Real-Life 'The Shining' Overlook Haunted? Guest Takes Spooky Ghost Hotel Photo

It's been almost four decades since Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film, The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson as the disturbed writer Jack Torrance, hit theaters -- but is the hotel that inspired the Overlook truly haunted? A guest of the Stanley Hotel, where Stephen King was staying when he came up with the book, saw a ghost there!

Houston Children's Museum spokesman Henry Yau recently visited the Stanley Hotel, built in the early days of the 20^th century, and took his fair share of snaps. Obviously a fan of Kubrick's classic, Yau took many photos of the iconic hotel, including showing his followers the hallways where those creepy twins asked Danny Torrance to join them in a playdate forever.

Now, one of the pictures from Yau's stay at the real-life Overlook Hotel has gone viral: the hotel's majestic stairwell in the lobby, where the "ghost" of a woman is visible.

Click 2 Houston talked to Yau after the pic went viral, and he insisted there was nobody there when he first took the snap, using the panoramic feature on his cellphone's camera.

It's unclear whether anyone screamed "redrum" in an unnatural voice.

A photo posted by Henry Yau (@ares415) on April 12 2016 at 7:33 PDT

After horror master King found inspiration for The Shining in the hallways of the early 20^th century hotel, it has become synonymous with ghost stories, something the iconic venue has greatly taken advantage of. The hotel even has an entire "Haunted History" section in its website.

"A stay of one night was enough to inspire his third major work and first hard-cover bestseller -- The Shining -- which remains a landmark masterpiece in a long and well-known list of novels. More recently, the Stanley's paranormal past has been fully embraced," reads the website. "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."

Decades after writing The Shining, King wrote a sequel to the novel, Doctor Sleep, which follows the life of Jack Torrance's gifted son, Danny.

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