Famous Haunted Hotels in the USA
We all have heard about haunted houses, haunted cemeteries and of course we also have the haunted hotels. There are actually too many supposedly haunted hotels in the USA, but here I will only list the Most Haunted of them all.My fascination with the paranormal came at a very early age and since then I've always look for information on the subject. Haunted Hotels are one of my favorites. I personally have never stayed in any of these locations, although I'll love to, but with all the eye witnesses and stories, I don't need to actually be there to see what others are talking about.
I will list links, pages, information and post some interesting videos of all the Most Haunted Hotels In USA.
The Famously Haunted Stanley Hotel
The Stanley Hotel is a 138-room Georgian hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies. It was built by Freelan O. Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous. The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Stanley has hosted many famous guests, including the Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities. The Stanley Hotel also hosted Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Contrary to information sometimes published King was living in Boulder at the time and did not actually write the novel at the hotel. Parts of the mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, although it was not used for Stanley Kubrick's cinematic version.
The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick's The Shining on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.
The Stanley Hotel- The Famous Haunted Hotel
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Though it had mixed reviews from the critics upon its release, it was wildly popular with moviegoers and was financially successful. It is now frequently ranked as one of the best horror films as well as one of the greatest films in history and its iconic and surreal imagery is deeply embedded throughout popular culture, although there was a long interval between its release and its achievement of iconic status. Director Stanley Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny.
The film tells the story of a writer, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who accepts the job of the winter caretaker at a hotel that always gets snowed in during the winter. Jack's son shares psychic abilities with the hotel's chef who calls it "shining". They can see things in the future or past, such as the ghosts of murdered people in the hotel. When the hotel becomes snowbound, Jack Torrance is influenced by the ghosts in the haunted hotel and descends into madness trying to murder his wife and son.
Initial response to the film was mixed and it performed moderately at the box office. Subsequent critical assessment of the film has been more favorable and it is now viewed as a classic of the horror genre. The novel's author Stephen King has had very conflicted feelings about it (see Reception and Comparison with the book) which have oscillated over time. A TV mini-series adaptation of the novel broadcast in 1997 saw King more actively involved.
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take.) The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide... --Jim Emerson
The Hauntings At The Stanley Hotel
The beautiful Stantley Hotel is the inspiration for the Stephen King's novel, The Shining. If you have read the novel or seen the movie, you may well know that the Stanley Hotel is very much haunted. Although the haunting that occurred in the movie, was very scary and evil; the truth is that the ghost that are haunting this beautiful hotel are no other than the owners themselves, F.O. and Flora Stanley.It's been said that the ghost of Mr. Stanley can be seen in the lobby, billiard room and in the bar. Many other eye witnesses say that Mrs. Stanley can be hear playing the piano on the ballroom and sometimes they can see the keys of the piano moving. Others claim that the piano bench moves when it's playing.
The most paranormal activity can be felt in the entire 4th floor. To be more specific, rooms 407 and room 418. All around the entire floor you can hear and see children playing and talking, specially in room 418, where guest had sad to have seen or hear a child or children playing or calling their nanny. Room 407 is when people have been saying that a spirit likes to turn the lights off and on again and even when someone is asking them to do so. Other people claim to have seen a face looking down from the window on room 407.
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Ghost Hunters: Live from ''The Stanley'' Hotel
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Jason, Grant and the 'Ghost Hunters' team revisit the notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado for a live Halloween-night investigation! Stephen King took up residence at the Stanley while writing his best-selling novel The Shining and the spooky goings on at the hotel reportedly served as the inspiration for his best-selling tome. Viewers will be sent on the ultimate Halloween adventure, joining the 'Ghost Hunters' in as they investigate the infamously haunted hotel. Also joining the investigation is a special guest from 'ECW' (Extreme Championship Wrestling); ghost hunting novice CM Punk!
NOW ALL OF THE BEST MOMENTS FROM THE LIVE INVESTIGATION ARE ALL HERE FOR YOU ON THIS LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS DVD!
The 'Ghost Hunters' originally investigated the Stanley in February 2006 and were met with a flurry of unexplainable occurrences including a hotel room that was a veritable hotbed of paranormal activity. Continually intrigued by the locale, our 'Ghost Hunters' will return to the Stanley for the show's first-ever live investigation, spending more time exploring some of the hotel's most notorious hot spots and enlisting viewers to help expand their search for spirits.
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Hotel Del Coronado - Haunted California
The Hotel del Coronado (also known as the The Del to local residents) is a beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in California and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world and the first to use electrical lighting. It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities throughout the years. The hotel has been featured in numerous movies and books.
The hotel received the Four Diamond rating from the American Automobile Association, and was listed by USA Today as one of the "Top 10 Resorts In The World".
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego California
The Hauntings in The Hotel Del Coronado
The Kate Morgan Story: Kate Morgan was a young woman who visited Hotel Del Coronado during Thanksgiving time in 1892. She checked in with an alias name and stayed a couple of days. The staff was concerned about her because she looked ill, sad and worried. They later found her dead on top of the stairs leading to the ocean, she had committed suicide.The famous ghost of Kate Morgan it's said to been seen around the hotel, some shops and her guest room, room 3327. If you dare, visit the beautiful hotel and stay at the room 3327 and see for yourself.
