When we lived in Boulder, we would go to Estes Park. I've stayed at the Stanley several times, but never had anything but a good nights sleep. It is a beautiful place.

My grandfather in law was the architect for the Stanley. Sorry he (T. E. Weiger) wasn't mentioned despite the fact that the architecture was often spoken of in this film. The story about how the owner discovered him is interesting. Weiger's grand daughter was my girlfriend, and she is a nurse (RN). Working at the Longmont hospital, the owner was her patient. He said he was the owner of the Stanley and was looking for the architect. She smiled and said he was in luck, she was his granddaughter. Subsequently she provided him with a lot of written and photographic information. He then arranged for us to be married at the Stanley and surprised us by having a bronze plate hung to the right of the main entrance with T. E. Weiger as the architect on that day. A beautiful wedding! Very kind fellow.

@Errcyco

4 жыл бұрын

What a neat story! Thanks for sharing. Did you guys spend a few nights there or just during the daytime for the actual wedding?

@faeriesmak

2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful story!

@karenhaupt4321

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool story, thanks for sharing!

@babasheeny3634

2 жыл бұрын

Could u shed light how the Stanley Hotel gained notoriety from The Shining? Because all outside shots were taken at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and most indoor shots were on a movie set. Thx!

@peterswift9474

2 жыл бұрын

@@babasheeny3634 Right, but I thought that Stephen King stayed there and was captivated by the place. The story evolved with descriptions of the Stanley but the filming was moved to other places. I guess the authenticity held by the Stanley as the original is based on King's experience and narrative description...if memory serves.

I'm from Indonesia. When I attended a short course at Colorado State University in 1996 I had a chance to visit Estes Park. I only saw Stanley Hotel from a distance, it is indeed an amazing building surrounded by beautiful hills.

@nickbiddle3445

7 ай бұрын

GO RAMS!

I stayed at the Stanley Hotel in 2005 for Christmas. The town was practically empty it seemed. Nothing going on at all. The cost of a room was very reasonable during off-season. We got to stay in the infamous room. I remember it being the cleanest hotel I've ever stayed in. The smell is what I noticed first as being exceptional to other hotels. My daughters and I had the run of the place and we went around trying to spook ourselves. In the morning, we all had the same story to tell--each of us woke up groggy in the middle of the night to see a woman standing at the foot of our bed. Nothing too frightening at the time though.

I had a nursing travel assignment, in Denver, back in 1993. Stayed at the Stanley Hotel for 2 nights. And got the history, and about Stephen King's stay. Awesome, beautiful, historical.....the Stanley Hotel is truly, an American icon.

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

And the movie plays on one of the hotel tv channels at all hours. If you miss a bit. You only have to wait to catch up. After the TV was made there . They now also show it on occasion. Even though the tv series was fully shot inside the hotel not on external sets. And you can find all the areas they filmed the TV series by walking around. Only difference is in the TV didnt use the main stair well in the series. The stairwell they used was the private stairs that FO Stanley built for his personal use. And what the tv series lobby was actually FO Stanley's private office. Yes that fireplace is actually real. And it's huge. The FO Stanley's place had been all but unused for years when the tv show was shot. They had to restore ALOT of the wall wood etc. The fireplace was left original except for to restore it to make it usable again.

Who noticed the wind rustling the owners hair at the very end when he said he thought that the spirits would be pleased with what he has done? 👻😱

@jcee2259

Жыл бұрын

Nature and I came to an agreement already.

We stayed in Estes Park for a week in June this summer, unfortunately the Stanley Hotel was closed due to Covid 19 and was opening the day we left but Estes Park is a beautiful town!

@YuTuboTuTubas

2 жыл бұрын

Did you went to room 217?

In 1965 in high school in Colorado Springs I helped a teacher (Joel Pittenger), from Estes Park, restore a 1914 14 passenger Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon that had been used at the hotel, ferrying guests from the station to the hotel. Mr P had restored other Stanley's as well and returned to Estes Park a year later.

