Really Scary Real Estate

Room 217: The Hotel that Wrote 'The Shining'


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In Episode 6 of Really Scary Real Estate, Amanda goes deep inside the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, the most famous haunted hotel in America. Covering the full story of inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley and how tuberculosis led him to build one of the most beautiful mountain hotels in the West, the 1911 gas explosion that started the haunting of room 217, the October 1974 night Stephen King checked in and had the nightmare that became The Shining, and a room-by-room tour of every documented paranormal location in the building, from the fourth floor children's corridor to Flora Stanley's piano to the underground tunnels where something breathes in your ear in the dark. Plus the real estate story behind the hotel's $400 million acquisition in 2025.  

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Really Scary Real EstateBy Amanda Abillano