Henry Yau is, according to his Instagram profile, the “publicist and spokesman for America’s No. 1 Children’s Museum”, which is the Children’s Museum of Houston, TX. He’s also now becoming an internet star thanks to some photos he took at the Stanley Hotel, which is located in Estes Park, Colorado. The photos reveal a pair of ghostly figures at the top of the grand stairwell within the hotel.
When asked in Spanish if the photo was taken in the dark, Yau responded, “no a oscuras. Ni siquiera la vi en el momento. Me di cuenta al siguiente día cuando estaba revisando las fotos.” Roughly translated through Google, the response says, “not dark. Even I saw at the time. I realized the next day when I was reviewing the photos.” Yau also told Click2Houston.com, “When I took it, I didn’t notice anything.”
Horror fans will know this hotel as it served as the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. The hotel fully embraces its status as “being haunted” and even offers a Ghost Tours.
The site even has a history page about its supernatural denizens, with this particular excerpt explaining about two of its “eternal guests”:
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.
You can look at the photos below to get an idea for yourself The first shows the stairwell with loads of lights on while the second is darker and a tad more ominous. The second photos shows the purported spirits.