@friesandshake

2 жыл бұрын

That's so amazing 🥰

@carlcushmanhybels8159

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! I grew up a town over from where Stanleys were built: Newton, Mass. Somehow as a kid I became enamored of Stanleys, including their 127MPH Land Speed Record 1906. The Stanley Mountain Wagon is a wonderful vehicle. Steam develops tremendous torque right from zero revs. Stanleys were great at mountain climbing. In NH, they regularly won the Mt Washington Auto Road Climb, early 1900's. There's a movie clip somewhere of a Stanley Mountain Wagon, working for a Colorado hotel, chuffing up a mountain road, full of hotel guests and luggage.

I’ve visited several times. Estes Park hike is incredible. I got served martinis and dinner by waiters in tux @ Stanley while I wore my hiking boots. Its a bucket list destination.

Steven King was not a struggling author when he wrote The Shining, and it wasn't his first big hit. Carrie, King's first novel, sold nearly 1 million copies after its release.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

The hotel had seen better days by that point, tho...

@dianemccamy2568

2 жыл бұрын

Because of his wife telling him to finish it! He threw it down away!

@SmilerORocker

2 жыл бұрын

In the same way as there's no such thing as an Irish Baron.... He was an English landlord living in Ireland, in fact, he probably only visited Ireland occasionally. Gotta stick to being pedantic... Otherwise history gets written incorrectly.

I went two summer's ago. It is grand. Come here if you can, you won't regret it!

@lorraineevans3657

6 жыл бұрын

L chavez Yikes only if you like ghosts. I went last year and decided not to stay after the bartender made us a red rum and told us the ghost stories even Stephen King fled in the middle of the night. Have you seen Ghost Adventure's when they were in the carriage house

I used to work in Estes Park, and being an architecture fan, I had to go check out the Stanley Hotel. It is an outstanding place! As I was passing through the lobby, a guest asked the desk clerk "Where's Johnny?" With a deadpan look on her face, she just replied _"Timberline Lodge in Oregon"..._

Beautiful place. Definatly haunted. Had a ghost child grab my leg. And the whole ghost tour people saw me react to it. Thankfully it's a friendly ghost who only seeks friendly attention. And it doesn't hurt you. Ghost appartly only touches people it's comfortable to be around. So I feel blessed it chose me.

@markmorris5880

Жыл бұрын

Scary Mary Orton, who I happen to know and who was a ghost tour guide at the Stanley and appears in the video, used to be able to get the kids/spirits to move parts of her clothing to show that they were there during the tours of the Stanley!

Absolutely love that documentary on the Stanley Hotel. History is right up my alley. It's in a beautiful location it's a beautiful hotel. I tell you I think it would be a great place to spend a vacation enjoy the hotel envisat other historical features Colorado has to offer and the history of their ghost towns. Just watch this documentary on the Stanley. You will love it.

The reason why the Stanley Hotel was built because Stanley was escaping Tuberculosis and he said the mountains had a cure to Tuberculosis at that point during the Epidemic

I've been searching for a vacation destination, and this place just made it to number one on my list. My grandmother grew up in Kingfield and knew the Stanleys.

I stayed two nights at the Stanley and it was awesome.

I really enjoy these Colorado Experience videos.

Loved watching this program. Thanks, RMPBS, for reminding all of us of the wonderful treasures of Colorado. I look forward to more Colorado Experience programs on Rocky Mountain PBS!!

My link is partly through a long interest and fondness for Stanley Steamers. Stanleys were great cars for Colorado mountains: Steam, like electric, has tremendous 'OOmmph' torque "Get up an' Go' / Hillclimbing power-- producing high torque from zero revs and low revs. A Stanley racer did 127 mph in 1906, FL -world's speed record. Stanley's regularly won the Mt. Washington Auto Road Climb in NH. And did sterling service for Colorado hotels. E.g., the 9 or so passenger Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon.

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

And it's back living at the hotel where it belongs. It's been restored

boy does the sequel to The Shining (Doctor Sleep) give a whole new spin to the ghost claims of The Shining. Excellent movie.

