2673) The Stanley Hotel, (United States of America - USA), The Cook Islands: "Most Haunted Places Coin Series": A $10 (Ten Dollars) Silver Coin coordinated by the Coin Invest Trust (CIT) and minted by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt GmbH at their facilities in Munich: Year of Coin issue: 2023:
The Stanley Hotel:
The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park.
It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, Co-founder of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, and opened on July 4, 1909, as a resort for upper-class Easterners and a health retreat for sufferers of pulmonary tuberculosis.
The hotel and its surrounding structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Presently, the hotel includes a restaurant, spa, and bed-and-breakfast, with panoramic views of Lake Estes, the Rockies, and Longs Peak.
The Stanley Hotel inspired the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel "The Shining" and its 1980 film adaptation and was a filming location for the related 1997 TV miniseries.
In 1909, when inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley first opened the opulent Stanley Hotel in Estes Valley, Colorado, visitors were enthralled by the palatial building and the surrounding rural landscape of the valley.
After years of success, by the 1970s the hotel had fallen into grave disrepair and was a mere shadow of its former self.
A bizarre and fateful chain of events involving the now famous author Steven King saved the Stanley from the wrecking ball.
In a lucid nightmare, while staying in Room 217, he dreamt of a coiled fire hose coming to life chasing his screaming son through the halls of the hotel.
The Stanley’s connection to King’s terrifying night, which resulted in his successful book "The Shining", is the hotel’s most famous creepy occurrence.
But strange and supposedly paranormal incidents were reported at the hotel well before the 1970s, some specifically in room 217.
Haunted reputation:
In 1909, when inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley first opened the opulent Stanley Hotel in Estes Valley, Colorado, visitors were enthralled by the palatial building and the surrounding rural landscape of the valley.
After years of success, by the 1970s the hotel had fallen into grave disrepair and was a mere shadow of its former self. A bizarre and fateful chain of events involving the now famous author Steven King saved the Stanley from the wrecking ball. In a lucid nightmare, while staying in room 217, he dreamt of a coiled fire hose coming to life chasing his screaming son through the halls of the hotel.
The Stanley’s connection to King’s terrifying night, which resulted in his successful book "The Shining", is the hotel’s most famous creepy occurrence.
But strange and supposedly paranormal incidents were reported at the hotel well before the 1970s, some specifically in room 217.
Despite a peaceful early history, in the years following the publication of The Shining, the Stanley Hotel gained a reputation as a setting for paranormal activity.
It has hosted numerous paranormal investigators and appeared in shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures. The hotel also offers guided tours which feature spaces reputed to be exceptionally active.
What inspired the Horror story - "The Shining":
In 1974, during their brief residency in Boulder, Colorado, horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha spent one night at the Stanley Hotel.
The visit is known entirely through interviews given by King in which he presents differing narratives of the experience.
At the time of his visit, King was writing a book with the working title Darkshine set in an amusement park but was not satisfied with the setting.
On the advisement of locals who suggested a resort hotel located in Estes Park, an hour's drive away to the north, Stephen and his wife Tabitha found themselves checking in at the Stanley Hotel just as its other guests were checking out, because the hotel was shutting down for the winter season.
After checking in and after Tabitha went to bed, King roamed the halls and went down to the hotel bar, where drinks were served by a bartender named Grady.
As he returned to his room, numbered 217, his imagination was fired up by the hotel's remote location, its grand size, and its eerie desolation.
Later, when King went into the bathroom and pulled back the pink curtain for the tub, which had claw feet, he thought, "What if somebody died here?" At that moment, he knew that he had a book.
King and his wife were served dinner in an empty dining room accompanied by canned orchestral music. Except for their table all the chairs were up on the tables. Therefore, the music echoed down the hall, sending a creepy chill down their spines. By the time Stephen went to bed that night, he had the whole book (The Shining) in his mind.
In another retelling, King dreamt of his three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a firehose. He woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed. He got up, lit a cigarette, sat in a chair looking out of the window at the Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, he had the concept of The Shining firmly set in his mind.
The Shining was published in 1977 and became the third great success of King's career after "Carrie" and "Salem's Lot".
The primary setting is an isolated Colorado resort named the Overlook Hotel which closes for the winter.
In the front introduction of the book, King tactfully stated that - Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly in the author's imagination.
The Stanley Hotel served as the fictional hotel and filming location for Danbury of Aspen, Colorado, in the 1994 film "Dumb and Dumber".
The Shining, a three-part miniseries and horror TV-adaptation, was written and produced by Stephen King, based on his 1977 novel of the same name, which had been largely inspired by the Stanley Hotel.
From 2013 to 2015, the hotel hosted the Stanley Film Festival, an independent horror film festival operated by the Denver Film Society, held in early May.
The festival featured screenings, panels, student competitions, audience awards and receptions. The Stanley Film Festival was put on hiatus in 2016 and cancelled for 2017.
The Coin:
The Reverse of the $10 (Ten Dollars) Silver Coin shows the Stanley Hotel in the dead of the night, with its room-lights on. Three eerie ghostly figures stand on the staircase leading to the hotel.
The inscriptions are - "2023. THE STANLEY. MOST HAUNTED PLACES".
The Obverse of the $10 (Ten Dollars) Silver Coin presents a mirror on the wall, a ghostly figure appears facing right. There are creepy instructions on how to see the ghostly figure of "Bloody Mary". A remote house is seen in a rural setting at night giving an impression that it could be haunted. The clock shows 3.00 o'clock at night.
Even the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II adds a tinge of the supernatural to the entire atmosphere.
The inscriptions are - "ELIZABETH II. COOK ISLANDS".
The specifications of this Coin are:
Country: (The) Cook Islands; Year: 2023; Denomination/Face Value: $10 (Ten Dollars); Coin Series Theme: "Most Haunted Places"; Coin Theme: The Stanley Hotel": Metal Composition: .999 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 2.00 Oz or 62.2 grams; Diameter/Size: 50.00 mm; Coin Quality: Black Proof (BP); Mintage: 1909 pieces; Technique: smartminting® (Ultra High Relief - UHR).
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