THE HAUNTED STANLEY HOTEL-TAKE THE TOUR WITH ME-PART 1

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!  So, I can't even tell you guys how busy I have been and how many COOL stories I have to share with you.  Over the last two weekends I have been to some of the most HAUNTED places in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!!  And believe me....I'm pooped!!!! But never to "pooped" to talk with you guys. LOL

First, here is  a brief little bit about the hotel. (Like you DON'T already know about the Stanley.) LOL

One of the MOST FAMOUS HOTELS IN THE WORLD the Stanley Hotel, known for its architecture, magnificent setting and famous visitors, may possibly be best known today for its inspirational role in Stephen King's novel, The Shining. The hotel has been featured as one of America's most haunted hotels and with the numerous stories from visitors and staff, The Stanley Hotel continues to "shine" today, as it did in 1909 when first opened.

Forced by poor health to move West, F.O. Stanley and his famous Steamer arrived in Estes Park in 1903. Finding the town lacking in amenities, F.O. set out to change the local economy. On the 160 acres he purchased from Lord Dunraven, Stanley first built the main building of the hotel, one of 11 buildings in the original complex. Many of those original buildings remain in use today on the remaining 55 acres.  He  built the road from Lyons, over which he brought visitors, riding in a Stanley Steamer to Estes Park and The Stanley Hotel. This makes the first time in history that an automobile, instead of a train, was used to transport people to a resort area. By his dying year in 1940, Stanley had not only built his grand hotel, but also developed a sewer, power and water company, as well as Estes Park's first bank.

Now about the ghosts of the Stanley:

• The ghosts of Freelan Stanley and his wife Flora have been seen dressed in formal attire on the main staircase and in other public areas, such as the lobby and the billiard room.
• Mr. Stanley has also been spotted in the administration offices, perhaps to keep an eye on the hotel's books. The Flora's piano playing occasionally echos in the ballroom.
• Disembodied voices and phantom footsteps have been heard in the hallways and rooms.
• Staff and visitors have reported unseen hands yanking at their clothing.
• More than one guest has said they have awakened to find their blankets taken from their beds and neatly folded.
• The Earl of Dunraven, who owned the land prior to the Stanleys, is said to haunt room 407, where the aroma of his cherry pipe tobacco still can be smelled. A ghostly face has also been reported peering out of the room's window when it was not occupied.

Room 217, where Stephen King stayed, was the site of a tragic accident in 1911: housekeeper Elizabeth Wilson was nearly killed by a gas leak explosion. Since her death in the 1950s, strange, unexplained activity is said to take place in that room, including doors opening and closing, and lights switching on and off by themselves.

• Room 418 is the most haunted room, according to hotel staff, apparently by the ghosts of children. Guests who stay there say phantom children can be heard playing in the hallways at night. One couple complained that the noisy children kept them up all night, although there were no children staying at the hotel at the time. Impressions of bodies have been found on the bed when the room as been unoccupied.
• The ghost of a small child who calls out to his nanny has been spotted on several occasions on the second floor -- including by Stephen King.

As we walked through this place frozen in time with all it's beautiful dark wood and leather chairs in  the lobby and the smell of Hickory Pine everywhere, I couldn't help but wish I was entering the hotel as a guest dressed in a long, blue ruffley dress with a lace collar and my hair neatly pinned up under a cute little hat.  White gloves....and standing there very prim and proper waiting on someone to come escort me to my room just before dinner.  Instead, I am wearing a Becks Ghost Hunters Tee-shirt....my hair down in my face...pulling 3 heavy bags full of ghost hunting equipment trying to get checked in as fast as I can so I can go check things out!!! Oh well......sssiiiggghhhhh

 

Now, let me explain to you what I do before I go to a haunted location.  It takes a lot of time and research BEFORE hand so that I know what the claims are and who the spirits are that are reportedly haunting the location.  This just helps me know what and who I may encounter, if any spirits.

