Ep 161: The Stanley Hotel with Connor J. Randall
“Any big hotels have got scandals. Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.” – Stephen King, author of The Shining
Background:
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is not so famous for its beautiful surroundings and accommodations or its famed founder as it is for its connection to a book and a movie. The Shining was Stephen King's third published novel and a bestseller. This classic of horror fiction, in turn, inspired the iconic motion picture of the same name by Stanley Kubrick. And these two works had cemented the idea in the popular imagination that the Stanley Hotel must have some dark history of troubled spirits in residence there. But as we've all learned, works of fiction often color the actual history of a person or place. So what is the real story of the Stanley Hotel? It's best to ask someone who has personal experience, and that's what we've done. Tonight's guest is Connor J. Randall, whose own childhood supernatural experience at the Stanley led not only to a passion for paranormal research but also to his work there as first a concierge and tour guide and then later as a resident investigator. Please join us tonight as we hear from someone who had come to know the real spirits of the Stanley Hotel, as they had come to know him.
Location:
The historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel The Shining, which would later become the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s motion picture also titled The Shining.
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The Spirits of the Stanley – watch Connor J. Randall, Karl Pfeiffer and Michelle Tate carry out their ongoing paranormal investigations at the Stanley Hotel from January through March of 2016 on TheDarkZone.tv website.
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CREDITS:
Episode 161: The Stanley Hotel with Connor J. Randall. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel and Zach Bair; Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2019 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.