Help me! I didn't get the ending!

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2004)

at the end the guy freezes in the snow, whiny wife and son get away it's all very happy, but then at the very very end we see a picture entitled 1924 or 1929 or something like that (sorry if i got it wrong) and the guy is in the picture, with a whole load of other people, it's been a while since i saw it, but i think it was all the ghosts and staff from the hotel (again sorry if i got it wrong)i didn't understand it, did the guy used to work there in whatever year it was or what? I thought it was a great, creepy movie, especially when the little kid is on his bike and finds the two hacked up twins, what was that about? I kept thinking of The Simpson's Halloween special when i was watching it though. please help me I'm baffled? :-)