The Shining was based on an actual event ang hotel. Never knew this.
The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
One night in this hotel nestled in
Colorado’s mountain wilderness inspired Stephen King’s best-selling novel turned horror film,
The Shining. In 1909,
Massachusetts couple F.O. and Flora Stanley opened the isolated resort—and reportedly never left.
The Stanley Hotel inspired Stephen King’s best-selling novel turned horror film, The Shining.
According to staff, Mrs. Stanley can be heard playing her Steinway piano in the music room at night, and Mr. Stanley occasionally shows up in photographs. There have also been reports of bags being unpacked, lights turning off and on, and echoes of children’s laughter heard in the hallways. Paranormal experts hail the Stanley Hotel as one of the nation’s most active ghost sites.
Spooky Fact: Guest bedrooms have a TV channel that plays
The Shining on a 24-hour loop.
The Spooky Story Behind Colorado’s Haunted Stanley Hotel | OutThere Colorado
In the fall of 1974, writer Stephen King and his wife stopped for the night at an old hotel overlooking the city. Once among the grande dames of the west, The Stanley had fallen on hard times and was a ghost of its former, Edwardian-era self.
Upon arriving, the Kings learned the hotel was closing for the winter and only a skeleton crew remained. Nonetheless, the couple was checked into Room 217, the Presidential Suite, as the only paying guests.
That night, the author had a nightmare in which he saw his young son being chased down the hotel’s long, empty corridors by a predatory, possessed fire hose. He woke drenched in sweat and stepped to the balcony to smoke a cigarette. By the time he stubbed it out, he’d worked out the “bones” of what would become his third novel, and first best-seller, “The Shining.”
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