was a Stanley

[@LKS1209]

Loved watching this program. Thanks, RMPBS, for reminding all of us of the wonderful treasures of Colorado. I look forward to more Colorado Experience programs on Rocky Mountain PBS!!

[@laurelsheart]

I’ve visited several times. Estes Park hike is incredible. I got served martinis and dinner by waiters in tux @ Stanley while I wore my hiking boots. Its a bucket list destination.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Beautiful place. Definatly haunted. Had a ghost child grab my leg. And the whole ghost tour people saw me react to it. Thankfully it's a friendly ghost who only seeks friendly attention. And it doesn't hurt you. Ghost appartly only touches people it's comfortable to be around. So I feel blessed it chose me.

[@markmorris5880]

Scary Mary Orton, who I happen to know and who was a ghost tour guide at the Stanley and appears in the video, used to be able to get the kids/spirits to move parts of her clothing to show that they were there during the tours of the Stanley!

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

My link is partly through a long interest and fondness for Stanley Steamers. Stanleys were great cars for Colorado mountains: Steam, like electric, has tremendous 'OOmmph' torque "Get up an' Go' / Hillclimbing power-- producing high torque from zero revs and low revs. A Stanley racer did 127 mph in 1906, FL -world's speed record. Stanley's regularly won the Mt. Washington Auto Road Climb in NH. And did sterling service for Colorado hotels. E.g., the 9 or so passenger Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

And it's back living at the hotel where it belongs. It's been restored

[@your_dad_ishot9367]

If you just look at these Stanley hotel for two minutes you’ll get to see a ghost in the windows

[@ElectricAngel19]

boy does the sequel to The Shining (Doctor Sleep) give a whole new spin to the ghost claims of The Shining. Excellent movie.

[@ElectricAngel19]

@Lavern still liked the story as it wasn't an expected plot.. not for me anyway

[@timmyangeltlc4888]

The high school band I was in visited Estes Park and performed. I did not go on the trip eventhough I had earned the money to pay for my trip. My grandmother became ill just a few days before the trip. I gave my trip money to a fellow student who couldn't have gone as my money could not be refunded and I stayed home to care for my grandma. The person I gave my money to never even brought me a souvenir eventhough I also sent money with for one. I gave her enough to buy me a sweatshirt and coffee mug. I didn't get the money back I sent for souvenirs and never got a thank you either. I don't regret staying with my grandma but wish I could have taken the trip. The Stanley Hotel was one of the places the band visited.

[@twistoffate4791]

Wow, what an ungrateful recipient of such a deeply kind gesture! And you didn't get your souvenirs OR the money you provided FOR them. I bet your Grandma was comforted, however, by your loving presence. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@franreid8203]

Wonder about indigenous people and their attitude to this development.

[@greenkidd529]

Back the every empire was spreading. Even amongst tribes different teibes were warring for territory. If Europeans disnt do it latina Americans would move upward and in fact tries. Mexico pushed out the native trobes out of the whata re now considered boarder states.

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

@@greenkidd529 How old are you ? Such spelling, does your mother know you're on the inter net ?

[@twistoffate4791]

@@blaneycrabbe3390 internet = one word

[@brookiecookie7095]

Omg I was In Calorado yesterday and I went past it and I saw bear by it

[@bigthunder2860]

Rich people like to build ,but you sleep in one room

[@amyhowelldickerson3458]

Come & knock on our door....wev'e been waiting for You....😉

[@kdm1733]

I really enjoy these Colorado Experience videos.

[@chadrichardson1687]

Great video but you lost me at "Spiritual, crystals and granite"....is there a vortex too?

[@rickeyhunsaker941]

I stayed two nights at the Stanley and it was awesome.

[@drew-shourd]

...intro toooo damn long....

[@carolinecrumpton2535]

''Stanly steamer your certified cleaner''

[@annacribbs4142]

LOL idk he was the sme 1 till i started watching this...

[@riverraisin1]

Stanley Steemer with 2 E's is the carpet cleaner. Not affiliated with Stanley Steamer the car

[@wendybusby9415]

Anna Cribbs. What language are you speaking? It looks like American but I don't know. Have you ever read "1984"? When they take away your ability to speak or write, they take away your ability to THINK.

[@robertbishop5357]

I stayed at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and it was incredible.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Broadmoor is also haunted

[@martinjennings8657]

Absolutely love that documentary on the Stanley Hotel. History is right up my alley. It's in a beautiful location it's a beautiful hotel. I tell you I think it would be a great place to spend a vacation enjoy the hotel envisat other historical features Colorado has to offer and the history of their ghost towns. Just watch this documentary on the Stanley. You will love it.

