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‘The Shining’ hotel: Alleged ‘ghost’ photobombs tourist’s picture

The alleged "ghost" captured in a tourist's photo at 'The Shining' hotel. Henry Yau/Instagram

It’s the kind of souvenir you don’t really plan for: a supernatural entity appearing in one of your vacation photos.

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Tourist Henry Yau visited Colorado’s Stanley Hotel, which was the main setting for 1980 horror movie The Shining, earlier this week. He snapped a photo of the hotel lobby’s creepy staircase, and an apparition in period clothing somehow appeared at the top of the stairs in one of his pictures. Yau insists the staircase was totally empty when he took the photo.

“When I took it, I didn’t notice anything,” Yau, director of public relations at the Children’s Museum of Houston, told Click2Houston.com.

According a paranormal expert consulted by the publication, there are actually two ghosts in the photo: The woman in black on the stairs and a barely visible child, to her left.

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This isn’t the first time someone has reported a paranormal sighting at Stanley Hotel. The hotel’s website even has a dedicated section to its Ghost Adventure Package, and it has a separate section recounting the hotel’s haunted history.

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“After a century of collecting spirits, the hotel has become renowned by specialists and experts in the field of paranormal investigation as one of the nation’s most active sites,” boasts the site.

A Twitter user posted a photo allegedly taken while on a haunted tour of the hotel — capturing another unidentified figure on the stairs.

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The Shining was originally based on the works of horror mastermind Stephen King, who was initially inspired by the creepiness of the hotel. King stayed there in the late fall of 1974.

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“Tabby [King’s wife] and I spent a night at a grand old hotel in Estes Park, the Stanley. We were the only guests as it turned out; the following day they were going to close the place down for the winter. Wandering through its corridors, I thought that it seemed the perfect — maybe the archetypical — setting for a ghost story. That night I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a fire-hose. I woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed. I got up, lit a cigarette, sat in the chair looking out the window at the Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, I had the bones of the book firmly set in my mind.”
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