Stanley hotel

Nan, Em and I went for a guided tour of The Stanley Hotel which was the inspiration for Stephen King`s book, `The Shining`. The tour guide was more scary than the ghosts who were supposed to haunt the hotel, but she did have some interesting facts to tell us.

The hotel was built in 1915 and was originally for Mr Stanley`s town loving wife who didn`t like being so isolated for a whole summer. The Stanley twins made their money by improving the process of photography. They added gelatine to the chemicals to get a good photograph every time rather than the hit and miss method that was in use at the time. The Stanleys sold the idea to Kodak and got very rich. They then bought the hotel.

In the 1970`s, the hotel had been going through a hard time financially and lucky for them, Stephen King and his wife stayed the night in the hotel with no other guests there as it was off season. Mrs King went up to bed and left Stephen drinking. He eventually went up their room, but got lost and as he was wandering around, he saw a young girl and boy dressed in old fashioned clothes. (Ghosts?)

By the time he left the hotel. he had the idea for the whole book in his head. The book prompted a lot of tourism for the hotel and it became solvent again.

In our pictures, there is one of the guide showing us where some ghostly voices have been heard in the basement. (Oooooooooohhhh!)

There is a picture of Em on the computer in the hotel and just outside are some elk wandering around but we didn`t see any ghosts!