The Shining

The story THE SHINING takes places in a haunted hotel room in Colorado back in 1977. There have been several incident or unexplainable deaths in the hotel itself in which it makes the hotel filled with lost entities roaming around they last place they were in. I haven’t been in a haunted place as such but, I have been to recreational haunted places such as haunted house which would sort of simulate what it is like being somewhere haunted. It was pretty cool because it shared many similarities such as unknown footsteps, whispers, bangs, knocks people lightly touching you and even shadows. Although it isn’t real, it still revolves around real situations people go through.

In my opinion, I think the author Stephan King wrote this book to let the reader and everyone else know that there are supernatural or spirits that live all among us. Rather if there good or bad, they are still here and we should acknowledge it. I don’t think people would lie or make up stories about ghost and even if they did many people share stories that are quite similar and that is not a coincident when you have several hundred of the same stories about supernatural events. In order to write this book I think they author had to know the hotels history. When it was first built and what might have happened in the hotel to make it haunted until this very day in detail. He probably had to go to the hotel itself and see what they’re talking about personally in order to write the book out of his own perspective and get into better detail.

The one thing a like about THE SHINING is that, the hotel pretty much interacts with the character. The ghost controls the hotel basically and they use their energy to manipulate the characters into doing what they want to do. That is a great way to create suspense because being possessed is unpredictable and since the person is not controlling themselves you’re not going to know what is going to happen and that’s a great thing that Stephan King brought into this book.

The Shining was one of the inspirations of a T.V series called Ghost Adventures. The ghost expert actually went to the hotel in Colorado that Stephan King based his book about and the guys did a lock down in the hotel for 24 hours straight with know where to go out to see the type of activities that took place. There were four major haunted rooms in the hotel where deaths had occur and each of the crew members slept in the room hoping for paranormal activity to happen. The Shining is what made them want to begin this adventure to begin with.