@ElectricAngel19

3 жыл бұрын

@Lavern still liked the story as it wasn't an expected plot.. not for me anyway

There should have been a pause after the part where "if you threw a stone, you'd hit a Stanley somewhere" funny.

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds painful for anyone who was a Stanley

Boy I sure do love living in Colorado.

@DianeHasHopeInChrist

4 жыл бұрын

I guess it helps to have legalized marijuana....'eh? Lol.

@TheBandit7613

4 жыл бұрын

@Amp Blaster I had to move out of Colorado when it became Eastern California. The roads turned to crap and people drive with a vengeance. The road rage is out of control.

@TheBandit7613

3 жыл бұрын

@Lavern It's still painful to me that I was chased out by Cali idiots. I still love Colorado. I had to leave for my sanity. It's going to keep getting worse. Denver (the metro area) was the best place to live in the country.

My daughter and I did a Mother and Daughter trip to the Stanley Hotel. We love it and the Food in the Crystal Room Fantastic and Amazing 💕 I would love to bring my Husband there, I'm from Delta Colorado and live in Albuquerque NM 😎

I stayed at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and it was incredible.

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

Broadmoor is also haunted

I got to visit the Stanley in 1991 beautiful

Midnight, the Stars and You / Midnight and a rendez-vous / Your eyes held a message tender / Saying "I surrender all my love to you..." :-D

@donosodemaistre2764

3 жыл бұрын

@Lavern In the elevators. Just before the blood comes... :)

Spent my honeymoon there. It was amazing!

@riverraisin1

4 жыл бұрын

The sex or the hotel?

@rubysanabria3352

3 жыл бұрын

@@riverraisin1 🤣

@thinghammer

2 жыл бұрын

I guess you probably stayed in historic room 69?

I really want to stay there. I love the Shining. I’d go up there and when the check in clerk says welcome to the Stanley I’d say first, “Are you hiring for a caretaker because I want to stay here forever and ever and ever.” One day I really want to stay at this hotel.

@faeriesmak

2 жыл бұрын

They probably hear that constantly and wouldn’t be too amused.

@bethewalt7385

Жыл бұрын

The actual Stanley hotel in Estes Park is not isolated and geographically situated as presented in the Kubrick movie from 1980, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs was where they shot and got all the exteriors for Kubrick, the more recent mini series was shot in Estes at the Stanley, the Stanley doesn't close down for the season, they aren't snowed in for the winter, no caretaker needed, my ex worked there for 7 years, head carpenter for maintenance, 2010 to 2017 or so....been there, stayed there more times than I can count, many different owners, some have cared more than others, been staying there since 1972..

I've just learned that the ghost in the bear costume from the movie "The Shining" is canon.

@grisleeadam7041

4 жыл бұрын

At first I read that as "the bear in the ghost costume". It was extremely funny to me.

They filmed the ABC mini-series of The Shining here, as well as some scenes from Dumb and Dumber. This was an interesting video. Thanks for sharing it : )

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

The tv series was actually fully filmed inside the hotel. Not using sets.

What a gem, must visit sometime and the owner seems so sweet.

I love visiting that hotel. I might go back once my brother in law moves to California. I feel sorry for California.

Loved this story!! Thank you!

Really great 👍 program you have created here on The Stanley Hotel, its origins, the current owner and employees. Nicely Done!

This is the homeland of the Ute Nation, we are still here, "The Shining Mountain People"

I enjoy seeing beautiful sprawling hotels, and I enjoy a good horror story. So, for me, Kubrick's film "The Shining" is a fantastic treat to savor. And it must be quite lovely to visit this hotel-- the place that served as a muse for Stephen King.

Stanley Steamer makes The Shining carpets cleaner! :-D

The new owner seems lovely, has a lovely happy fresh looking face.

Why did his hair start moving when he said the spirits are happy😁

looks great, totally gonna visit sometime!

