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The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, AR is also said to be haunted. Eureka Springs is an tiny, quaint, and oh-so-cute little town in the Ozarks of Arkansas.

The outside shots at the very beginning of the movie were filmed @ Timberline Lodge @ Mt. Hood in Oregon.

I've been to The Crescent. My mom used to take me there and we'd scare ourselves silly imaging ghosts around every corner.

I had a horribly scary dream after visiting The Stanley. The elk were pretty cool though.

Room 202 at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg is rumoured to be haunted by a cloaked figure who stands at the foot of the bed. The Banff Springs hotel is also supposedly haunted by "Sam" a bellman who retired in the 1960s and died a few years later. A bride who toppled to her death down a grand staircase has also been seen there. I've stayed at the Banff Springs and never seen anything, but it's so remote and grand that it's easy to imagine that it's haunted!

The Julian Hotel (originally the Hotel Robinson) in Julian, CA is said to be haunted by co-founder Albert Robinson. His reflection has been glimpsed in mirrors, and unseen hands rearrange furniture in some rooms. (It's a very cute Victorian hotel with lots of antique furniture, btw.)

The Hotel del Coronado is famously haunted by Kate Morgan, who was mysteriously discovered dead just outside with a gun in her hand (which did not match the bullet found in her head...). It's also gorgeous.

A friend who lives in Joshua Tree has told me all kinds of stories about the strange goings-on at the Joshua Tree Inn. The activity is strongest in the room where Gram Parsons died of an overdose.

The Hawthorne Hotel in Salem Massachusetts is supposed to be haunted. When I stayed there I asked them to give me one of the haunted rooms, but nothing out of the ordinary happened, sadly. Oh, and if you're ever in Fall River Mass. you should stay at the Lizzy Borden Bed & Breakfast.

There's also the St. james Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico, with a very colorful past.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-stjameshotel.html

I think all I'd have to do is be around guys like these Ghost Hunters to be completely freaked out! LOL!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fmqb_ghost-hunters-the-stanley-hotel-par_blog

Of course, they could make anything scary.

But if I didn't know about supposed hauntings in a certain room, I'd probably attribute any sounds to legitimate sources. Besides, I am in an apartment, and there ARE weird sounds all the time. Footsteps overhead. Things that slam. Voices.

I'd probably sleep like a baby.

Well, this is just great - perfect timing for this post.

I'm about to leave for a business-related trip to a small rural town in KY (consisting of 2 blocks) and am booked to stay in the only nearby motel. I swear, it looks like the Bates Motel.

Now I'm scared.

It's been a lifelong dream of mine to stay at the Stanley. Someday. I'd also love a chance to stay in the Queen Mary. But this comes from someone who believes in ghosts - I think most people are way too quick to write it off as something ordinary.

Such odd timing, I just started watching season 1 of Ghost Hunters a couple of days ago. Kinda freaky and cool. Great idea for a post!

My aunt lives right down the street from the Myrtles Plantation. It is such a beautiful property, I've been there once, in daylight of course. The television show Ghost Hunters stayed there overnight and said it was one of the most active haunted places they had been to.

Funny, my boyfriend and I are staying next weekend at the Farnsworth B&B in Gettysburg. We watched an episode of Taps from Gettysburg and decided to nerd out and do some evp's, and "ghost hunting" of our own. So excited and equally terrified!

The Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff claims to be haunted. I stayed there and saw no ghosts...but it was a really cool old school boutique hotel anyway.

Oooooh. I am spooked, but this is awesome!

Emily

Ghosthunters from the SciFi channel has investigated all three of the locations mentioned in the main post. Definitely found activity in all three places! I recall a particularly creepy incident that happened while they were at the Stanley. Jason was asleep and thought he heard his closet door open. Shortly after that, he heard a crack. When he got up to look around, not only did he find out that the closet door was open (something he verified couldn't have happened on its own) but the glass sitting on the bedside table had cracked and broken. For no apparent reason. Pretty cool. They had it all on video, too. They'd wired the room since Jason had chosen to stay in one of the rooms said to have high activity, room 401.

The Biltmore in Coral Gables, Florida is pretty spooky. Lights and TVs go on and off for no reason. Myself and a group of co-works, there on a business trip, where indirectly struck by lightening right in front of the Biltmore. On a perfectly sunny day!!!

I spent Valentine's Day at the Stanley a few years ago. Neither my girlfriend nor I slept well at all that night. It was cold and eerie. The cold can probably be explained by it being February in Estes Park, but the eerieness...

What about this haunted hostel -

http://www.carletoncountyjail.com/

It used to be a prison and now it's a hostel - creeeepy!

There's a hotel in Scotland or just south of the English border, in old castle, which has a haunted room. It's been on GlobeTrekker.

What a coincidence, I JUST watched The Shining, one of my favorite movies. The intro alone with the ominous music and long winding road is enough to get me feeling creepy.

Actually The Sainte Claire in San Jose, CA, is supposed to have a ghost. I know one of the staff leaves a chair out in his office for her. Needless to say no one wants to sit in that chair!