SPOLIER:
Jaw, Ya I was kinding of leaninig a bit in that direction myself except for the fact that when Luke and Claire were both down in the basement, something clearly scared the crap out of him to make him haul ass out of the Inn. It's at that point he admitted that he had not seen anything previously but he certainly saw something at that point.






SPOILER:
I don't think there were any spirtis ever. That guy lied about seeing them and Claire slowly started getting obsessed and ended up scaring herself to death. So to speak.
I think the actress felt bad for feeding Claire all that stuff about spirits. Having it fed into Claire's delusions.