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Haunted Queen Mary Hotel
'RMS Queen Mary''' is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunards planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Marys retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel. The Queen Mary'' celebrated the 70th anniversary of her launch in both Clydebank and in Long Beach during 2004, and the 70th anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006.
Queen Mary Hotel - Long Beach, California
Hauntings at The Queen Mary Hotel
The most famous haunting in the Queen Mary, the First Class Swimming Pool, where two women drowned, one in the 1930's and the other one in the 1960's. Many psychics have said that the changing room near the pool have a very negative feeling.The Queen's Salon is been said to be haunted with a ghost of a women in a white dress. In the first Class Suites, many have said that they have seen a man in a 1930's suit. In the Foward Storage Room you can hear children playing and talking.
The most disturbing activities are in the cabin B340. This place is said to be so full of activity that it is no longer available for rent.
During the World War II, Queen Mary was used in the war. During this time more than 300 man died. witnesses have said that you could still hear the screams of the soldiers. Another place that is very haunted is in the kitchen, where a cook was stuffed to an oven and burned to death by the troops because they didn't like his cooking. You could still hear the man's screams.
Queen Mary is an excellent place to visit if you really want to have an encounter with the paranormal.
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Haunted Goldfield Hotel
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Goldfield, an unincorporated community which is often identified on the internet as a ghost town, is in fact the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States, with a resident population of 440 at the 2000 census. It is located about southeast of Carson City, along U.S. Route 95.
Goldfield was a boomtown in the first decade of the 20th century due to the discovery of gold — between 1903 and 1940, Goldfield's mines produced more than $86 million. Much of the town was destroyed by a fire in 1924, although several buildings survived and remain today, notably the Goldfield Hotel, the Consolidated Mines Building (the communications center of the town until 1963) and the schoolhouse. Gold exploration still continues in and around the town today.
Hauntings at The Goldfield Hotel
The story behind the haunting at the Goldfield Hotel are very suspicious but very intriguing indeed. First, the ghost of the young woman called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a prostitute who became pregnant with George Wingfield' baby. Mr. Windfield was so scared that his social life was going to be affected by her pregnancy, he took Elizabeth to the room 109 of the hotel an chained her to the radiator feeding her food and water until her baby was born.Elizabeth died screaming during childbirth. Mr. Windfield took the baby and he throw him into an old mining shaft. People can still hear Elizabeth around the hotels looking for her baby.
In the lobby staircase, there have been sightings of three little spirits that like to sneak up on people, giggle and play around.
There are two other ghost that committed suicide on the 3rd floor. One was a woman who hang herself and the other one is a man who jumped from the top of the hotel.
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- kiwisoutback kiwisoutback Nov 6, 2009 @ 10:55 am
- I've been to the Hotel Del Coronado, it's a beautiful hotel. I didn't know it was considered haunted though. The Mount Washington Resort in New Hampshire is another one you might want to take a look at for haunted hotels - there are a few stories about it floating around. Squid Angel blessed!
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- Brianna Brianna Sep 20, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
- Your information is off. The Shinning starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall wasn't filmed at the Stanley hotel. Even the staff there will tell you that. I however do believe that the tv show was filmed there and the most recent version of the movie The Shinning. As you stated above Stephen King wrote the book there. The rest of your article was great though.
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- Joan4 Joan4 Aug 28, 2009 @ 7:37 am
- A really great read! I love this kind of tale!
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- CastleRoy CastleRoy Aug 20, 2009 @ 11:24 pm
- great lens somday i will be staying one well I hope anyway 5*
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- frogdropping frogdropping Aug 14, 2009 @ 6:31 am
- All I can say is 'Wow'!
Informative, well written, utterly packed with interesting media - and no, I won't be staying anywhere haunted anytime soon :)
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- 24websurf 24websurf Jul 31, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
- Ahh.. this was great! Had chills running up my spine! I have to go with Hotel Del for a beach wedding. Think the ghost would like to be maid of honor?
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Jul 31, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
- Haunted or not...the del is gorgeous. Looks like a wonderful spot for a wedding.....wedding on the beach......yessssss.....ghosts be darned.
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- LotusPetalYoga LotusPetalYoga Jul 20, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
- I have stayed at 3 of these hotels and never knew they were haunted! well, I knew about the stanley. I live about 45 minutes from the stanley and so have been there quite often for meals, to show tourists etc. its a beautiful place. back in High school I stayed in the Hotel De Coronado and Queen Mary. unfortunatly i saw no paranormal events, bummer! great lens :)
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- FunGifts4All FunGifts4All Jul 4, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
- Very nice. Into this stuff myself. Great job.
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- TheWhistler TheWhistler Jul 2, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
- Informative lens, thanks.
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- 2Eklectik 2Eklectik Jul 2, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
- Very, very interesting. I would love to stay in one of these hotels some day.
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- julcal julcal Jul 2, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
- i LOVE haunted house stories. I've never heard of haunted hotels! This is great!
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