So, BEFORE going to the Stanley, I was online reading and looking at TONS and TONS of pictures to blog about and give you guys some idea what the place may look like.  Now, if you have EVER Googled the Stanley Hotel you know you can read and look at historical pictures for hours and hours!!! Well....I decided to take a picture of the Stanley on my phone that I thought I would post on my blog.  Now, this picture just caught my eye for some reason.  It wasn't a picture of a ghost or even a picture of Mr. Stanley...it was of three ladies walking up to the Stanley.  Nothing fancy....but for some reason I just liked it!!!

Back to my story...
We check in and head to room 315........I could hardly wait!!!

 

We opened the door and instantly you could feel a cool breeze coming through the window as there is no air conditioned rooms at this hotel.  I could see mountains and pine trees through the window and it just took my breath away......sheer beauty.   As I stepped into the room I looked to my right and saw a TV, a desk, a dresser and the door to the bathroom.  It looked like a pretty "standard" room I guess you could say.......BUT THEN.......I looked to the LEFT..........as my eyes were glancing across the room at the nightstand that sat by a queen size bed with a wooden headboard something caught my eye..............WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Up on the wall........was THE EXACT picture of the three ladies I had taken a picture of a couple weeks earlier!!!!  WHAT ARE THE ODDS..........that out of this 155 room hotel that in MY room would be a random picture of three ladies walking up to the Stanley Hotel that I had only seen once before on the internet.  I almost choked!!! LOL  I yelled at Deak...."look"......"look".......he was like "what?"  "What is it?"  I said "the PICTURE! The one on the wall!  It's the one I randomly took on my phone of the Stanley!!!!"  What are the ODDS that THAT PICTURE would be in our room?????    There are THOUSANDS of pictures I could have chose to use on my blog but I chose that one.........and it shows up in our room!!!!  Coincidence......you tell me?????

 

And that's how our trip started....

 

Anyway, I put together a little video...and before you start emailing me telling me I misspelled words...I realized that a little to late....but cut me some slack....I'm exhausted! LOL  Anyway, this is the first of a 3 Part series of video's I plan on posting on the Stanley.  This is just the grounds...stay tuned....

 

And I want to say a SPECIAL THANK YOU to all those past, present and currently serving our country.  Without you and what you have done or are doing...we would not be able to live in the wonderful country called USA!!!!  With my deepest and sincerest gratitude...."THANK YOU". 

Luther Martin (My Nan)

 

 

DENVER AIRPORT ONE OF THE MOST EVIL PLACES ON EARTH???-NEXT THE STANLEY

So.....I can't WAIT to share our experiences with you guys at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.  I have soooo much to share with you that I am still trying to put it all together for you guys.  So, I am going to do it in parts, starting from the VERY BEGINNING.

Deak and I flew into the Denver Airport and from there...... we rented a car and drove to the Stanley.  So, I have been trying to post SCARY stuff this whole week on my facebook page(www.facebook.com/Becksghosthunters /You can click on the FB badge on my front page and it will take you right to my FB Page) but I thought I would also post some extra HAUNTED SCARY stuff on my blog as well in honor of my FAVORITE HOLIDAY......HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, AFTER we got back from the Stanley, I was doing some research and came across this...


IS THE DENVER AIRPORT ONE OF THE MOST EVIL PLACES ON EARTH????

I found this to be VERY interesting since the Denver Airport is the airport that you fly into to go to the Stanley Hotel. So, I was just there a couple of weeks ago!  WHAT THE HECK???? The AIRPORT is HAUNTED?????  And not only haunted but DEMONIC!!!!!!  Man....just my luck.....a day late and a dollar short! LOL  I did NOT know this until AFTER we got home!!!  DANG!!!! 

Anyway here are some of the things that is said about the airport:

 Exit arrows point at each other instead of outside; corridors lead to nowhere; and security checkpoints seem to disappear mysteriously as you approach them. As you drive into the airport, you're greeted by a giant horse with glowing red eyes, and one of the terminals is decorated with a massive statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death.

Many people believe that DEN's dark aeromancy. The airport has been plagued by conspiracy theories about its true purpose almost since the day construction crews broke ground on it in the mid-1990s. Here's a collection of some the best conspiracy theory videos you've ever seen, all focusing intensely on what is perhaps the most weirdly evil airport on Earth.

