By K. Shriver
“I ain’t worried of no ghosts!”
The Stanley Resort in Estes Park, Colorado, is a single of the most haunted locations in the place, with various spirits inhabiting the resort and its grounds correct along with its company. Several folks attribute the hotel to Stephen King’s The Shining, as it was the inspiration at the rear of the two the novel and movie. However, even though numerous of the situations in The Shining are fictional, the ghosts and its haunting background are everything but.
In truth, you can look at out many articles or blog posts we have written earlier on The Stanley and its spooky historical past:
And if you ever find your self in Estes Park, The Stanley Hotel is a will have to-go. Just lately, the Our Group Now staff experienced the prospect to stop by Estes Park, and of training course, we experienced to halt by The Stanley Resort and partake in its well-known nighttime ghost tour!

Photograph by K. Shriver
Enable me notify you, as somebody who does not “do” horror videos or ghosts or anything in just that realm, the tour alone is truly rather manageable—though, there is a daytime tour alternative, as properly, if you might be not a fan of points that go bump in the night.
Location off on the tour of the grounds (the Live performance Corridor, our very first stop, is in the distance on the correct).
Even though there ended up a couple occasions the lights would get turned off by the manual and we have been instructed to take part in “calling the spirit” (this fully freaked me out, by the way), a vast majority of the tour was targeted on the ghost stories and the history behind the notorious lodge.
The words and phrases “Enable Me!!” are scrawled on the center window pane, 3rd row down. 😬 🤷♀️
I only felt a little bit “off” in the Live performance Hall, which is adjacent to the primary resort developing, whereas everywhere you go else we visited on the home I felt completely wonderful. The moment I stepped into the empty corridor, I nearly immediately felt weighed down and experienced a bit of difficulty respiratory, as if the air was thick with smog. Then, as before long as we acquired outdoors, that “hefty” feeling wholly disappeared.
(I’ll be truthful, I assume I was more enthusiastic to see “The Danbury,” aka the title The Stanley Resort “adopted” when it was featured in 1994’s Dumb and Dumber, than I was to take part in the ghost tour. As a big Jim Carrey lover, it was fun trying to “recreate” numerous scenes at the true movie place!)
A nod to The Shining.
Having said that, several of my coworkers experienced “fingers-on” experiences throughout the almost 70-minute ghost tour—we protected a ton of ground, from the Live performance Hall to the main constructing, and The Lodge, as properly as in a tunnel process beneath the resort itself.
Our tour guideline encountered a ghostly existence here in the underground tunnels just a few of months back. Do you see just about anything?
Regretably, we didn’t get to check out out the notorious Place 217, however here is a picture from it from the outside the house of the hotel (it is really the place with the balcony):
Space 217, on the 2nd flooring
So, I asked my coworkers to create about their ordeals in the course of the tour, and when some did not see or “experience” the spirits, other folks completely did.
Here is what my team had to say:

Remaining in a position to encounter the Stanley Lodge was a at the time-in-a-life time knowledge. The truth that we have been able to attend at night time produced it even extra interesting. From the moment I walked into the resort, I could come to feel a shift in strength. My head bought weighty, and there was a slight dizziness that adopted. Everything intrigued me. From the photographs on the walls, to the haunted live performance corridor, to the dark and filthy basement room, there was no doubt in my intellect that spirits resided in these locations. At one place on the tour, we have been ready to see if the grounds keeper/safety guard would make an overall look from the “other aspect.” As we ended up all packed in a tiny place, with the lights recently shut off, I felt a pressure on the again of my backbone. It did not feel evil or terrifying it felt far more like an individual was creating positive we were being all secured. This seemed really much in line with what a grounds keeper/protection guard would be carrying out. Seconds soon after that tension was felt, there have been two distinct thumps over the room that every person in our group heard … anything that the tour guideline experienced just a short while ago explained tends to happen from time to time. This was a confident indicator that a little something was there with us that night. It’s difficult to totally describe all the matters knowledgeable that night time. I would unquestionably propose people today likely to the grounds in purchase to working experience all the appealing emotions and observations made when strolling via the Stanley Resort. If you can get a possibility to go, I would hugely endorse it.


Using the Stanley Resort Ghost Tour is now a box checked off on my bucket list! The historical past of the grounds and buildings was fascinating, but I won’t be able to say that I personally noticed or felt any ghosts or spirits myself. Afterwards, having said that, I believed it was weird that all of our pics (stereotypically) turned out blurrier than typical, and I did catch some odd ghost-like pictures on-digicam (while they could quickly be described by a thing else, too). The experience was really enjoyable and interesting—but I could do without the need of the dank basement rooms where by they turned out the lights!

We will not try to remember having this image. But there is a distinct geometric mist.
A photograph taken by slip-up options a twirly geometric mist.

I never felt “creeped out” but I did recognize that, at instances, there [were] unique energies relocating room from space. I have no explanations why I bought goosebumps on my entire body when in certain rooms. I also made use of a SLS Digicam app on my Iphone that has been utilised by other Ghost Hunters and there have been a handful of situations it creeped me out. At 2 diverse times all through the tour, there was a [figure] that showed up on the SLS, equally standing/seating guiding the exact particular person, at which level there was no one particular near her. I also observed at the beginning of the tour a white mist light-weight determine that was about 4 ft large off the ground Basically next a close friend of mine to the stairs. Regrettably, the app isn’t going to record so I have no proof of it, but I KNOW WHAT I Noticed. I didn’t sh*t my trousers, but immediately after that tour, I have come to be much more intrigued with the spirit environment. Will not Judge ME.


In the Concert Corridor, an “anomaly” obtained picked up on the SLS Digital camera application. That circled part? No person was standing there, and but …
Have you been to The Stanley Resort? Did you have any “otherworldy” experiences though being there? Share your views and ghost tales with us in the comments underneath.
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