A grand Rocky Mountain resort whose stay by a famous author inspired a classic of horror.
Built by an inventor and his wife, the Stanley became a landmark beneath the peaks near Rocky Mountain National Park. A novelist’s single off-season stay famously inspired a horror classic. Guests most often report piano music with no player, activity in Room 217 and the fourth floor, and children heard in the halls.
Phantom piano music, fourth-floor children, and lights and doors operating on their own.