United Kingdom, May 3 -- Shawn Ashmore stayed in a haunted hotel in Romania.

The 45-year-old actor stars in the new horror movie 'It Feeds' - which centres on a young girl who insists that a malevolent entity is feeding on her - and he reflected on a ghostly encounter he had while working on a movie in the European country.

Shawn told The AU Review: "I do happen to be a believer. I've had two very strange, let's call them ghost stories.

"One of them was at a hotel in Romania. I was shooting a movie there and the hotel was 1000 per cent haunted. Everybody that was there on the crew, and there are a bunch of younger actors, we each had unexplainable events happen in different rooms.

"In my room, there was somebody walking around my bed ...