 RealSouthPark.com , a 1999 website that examined real @-@ life people and places that may have inspired South Park episodes , suggested the settings in " Pinkeye " may have been inspired by a supposedly haunted hotel in Fairplay , Colorado , a Park County town that serves as the basis for the South Park location within the show . In a review of the site , however , The Australian suggested the interpretation was unlikely , since the hotel is rumored to be haunted by ghosts , not zombies . 