I love it I've been there I lived about 2 hours away from there

The high school band I was in visited Estes Park and performed. I did not go on the trip eventhough I had earned the money to pay for my trip. My grandmother became ill just a few days before the trip. I gave my trip money to a fellow student who couldn't have gone as my money could not be refunded and I stayed home to care for my grandma. The person I gave my money to never even brought me a souvenir eventhough I also sent money with for one. I gave her enough to buy me a sweatshirt and coffee mug. I didn't get the money back I sent for souvenirs and never got a thank you either. I don't regret staying with my grandma but wish I could have taken the trip. The Stanley Hotel was one of the places the band visited.

@twistoffate4791

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, what an ungrateful recipient of such a deeply kind gesture! And you didn't get your souvenirs OR the money you provided FOR them. I bet your Grandma was comforted, however, by your loving presence. Thanks for sharing your story.

I have seen some photographs of Lord Dunraven's ghost. Fascinating.

@markmorris5880

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Dunraven is supposed to haunt there, as well as the Stanleys themselves and the kids on the 4th floor!

I moved to Colorado last year and it was conveniently right after Shane’s video came out I was like wow

omg, this is the hotel where they shot the miniseries The Shining in 96 which then came out in 97, not the Kubrik's movie of 1980,to think that the actors the crew were really here wow must have been magical and then I read that there were people who have had paranormal experiences and since I live them too I'm sure that there ghosts i could to meet

I’m going to the Stanley hotel this Summer

@fairymoonrise6916

5 жыл бұрын

Heavenmc1 AJ how was your experience?? Is it really haunted?

@darkkiss7247

4 жыл бұрын

How was it?

Thank you 😊.

I would love to go paint some amazing mandala wall murals for them! So cool!

@davidbea3711

2 жыл бұрын

whats a mandala mural ?? im a painter

@thinghammer

2 жыл бұрын

I just looked you up based on your comment. Very interesting stuff, you do beautiful work. Great location, too!

@nakedladymandalas

2 жыл бұрын

@@thinghammer thank you very much. The journey of mandala has completely changed my life and I want to share it with the world 💜💜💜

@nakedladymandalas

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidbea3711 mandalas are a design and collection of circles that provide conscious meditation for the person creating them as well as the person that observes the art. 💜💜

@bethewalt7385

Жыл бұрын

As if, they'd approve that because? The Stanley is on the historic register, it's a landmark, mandala's are cool, completely know what they are but they are in no way appropriate for the Stanley, not only are they historically inaccurate, they'd lose funding by doing it. To place mandalas there would be defacing history, it would be vandalism in that structure, that's way too hippy crunchy and I am an original hippy, 1960..

On my bucket list. 😁

''Stanly steamer your certified cleaner''

@annacribbs4142

6 жыл бұрын

LOL idk he was the sme 1 till i started watching this...

@riverraisin1

4 жыл бұрын

Stanley Steemer with 2 E's is the carpet cleaner. Not affiliated with Stanley Steamer the car

@wendybusby9415

4 жыл бұрын

Anna Cribbs. What language are you speaking? It looks like American but I don't know. Have you ever read "1984"? When they take away your ability to speak or write, they take away your ability to THINK.

I ate breakfast there in the summer of 1970. I was not able to tour it that day. They had a Stanley steamer car on the first floor. (I do not know if it is still there.)

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

It sure is.

@Latino_n_proud

Жыл бұрын

I was there last night. The steam car is still there 👌🏽

Thank you

Ive spent a lot of time here at the stanley and absoluty loved it. Was able to go into places they just don't let tourists or anyone besides workers there

@marileesaddler491

5 жыл бұрын

Would love to do a guided meditations there!!!

Here’s Johnny 😂

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

Sir DD you want to borrow my ax

Cool video

Omg I was In Calorado yesterday and I went past it and I saw bear by it

I live in Colorado and I want to go there now

@jamesdean258

4 жыл бұрын

Dominikiller!!! GO!

Researched a bit on current owner John Cullen, apparently not a very good employer to work for. Staff are what makes or breaks any business especially guest service industry. Until a progressive type like Cullen understands incentivizing employees with a great compensation plan that is fair and just for great performance, the Hotel will be sub-par, 2-3 star or diamond, pick one. I'm sure there are many ways too manage but I've worked and visited many 5 star resorts, happy work is well paid.

