![]() ![]() She says guests regularly feel cold air and spider-like touches creeping on their legs and heads inside the hotel.Īnd they hear eerie voices singing in the night, accompanied by lights turning off and doors creaking open by themselves. Theres the straightforward story of a haunted hotel that turns caretaker Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) against his family, but the chills are so effective and so lasting that viewers have. ![]() It has even employed its own “paranormal concierge”, Lisa Nyhart, who works as a resident ghost investigator and shows other ghosthunters around the 142-room accommodation. The Stanley Hotel is said to have so many evil spirits haunting it that it crops up on countless “most haunted lists”. Then there’s Lord Dunraven, a landowner in the area who died in 1926, whose ghost has reportedly startled female guests by touching them as they unpack in room 401. Paul, a caretaker who once had to enforce an 11pm curfew in the hall, has terrified workers by telling them to “get out”. In the concert hall, a ghost named Paul, who died from a heart attack in the hotel, has been heard by staff at night. In room 428, sleepless guests say they’ve seen a cowboy who was hanged for murder staring at them from the end of their bed. The Stanley Hotel’s fourth floor is said to be haunted by children. ![]()
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