First, the facts. The giant, red-eyed horse sculpture at the gates of the airport really did kill the sculptor who created it. He died of blood loss when part of the statue fell on him in his studio. In this snippet of a conspiracy video about DEN, the narrator speculates about how this bloodthirsty horse sculpture might be connected to time travel. 

 

 

 

 

As the story goes, the airport was constructed on top of burial grounds and spiritual sites used for centuries by the native tribes that populated the Front Range before the coming of the White Man. The perpetual playing of Native American songs in the 365-foot-long bridge was originally initiated by officials as a way to placate any angry spirits who might want to pull a Poltergeist or The Shining on one of the nation’s busiest airports. People in the conspiracy theory world think the burial ground may have connections to the Navajo writing in the floors at DIA and the dead Native American women seen in the Tanguma murals.

When asked, DIA spokespeople laugh-off the notion that the music has anything to do with angry spirits or that the land where the airport sits was a burial site for ancient tribes. Noting that little archeological evidence of Indian burial sites has ever been found around DIA, they surmise that the rumor had its origin in a ceremony that was performed around the time of  DIA’s groundbreaking in the late-80’s by various Native American shaman to bless the new facility. Anything else is pure conjecture, they assert.

What they don’t mention is the secret ceremony conducted on the grounds of the airport in 1995.
That April, coalition of Native American spiritual leaders from around the country performed a night-time ceremony at several sites around the airport to put ancient spirits to rest that were disturbed by the construction of the multi-billion dollar airport. They were part of an official city group under the Webb administration called the “DIA Spiritual Resolution Committee.”

Members included representatives of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes who said they had discovered several sites where the spirits had been disturbed, said an article in the Rocky Mountain News. The city and the airport even paid for leaders of the Montana Cheyenne to come to Denver calm the Indian ghosts. At the time, one of the group’s members told another reporter that “Whenever [spirits] are disturbed, it seems like bad things come about.”


Well....now about the Stanley.  Well guesst what?  You are going to have to wait until tomorrow.  I am almost finished but I want it to be really good for you guys so you'll just have to be patient....until tomorrow....ENJOY YOUR HALLOWEEN WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From my house:

My mantel


 To yours......

Don't forget to have Fun this Halloween!

 

 

THE HAUNTED STANLEY HOTEL-SEE THE SPIRIT CHILDREN AT PLAY

See a small part of our Stanley Hotel visit.  What do you think?  Is this real or is there some other explanation?  I would LOVE to get your opinion on this.  I tried and tried and could not duplicate this phenomenon.

I can't wait to go through all the evidence from the overnight at the Stanley!!!  It will take me sometime so be patient.  Hope you enjoyed this small little video.

THE EXTREMELY HAUNTED STANLEY HOTEL-EVEN STEPHEN KING COULDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!  I am still excited about it being October....creepy, spooky, strange things happening.....yep.....right down my alley!!!!!

I am headed to the MOST HAUNTED HOTEL IN THE US this weekend....The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado!  I can not wait!!!!  Wanted to go there for years!!!!  I will be sure and take lots of pics and hopefully have lots of exciting things to share with you all when I get back!!!

So, here is a little about the Stanley:  (And I would love to hear from you if you have had an experience at the Stanley)

The Stanley Hotel was built during the early part of 1900 by Freelan Oscar Stanley, the creator of the Stanley Steam Engine. Stanley and his wife, Flora, came to Colorado in 1903 under instructions from Stanley’s doctor to get some fresh mountain air. He suffered from tuberculosis and had been given six months to live. His doctor made arrangements for them to stay in Estes Park at a friend’s cabin for the summer. Stanley’s health improved dramatically and the couple loved the area.

