Del Toro, who admittedly seeks out the “most haunted room” to stay in, later said on X the atmosphere was “oppressive” and he was “not gonna spend much more time there”.
His posts continued: “I kept [the room] but am sleeping in another room - I need six hours of sleep to have a good shooting day … something is in that room with me.”
Another update from the film-maker said: “The room has more than vibes, there is something angry and territorial there. A shred of rage.”
Many fans took to social media to express the comedic irony of a film-maker like del Toro being spooked by apparent supernatural activity.
“‘Too spooky for Guillermo del Toro’ is all the advertising that hotel will ever need,” wrote music blogger Scott Wilson on X.
Another social media user wrote: “I did not have Guillermo del Toro live tweeting his encounter with a ghost on my card but here we are.”
Del Toro’s love for ghosts and the mystique even inspired his stay at the Waitomo Caves Hotel in New Zealand while scouting locations for the Hobbit trilogy in 2009.
Someone had told him it was haunted.
“I knew this from other ghost aficionados,” del Toro whispered in an interview with AAP.
The grand Victorian-style hotel, which was built in 1908, was closed to the public but the Oscar-award winner was able to acquire special access, AAP reported.