@miapdx503

2 жыл бұрын

Well said 🌺

So extremely beautiful

@_xoxtic_1432

3 жыл бұрын

Ray Mak But Aint Inside

@thislookslikeyouyeet4785

3 жыл бұрын

wth i see u here niw

@GabeGidbits

2 жыл бұрын

Never thought I’d see you here

Very COOL!

Always wanted to go and I will.

I HAVE to visit !!!

I would love to go that hotel

I was bartender there 1979-1981... We really had some fun parties.. Halloween and New Years Eve... Hi Melody from Cleveland.

@katherinea.williams3044

6 жыл бұрын

Sporty Smith Do you still live in the area? I'm in Miami & have been for years; I absolutely loathe it. I've always wanted to see mountains, v the flat, flat, flat of Florida. I'm terminally ill with heart disease & would love to visit the West before the inevitable. It's unlikely due to medical costs & that's a fairly deep hurt. You're quite lucky to have lived & work there. I'm not envious, I'm downright jealous! I'd love to hear your experiences while you were there. I'm certain you are, but I'd like to think you are grateful for having that experience working & living there. For those of us who were not so lucky. Sorry for rambling- it's the Ambien. But in a way, a truth serum!

@lorraineevans3657

6 жыл бұрын

Sporty Smith I met a cool bartender there last year that made a good red rum drink. He told us many haunted stories. Do you have any to tell us. That would be fun. Thanks

@patriciasalvatore2394

6 жыл бұрын

Kate Williams That was a funny ( and true) statement about Ambien. I hope you do get to see some of the interesting places you've read about. Wishing you well.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

@@katherinea.williams3044 Well, we're all headed that way, and don't let the doctors get everything you have. Lol. Put it all in your house so they can't touch it. :)

@katherinea.williams3044

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorraineevans3657 Ooh, a Redrum drink! I’ll have to look up what’s in it- I’m quite eager to know! Thanks for sharing mate!

Gotta return to Colorado, check out . . . the Stanley Hotel. Last there in Estes Park, as part of a bike race which had a stage in Estes Park. Name - American Flyer comes to mind. May have been a movie which filmed a bike race in Estes Park !

Who's here because of Stephen King?

@DylGonZo

4 жыл бұрын

more than 75% of us most likely lol

@sunsetlights100

4 жыл бұрын

Room 217 moon

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

4 жыл бұрын

*REDRUM*

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

I'm here because my friend told me the stories were TRUE. She was there. No party, but they HEARD one.

As long as I don't see any ghost twin females I will be okay.

@lorraineevans3657

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Kingsbury After a few red rums you will be seeing twins LOL actually it's a very scary hotel been there even Stephen King fled in the middle of the night

@fisherman2359

4 жыл бұрын

That actually sounds like a good time.

@netero6751

3 жыл бұрын

There’s no such thing as spirits that’s a lie it’s a normal Hotel

Great video but you lost me at "Spiritual, crystals and granite"....is there a vortex too?

Stanley (Kubrick) hotel. He does not stop surprising me!

But in the film isn't the exterior shots at Mt. Hood, OR?

Your video is terrific, but the volume is low. 👂

If you just look at these Stanley hotel for two minutes you’ll get to see a ghost in the windows

They always capitalize on their ghost stories during Halloween and have a big event there.

I would love to spend the winter there

@TheBandit7613

4 жыл бұрын

They didn't use this hotel in the Shining. They used the Timberlake Lodge in Oregon. The road they filmed is the Going to The Sun Road in Glacier. Only the name was used.

@TheBandit7613

3 жыл бұрын

@Lavern I love Estes Park.

Looks like a nice place.

Curious how the Stanley Hotel got it’s notoriety? The exterior of the hotel in the Shining was the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and most interior shots in the movie was on a movie set.