Stanley Hotel Haunted

Image of The Shining Hotel

The Stanley Hotel was built on land bought from Earl Lord Dunraven, who visited the area during an 1872 hunting excursion. Dunraven built a cabin, hotel and hunting lodge for guests and then homesteaded illegally up to 6,000 acres to try to develop a private hunting preserve. When it was discovered that Dunraven was trying to swindle people out of their money and land, he was made run away.
Construction on the Stanley Hotel began in 1906. Rock and wood obtained from nearby mountains was used to build it in the Georgian style of architecture. It was completed in 1909 and held its grand opening. The hotel catered to the rich and famous and boasted electricity, running water, and telephones. It didn’t have heat, however, so it was turned into a summer resort.
Below you find everything about the Stanley Hotel haunted:

The Shining Hotel

Many people are aware of The Stanley Hotel because of Stephen King’s book The Shining. While he did not write the book while staying at the hotel, he did experience some things there that influenced his writing. King was working on a story centered around a haunted amusement park that had roller coasters flying off the tracks to eat people. His friends didn’t like the story and told him so. He decided to back away for a bit and think about the story some more so King and Tabitha, his wife, traveled through Estes Park and into the Rocky Mountain National Park. Highway 34, or Trailridge Road, was closed because of bad weather. They turned back and King decided to stay at the Stanley Hotel instead. He experienced some scary things while they were there and he worked a lot of these events into The Shining. This is why the hotel is sometimes referred to as the Shining Hotel.

Stanley Hotel Haunted

There have been a number of ghosts spotted at the Stanley Hotel. One of the most well-known is F.O. Stanley himself. He’s often seen hanging around in the Billiard Room and the lobby as these were his favorite areas of the hotel when he was living. He once appeared to a group of tourists that were in the Billiard Room by materializing behind one of the tourists. Bartenders at the Stanley claim to see F.O. strolling through the bar and vanishing as they attempt to stop him at the kitchen.
In addition, Flora Stanley has been spotted quite often. She used to entertain the guests by playing the piano in the ballroom. She’s said to still do just that. Many times, her music is heard, but only the piano keys are seen moving. However, if anyone walks into the room for further investigation, the music ceases, as does the movement of the piano keys.
Various rooms in the Stanley Hotel are especially active when it comes to paranormal activity. One of these is Room 407. Lord Dunraven is said to occupy this room at times. He supposedly likes to stand in the corner of the room close to the bathroom door. One witness said that a light constantly turned on and off. When the light was off, the witnesses informed the ghost that they knew of his presence.
They also told him that they were just staying two nights and then politely requested that he please turn back on the light. That’s when the light came back on. Later, the lights were off, but noises kept coming from an elevator close by. The problem was that this particular elevator was out of order at the time. There are other reports of a ghostly face peering out of the window of Room 407 even when the room is vacant.

Stanley Hotel Hauntings

Another room that gets a lot of attention is Room 418. The spirits here are mostly from children. Cleaning staff have heard many odd sounds coming from the room along with seeing impressions on the bed when no one has been in the room. When Room 418 is occupied, the guests talk about hearing children playing at night in the hallway. There was even a couple that checked out really early in the morning because of all the noise the children had made in the hallway all night. Oddly enough, no children were staying at the hotel then.
When Stephen and Tabitha King stayed at the hotel, it was at the end of the season and they were the only two guests. They stayed in Room 217. There was a tragic accident in this room during 1911. Housekeeper Elizabeth Wilson was almost killed during a gas leak explosion in that room. She survived the explosion but died in the 1950s. Since that time there has been odd and unexplained activity in Room 217. This activity includes lights turning on and off and doors opening and closing on their own. There are also reports of guests having their suitcases unpacked and items put away.
There’s a story that the tour guides tell about a small child that’s been spotted by a lot of the staff members all over the hotel. Even Stephen King saw this child calling for his nanny on the second floor. If you want the best chance to experience some ghostly activity, the best place to stay is on the fourth floor of the hotel. This is where children are heard at all hours of the night playing and chasing each other.

Stanley Hotel Ghost

I have been looking around for some stories about The Stanley Hotel and here is one that sticks out. A person was on a ghost tour of the hotel and happened to take this picture just outside the hotel. As you can see the window has a child at it, but the figure is very hazy when it shouldn’t be because that window is actually opened. The person that took the photo investigated into this photo and called the hotel.

The Stanley Hotel – A ghost at the window

 

 

See you when I get back......if I MAKE IT BACK!!!! :)