Trip to the Stanley Hotel

Since my trip to the Stanley Hotel, hosted by Beyond Reality Events, is what inspired me to start a blog, I thought I would start here with sharing some pictures and experiences.  

 Our room, I'll explain a potential experience in here at the end...

I can't help but show off my son...

the MacGregor Room where Friday night's Meet and Greet and Saturday's lectures took place.

View from the front porch

there She is...

the Stanley Steamer

some of the elk taking over a golf course, Stanley in the background

Bill and Ben from Fact or Faked

Amy and Adam from Ghost Hunters

Chip from Paranormal State and Physic Kids and Britt Griffith from Ghost Hunters/International

Amy and Adam again

piano that Mrs. Stanley supposedly plays (I never heard it)

Everyone at the Meet and Greet, a great experience!

Heeeeere's Jenni!

main staircase

THE @StanleyHotel, wonderful woman!

me and Karl Pfeiffer from Ghost Hunters Academy

me with Ben Hansen from Fact or Faked

me with Amy Bruni from Ghost Hunters

can't help but post another view, just so pretty!!

Britt's lecture

the Manor House

Ben, Christiane (@FactorFaked on Twitter), me, Bill, and Bill's wife, Anita

Bill and Ben at their Q & A session

Ok, now into the investigation...

our group's first stop: the administration building

The last time Amy investigated in this room, the table had lifted so we had hands on the table throughout the investigation.  I personally did not feel the table move but others claimed to feel movement.  Because I didn't experience it, I'm skeptical about what they were feeling.  I did feel the pulse in my hand so I could understand if some felt that and mistook it for "movement."  We also were trying to figure out why the tablecloth was moving.  It looked as though air was blowing on it but we couldn't feel any air moving.  I am not ready to say it was paranormal, because it really looked like an air current moving through the room, but definitely odd.  

We also conducted a flashlight communication technique.  We asked questions after giving the "entity" instructions to turn on the flashlight to answer.  At first, there was some consistency with this and was pretty impressive.  We even asked for the "entity" to choose a "no" flashlight and it chose one that hadn't turned on until that moment.  However, after a while, it became inconsistent   When I think back to the experience, it seems like we actually had some interaction, but in the moment, I was not impressed or convinced we were actually communicating with someone.  I have to go with my first instincts on this one and say maybe...but probably not.

Next, we investigated room....

This room was in the Manor House.

We investigated this room with some members of a west coast group that Britt Griffith is a member of.  One woman said she was touched on the leg...personal experience so hard to say it was an actual interaction.  Twice I swear I saw an unusual ball of light in one specific corner of the room, which was reported by the group before us. However, I can't discount the fact that I was also watching the EMF detectors...the green light from the devices could have caused me to see a white light when I looked away.  The woman next to me said she could see a shadow of someone sitting in the corner, looking out the window.  I could see what she was talking about but, really folks, it was just the shadows from the curtains and window.  When an EMF detector was brought to that corner there was no fluctuation, the investigator couldn't feel anything strange (cold spots, energy, etc), and when he went over to the area, the shadow didn't change...all of that tells me it was nothing. Overall, in my opinion, no experiences in that room.  

Christiane really wants to sit in the table that lifted on Grant of Ghost Hunters!

What the fetch?!

Now, on to the tunnels!  I was pretty excited for this!

Ok, this one I can't explain. When I took the picture above, I saw the flash go off.  When I looked at the picture on the viewer, nothing. So I took it again and got the pic below. That has never happened before, never happened again.

Yes, I know, there are lots of "orbs."  I'll talk about that in another blog.

For our investigation with Britt Griffith, we stood at one end of the tunnels and he placed EMF detectors, recording devices, and flashlights down the other end.  Not a lot of action with those devices.  We did try the controversial  "Frank's Box" device and that was interesting.  I can see why its controversial though.  We supposedly contact an entity named Bill (he answered with Bill when we asked him his name).  He also said it was the year 2014...hmmm?  To me, at times, it sounded like we were hearing parts of a radio show.  Since you use radio frequencies as white noise to pick up supposed voices from beyond, this is totally possible.  It was hard for me to hear since I was in the back of the group, away from the device, so hard to make conclusions.  The other interesting thing to point out is the "orb" you can see in this picture.  Again, I'll talk about orbs in another post but, could this have been "Bill?"  Discuss... 

