The Stanley Hotel

Reported encounters

The Stanley’s ghost list is specific, which is why it traveled. Room 217 is the room Stephen King stayed in; he later said a nightmare there helped start The Shining. Staff and guests report a man who looks like F. O. Stanley in the billiard room and the lobby, children in the halls at night, and a woman on the staircase. In the concert hall, people say a piano plays a few notes and then stops, with the bench empty.

Room 418 has its own story: children laughing, lights, a trunk. Housekeepers have said they make up a bed and come back to find an impression in it. The hotel sells the legend. Ghost Map is only recording that these are the encounters people claim.