@amandamatcha

2 жыл бұрын

It inspired the book that the movie was based off of, not the movie alone. It's likely they filmed in Oregon to cut costs, though don't quote me. I'm sure there's interviews that tell the reason why, but the PNW often has deals for filming. There's a lot of productions that filmed in Oregon in the last few decades, while the show was based out of somewhere else (Like the early seasons of the TV show Leverage).

@carlcushmanhybels8159

2 жыл бұрын

@@amandamatcha Plus the Stanley was an operating hotel then and now. Couldn't shut down the hotel for filming, or pay to start the hotel up during the winter off season.

I have never been here but would love to visit here and if my memory serves me right Ghost Adventures did their lockdown here and I believe that the original Ghost Hunters wit Jason, Grant and the TAPS to want did a case here too

@markmorris5880

Жыл бұрын

In the Ghost Adventures episode one of the spirits can actually be heard complaining about Aaron's snoring!!

thanks for replying.

I was there this weekend

I really enjoyed everything about this video except for all the spirit and psychic Bologna

Heard fires are raging in Estes Park Colorado. Is it still standing?

@truepeacenik

3 жыл бұрын

It survived.

@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346

3 жыл бұрын

Google maps shows it beautifully still around and still looking awesome

@nanaanna7956

3 жыл бұрын

@@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346 thank you ❣️

My county of residence had several like 'The Stanley'. Most were heated by coal or wood and died by fire. I've used my metal detector around partly buried foundation stones of one. Finding silver tableware, mostly. The site has been swallowed by a temperate rain forest.

Cool hotel

I took a tour of the hotel this summer 2021.......

I thought we were going on a you tube tour?

AS Lawrence Welk (would say, "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful."

@twistoffate4791

2 жыл бұрын

I still watch The Lawrence Welk Show every Saturday night at 6 pm in memory of my parents and their parents.

Rich people like to build ,but you sleep in one room

I would love to stay at this hotel. I imagine it might be very expensive for only one night.

@lorraineevans3657

6 жыл бұрын

Polly Pearsol Yes it's very expensive. But the reason that I didn't stay there, was not because of the expense but because it's really haunted. My husband and I went there last year after talking to the bartender telling us all the ghost stories I thought heck no! He told us that Stephen King got so spooked out that he ran out of the hotel LOL and same with Jim Carey when he was filming dumb and dumber he too fled in the middle of the night LOL If you like ghosts go ahead

@ozarkdaredevils

5 жыл бұрын

You can stay for for around 191 dollars a night ...... its amazing so much to do . Take the tour .... once you have been hear you will continue to come back ....

@equisequis.55

4 жыл бұрын

Wished i owned it. You just never know what the future holds.

@jessicas6586

4 жыл бұрын

@@ozarkdaredevils that's not too expensive for a place like that.

ok I am happy with the owner right now but have to say please listen to the dead, yep.

Come & knock on our door....wev'e been waiting for You....😉

Wonder about indigenous people and their attitude to this development.

@greenkidd529

3 жыл бұрын

Back the every empire was spreading. Even amongst tribes different teibes were warring for territory. If Europeans disnt do it latina Americans would move upward and in fact tries. Mexico pushed out the native trobes out of the whata re now considered boarder states.

@blaneycrabbe3390

3 жыл бұрын

@@greenkidd529 How old are you ? Such spelling, does your mother know you're on the inter net ?

@twistoffate4791

2 жыл бұрын

@@blaneycrabbe3390 internet = one word

I went to the Stanley hotel it is one of the best haunted place

Was just there it was lovely 69 dev as I arrived.

Sadly it was just sold to a "Non profit" group who wants to modernize it. We stayed last July and it was amazing. I sure hope they don't ruin the old charm of the beautiful Hotel.

How sick it is that native American lands were ripped from them and given freely away to non-natives 160 acres at a time😡

@twistoffate4791

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! So unfair.

❤❤❤❤

Is this place better off or worse because of the book and movie?

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

Probably way better. Wasn't in such great shape when SK was there.

I went there two weeks ago I-

shane's new video?? anyone??

@mathew1506

6 жыл бұрын

less panic! more forehead yup