America's 10 Most Haunted Hotels: From The Stanley to The Queen Mary

Key facts

• The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, inspired Stephen King's 'The Shining' after his 1974 stay.
• The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was once an experimental hospital run by con artist Norman Baker.
• The Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner permanently docked in Long Beach, California, and converted into a hotel.
• La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is haunted by the ghost of John P. Slough, a chief justice killed in 1867.
• The Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, was formerly the Medical Arts Building with a morgue and psychiatric wing.
• Hotel del Coronado in San Diego is haunted by Kate Morgan, who died there in 1892.
• Jekyll Island Club Resort in Georgia is associated with the ghost of J.P. Morgan, whose cigar smoke is reportedly smelled.
• The Don CeSar in St. Pete Beach, Florida, was built by Thomas Rowe as a tribute to his lost love Lucinda.
• Omni Parker House in Boston is the longest continuously running hotel in the U.S., and Charles Dickens stayed there.
• Omni Mount Washington Resort in New Hampshire is haunted by Carolyn Foster Stickney, who brushes her hair at midnight.