After the death of F.O. Stanley and his significant other Flora died, sightings of their ghost started to appear around the hotel. There are several rooms in the hotel that are also haunted. Room 407 is said to be haunted by Lord Dunraven, who owned the land before F.O. Stanley. It is also said to be haunted by a little girl named Lucy.

In the fall of 1974, Stephen King and his wife stopped for the night at the Stanley Hotel and was checked into room 217. That night Stephen had a dream that would change his life. He dreamed about his young son being chased down the hotel’s long hallways by a possessed fire hose. When he woke up, drenched in sweat, he went out on the balcony to have a smoke and thought of his third novel, and first best seller, “The Shining.”

The Stanley Hotel is located in Estes Park Colorado.

Opened on July 4, 1909, it was originally built as a summer resort for upper-class Easterners. The hotel once hosted guests like Molly Brown, John Philip Sousa, and Theodore Roosevelt. Now the Stanley Hotel is best known for being the inspiration for Stephen King’s bestselling novel The Shining. Today the hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.

Today the Stanley Hotel is seen as one of the most Haunted Places in the United States. Today it serves as a tourist attraction where people can have a tour of the hotel and possibly witness some haunting. And of course they can rent a room to stay the night. You can even rent the very room Stephen King stayed in.

The hotel was built in the early 1900s by F.O. Stanley. The hotel officially opened in 1909.