(Photo: Henry Yau) 
 
 Many of you shared a "ghostly" picture of the Stanley Hotel we posted on Wednesday. So, we sent that photo to a paranormal expert for his opinion on the authenticity of the picture. He says not only does the photo appear to be legitimate, but the ghost may not have been alone. 
 
 Kevin Sampron, a paranormal expert at SPIRIT Paranormal Investigations in Denver, ran the image through a variety of tests and filters. He and his team determined that the image did not appear to be tampered with or Photoshopped. Then they converted the image to black and white, to better see details. 
 
 That's when they saw another figure. 
 
 "When we blew up the picture, we immediately saw a second anomaly just to the left of the first figure," Sampron said. "To us it looks like the first figure is a lady dressed in black and to the left of her it looks like a child." 
 
 He said he and his team think it could be the ghost of a woman and her child. 
 
 "You see the child's head clearly outlined over the top of the stair railing," Sampron said. 
 
 Sampron and his team used other images of the staircase to compare to the ghost-photo. They wanted to see if the anomaly could have been caused by a light or a reflection. 
 
 "We probably rule out about 95 percent what people think are paranormal or ghosts," Sampron said. "Most of the time there's a natural cause for something." 
 
 This picture though, he says is the real deal. 
 
 "This could be a legitimate ghost, as far as we can tell," Sampron said. 
 
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 A photo taken at the hotel appears to show the ghostly image of a woman in a corner at the top of the stairs 
 
 The beautiful Stanley Hotel on January 12, 2016 in Estes Park, Colorado. The hotel is located 10.4 miles from the Rocky Mountain National Park. The grand, upscale hotel dates back to 1909. The Stanley Hotel, known for its architecture, magnificent setting, and famous visitors, may possibly be best known today for its inspirational role in the Stephen King's novel, "The Shining." This Colorado hotel has been featured as one of America's most haunted hotels and with the numerous stories from visitors and staff. ( Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post ) 
 
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 A visitor from Houston recently captured an eerie photo at the Stanley Hotel, a more than 100-year-old hotel that inspired Stephen King's "The Shining." 
 
 Henry Yau was visiting the hotel in Estes Park when he snapped a panoramic photo of the lobby and grand staircase. 
 
 The photo caught more than an empty staircase. A ghostly image of a woman appears in a corner at the top of the stairs. 
 
 Yau, director of public relations at the Children's Museum of Houston, said he doesn't remember anyone standing on the landing when he took the photo. 
 
 "The next morning, I was checking and I saw something strange. I said, 'this might be a ghost, and started posting on Instagram,' " he said on Monday. 
 
 The picture has since gone viral. 
 
 Yau was surprised at the apparition, but does not doubt that it is a ghost, he said. 
 
 "I am terrified of ghosts. I grew up in a very superstitious culture, my mom is Chinese and Buddhist, and I was born and raised in Venezuela. But I never imagined that I would capture a ghost," he said. 
 
 Yau, who was visiting Denver, had always wanted to see the Stanley Hotel, where King was staying when he conceived the paranormal tale "The Shining." 
 
 King based the threatening Overlook Hotel, a central character in his 1977 best seller, on the Stanley Hotel. 
 
 In 1980, Stanley Kubrick produced and directed a horror film inspired by King's book. 
 
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 Even before the movie, the hotel had a reputation for hosting ghosts. "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," the hotel's website says. 
 
 The hotel offers a 90-minute ghost tour. 
 
 "I never imagined that I would capture ghosts," Yau said of his picture. 
 
 Tom McGhee: 303-954-1671, tmcghee@denverpost.com or @dpmcghee 

 Sure, Timberline Lodge starred in the movie version of Stephen King's horror classic "The Shining." 
 
 But King actually drew inspiration for the paranormal story, featuring ghosts, extrasensory powers and "redrum," during a stay at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. 
 
 Maybe a real ghost was whispering in his ear during his stay. 
 
 The hotel appears to be teeming with ghoulish spirits. 
 
 Earlier this week, guest Henry Yau snapped a panorama photo of the Stanley Hotel's famous lobby, including the grand stairwell. No one was on the stairs when Yau took the photo, he said. 
 
 But check out what his camera captured: An apparition in period clothing standing on the stairwell. 
 
 By golly! I think I may have captured a #ghost at #StanleyHotel. #EstesPark A photo posted by Henry Yau (@ares415) on Apr 12, 2016 at 7:33am PDT 
 
 "When I took it, I didn't notice anything," Yau, director of public relations at the Children's Museum of Houston, told Click2Houston.com. 
 
