STANLEY HOTEL:

Recently one of my guilty pleasures has been watching Shane Dawson’s videos. Shane’s Dawson is a youtuber with more than 17 million followers. He started his career in 2008 and since his channel has been growing and growing into a bigger platform. Some of the videos that caught my attention where the ‘Scary Series’ he’s been doing. The first video that I watched was centered in the Stanley Hotel. You can find this spooky hotel in Estes Peak, Colorado. This hotel is famously known to be the inspiration behind Stephen King’s, The Shinning. Shane recently stayed the night at the hotel with his boyfriend, sister-in-law and his mother-in-law. During the video they encountered strange presences and manifestations.

During his stay at the Stanley Hotel, Stephen King experienced a series of bizarre events. Stephen and his family stayed in room 217 which in the film is later changed to 237. Room 217 is one of the most requested rooms but there is a yearlong wait list and can be high in price. In his sleep King experienced a series of nightmares in which he dreamt his son was being followed and possessed by a malignant figure. In this same room it is said that a woman by the name of Elizabeth Wilson who was electrocuted by a thunderstorm in 1911 and used to be a maid tidies up your room while you are gone. Another spot in which strange things happen is said to be floor 4. It is reported that children laughter and running in the hallway is heard throughout the night. Although these are paranormal activities these seem to be friendly spirits that are among the guest at the hotel, even though King’s portrayal of the beings seems more terrifying.

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THE QUEEN MARY:

Another video in the Shane Dawson series was focused on “The Queen Mary” ship stationed in Long Beach, California. This ship was constructed by the British government in 1936 and had been sailing until 1967. The ship was later retired and stationed at the Long Beach Bay. It not serves as a floating hotel. Many paranormal things are set to happen on this ship. The ship might be haunted by the approximately 600 people that died during the years some died of sickness while the ship was sailing and some died falling off until the ocean. It is said the captain’s suite is haunted by Captain Treasure Jones, and he likes the company of young girls and cigars often it is said cigar smell is all over the room. There are also accounts by the guests and workers of one of the lower rooms in the deck that tell of a worker that killed his whole family and there are screams of a man lamenting the death of his family.

The story that interested me the most was the one of the lower deck of the ship where crew and guest where quarantined when sick then died that part is said to be the most haunted place in all the ship, where souls are still agonizing. In Shane’s video on The Queen Mary he is left alone in the lower deck with an audio recorder in which steps are heard around the room and a distressed voice is heard saying “stay.” Shane Dawson videos on both the Stanley Hotel and The Queen Mary are videos that leave you with the interest of learning more and leave you asking if you really believe the abnormal events happen in your life.