The Stanley Hotel
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The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, USA was built by Freelan O. Stanley (1849 - 1940), and opened in 1909. Stanley, along with his twin brother Francis Edgar Stanley, founded the Stanley Steamer Company and had become wealthy by manufacturing automobiles.
The Georgian hotel was the inspiration for the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's novel The Shining. While he and his wife were staying there, in Room 217, King conceived the basic idea for the novel. The 1997 television miniseries version of The Shining was filmed on location at the Stanley, and it has been used as a location site for other films as well, most notably as the "Hotel Danbury" in Dumb and Dumber.
In May 2006, the investigators with The Atlantic Paranormal Society investigated the hotel for the SciFi Channel program Ghost Hunters. TAPS returned to the hotel on October 31st, 2006 for a follow-up investigation, a live six hour event.
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