Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has concerned fans after feeling an ‘oppressive’ atmosphere while staying in a haunted hotel room in Scotland.
The 59-year-old screenwriter and director is behind several classic films including Pan’s Labyrinth, 2017’s acclaimed Shape of Water and the Hobbit trilogy.
He landed his most recent Oscar for best animated feature for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Many of his films have become well-known for his horror-fanatsy aesthetic, but now fiction is merging with reality after he took to social media to recount his own experience staying at a haunted hotel in Aberdeen.
He first told fans that he was staying in an ‘old 1800s hotel’ in Aberdeen in the ‘most haunted room’.
One of the producers on his current project has already vacated the room after ‘odd electrical and physical occurrences scared her,’ he added in a post on X.
Whilst in Aberdeen, I am staying in an old 1800âs hotel. i am in the Most Haunted room of it- which was vacated this morning by one of our producers. Odd electrical and physical occurences scared her into leaving asap. Stay tuned- if anything happens I will report.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) August 20, 2024
‘I always stay in “the most haunted rooms“ but only once did I experience anything supernatural- the rest of the time: nothing. I have high hopes,’ he explained in another post.
Sure enough, earlier today he reported that ‘nothing has happened yet’ before describing the strange energy in the room.
‘The atmosphere in the room is oppressive and I am not gonna spend much more time there. It may be [the power of] suggestion, but at this point I kept it but am sleeping in another room
‘I need [six] hours of sleep to have a good shooting day. I’m stopping there early and late in the day, but something is in that room with me,’ he wrote.
UPDATE-. I can only say:. Nothingbhas happened yet, but the atmosphere in the room is opressive and I am not gonna spend much more time there. It may be suggestion, but at this point I kept it but am sleeping in another room- I need 6 hours of sleep to have a good shooting day-â¦
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) August 22, 2024
In his latest update, he disturbingly shared: ‘The room has more than vibes there is something angry and territorial there. A shred of rage.’
Naturally, fans have been quick to show their concern.
The Mexican cinematic legend is currently in Scotland for his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein, featuring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Monster.
‘Please get out of there! I’m scared for you and i don’t even know you Guillermo. This is stressing me out,’ user wealthy girl era wrote on X.
‘Sometimes vibes are enough reason to leave well enough alone,’ user Anais is reading added.
Weâre all yammering away about whatever we are and all the while Guillermo del Toro is trapped in a haunted hotel https://t.co/LRHOcmZWRy
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) August 22, 2024
Me on my way to rescue Guillermo del Toro from the haunted hotel https://t.co/lAJJJwfNYd pic.twitter.com/wsjSwkm8gT
— José MarÃa Luna (@JoseMLuna) August 22, 2024
âToo spooky for Guillermo del Toroâ is all the advertising that hotel will ever need. https://t.co/mQ1UawqPRH
— scott aa wilson (@scottaawilson) August 22, 2024
I did not have Guillermo del Toro live tweeting his encounter with a ghost on my 2024 card but here we are https://t.co/yUyDjxzPgD
— JMD ð²ð¡ ð² (@jmddotfm) August 22, 2024
Ermâ¦.how does one politely ask the ghost in Guillermoâs room to leave him alone so he can sleep because he has to direct a movie in the morning? https://t.co/h5tnArTsoZ pic.twitter.com/fjuKCUhCEJ
— Athena ð³ï¸âð (@tarmactorque) August 22, 2024
The monster-maker has previously opened up about his belief in ghosts and the paranormal.
‘I’ve never seen a ghost, but in two instances I heard a ghost. All my life, I’ve stayed in the haunted room in the haunted hotel, everywhere I travel.
‘I’ve stayed in deserted houses. It’s one of the biggest endeavors of the human mind: to find out what happens after death,’ he told Gizmodo in 2013.
At the time he also recounted his two ghostly encounters, the first with his late uncle whose voice he heard while living in his old bedroom.
The second occurred while he was scouting for The Hobbit in New Zealand where he requested to, once more, stay in a haunted hotel room.
‘Around midnight, I started hearing a woman screaming horribly, like she was being murdered,’ he recalled, Although he initially thought he was being pranked, he later heard ‘the most heartbreaking, loud, loud bawling from a male voice.’
So he watched an entire season of The Wire to calm himself. ‘There was nothing I could do. I couldn’t get a new room. I didn’t sleep a single second,’ he added.
Here’s hoping Guillermo has a better experience this time around, although from the sounds of it – he may have yet another haunting tale to add to his corpus.
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