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Poltergeist. United States

ID #1702827669
Added Sun, 17/12/2023
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
09.2003
Location: 
Отель "The Stanley"
Эстес-Парк, CO
United States

This happened at the end of September 2003. A month before that, Anna got a job at the Stanley Hotel as a housekeeper.

According to local staff, the hotel was haunted. They were mostly met in the basement (hollowed out in the rock) and in rooms on the 4th floor. There are no expensive rooms on this floor, so they were very popular, despite the fact that almost all the guests began to feel very bad in them (nausea, vomiting, indigestion were the most frequent accompaniments).

Usually the witnesses were the maids who worked during the daytime. For example, Nadia and Marina, with whom Anna was friends, told her that they had seen ghosts. But the bellhops, who worked at night, tried to avoid discussing this topic.

The room in which Stephen King stayed was especially popular with the guests, but according to the stories of the staff and Anna's own impressions, nothing paranormal usually happened in it.

At that time, she got to clean the left wing on the 4th floor. According to the rules of the hotel, during cleaning, the doors to the room should be open, as well as all the doors inside the room, and the maids could not do their work in twos.

When Anna reached room 412, standing near the tea table, she heard the door slam shut behind her. Anna ran to open it, wondering where the draft could have come from, because all the windows were closed due to the cool weather. At the door, she made sure that there was no wind, but her back (and only her back) felt the cold from the side of the bathtub next to it. She felt a little creepy, she squeezed the cross with her hand and read "Our Father", then opened the door. There was no one outside the door, and there was still no movement of the air.

Suddenly, she definitely felt "something cold" passing by her into the bathroom.

Despite her fear, she decided to finish the job.

There was no window in the bathroom, so Anna turned on the light and began to wash. She was overcome by irrational fear and an acute reluctance to look in the mirror. But you can't wash the mirror and not look at it. Therefore, she overcame herself again and continued to carry out her duties. Suddenly, a dark gray figure without clear outlines flashed in the mirror, and at the same moment the bathroom door slammed shut.

Anna was able to open the door easily, then went out into the corridor to check if her colleagues were playing a prank, but after walking down the floor she realized that all the staff was far away.

She immediately told the case to the administrator Charlotte, who calmly replied:

- The 4th floor is haunted again. (There are ghosts on the 4th floor again)

And she allowed me to work in rooms of two.

As it turned out later, it is in autumn that the "ghost season" begins and they begin to appear there more often. At other times, everything is usually calm.

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The wind

Wind — flow of air, which quickly moves parallel to the earth's surface.

Wind is the result of uneven distribution of atmospheric pressure and is directed from areas of high pressure to the low pressure zone. Due to the continuous pressure changes in time and space speed and wind direction are constantly changing. With height wind speed varies with the decrease of the friction force.

Winds can affect the formation of the relief, causing Eolian deposits that form different kinds of soils (e.g., loess) or erosion.

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A little history of the hotel:

The Stanley Hotel opened before the death of its founder, Freelan Oscar Stanley, in 1909. The second guest house, slightly smaller, was completed a year later. This hotel is best known for Stephen King's The Stanley in 1974, and the hotel inspired his novel The Shining, and the pet cemetery at his home became the inspiration for the book of the same name.

The Stanley is not shy about the status of one of the most creepy hotels in the USA. Next to the Streamers cafe on the ground floor of the hotel there is a poster with recommended actions in case there was a ghost in the picture from the phone. 

In 1911, an explosion occurred in room 217. The maid Elizabeth Wilson fell down a floor and broke both ankles. She survived (and her medical bills were paid), but many believe that her ghost still haunts the corridors of the hotel. Residents of the guest house, in turn, regularly talked about the appearance of a ghostly figure resembling Flora Stanley on the fourth floor.

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