⁣⁢In 1909, when inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley first opened the opulent Stanley Hotel in Estes Valley, Colorado, visitors were fascinated by the palatial building and the surrounding rural valley landscape. After years of success, by the 1970s the hotel had fallen into disrepair and was a shadow of its former self. A strange and fateful chain of events involving the now-famous author Steven King, saved the Stanley from the wrecking ball. In a lucid nightmare, while in Room 217. He dreamed of a coiled fire hose coming to life and chasing his screaming son through the hotel corridors. The connection between the Stanleys and King's terrifying night, which gave birth to his bestselling book "The Shining," is the hotel's most famous frightening event. But strange and allegedly paranormal incidents have been reported at the hotel long before the 1970s, some specifically in Room 217.⁤⁣