{the shining and dumb and dumber}

Believe it or not, but the movies The Shining and Dumb and Dumber have something in common. It is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. According to legend, this hotel is haunted by the man, Freelan O. Stanley, who built it in 1909. He moved to the Rockies because of a suggestion from his physician. Stanley was diagnosed with tuberculosis and his physician told him that he would feel better and live longer if he moved to a higher altitude. Interestingly enough he ended up dying a couple of years after the hotel was finished. This hotel was the inspiration for Steven King's The Shining. Although the movie was not filmed here. Apparently it was too close to the town and when filming began there wasn't any snow on the ground. This hotel was also in the last part of the movie Dumb and Dumber, as the Hotel Danbury.

Now why I am giving you all a trivia lesson about this hotel? Well we were able to eat lunch there courtesy of my Grandma Helen (thanks again grandma). To be honest, it didn't feel haunted to me. But we were unable to get in a tour. We only walked around the main level, lobby and outside. Maybe it would've felt more haunted upstairs...