Has A Tourist Snapped A Ghost At The Shining Hotel?

Like staying at the Stanley Hotel wasn’t going to be scary enough already?

Already the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s benchmark horror ‘The Shining’, tourist Henry Yau has now set the web alight with this snap.

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Mr Yau was staying at the hotel, in Estes Park, Colorado, last week when he took an innocent snap of the grand staircase.

It was only later when reviewing the pictures that he saw what looks to be a female figure at the top, seemingly not visible when he was taking the shot.

“By golly! I think I may have captured a #ghost at #StanleyHotel. #EstesPark,” he wrote, posting the snap on Instagram.

He also posted a 'before’ shot too.

Yau told the Click2Houston website: “When I took it, I didn’t notice anything.”

Hauntings at the hotel have long been referred to, anecdotally.

The hotel’s website even refers to its own infamous 'eternal guests’, Freelan Oscar Stanley, the businessman inventor and hotelier who founded the hotel and his wife Flora.

- “Chief amongst the hotel’s eternal guests are F.O. and Flora Stanley who continue to go about the business of running their beloved establishment as though they were still alive; Flora’s antique Steinway can be heard playing in the dead of night and Mr. Stanley has been captured in photographs surveying the goings-on in the Billiards Room, once his favorite place,” it reads.

Spooky.

Image credits: Instagram