"I don't remember anyone being" on the staircase, he recalled. Henry Yau captured this creepy photo on a visit to The Stanley Hotel, made famous by Steven King's The Shining.

The Stanley Hotel was born with its founder Freelan Oscar Stanley near death. In 1903, the 54-year-old inventor of dry plate photography and the Stanley steam engine was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Many who fit that description flock to the Stanley for a ghost tour led by the hotel’s staff or to participate in a séance (More than 100,000 people visit per year; October is busy also because ...