In the depths of Colorado’s Estes Valley, sits a grand hotel with a history greater than the eye can see from first look. Freelan Oscar Stanley stumbled upon this magnificent site when suffering from consumption. Even though Freelan and his wife Flora were from an East Coast society, they were willing to try and live a life in the valley. They had a private home, but agreed it was too small if they wished to have parties or guests, so they compromised to build a hotel. With its amazing historical value and significant paranormal activity, the Stanley Hotel is more than just the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel The Shining.
History of Freelan Oscar and the Stanley Hotel
Freelan Oscar Stanley was an inventor with his …show more content…
By the 1970’s all the luxuries from the time of Freelan and Flora where gone due to lack of caretaking. The hotel was going to be torn down but due to the arrival of a suffering author and a novel inspired by the hotel, it has stayed open to this day.
The now restored Stanley hotel has one-hundred and forty rooms, and a lodge next to it which is newer and less haunted but haunted nonetheless. Of these rooms, rooms 217, 401, 407, 418, and 428 are the most haunted rooms in the main hotel. The only room in the lodge that seems to be haunted is room 1302.
The costs of the room can vary from $119-$469 per night per person depending on which room and the season in which you are staying.
The hotel is known to be quite haunted though nobody knows exactly why. Some people think that guests enjoyed their stay so much that they decided to stay. Others say that the Stanley is built on quartz therefore the hotel holds a lot of energy from the past.
Before we get into the rooms of the hotel other places in the hotel are also …show more content…
Hotel workers have sworn to have seen F.O. Stanley working at the front desk of his very own hotel. An early worker is even known to have been buried in a tunnel under the hotel, alive. A tourists by the name of Henry Yau was visiting the Stanley when he caught something he didn’t know he was looking for. In this picture he specifically waited for everyone to clear the staircase at the front of the hotel for a good shot.
When looking back upon the photos he had taken he spotted a woman in a period outfit with what looks to be a child, a boy, standing next to her.
The fourth floor is known for the “children” that roam the