 Actually, according a paranormal expert, there are two ghosts in the photo: The woman in black on the stairs and a child to her left. 
 
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 What does a paranormal investigator see in this Stanley Hotel picture? https://t.co/7FEnvVOBk5 pic.twitter.com/hzt4kQYPI1 -- KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) April 15, 2016 
 
 On his official website, King wrote about how he got the idea for "The Shining" while staying at the hotel in 1974. 
 
 "In late September of 1974, Tabby and I spent a night at a grand old hotel in Estes Park, the Stanley. We were the only guests as it turned out; the following day they were going to close the place down for the winter. Wandering through its corridors, I thought that it seemed the perfect--maybe the archetypical--setting for a ghost story. 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." 
 
 Actually, this is far from the first time a guest has spotted a spook at the Stanley. In fact, there's a haunted history section on the hotel's 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," the site reads. 
 
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 A tourist with an interest in ghost stories got the shock of his life when he took a second look at a photo he snapped at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Henry Yau of Houston had stopped by the hotel after hearing that it had been the inspiration for Stephen King's landmark novel, The Shining . Yau used his phone to take a panoramic shot of the lobby, but it wasn't until the next day, while scrolling through his photos, that he noticed what appeared to be a figure at the top of the stairs. He took to Instagram with the eerie photograph and the precious caption, "By golly! I think I may have captured a #ghost at #StanleyHotel. #EstesPark." 
 
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 The Stanley has a reputation for being one of the most haunted hotels in the country. The hotel's past is a blend of legend, history, and the added boon of its connection to The Shining . Hotel staff say that the hotel's founder Freelan Oscar Stanley and his wife Flora Stanley, dead since 1940, still walk the halls of the establishment: Freelan has reportedly been spotted in the Billiards Room, and Flora has been known to tickle the keys of her beloved Steinway piano in the dead of night. 
 
 The Stanleys aren't the only spooks that supposedly call the building home. In 1911, an explosion ripped through the hotel, when Elizabeth Wilson, a chambermaid, walked into Room 217, while holding a lit candle. Unbeknownst to her, the room was experiencing a gas leak. Wilson reportedly survived the incident, and continued to work at the hotel until her death in the 1950s. Since then, she has reportedly haunted Room 217 , where she very kindly folds clothes while guests are out. When she's feeling a little less helpful, the eternally-proper Wilson has been also known to forcibly separate unmarried couples who are sharing the bed. 
 
 The Stanley Hotel attracts ghost hunters from all over the world, and fully embraces its reputation as a popular place for paranormal experiences. The hotel offers ghost tours of its premises, hosts a spooky film festival, and has plans for both a hedge maze inspired by The Shining and a horror museum . 
 
 So, did Yau accidentally snap a photo of Flora Stanley's ghost making her rounds, or was it just a trick of the light? Whatever the answer, Yau's photo only strengthens the Stanley's draw as a major destination for spook-seekers around the world. 
 
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– Henry Yau says he had no intention of photographing a ghost. But when looking over a smartphone shot he snapped last week at the Stanley Hotel lobby in Estes Park, Colo., he saw a ghoulish-looking woman at the top of the stairs, the Oregonian reports. "When I took it, I didn't notice anything," says Yau, a PR director at the Children's Museum in Houston. So he posted it on Instagram along with the message, "By golly! I think I may have captured a #ghost at #StanleyHotel." The image has since gone viral and given Yau some media attention. "I am terrified of ghosts," he tells the Denver Post. "I grew up in a very superstitious culture, my mom is Chinese and Buddhist, and I was born and raised in Venezuela. But I never imagined that I would capture a ghost." Paranormal investigator Kevin Sampron says Yau actually captured two ghosts, the woman and a barely visible child, KHOU reports. "You see the child's head clearly outlined over the top of the stair railing," says Sampron. The Stanley Hotel was already known for inspiring Steven King to write his haunted-hotel classic The Shining. The hotel also gives a 90-minute ghost tour and has a history of supposed sightings. Founder Freelan Oscar Stanley, his wife Flora Stanley, and a chambermaid who survived a gas explosion there in 1911 are all said to haunt the place, Conde Nast Traveler reports. Still, readers don't seem too impressed—leaving comments that Yau's image looks Photoshopped or designed to create publicity. "Oh look someone forgot to put away the department store mannequin," says a reader at Click2Houston.com.