Guillermo del Toro usually embraces the macabre, but a freaky stay in a haunted hotel has stopped him in his tracks.

The Shape of Water filmmaker shared chilling details earlier this week about his time spent in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he's shooting his new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. "I am staying in an old 1800's hotel," del Toro wrote on social media Tuesday, explaining that he was moving into the "Most Haunted room" in the establishment — "which was vacated this morning by one of our producers." The director said that the producer reported "odd electrical and physical" occurrences within the room.

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For those wondering why del Toro would voluntarily switch into haunted quarters, he clarified: "I always stay in 'the most haunted rooms,'" though he's only experienced supernatural phenomena one time in the past. "The rest of the time: nothing. I have high hopes."

In a later update, del Toro said that nothing specifically spooky had happened yet, "but the atmosphere in the room is opressive and I am not gonna spend much more time there." The filmmaker acknowledged that he was switching to another room so he could get some rest. "I kept [the room] but am sleeping in another room — I need 6 hours of sleep to have a good shooting day — Im stopping there early and late in the day — but something is in that room with me."

Del Toro reiterated that the room feels genuinely evil. "The room has more than vibes," he said. "There is something angry and teritorial there. A shred of rage." He also shared a photo of himself in the room with the caption, "trying for an EVP on my Iphone." (For those out of the ghostbusting loop, an EVP is an electronic voice phenomenon — mysterious, potentially supernatural voices that pop up on audio recordings.)

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Elsewhere in the thread, del Toro explained his affection for the British Isles. "I love Scotland — and, even when my links to it are not by bloodline, I feel close to it," he wrote. "My mother's family side, has lineage going to Ireland — the O'Colligan family. My Grandfather (after whom I am named) was Guillermo Gomez O'Colligan."

Del Toro's fascination with the supernatural is prevalent in almost all of his work. Over the course of his three-decade career, the three-time Oscar winner has depicted vampires (Cronos, Blade II), ghosts (The Devil’s Backbone, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio), genetic modifications (Mimic), extra-dimensional creatures (Hellboy, Pacific Rim), and inexplicable monsters that defy categorization (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water).

The filmmaker's Frankenstein project for Netflix stars Oscar Isaac as the titular scientist and Jacob Elordi as his tortured creation. Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Felix Kammerer round out the supporting cast. Del Toro's Shelley adaptation is not to be confused with Maggie Gyllenhaal's sophomore directorial effort The Bride, a reimagining of the '30s horror classic Bride of Frankenstein starring Jessie Buckley as the Bride and Christian Bale as "Frank."