Yau, who serves as the public relations director for the Children's Museum of Houston, shared the image on social media with the caption: "By golly! I think I may have captured a #ghost at #StanleyHotel."
The Stanley Hotel, which opened in 1909, is the setting for King's haunting story of hysteria "The Shining." He was inspired to write about the old hotel after spending a night there with his wife, the lone guests before the hotel was to close for the winter.
Kevin Sampron, a Denver ghost expert who examined the image for authenticity, thinks there could be a second figure standing behind the first, according to KUSA.
"We probably rule out 95 percent what people think are paranormal or ghosts. Most of the time there's a natural cause for something," Sampron told KUSA. "This could be a legitimate ghost, as far as we can tell."
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