Stanley Hotel haunting claims

Record summary

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park has been associated with reports of apparitions, music, voices and other unusual experiences, and it became especially prominent after Stephen King’s 1977 visit and the subsequent publication of The Shining. The hotel’s own tours and media appearances have helped sustain a long-running anomalous-place tradition. It is valuable for comparison because the site’s reputation combines hospitality history, literary influence, visitor testimony and commercial paranormal interpretation. Researchers should distinguish King’s fictional setting from documented hotel reports and assess when particular stories first appeared.