321 17th St, Denver, CO , USA
Haunted Hotels in Colorado
Haunted Hotels in Colorado
201 Moffat Ave, Yampa, CO 80483, USA
Haunted Hotels: Royal Hotel When hearing news of the Royal Hotel in Yampa, CO, burning down and considering its haunted history, it causes one to wonder whether or not the fire had anything to do with any of the spirits that allegedly haunt the hotel. According to ABC News who obtained word from the lieutenant of the Yampa Fire Department, a coal stoker malfunctioned. Although everyone was evacuated from the building, the structure was completely lost. What many wonder after the hotel burned down in January 2015 is what happened to the hotel’s well-known ghost, Rufus. Read more…
970-577-4000
333 E Wonderview Ave , Estes Park, CO 80517, USA
The Shining Hotel – AKA The Stanley Hotel It takes a lot to scare legendary horror author Stephen King, but years ago his visit to the Stanley Hotel rattled his nerves enough to wake him in the middle of the night. That’s when he began to conceive his masterpiece, The Shining. King’s experience at Colorado’s landmark Stanley Hotel served as the inspiration for the book which has many people dubbing it The Shining Hotel. History of The Stanley Hotel Built at the turn of the 20th century, the hotel was the brainchild of Freelan Oscar Stanley. Read more…
2115 13th St, Boulder, CO , USA
The Hotel Boulderado was completed in 1908. Since that time, there have been a number of suicides in the hotel’s history. The first was in 1924 when a man administered chloroform to himself and overdosed. His wife was in the bathroom, and when she came out and saw her husband, she tried to kill herself with the leftover chloroform. There wasn’t enough left to kill her and she was taken to the hospital to recover. The rooms with the most activity are 302 and 304. One of the rooms was the site of the chloroform suicide. Read more…
