The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
On January 15, 16, and 17, 2005, we visited the historic Stanley Hotel for a second investigation.
We arrived on the evening of the 15th, the weather was cold and blustery.
We checked in at the front desk, found out our room was not located in the main hotel building, but in an adjacent building called, "The Manor House".
We had found out later that back in the early 20th century, this building was where the single
male guests or bachelors stayed.Kat took some random photos in what appeared to be a large dining room. Out of the 3 or 4 photo's she took, an anomaly did appear in one. See the first thumbnail below.
After we were situated in our room, it was approximately 11:00 PM.
We had set up our equipment, prepared our cameras, readied our field detector, and settled in for the night.
Well, nothing at all happened that first night. We did have the sensation that we were being watched, but that was about it.
The next day, we found out that 3 weeks prior, in a room located 4 doors down from the one we stayed in, a maid was cleaning the room. She walked out of the room to get some cleaning supplies from her cart. Just a few minutes later, she walked back in to the room, and all the table lamps and pictures (the glass on the pictures was broken) hanging on the wall, were on the floor!
The maid said she had heard nothing when she was out of the room for the few minutes.
We decided the next day (the 16th), that since we had had such a disappointing night, we would try and stay a second night.
As luck would have it, we ended up in room 219 in the main building, right next to the famous room number 217 that Stephen King stayed in while he wrote his novel, "The Shining"!
These two rooms have quite a haunted history.
One such story involves a situation that occurred back in the 1920's. The hotel was one of the first in the area to have electrical power. In case of a power outage, the hotel still used old acetylene gas lanterns to light the rooms.
Once during a power outage, a maid was trying to light the lanterns and both rooms exploded. The maid was blown out a window from the force of the explosion (the rooms are located on the second floor) and landed on the ground below. She was seriously injured, but survived.
After her recovery, she continued to work at the hotel for many years to come, until she died.
It is believed that her ghost returns to both of these rooms often. When she is around she seems to be a most helpful ghost.
Hotel maintenance workers, while doing maintenance on either room, have said that the room doors would open for them as they were carrying maintenance materials into the rooms.
These are just a few of the stories surrounding this amazing old hotel.
Please click on the thumbnails below to see some amazing pictures.
Face in the window
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Face in the Orb
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Figures in the Lights
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Figure in the Mirror
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Another face in a window
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Faces caught in the flash added 3/3/05 
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| Please check back soon! We are still in the process of adding many more photos from this investigation! | ||
Our Conclusion:
We have come to the conclusion that, yes, this old historic hotel is definitely full of spirits.
You can feel not only the historical significance of the hotel, but also, you can feel a certain type of static in the air. You also, quite often, have the feeling that you're being watched as well.
We do hope to revisit the hotel again and try for some EVP's.