the Stanley Hotel is overhyped BUT one room 217 detail isn't the Shining and I can't place where it started

Trying to be the buzzkill here. The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado, opened 1909. Yes Stephen King stayed in room 217 in 1974, was basically the only guest as it was about to close for winter, and it inspired The Shining (which was NOT filmed there, that's a different hotel, people constantly ge……