Haunted Hotels: The Stanley Hotel, Colorado (Season 2)

Our final stop in the season: The Stanley Hotel.

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Resources:

• The Stanley website - https://www.stanleyhotel.com/about
• Go World Travel Magazine - “Historic & Haunted? 5 Questions for the Stanley Hotel” - by Go World Travel - October 1st, 2019 - https://www.goworldtravel.com/travel-colorado-the-stanley-hotel/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22898166441&gbraid=0AAAAADGr82-yik4zTcJld4XpKLMQjE1xz&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrPPNBdgP8R8X6V3xRXasT0-mOtareOmCy4iu_vsll8BdN6zNfevgxxoCl2oQAvD_BwE
• Visit Estes Park website - https://www.visitestespark.com/
• Estes Park Trail Gazette - “A Stanley Hotel History: Part Two” -by Dawn Wilson - January 17th, 2024 - https://www.eptrail.com/2024/01/17/a-stanley-hotel-history-part-two/

• Mayo Clinic - Tuberculosis - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351250
• Hurt R. (2004) - “Tuberculosis sanatorium regimen in the 1940s: a patient's personal diary” - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 97(7), 350–353 - https://doi.org/10.1177/014107680409700717
• newspapers.com
• JG-TC: Journal Gazette and Times-Courier - “Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Wrecked by Explosion” - no direct author - June 26th, 1911 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/73126250/?match=1&terms=The%20Stanley%20Hotel
• Lincoln Star Journal - “Stanley Hotel Wrecked” - no author - June 26th, 1911 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/313866554/?match=1&terms=The%20Stanley%20Hotel
• Skeptiod - ‘The Haunting of the Stanley Hotel’ by Brian Dunning - May 31st, 2022 — https://skeptoid.com/episodes/834?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=9015653752&gbraid=0AAAAADzokT-Tx1VfTaD3YddKfaEtQcZKO&gclid=CjwKCAiAuIDJBhBoEiwAxhgyFsvukxGkZF8wvlZS6dMVk73Ig-rl8H7xnJ5eg5bfY6B8-C3EECe1tRoCk48QAvD_BwE
• Estes Valley Voice - ‘The Stanley Hotel sold today for $400 Million” - by Patti Brown - May 15th, 2025 - https://estesvalleyvoice.com/2025/05/15/stanley-hotel-sold-today-for-400-million/#:~:text=John%20Cullen%20has%20owned%20The,his%20family's%20Napa%20Valley%20winery
• Westword - “How The Shining Lives On at the Stanley Hotel, Fifty Years After Stephen King’s Famous Visit: The hotel is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Stephen King's bone-chilling stay with a ball on Saturday, October 26” - By Justin Criado - October 22, 2024 - https://www.westword.com/arts-culture/stanley-hotel-ghost-stories-50-years-after-stephen-king-22244203/
• Stephen King website - https://stephenking.com/works/novel/shining.html
• Youtube - “Surfing the 5 Most Haunted Rooms (STANLEY HOTEL)” - uploaded by PROJECT FEAR - October 17th, 2025
• US Ghost Adventures - “Hauntings of the Stanley Hotel” - October 16th, 2024 - https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-hotels-and-inns/hauntings-of-the-stanley-hotel/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23211961147&gbraid=0AAAAAoLvfyEr0_CtcagTWGewrvB-o0o2x&gclid=Cj0KCQiArt_JBhCTARIsADQZaymlcPsNzgt3qELMn_StHebILITmcpaHIJkYkSPnf3qxW9WW3-zUN6AaAsMyEALw_wcB
• Collider website - "You've Got to Hear How 'Dumb and Dumber' Connects To 'The Shining’” - by Shawn Ban Horn - December 26th, 2024 - https://collider.com/the-shining-hotel-dumb-and-dumber/#:~:text=The%20Shining%20miniseries%20isn't,at%20the%20Stanley%20Hotel%20today
• Nerds That Geek - “The Stanley Hotel: Scotty’s Haunted Stay” - November 25th, 2024 - https://nerdsthatgeek.com/horror/the-stanley-hotel-scottys-haunted-stay
• Ghost Adventures - Season 4 Episode 5: Stanley Hotel - via discovery+ - https://play.discoveryplus.com/video/watch/a66eab1d-29c0-4a56-a29d-1f6aaeea1fff/f96417d0-3d46-4bac-81f2-1a8cf574e467
• Sightings Podcast - “Check In To The Stanley Hotel” - June 9th, 2025 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2JcHpv4D71DQckfXDM10lm?si=mARe4MvORe62XFyPB8ju5A&nd=1&dlsi=37ca463bb6304f06