How Colorado's "Frozen Dead Guy" wound up in a "haunted" hotel
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In its nearly 115 years, the historic Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park, Colorado, has hosted everyone from Theodore Roosevelt to the Titanic's "unsinkable" Molly Brown, and more recently, author Stephen King. If the hotel's long, narrow hallways look creepily familiar, it may be because the Stanley is where King was inspired to write "The Shining" – a hotel haunting that director Stanley Kubrick turned into a horror classic.
But The Stanley was also haunted by something else: decades of financial woes. It was in bankruptcy when hotel entrepreneur John Cullen found himself the latest in a long line of supposedly cursed proprietors to invest in this creepy hotel.
He knew he had to capitalize on the hotel's ghoulish reputation. So, he fixed up Stephen King's actual room, #217 (you can now stay in it), and he built a hedge maze right out front, just like the one where Jack Nicholson's crazed caretaker finally met his frozen end.
