A guest at the Stanley Hotel, after spending the night in which Stephen King wrote the novel The Shining, found in his photograph a woman in antique clothes and a child next to her. The snapshot published on social networks caused a strong reaction from users, CNN reports.
Henry Yau, the director of public relations and advertising for the Children's Museum of Houston, has long wanted to visit a hotel in the small town of Estes Park, Colorado. Stephen King previously said that he was inspired to create the novel by spending the night in September 1974 at this hotel. According to him, he and his wife were the last guests in an empty hotel, which was going to be closed for the winter.
“As I wandered through the hallways, I thought this was the perfect setting for a ghost story,” King wrote.
Yau, like King, wandered around the hotel and waited until the building was empty, and there was no one on the stairs to take a good shot.
“When I took the photo, I didn't notice anything at first,” the tourist later said.
The photo, which the man posted on social networks, caused a violent reaction from users. Now they are actively debating whether this is a real ghost or a fake.
The Stanley Hotel, opened in 1909, has long been a haunted house notorious. Its employees say that experts have recognized the building as one of the main centers of paranormal activity in the country.
A list of the most popular ghost hotels among travelers was compiled by The Telegraph last year. At the Oatlands Park Hotel in Surrey, England, for example, the ghost of the "Gray Lady" appears regularly. In one of the rooms of the American Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, where Marilyn Monroe stayed, a ghost of a blonde is allegedly often seen. And the New York Hotel Chelsea, where Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan stayed, is home to the ghost of the poet and prose writer Dylan Thomas, who died in this hotel.
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