Scotty's Spooky Stay at The Stanley Hotel - Night Three

Written by Scotty

Oh my goodness, I do not know what to say about my trip thus far, but it has been a blast and I was able to get my picture with Lord Dunraven, selfie style.  So let’s get you up to date, first night someone was sitting on the side of my bed when I was sleeping and I am pretty sure that it touched my leg.  The second night, I heard tours outside of my room that were not there and someone was trying to tuck me in.  What on earth could happen on my third night?  Well, let me get the day out of the way first.

Now, I know that it might be hard to believe, but I have a hard time talking to people, but when you get me going on something that I know a little bit about, you cannot get me to shut up.  This happened when I was talking to one of the guests at the bar. Wanting to know more about the hotel and the history and mostly the haunted rooms, I got going about what has happened to me while staying on the fourth floor. Now, I am far from an expert on this subject, but I have stayed at the hotel at least one time a year over the past three years and have been on the tours and have stayed in three haunted rooms now. 

Before I knew what was happening, a group was surrounding me and asking me questions about what happened and what I know.  This was a little bit different for me, since the only time I have a crowd surrounding me is at work when I am running a training and I get paid to do that.  Remember, I am paying the hotel for the experience, but am more than happy to give up all the information I know.  When the crowd moved along, thanking me for the stories, I was introduced to a woman psychic who wanted to hear more about the room and what I felt and wanted to see what was going on.  So I, my friend and the psychic all moved up to the fourth floor to check it out. 

Since the sun was down and I usually adjourn to my room when that happens to watch The Shining every night, this seemed like a good idea.  When we walked past my last haunted room 401, she was able to point out that I had stayed in there.  I know this was covered during my talk with the crowd, but I do not know if she was paying any attention to it when I was rambling for so long.  She could feel something coming out of the room and it was a dominate male and asked how my stay was in there.  Since it was good the first night since I passed out, but the second night was a little rough and she told me why.  Since I had a couple of beautiful woman with me in the room when I entered the first time, Lord Dunraven was happy with me, but the second night, they did not come back in and he was a bit upset.  A little disconcerting.  Next time the ladies get to stay in that room!

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We made it to my room and we all sat on the bed.  With my friend, myself and the psychic looking around, she went to work.  Now, my thought about what the person was on the side of the bed and tucking you in was that it was a parent and a sick child. The Night Two post was not up, so she could not have known my suspicions, but she came out with the same thing.  Now that is pretty cool, so we tried to talk with the mother and child in the room for a about an hour, then called it a night.  She gave me notes for the next time I stay in the room to bring a toy with me, or have a child come in and the child ghost will interact with either of them.  Good notes for room 407 if anyone wants to give it a try.

After we decided that there would be nothing more for the night, my friend and the psychic parted ways for the evening.  This was a great experience and I hope more people try it to see what else they can find in these haunted rooms.  I thanked the ghosts staying in my room for a fantastic time and hoped they enjoyed my company as much as I enjoyed theirs.  As I turned off the light and laid my head down on the bed, I heard an explosion that rocked my room.  Everything rattled and I shot up and checked the hallway to find nothing.  With the windows open, I could hear the people on the patio all still talking and not varying from their conversations about what that sound was.  Not knowing where to go next, I called the front desk and asked them what that sound was.  They did not hear it either and just chocked it up to another story for the room.  This did not have me rattled and I wanted to know what caused the sound that only I heard.  I know what the doors sound like opening and shutting and most of the time slamming on the lower levels, but that was not it since none of those make anything in the room rattle.  I don’t know.

I will probably never know the cause of the sound, but that is just the fun of the Stanley Hotel.  And this morning when I woke up, all of my electronics were drained of their battery life.  That was strange because none of them were on during the night.  If I had to guess, the kid in the room went crazy and started playing with them all.  My cell phone, iPod, recorder and camera were all drained.  Can I explain it?  Nope.  Do I want to? Nope.  This is the most active trip I have had at the Stanley and I am not making any of these things up to impress you, it is what I have heard.  I still have not seen anything yet, and although I want to, with what happened at the end of my bed the first night, I am pretty sure I will run out of the hotel if I actually see a ghost.

Add this hotel to your bucket list, everyone needs to find a good place to getaway and I could think of no place better than the Stanley.  Even if you are not one for ghosts, the location is beautiful and now they have a hedge maze in the front to add that much more too it.  There is so much history around the area and how F.O. Stanley helped to transform Estes Park into what it is today, it is really worth a look.  Thank you as always to the Stanley Hotel for the great visit, I am working my plans for it next year already!

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