My sister came to visit and we went to Estes Park for a #ghosttour of #TheStanleyhotel.
We grew up listening to our maternal great-grandmother, Mimi, share her paranormal experiences with the family. The psychic/medium gift got passed down to me but not my sister (although she has great intuition!)
So we both enjoy a good ghost story and ghost tours have become a bit of a family tradition when we get together!
The movie #TheShining gives The Stanley Hotel a scary reputation so I was expecting stories about murders, tragedies, scary #ghoststories about full apparitions, tales of angry #poltergeist and a #spooky atmosphere, but it wasn’t like that at all. In fact, very few deaths have been confirmed at The Stanely and none were untimely or tragic according to the tour.
My sister and I had time to kill before the tour so we had dinner at the sports bar and watched the sun go down on The Stanley’s front porch.
The scattered showers and storms cleared up by the evening and left us with a beautiful #doublerainbow! I didn’t think anything was weird about the #rainbow until we went into the gift shop and a prism was reflecting a rainbow onto a postcard. It was so perfect it looked like part of the postcard, but when I picked the post card up (because I wanted to by it) I realized it was only an optical illusion. I was disappointed, and put the card back because a picture of a rainbow over the Stanley was what I was after.
I wasn’t sold on a #happyhaunting of The Stanley Hotel because I wasn’t aware there was such a thing.
But when the ghost tour walked over to the auditorium, the building was literally lit up in rainbow lights. This is the same building that was under the rainbow earlier in the evening. I found it odd that rainbows were literally everywhere, but it felt like a good omen. I felt like the rainbows were signs of good vibes and good memories lingering at The Stanley Hotel.
… that or the building is the gayest building ever … or maybe both are true! 🌈
The ghost tour took us to two spots on The Stanley property: the auditorium and the servants’ tunnel under the main hotel building.
Our tour guide, Arianna, said there are two kinds of haunts at the Stanley: #activehaunts (poltergeist activity) and #residualhaunts (memories frozen in time). She said there aren’t many confirmed deaths on the property so she assumed many ghosts are at the Stanley because it was a happy place to visit when they were alive.
During the first part of the tour, Arianna showed us around the theater and we got pictures of some #orbs.
About the pictures below: There’s an orb on my sister’s head. I also wasn’t using a flash in any of these pictures. I never turned my flash on during the tour (and in general rarely use it). I would not have randomly turned it on on the tour. so I have no idea what the light in front of my camera was. If the flash came on, I was certainly unaware of it. No one around me was using a flash at that time either.
Arianna used a #pendulum to communicate with the ghost of a young girl, Lucy, in the basement of the theater. Lucy was very talkative because she told me that we were going to use a pendulum to talk to her before Arianna even announced it. I’m guessing Lucy clued me in because I don’t usually get super specific premonitions about small details on my own. That’s where my #psychic ability stops and my #mediumship skills begin. She knew I could pick up her signals so she started firing away and it took me a minute to catch on that I was in contact with her.
I didn’t tell anyone I’m a psychic/medium on the tour. But I played the pendulum game with Lucy when Arianna took our questions for Lucy. Arianna would ask the question to the pendulum and then use it to get “yes” or “no” answers from Lucy.
At the start of the game, Lucy told me her favorite season was summer. I had Ariana ask the pendulum and it gave us a “yes”. Then I asked if she was happy remaining at the Stanley. I felt like the hotel is a chosen haunt for Lucy because I did not feel any sadness, sickness or trauma vibes in my communication. The pendulum gave us a “yes” on that question too.
I didn’t catch anything in the tunnel on camera. The guide showed us a picture of a full apparition of a little girl in the tunnel that was taken on a tour in 2020. That apparition was so realistic that it was SHOCKING (even to me), but I didn’t feel trauma, anger or sadness in the tunnel either.
After the tour, I took some pictures of the grand staircase in the lobby. I caught some paranormal activity on the stairs. I spotted the mirror on arrival and it pinged on my radar so I’m glad I went back to check it out. Arianna said most of their paranormal activity comes from the mirrors at The Stanley and that checks out with my experience too.
Amber and I left shortly after taking pictures in the lobby.
So in conclusion the Stanely Hotel is a happy haunt with a lot of #10OfCups energy. I recommend anyone looking for a beautiful mountain view at a historic location to check out the Stanley Hotel in #EstesPark, #Colorado. It’s a place you might just want to stay at … forever!
Magdalena Tarot 