The Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel is a historic Georgian Revival hotel on the outskirts of Estes Park, Colorado, built in 1909 and containing approximately 140 rooms. It is a regional tourist destination and includes guest facilities such as a restaurant and spa. In 20th- and 21st-century popular culture the hotel is frequently noted as an inspiration for Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, and it has been profiled repeatedly in travel and paranormal media. Multiple secondary and popular sources characterize the Stanley as haunted, describing it as 'one of America's most haunted hotels' or similar. These accounts appear across encyclopedic, travel, and paranormal-leaning publications and have been amplified by televised paranormal shows and travel writers. Specific stories commonly linked to the hotel's reputation include legends and unverified reports concerning Room 217; at least one source explicitly states that legends tied to Room 217 'cannot be proven.' The supplied material does not include primary witness statements, dates, named entities, or published investigative findings that substantiate particular paranormal events. As presented in the research notes, the hotel's haunted status is a well-attested aspect of its cultural reputation in secondary sources and media, but specific claims remain unverified in the provided excerpts.