unique

A while ago, a famous internet based news paper published a travel special about haunted hotels around the world. I’m all for a little excitement as long as it’s not overdone. For instance, I don’t watch scary movies, not even one. I got so scared the first time I saw Scream that I kind of never went back to those kinds of movies. Pathetic I know, but I have actually seen “The Shining” (which scared the crap out of me) which is one of the hotels included in this list.

Stanley Hotel
Colorado, USA
This is the famous hotel from Steven King’s “The Shining”. The hotel has an award winning restaurant and amazing views over the Colorado mountains. The hotel that inspired the clasical movie in 1970 was, however, not shot there. It was partially shot at Timberline Lodge in Oregon and in a studio in London, England. Flora Stanley, the first owner died in 1939 but has been seen wondering around the lobby and playing the piano at night, and outside room 418 one can, or a rare occasion here children play.

The Langham
London, England
This is one of the most haunted hotels in England. Many guests have seen strange ghosts in the halls such as a victorian doctor who murdered his wife and took his own life. Some people also say that Napoleon III is also wondering the halls from time to time.

Hotel Castello della Castelluccia
Rom, Italy
It was said that queen Christina went here to study science with the master Tiraboschi. When the queen’s golden bracelet accidentally fell down in the pot, Tiraboschi believed that he had discovered a way to turn things into gold and declared himself to be better than the Gods. Short after doing that a beam of lightning stoke down and killed him. These days, there are people who claim to have seen him around the castle.

Do you have the guts to visit these places? I know I don’t!