Doctor Sleep, the upcoming sequel to The Shining , is the story of Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) and his path to recovery after the events that took place at the Overlook Hotel. It makes sense that the movie brings back some of the iconic imagery from Stanley Kubrick s 1980 classic. But for one particular ghost, the wait will remain unbearable.

In The Shining, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), brandishing a knife, comes across a room where a man in a bear costume is performing fellatio. Its one of the most baffling scenes from the movie, perhaps taken from a subplot in Stephen Kings novel involving a man/ghost who dressed in a dog costume , and its likely a terrifying moment for both parties.

While its obviously creepy for Wendy to see this at a hotel where you believed you were alone, its got to be equally scary to be chilling with your boo in your favorite bear suit, butt flap hanging in the wind, when a woman shows up out of nowhere carrying a knife.

That bear is an enduring mystery of The Shining. But dont expect to see a return in Doctor Sleep. The ghost furry is sitting this film out.

Oh, there was so much thought about bringing him back. We would talk about it all the time. The thing is I could never wrap my head around those two ghosts, Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan said in an interview with HuffPost. Its one of those mysteries of The Shining that is so difficult for me to wrap my head around. I love it so much, but I was afraid that once we brought him back, it evokes all the images from the original down to the open butt flap of the costume. Tonally, I didnt know if the film would survive that kind of speed bump.

The director explained the ghosts that do appear in Doctor Sleep were the ones that really stayed with him the most from the original. But dont think he didnt second guess the decision.

I was on the brink of bringing him in all the way through, and there would be days Id wake up and be like, You know what, were gonna do it. Were just gonna go for it, Flanagan said. But it just never happened. I think I might kind of regret that. I really wish we had figured it out because it would have been pretty great.

Besides phantom furries, Flanagan was faced with numerous other mysteries from The Shining while filming Doctor Sleep. With unprecedented access to Kubricks old files, he discovered some new mysteries about the movie, too.