Do you serve spirits?The Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park, Colorado, with the infamous Room 217 from The Shining.
David Wroe on a Shining example of a haunted hotel.
IT COULD have been the start of a horror story. "Have you been up to the old Stanley Hotel?" the shopkeeper asked me. The woman didn't have a hunched back or a glass eye or anything like that. In fact she was brimming with American friendliness.
Nevertheless, it sounded like the last thing a person hears before they're catapulted into a nightmare of ghosts and ghoulish madness.
We'd admired from a distance the grand, rambling set of white buildings perched on the hillside above Estes Park, a pretty little town nestled in the Colorado stretch of the Rockies but had no inkling of its national fame. The storekeeper explained it was one of the top haunted hotels in the US and the inspiration for Stephen King's novel, The Shining.
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