The Stanley Hotel is no stranger to spooky experiences. The Colorado mountain resort is best known as the key locale in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie, The Shining, where ghosts and a murderously unhinged Jack Nicholson haunted its halls. Starting in 2014, however, Aiden Sinclair began performing his own unearthly magic show there in various venue spaces on the property.
“On some nights, we’d be in a room that sat 300 people, and we would sell that out, and then the next night, we might be in a room that had only 20 seats in capacity, and we would sell that out,” Aiden told Genii. “The question got asked: ‘Why are you making so much money on this night and not so much money on the next night?’ And when we explained that it had to do with the availability of the venue, it became really clear that we needed a dedicated space.”
To that end, The Stanley broke ground in 2018 on a subterranean theater found beneath the hotel’s carriage house, which was built in 1909 and is the last original structure found on the resort’s campus. The theater is also mysteriously hidden behind a bookcase, and opened in 2020 as Aiden Sinclair’s Underground, or The Underground for short.