[@rogerschmer7715]

I ate breakfast there in the summer of 1970. I was not able to tour it that day. They had a Stanley steamer car on the first floor. (I do not know if it is still there.)

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

It sure is.

[@Latino_n_proud]

I was there last night. The steam car is still there 👌🏽

[@rosyvita._]

omg, this is the hotel where they shot the miniseries The Shining in 96 which then came out in 97, not the Kubrik's movie of 1980,to think that the actors the crew were really here wow must have been magical and then I read that there were people who have had paranormal experiences and since I live them too I'm sure that there ghosts i could to meet

[@caveman3021]

They filmed the ABC mini-series of The Shining here, as well as some scenes from Dumb and Dumber. This was an interesting video. Thanks for sharing it : )

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

The tv series was actually fully filmed inside the hotel. Not using sets.

[@ernaobic488]

Who’s here because of Shane?

[@mannyetn]

dej loaf me

[@InkySquid-vb9dz]

Me

[@imariahari6393]

Me I'm gonna watch the video of him going there :D

[@colleenquick524]

Me

[@rabiyakhan8425]

dej loaf me

[@danschroeder4682]

This place is not what you think

[@baileyclark8483]

I thought we were going on a you tube tour?

[@amandamears1916]

Ugh.just native people....no need to use to inappropriate term Indians. Good old-fashioned 90s racism that we didn't realize was racist back then. It's just embarrassing to watch an educational documentary use such a discriminative word.

[@leskobrandon6950]

Nah, they are Indians. No human is a native. We have all migrated where we are today. The Indians just migrated first.

[@amandamears1916]

@@leskobrandon6950 if you are not from India and you are not Indian. This is almost 2020 do you not recognize how words like Indian is incredibly racist. The native people of North America have been have been persecuted and discriminated against enough don't you think? Do you really need to perpetuate This Racist stereotype?

[@leskobrandon6950]

@@amandamears1916 No I don't consider Indian to be racist. I happen to live on an Indian reservation, and the Indian tribe that lives here does not concider the term Indian as racist either. When the "evil" white man came upon this land it was thought that this was India and so the people he met were called Indians. It may not have been correct that they were from India, but a name is not racist. Stop bieng a PC sissy, the Indians I know don't need you to virtue signal for them. Censoring someone because of feelings is a dangerous slippery slope.

[@amandamears1916]

@@leskobrandon6950 I feel like you're kind of getting the point but not really I don't really trying to consider your point of view to be valid as well everyone's opinion is valid. There's just certain words that has a modern society I feel they could just fade away and it past existence. I despise the n-word and so should most people no matter what color or country or religion they are even know it's been argued that was in their own culture and Community they use that word with each other I don't think that's right or justifiable just because the person that the reference is coming from doesn't have a pinion or a problem with that. But the f word in referring to homosexuality and the r word as it pertains to people with special needs

[@amandamears1916]

@@leskobrandon6950 oops my diatribe was cut short from previous I didn't referring to those words that we could just eliminate from our vocabulary as a modern society I don't find it justifiable just because the source that it's coming from her being referred to I'm not cool with racism and no matter what form it takes. You seem like a reasonable and educated person can you at least take into consideration how hate breeds hate violence begets violence. I'm just trying to be a more mindful considerate person and I hope that other people who don't realize that these words are hateful might take it into consideration the next time they refer to a person of this native land. I have a five-year-old daughter I'm hoping that these things won't even be relevant to her in her lifetime and I am fully aware of the fact that tolerance breeds more intolerance the whole George Carlin thing the way he put it. Also words only have negative meaning if you allow it to have the negativity so when I hear racist or offensive words around my child I downplay it and don't make a big deal but when I speak I use the most polite and respectful terms that I can come up with whether it's PC stuff or just being polite and considerate. For example activist not a tree-hugging hippie. Vase or vahz. Tomato or tomahto. Pecan or pecan well that one didn't translate but you get it

[@gracehod08]

Boy I sure do love living in Colorado.

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

I guess it helps to have legalized marijuana....'eh? Lol.

[@TheBandit7613]

@Amp Blaster I had to move out of Colorado when it became Eastern California. The roads turned to crap and people drive with a vengeance. The road rage is out of control.

[@TheBandit7613]

@Lavern It's still painful to me that I was chased out by Cali idiots. I still love Colorado. I had to leave for my sanity. It's going to keep getting worse. Denver (the metro area) was the best place to live in the country.

[@rafijaxsen7227]

I've been searching for a vacation destination, and this place just made it to number one on my list. My grandmother grew up in Kingfield and knew the Stanleys.

