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Stanley Hotel - the Haunted Fourth Floor
During the time that the Stanleys used the hotel as a guest house, the fourth floor was the level reserved for the young children and their Nannies to stay. Guests would come to stay for weeks or months, so it was imperative to have a place to put them where they wouldn't disturb the guests... or their parents, for that matter!
The fourth floor has been the site of many hauntings, almost all of them by the spirits of children. They can be heard laughing and running along the hallways. Sometimes photographs will capture their haunting faces staring back between the spindles of staircase railings, or if you're lucky you will feel one take your hand or hug your leg.
If it's true, then it's all really very sad when you think about. It's one of the reasons I like to think ghosts don't exist.
The Nannies also seem to be active. There is a staircase leading to the tower at the top of the hotel on this floor. People who try and go up it often feel themselves pushed down forcibly, or pulled down, apparently because Nanny is making sure the children don't go into the dangerous tower section.
Room 401 is the room that used to be the Nannies' retreat at the end of the day. It is reputed to be the most haunted room in the hotel. It's said that the spirit of Lord Dunraven is particularly active here, possibly because the old lecher was attracted to a room largely occupied by a large number of ladies.
It wasn't here but in a nearby room that we had our "encounter".
But more of that in the next posting...
Stanley Hotel - the Haunted Fourth Floor
During the time that the Stanleys used the hotel as a guest house, the fourth floor was the level reserved for the young children and their Nannies to stay. Guests would come to stay for weeks or months, so it was imperative to have a place to put them where they wouldn't disturb the guests... or their parents, for that matter!
The fourth floor has been the site of many hauntings, almost all of them by the spirits of children. They can be heard laughing and running along the hallways. Sometimes photographs will capture their haunting faces staring back between the spindles of staircase railings, or if you're lucky you will feel one take your hand or hug your leg.
If it's true, then it's all really very sad when you think about. It's one of the reasons I like to think ghosts don't exist.
The Nannies also seem to be active. There is a staircase leading to the tower at the top of the hotel on this floor. People who try and go up it often feel themselves pushed down forcibly, or pulled down, apparently because Nanny is making sure the children don't go into the dangerous tower section.
Room 401 is the room that used to be the Nannies' retreat at the end of the day. It is reputed to be the most haunted room in the hotel. It's said that the spirit of Lord Dunraven is particularly active here, possibly because the old lecher was attracted to a room largely occupied by a large number of ladies.
It wasn't here but in a nearby room that we had our "encounter".
But more of that in the next posting...