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"Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly within the author's imagination." ~Steven King (The Shining Preface,
1977) Check
this out.
The Stanley Hotel
There are a lot of spooky stories and rumors going around about hotel, but none of them are as gruesome as the events and violence that were depicted in The Shining. I'm gonna try to break them all down for you here. The Manor Second Floor It has been reported that the windows, once closed will open back up all by themselves. It seems to happen the other way as well. When opened, they close on their own. Boiler Room/ Employee Passage There is 'supposedly' an girl called Katie who has been haunting the Boiler Room and the Employee Passage. Unfortunately, there isn't anything to substantiate this claim, or any more information to make it more interesting. Concert Hall A homeless woman hid in the basement one winter, and froze to death. Its unclear of the connection to this tragedy, but on occasion, footsteps can reportedly be heard in the otherwise empty hall. Room 1302 This room has been said to piss the Housekeeping Staff off. they go in there to do their job and clean it all up, only to come back and find it all messed up again. It's not fair! I'd be pissed too. The Hotel Lobby/Billiard Room In both rooms, many guests and employees have reported seeing an apparition of whom THEY believed to be Freelan O. Stanley, himself. It has been said that the billiard room was his favorite room in the hotel. Ball Room To this day, people still report hearing music echoing throughout the halls from the ball room. When someone wishes to see where the music is coming from, they can clearly see the keys of the piano being played by an unseen force. As the witness gets closer, and next to the piano, everything goes quiet and stops. It is believed that the 'force' is actually Flora Stanley. There is a ghost of a little boy who has been seen by staff members all over the hotel. While on the second floor, Stephen King claims to have seen him 'calling out' for his nanny.
There is no DETAILED information about this room. There has been reports of 'paranormal activity' there, but what exactly that consists of is yet to be reported. Room 407 A man named Lord Dunraven owned the land before F.O. Stanley built the hotel. It has been said that he's still there, and he likes to hang out in the corner near the bathroom, and play with the light that's there in the corner. Apparently, he turns it on and off, annoying the hell out of people with it. There are also reports of people being able to hear the elevator going up and down from inside this room. They hear this when the thing isn't even being used. Lastly, from outside the hotel, people have said to have seen someone in the window looking outward when the room was not occupied. Room 418 This room has the most reports of paranormal activity. Along with the complaints of children playing in the hallway, there are also reports of 'strange noises' coming from the room. Also, similar to room 1302 in The Manor, cleaning crews get frustrated with working on this room because once they've made the bed, somehow it gets 'unmade' without any human help. Thats a lot of crazy stuff. Now, TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) went there a couple times, got some interesting footage, and had some interesting experiences. I don't think what they had captured really makes any of the stories above more valid, unfortunately. On the other hand, If you find them trustworthy, and for the most part, I do. I think that what they DID find, adds more fuel to our proverbial paranormal fire, and THAT in itself needs to be acknowledged. The Shining The made for TV "Official King Version" was... How should I put it?... Painfully bad. Yes, I understand that it was about a thousand times more accurate to the book, and I know that King wasn't pleased with the Kubrick version, but honestly, I don't care. It's about what's entertaining. This wasn't.
The main thing that I think needs to be discussed about The Shining was the idea that the film brought forth about a place, or location. I mean, we've all heard stories about a house, a field, or another location where something traumatic might have happened. Over time the tragic event is discussed by witnesses, and possibly even the children who live in the area. Someone goes to the location, and claims to have heard a weird noise, or seen something that they couldn't explain. Before you know it, the location is considered 'haunted'. Some people disbelieve it. The location repels the fearful, and attracts idiots like myself who are morbidly fascinated with the whole thing. So, the big question with a lot of these locations is, has all the bad things that had happened there in the past left a trace of themselves behind? As Scatman Corothers had said in the film, 'Like if someone burns toast." Traditionally, the things that make a place 'haunted' are often negative things. Perhaps someone, or many people had died in the location in a traumatic way. Now, if that's true, you have to think about, and determine what exactly 'traumatic' means. For some people, getting shot in the face would be traumatic, but with others, it could simply be the pain of dying alone and lonely. It's possible that it's different for everyone. In the film, things that had happened in the past had left traces of themselves behind so that those who possess 'The Shining" can see these traces. Most of the things left behind were not from someone getting killed. I mean, people were hangin' out and having parties and such. One guy was having a good time in one of the rooms with another guy dressed as a dog! I'm sure that that particular event wasn't traumatic for either participants. So, why did their spirits stick around years after the party was over?
For example, an old woman might spend most of her life and time sitting on her front porch knitting sweaters in her rocking chair. She passes away, and her soul goes to Heaven, Hell, Mars, your pocket, or wherever you believe that people go when they die. She's gone. A young couple buys the house, and begin to start to enjoy their own lives there. Every now and then, the couple will see that old woman in her chair knitting those sweaters as if she had never died. They try to talk to her, but she just keeps on going, not even paying attention to them. The house is torn down, and a new one is built in its place, but the new owners still claim to see that old woman doing her thing. The 'Residual Haunting' theory is that the old woman over the years had inadvertently created a 'spiritual recording' of herself. Everyone was just seeing that recording playing back every now and then. Here in the real world, good hauntings to investigate are very difficult to find. There are very few places that you can go, and see blood gushing out of the walls. Actually, I can't think of any. That's not necessarily a bad thing. That only means that we have to actually WORK for the truth, and I'm fine with that. The truth is that it seems that you don't need some supernatural power like 'The Shining' to actually see The Beyond. It seems that you just have to be in the right place at the right time, and in the right frame of mind. It's either that, or EVERYONE possesses a little of 'The Shining', which is also VERY possible. |
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