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Two Nights With the Ghosts of The Stanley Hotel

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Toby's parents had several strange experiences when they stayed at the hotel made famous by Stephen King's "The Shining".

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0:00.0

His parents experienced something strange, had a place that inspired one of the creepiest

0:20.6

stories of our time, the shining. My name is Edwin, and here is Toby's true scary story.

0:42.0

At the time, this is about 17 years ago. My mom and dad, they were tired of everyday life.

0:48.2

They went up to the mountains, and I live in Colorado, so in Colorado, there's a lot of snow, and there's

0:55.3

hard to get up there. But once they did, they got to this town called S's Park, and this town is

1:03.4

famous for this specific hotel called the Stanley Hotel. On the outside, there's a ton of like old

1:10.7

windows and old shades, it's almost like their eyes looking at you, and then you walk in huge doors,

1:18.2

big staircase with a ton of stuff you walk in, and there's a giant all the way to the right. There's

1:23.4

a giant dance floor, and then there's a conference room that could also be like a party room, and there's

1:30.6

like an old car from like the 20s, like a Ford, I forget what it's called, the Ford T-something,

1:38.1

and there's an old piano that's like super long, you can see the inside of. The floors are like old

1:45.4

carpet that looks like from the, it's like circle with crazy patterns, and there's a giant chandelier

1:52.5

that's like crystal, and the whole room almost has a yellow glow to it, and it's just a ton of old

1:59.8

1920s stuff, and when you walk in, you walk to the staircase, that's almost like an old castle staircase

2:08.9

that goes up from both sides, winds to the middle, and then two staircases come out of it to go to

2:14.2

the next floor, and then each floor, like hallways with doors, old mirrors, old pictures,

2:22.2

some of them are definitely props, but I know it's really creepy, and then there's like spiral

2:26.9

staircases going up to the other floors, and then the roof, it's like green, and it's crazy because

2:33.5

there's no attic, it's just like the top floors have windows that are like sticking out of the roof,

2:41.0

they're almost like slanted, and then all the rooms with these old crazy beds that of the

2:47.9

poles that go up, and this hotel is based off of the shining, which is a famous Stephen King book

2:57.1

in Stanley Kubrick movie, and they just thought, oh, we've heard this hotel was spooky, they know

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