On to room 217 in the main hotel....

This room had been a suite, converted to a room, used by Molly Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, The Emperor and Empress of Japan, Steven King, Jim Carrey (he packed up and left his first night and doesn't talk about what happened here), and more.  It was the room of a terrible accident involving a chambermaid trying to light a gas lamp and ended up causing an explosion (she was hurt but not killed).  A previous group had experienced the bed shaking without explanation   

Ben was our fearless leader for this investigation.  I started off in one part of the room but moved to the other side when he and others kept hearing a breathing coming from the other side of the room (near the dresser you can see opposite of this picture).  We weren't sure if it was one of the group members breathing more loudly than she gave herself credit for but a few times I heard it myself coming from where no one was sitting. It was on the left side of the bed (looking from the foot of the bed)...remember that.
Ben and Christiane were reviewing the audio from this room and there may be some evidence, I will update the blog if anything comes from that!

  First thing that came to mind when I saw this hallway was REDRUM...just me?

And now onto room...

This is the room that Jason Hawes slept in where the glass broke from the inside and the closet door closed by itself (that closet door is above).  This room was occupied by Lord Dunraven, apparently not a pleasant man.  Karl Pfeiffer was our lead investigator for this one and he said that Lord Dunraven often stroked women's hair and women said they were touched by someone in this room.  The closet is also a supposed vortex.  So what do I do?  I sat on the bed, let my hair down, and announced that Lord Dunraven can stroke my hair...when nothing happened, I hopped in the closet (ok, so I needed Christiane to keep me company) and waited for an experience.  Unfortunately, nothing.  One woman said she felt like she was touched on the leg. No experiences for me.  

Finally, room...

Here is where it gets crazy.  Adam Berry was our lead investigator for this room and he had stayed there in November during his last investigation at the hotel.  He had felt very uncomfortable there, to the point where he couldn't sleep without the TV on all night.  He heard little footsteps outside his door (supposedly a boy haunts this floor) and his shoes were pushed completely under his bed overnight.  I put my shoes in the bathroom and invited the boy to play with my shoes, but no luck.  At one point, as we were listening for any signs of a presence, we heard a heaving breathing coming from the left side of the bed (sound familiar?).  One of the girls next to me and asked if I was ok.  I said, "I thought that was you!"  Adam explained that he purposely didn't tell us of a story because he thought that an entity they had communicated with had "gotten what he wanted" and left.  But the heavy breathing we were hearing convinced him otherwise.  A few months before the last investigation, a man had committed suicide in the hotel by asphyxiation.  We heard the breathing again and were committed to the investigation.  Then suddenly, we heard this low male voice mumbling.  Clearly.  (well, we couldn't make out what it was saying but clearly a voice).   Ben held a glass up to the wall to listen to any mumbling from next door and someone else looked down the hall, nothing.  Soon after this, we hear quick steps coming up to the door and a tap, tap, tap on the door.  I quickly opened the door but no one was there.  Unfortunately, Ben's partner has really bad timing and knocked on the door soon after...I chickened out and let someone else open the door that time!  We didn't hear anything more so we decided to listen to the recording since we were perplexed by this experience.  We could hear something was there but, again, couldn't make it what was said; it might be better using headphones.  I'm waiting to hear from Adam and Christiane if they caught or received any audio.

This last experience made for a late night...sorry again to make you worry Ray and Chad  :-(

Chad is a friend of ours who stayed in our room.  The next morning he asked if Jordan (our son) had a hard time breathing at some point in the night.  He then said, "actually you all sounded like you were breathing pretty hard...in unison...it was weird.  And then you all stopped, at the same time."  I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't want to freak them out but my first thought was back to the experiences from the investigation the night before!  Coincidence?

Because the last day of the conference was Mother's Day, I didn't attend the last sessions but spent the day with my family.  If anyone from the conference has fun stories to share, please do!