Stanley Hotel Investigation

Investigation Date: November

Event: Darkness Radio/ TAPS Stanley Hotel Event

This events lasted Three nights. Trip to the Stanley was fairly close to Haunt Tech. Leaving just a beautiful trip up the mountain road to the hotel. The weather for colorado during November was unseasonably warm. We did not require jackets at Estes Park, something rare for November. The drive yielded spectacular views of mountains and valleys. Parts of the road stretched right to the edge. A steep ravine reminded us that we were in the mountains. While coming mountains there were areas where the road had a 6% or more incline.

Day 1: Check in

We did not have a Hotel room, something we'd come to regret as the event continued. The first night featured a few presentations, followed by a costume contest and silent auction. We had arrived early at the hotel, which gave us time to meet with people and discuss equipment with several groups. We collected our badges, and found out we were investigating on Day 2, night 1. The night ended with a mad dash down the mountain, and some hair raising adventures as we tried to navigate around ice slicked corners without flying off the road and down the forementioned revines. It was quickly decided that next year when the Stanley event came around that a hotel room was in order.

Day 2: Investigation

We got a late start in the day. By the time we had arrived most of the good lectures were over. We split up. Part of us walked around the hotel to get our bearing, while the other investigators left to grab something to eat. the Tech manager was left to his own devices. He built in the lobby, while explaining some new equipment he had been working on. We had taken the tour of the hotel shortley before any major events happens.

While is why nice to investigate the Stanley hotel we had gotten the sense everything was mad cap. We were put onto a rotation moving about the hotel every 30 minutes. This made the "investigation" feels less like a ghost hunt and more like a highly detailed tour of the hotel grounds. Something I had already done not 20 minutes before the "investigations" While on the tour however We had noted a small event of a metal tag moving without any rhyme or reason. The pipes were checked for vibration, and no air movement was touching the tag (at one point our Tech Manager put his hands around the tag to shield it from air currents. This resulted in the tag still moving after 5 minutes.)

The rest of the hotel was inactive during our investigation on night 1. This despite trying to use provocation. We had experienced all the rooms, and buildings. Tried various techniques, including Frank's Box, Ovilus, and EVP communications. The Tech Manager's new pieces of equipment turned up nothing to note.

Day 3, Night 2:

This was mostly for lectures. In which the Tech manager had drummed up so much personal attentioned he had to give a speech. After all the speeches were done the Tech manager had gone to throw away some of our trash. The Tech manager had forgotten to turn off his new equipment. This accident left us with more questions. As the box was designed to be non reacted to elements happening outside the box. Later we investigated with another group. This gave us our only other paranormal event for the trip. The box going off again in the Bachelor's Library.