[@anliabolinger]

Spent my honeymoon there. It was amazing!

[@riverraisin1]

The sex or the hotel?

[@rubysanabria3352]

@@riverraisin1 🤣

[@thinghammer]

I guess you probably stayed in historic room 69?

[@TheSensfan09]

ok I am happy with the owner right now but have to say please listen to the dead, yep.

[@DejaVu-iy8hh]

They always capitalize on their ghost stories during Halloween and have a big event there.

[@sriddle3569]

But in the film isn't the exterior shots at Mt. Hood, OR?

[@CountryBear1994]

I really want to stay there. I love the Shining. I’d go up there and when the check in clerk says welcome to the Stanley I’d say first, “Are you hiring for a caretaker because I want to stay here forever and ever and ever.” One day I really want to stay at this hotel.

[@faeriesmak]

They probably hear that constantly and wouldn’t be too amused.

[@bethewalt7385]

The actual Stanley hotel in Estes Park is not isolated and geographically situated as presented in the Kubrick movie from 1980, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs was where they shot and got all the exteriors for Kubrick, the more recent mini series was shot in Estes at the Stanley, the Stanley doesn't close down for the season, they aren't snowed in for the winter, no caretaker needed, my ex worked there for 7 years, head carpenter for maintenance, 2010 to 2017 or so....been there, stayed there more times than I can count, many different owners, some have cared more than others, been staying there since 1972..

[@cynthiabeck1563]

I got to visit the Stanley in 1991 beautiful

[@nanaanna7956]

Heard fires are raging in Estes Park Colorado. Is it still standing?

[@truepeacenik]

It survived.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Google maps shows it beautifully still around and still looking awesome

[@nanaanna7956]

@@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346 thank you ❣️

[@brendaleverick3655]

Your video is terrific, but the volume is low. 👂

[@joseleswopes1400]

My daughter and I did a Mother and Daughter trip to the Stanley Hotel. We love it and the Food in the Crystal Room Fantastic and Amazing 💕 I would love to bring my Husband there, I'm from Delta Colorado and live in Albuquerque NM 😎

[@heavenmc1AJ]

I’m going to the Stanley hotel this Summer

[@fairymoonrise6916]

Heavenmc1 AJ how was your experience?? Is it really haunted?

[@darkkiss7247]

How was it?

[@micheletaggart3274]

Cool hotel

[@rockyroadblues100]

The Irish are not British ,not ever .

[@riverraisin1]

They're worse

[@thatdawson_playz7933]

It was creepy

[@aquarius9491]

I believe this place has the Amityville Horror effect, If you expect a place to be haunted then your mind will develop thoughts & noises into that mindset, No such thing as ghosts, Not to mention it generates $$$$$$. (Sorry to say)

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I knew someone who didn't know the SK part and had to be moved due to a noisy party. There WAS NO party. Creepy.

[@markmorris5880]

Well, then you're close minded and I have a photograph that I need you to explain to me that I shot down in Denver at the firefighter's museum where a full body apparition is standing behind one of my fellow investigators that night...and there was no one there except my investigator when I shot the pic!

[@mattytaylor6781]

Stanley Steamer makes The Shining carpets cleaner! :-D

[@ladyjane9980]

I have seen some photographs of Lord Dunraven's ghost. Fascinating.

[@markmorris5880]

Yeah, Dunraven is supposed to haunt there, as well as the Stanleys themselves and the kids on the 4th floor!

[@dgc940]

I really enjoyed everything about this video except for all the spirit and psychic Bologna

[@twstf8905]

25+ minutes of old men in tweed talking about black and white photos showing more old men with spindly moustaches. 😂👍

[@Nike2141]

Sadly it was just sold to a "Non profit" group who wants to modernize it. We stayed last July and it was amazing. I sure hope they don't ruin the old charm of the beautiful Hotel.

[@kambreejones611]

I love it I've been there I lived about 2 hours away from there

[@bettykuykendall2083]

This documentary sucks because there was NOT much content on the hotel! SUCKS 👎

[@asmera4547]

after watching so many of these documentaries, which are wonderful by the way, I can't help but feel sad how much was stolen from the Indians, and they are still suffering. If anybody deserves reparations it's these tribes.

[@esteemedenergy]

It’s an OK hotel, at best, as a hotel stay destination. Worst coffee - ever, service is hit and miss, beds are old, no tables next to beds, everything goes on the floor. Very loud hotel. We stayed for 3 nights, not again. Nice to visit, but stay somewhere modern.

[@jennifernixon563]

Was just there it was lovely 69 dev as I arrived.

