This guide covers 14 real haunted hotels you can book in the U.S. right now, from the Stanley Hotel that inspired The Shining to the actual Lizzie Borden crime scene, now a bed and breakfast. Every hotel here is tied to a documented death, a public paper trail, or decades of consistent guest reports, and each entry includes current pricing, the exact room number to request, and what’s verified fact versus hotel legend.
We checked booking status, pricing, and the historical record for every hotel below directly against hotel sites, newspaper archives, and paranormal research accounts, rather than recycling it from other lists. If you like your hotel history with a side of eerie, our tour of Dracula’s Castle is worth a look too.
Quick Answer: 14 Haunted Hotels You Can Book Tonight
The Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, CO): the real hotel that inspired The Shining
Hotel del Coronado (San Diego, CA): Kate Morgan’s Room 3327, unsolved since 1892
The Queen Mary (Long Beach, CA): a retired ocean liner with nearly 50 recorded deaths aboard
Hotel Jerome (Aspen, CO): the wet, vanishing boy of Room 310
Jerome Grand Hotel (Jerome, AZ): a 1927 hospital turned hotel in Arizona’s actual ghost town
Myrtles Plantation (St. Francisville, LA): often called America’s most documented haunted home
Hotel Monteleone (New Orleans, LA): a family owned French Quarter landmark where a toddler ghost still visits
Menger Hotel (San Antonio, TX): built next to the Alamo, with reported soldier ghosts to match
1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa (Eureka Springs, AR): a fraudulent 1930s cancer hospital hiding under a luxury resort
The Read House (Chattanooga, TN): Room 311 and its long-running Annalisa Netherly legend
The Pfister Hotel (Milwaukee, WI): the hotel visiting MLB players keep saying is haunted
Omni Mount Washington Resort (Bretton Woods, NH): the founder’s widow, Room 314
Hay-Adams Hotel (Washington, DC): a Gilded Age death, two blocks from the White House
Lizzie Borden House (Fall River, MA): sleep in the real 1892 crime scene
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The list runs West to East, grouped loosely by region, so it doubles as a road trip guide if you want to chase a few of these in one trip.
The Stanley Hotel
333 East Wonderview Ave, Estes Park, CO · stanleyhotel.com
Stephen King checked in for one quiet night in 1974 and left with the idea for The Shining.
F.O. Stanley, inventor of the Stanley Steamer car, opened this Colonial Revival hotel in 1909 as a mountain retreat for wealthy East Coast travelers. It sat on the National Register of Historic Places by 1977, and its more famous chapter began decades later, when Stephen King and his wife stayed there as nearly the only guests in the off season. That eerie emptiness became the seed for The Shining, and Room 217, King’s actual room, is now the most requested in the hotel. Staff and guests continue to report a piano playing on its own in the Music Room and childr
