Happy Haunting

Colorado's most haunted hotel, The Stanley Hotel, is offering special packages for Halloween. Stephen King wrote The Shining in room 217 after learning how Flora Stanley, the hotel's first owner, died. She can still be heard playing the piano and seen wandering around in the lobby. Guests say if you stay in room 418 you'll hear children playing outside the door.

The Red Garter Bed & Breakfast is Arizona's most haunted inn. Guests say during the night, they've felt their bed shake, heard someone climbing the stairs and felt a spirit touching their arms. Many believe the ghost is a former prostitute, who worked at the inn when it was a bordello back in 1897. Locals claim she was led upstairs to a room and never left. Innkeeper John Holst says, "The stories about Eve, the turn-of-the-century ghost that visits the rooms occasionally, are greatly exaggerated."