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The Children’s Museum of Houston Texas’ publicist, Henry Yau, is getting a taste of internet fame. It has nothing to do with the Children’s Museum, but stems from a photo he recently took inside the Stanley Hotel. In the photo a ghostly figure is captured standing at the top of the hotel’s grand staircase. Yau posted the photo on instagram (ares415) and it quickly went viral. In an interview with Click2Houston.com Yau stated that he did not take the photo in the dark and that he did not realize what was in the photo until the next day. The Stanley Hotel, made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaption of Stephen King’s The Shining, is located in Estes Park, Colorado. It not only embraces its title as one of the most haunted locations in the U.S., it celebrates it and even holds ghost tours. The Stanley’s official website includes a history section that mentions two particular ghosts that haunt its
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The Stanley Hotel is one of the most recognizable hotels in the world, most people know it as the backdrop for Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’. The hotel 140 room hotel, built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, opened on July 4th, 1909. The hotel, rumored to be one of the most haunted hotels in the world, is now seeking to become a horror museum. The hotel hopes to open a horror museum and build a new facility to house a film production studio. The founding board members for the new Stanley Film Center includes Elijah Wood and Simon Pegg. The new center will house an auditorium, a sound stage, an area for post-production and editing, as well as a mobile film exhibit. The nonprofit center will collaborate with the Colorado Film School. The Stanley Hotel is depending on fans of ‘The Shining’, visitors, it’s ghost tours and annual horror film festival, investors and aid from the Colorado tourism board for their new
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The Children’s Museum of Houston Texas’ publicist, Henry Yau, is getting a taste of internet fame. It has nothing to do with the Children’s Museum, but stems from a photo he recently took inside the Stanley Hotel. In the photo a ghostly figure is captured standing at the top of the hotel’s grand staircase. Yau posted the photo on instagram (ares415) and it quickly went viral. In an interview with Click2Houston.com Yau stated that he did not take the photo in the dark and that he did not realize what was in the photo until the next day. The Stanley Hotel, made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaption of Stephen King’s The Shining, is located in Estes Park, Colorado. It not only embraces its title as one of the most haunted locations in the U.S., it celebrates it and even holds ghost tours. The Stanley’s official website includes a history section that mentions two particular ghosts that haunt its
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The Stanley Hotel is one of the most recognizable hotels in the world, most people know it as the backdrop for Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’. The hotel 140 room hotel, built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, opened on July 4th, 1909. The hotel, rumored to be one of the most haunted hotels in the world, is now seeking to become a horror museum. The hotel hopes to open a horror museum and build a new facility to house a film production studio. The founding board members for the new Stanley Film Center includes Elijah Wood and Simon Pegg. The new center will house an auditorium, a sound stage, an area for post-production and editing, as well as a mobile film exhibit. The nonprofit center will collaborate with the Colorado Film School. The Stanley Hotel is depending on fans of ‘The Shining’, visitors, it’s ghost tours and annual horror film festival, investors and aid from the Colorado tourism board for their new
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