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Jim Carrey Only Made It 3 Hours in the Hotel That Inspired ‘The Shining’

The infamous Room 217 was apparently too much for Carrey to handle.

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In October 1974, Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha, checked into Room 217 of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The couple’s one-night stay in the room, which is long-rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a former chambermaid named Elizabeth Wilson, served as the inspiration for King’s 1977 novel The Shining. In the book, the Overlook Hotel’s Room 217 is where Danny and Jack Torrance encounter the ghost of Lorraine Massey. For Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation, the room number was changed to 237.

17 years after King’s novel was released, the Farrelly brothers filmed part of their 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber at the Stanley, using it as a stand-in for the fictional Danbury Hotel........

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