This week for part 1, we check in to Colorado’s famously haunted Stanley Hotel—where the spirits are bold, the décor is cursed (looking at you, Room 217), and Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. Built by Freelan Stanley (tuberculosis survivor, inventor, and mustache icon), the hotel has seen explosions, eerie piano music, and some towel-folding ghosts with very specific energy. Also: the complicated history of the land it sits on, which, unsurprisingly, adds to the haunting.

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