It’s one of Jack Nicholson’s most iconic roles, and to this day The Shining remains a benchmark for Hollywood horrors.
The movie is actually based off a Stephen King novel, which was partly inspired by the 108-year-old Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.
Pretty standard stuff, except for a photo snapped by the Mausling family, who visited the hotel last month.
Huff Post SA reports:
After returning home, they noticed a photo taken by John “Jay” Mausling that seemed to show a young girl walking down the stairs.
John Mausling and his wife, Jessica Martinez-Mausling, told HuffPost via email that there were no young girls in their 11-member party or on the tour.
“At first we tried to be logical and think we somehow missed her so we asked our kids, their girlfriends and our friend if they remembered seeing a little girl,” they wrote. “Nobody did. We do not remember seeing anything on the stairs when we took the picture.”
Time to feast your eyes on the supernatural:
Of course this is the bit you want to focus on:
Who you gonna call (to verify this photo’s authenticity)? How about Ben Hansen, former FBI agent and host of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files:
[He] said a careful analysis of the photo turned up no obvious signs of trickery.
“I really like this photo,” Hansen said. “Assuming that it’s not doctored, it ranks up there as one of the best photos of possible paranormal evidence I’ve seen. If it is faked, I’ve got to hand it to them for their level of detail and creativity because there’s usually enough easy signs to suggest hoaxing.”
Insert that haunting ‘whoooooo’ sound, but the Mausling family spotted another apparition that struck them as other-worldly:
The Mauslings said that at the time the photo was taken, there were just two people on the stairs: the tour guide and someone else on the tour with a cellphone. However, the image shows what could be a third figure, who appears to be walking up the stairs and away from the tour group…
Hansen said he assumed this figure was just another person walking up the stairs with the same motion blur seen around some of the other people in the image. Then he noticed something else.
“Through the stair railing posts you should see the lower half of this person like you do the tour guide and the shoes of the person on the stairs… but I can’t make out any lower half,” he said.
Well I’ll be damned.
For what it’s worth, the Mauslings say they don’t necessarily believe in ghosts, although they are open-minded.
This isn’t the first ‘ghost sighting’ at the hotel, with this Instagram post from last year garnering much attention:
Everyone’s talking about some kid on the right but I see nothing.
Let’s end with the best nugget to come out of this story, Stephen King recounting his family’s stay way back in 1974:
“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.”
King penned ‘The Shining’ in 1977.
Great stuff, Stephen, now please stick to ghosts and never, ever write about scary clowns again.
[source:huffpostsa]
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