[@drivenhome7840]

The new owner seems lovely, has a lovely happy fresh looking face.

[@babasheeny3634]

Curious how the Stanley Hotel got it’s notoriety? The exterior of the hotel in the Shining was the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and most interior shots in the movie was on a movie set.

[@amandamatcha]

It inspired the book that the movie was based off of, not the movie alone. It's likely they filmed in Oregon to cut costs, though don't quote me. I'm sure there's interviews that tell the reason why, but the PNW often has deals for filming. There's a lot of productions that filmed in Oregon in the last few decades, while the show was based out of somewhere else (Like the early seasons of the TV show Leverage).

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

@@amandamatcha Plus the Stanley was an operating hotel then and now. Couldn't shut down the hotel for filming, or pay to start the hotel up during the winter off season.

[@jenniferwhite914]

I have never been here but would love to visit here and if my memory serves me right Ghost Adventures did their lockdown here and I believe that the original Ghost Hunters wit Jason, Grant and the TAPS to want did a case here too

[@markmorris5880]

In the Ghost Adventures episode one of the spirits can actually be heard complaining about Aaron's snoring!!

[@fluffedsquirrel]

What a gem, must visit sometime and the owner seems so sweet.

[@ladycharsw]

I read the next comment saying he was a bartender there. So you heard or saw ghosts?

[@lorraineevans3657]

Charlotte Schreffler I asked him the same question. I was there last year, had a red rum the bartender told us many stories of it being haunted. He told us that Stephen King fled in the middle of the night. I decided not to spend the night.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@lorraineevans3657 I never heard that part. He never mentioned it himself.

[@PollyPearsol]

I would love to stay at this hotel. I imagine it might be very expensive for only one night.

[@lorraineevans3657]

Polly Pearsol Yes it's very expensive. But the reason that I didn't stay there, was not because of the expense but because it's really haunted. My husband and I went there last year after talking to the bartender telling us all the ghost stories I thought heck no! He told us that Stephen King got so spooked out that he ran out of the hotel LOL and same with Jim Carey when he was filming dumb and dumber he too fled in the middle of the night LOL If you like ghosts go ahead

[@ozarkdaredevils]

You can stay for for around 191 dollars a night ...... its amazing so much to do . Take the tour .... once you have been hear you will continue to come back ....

[@equisequis.55]

Wished i owned it. You just never know what the future holds.

[@jessicas6586]

@@ozarkdaredevils that's not too expensive for a place like that.

[@jrpacer6355]

I took a tour of the hotel this summer 2021.......

[@tstbad59]

I love visiting that hotel. I might go back once my brother in law moves to California. I feel sorry for California.

[@possum7557]

they messed up the bush monsters

[@donnaclackley7808]

AS Lawrence Welk (would say, "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful."

[@twistoffate4791]

I still watch The Lawrence Welk Show every Saturday night at 6 pm in memory of my parents and their parents.

[@Themessenger321]

I don’t understand what the lady was saying about the bear. She didn’t make any sense to me. She left people feeling bewildered!?! So did they end up killing the man in the bear outfit or not???

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Apparently not. Sounds like they only did the Bear stunt once, or rarely? (Hoping he wouldn't be shot?)

[@honda6525]

I would love to go that hotel

[@ShelleeGraham]

Really great 👍 program you have created here on The Stanley Hotel, its origins, the current owner and employees. Nicely Done!

[@jessicas6586]

On my bucket list. 😁

[@bensoave3665]

Who is here because this was dumb n dumber?

[@eduardo_corrochio]

I enjoy seeing beautiful sprawling hotels, and I enjoy a good horror story. So, for me, Kubrick's film "The Shining" is a fantastic treat to savor. And it must be quite lovely to visit this hotel-- the place that served as a muse for Stephen King.

[@Chloe-yh5cm]

Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin was Anglo Irish so calling it the English hotel is correct if you know anything about Irish History. He came from an English planter family settled in Ireland and was a member of the conservative English government. He didn’t see Ireland separate to England as as far as he was concerned it was all the “British empire”. It’s like calling Christopher Columbus Native American.

[@superstacey9599]

Anybody else here because of Shane Dawson?

[@michaelhurley3171]

Is this place better off or worse because of the book and movie?

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Probably way better. Wasn't in such great shape when SK was there.

[@marabirau1003]

shane's new video?? anyone??

[@mathew1506]

less panic! more forehead yup

[@dominikamimari427]

I live in Colorado and I want to go there now

[@jamesdean258]

Dominikiller!!! GO!

[@tootsiePOP745]

so there was a man in a bear suit like the shining