What's Your Scariest Hotel Story ?

[@M335h1]

Story 3 - that hotel owner, manager, whatever he was, was brilliant. Coaxing a customer into a burning hotel and securing a room, fucking admirable skill.

[@skateorpie]

Gotta respect the hustle! I’d 100% return to that hotel too because obviously the hotel owner cares lol

[@Annagiraffelover77]

Yep!

[@dndhat]

Imagine you are a hotel manager and you are in that situation, what would you do? The dude saw a paying customer and just got to work, total pro.

[@godofprocurement]

That traveler better have gotten a fire deal.

[@achiblitz_]

💀

[@colinmoore7460]

Man staying the night at a hotel. Just before midnight, the manager knocks on the door, yells "You got a woman in there?" The man calls back "No"! And the manager shouts back "Want one?" Got that from an old novel.

[@yeejay6396]

🫠

[@Agender_Potato]

@@yeejay6396 what is the emoji you tried to use? Because for me it's just a box with an X in it 😭

[@darkmqtter]

@@Agender_Potato it’s the melted one

[@Agender_Potato]

@@darkmqtter ah I wish my phone had the melty face 😭

[@I.Am.FurFreak]

@@Agender_Potato I see the same as you.

[@JOKER-wl5jx]

I work in a hotel, and the updated schedule problem happened to me, and we were trying to open this room. It turns out there was a deaf guest in the room. Needless to say, her stay was free. I felt terrible

[@calebworm7855]

Did you guys think he was dead ? 😂 cause I would

[@calebworm7855]

She*** my mistake

[@violetroseparton3383]

@@calebworm7855 you could have just edited the normal comment?

[@calebworm7855]

@@violetroseparton3383 I didn’t know I could until after I’m sorry bro

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

As a former Wingate pharmacy school drop-out I can definitively say that many anti-malarial drugs can do WAY more than just cause "strange dreams" some are known for causing outright hallucinations. Sometimes bad enough to effect a person's ability to function. Plus, hallucinations can easily be influenced by other's, these are sometimes called shared hallucinations/delusions. Basically, someone else says/does something to suggest or "prime" a hallucination in another person, OR both parties shared an origin experience earlier (like an odd woman on the street) and took subconscious note of her, so they both experienced hallucinations involving an "odd woman".

[@RenAsterion]

....good to know. I'll keep that in mind for if I ever need to go somewhere that requires me to take anti-malarial drugs. Don't want to think I'm experiencing a haunting when I'm actually not. That's just boring. lol

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

​@KazehanaAyame The big ones to watch out for are Quinine derivatives, like Chloroquine, and especially Mefloquine/Lariam. They're known for causing delusions, visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations, suspiciousness/paranoia, and anxiety. On rare occasions, usually in folks predisposed to such, these drugs can possibly trigger psychosis &/or mania, but again that's a worst case scenario. The FDA recently required manufacturers & pharmacies to put stronger warning labels on these drugs. Also, lack of sleep and use of other substances (like alcohol etc...) can exacerbate these effects.

[@colinmoore7460]

Never tell strangers you're traveling alone, but that you're traveling with messers Smith and Wesson.

[@yeejay6396]

🏃🏾

[@alexandraluster284]

And that you're meeting up with Mr. Winchester later.

[@goodmorning2386]

yep, and if you're ever asked if you're alone that can be a big red flag, they're trying to see how vulnerable you are

[@rogerramjet6429]

I went to a hotel, sorted out my clothes for the next day, had a shower, got changed then walked about 100 metres to have a few drinks at the pub. Was there only 1.5 hours then walked back to my room and closed the door then sat on my bed watching TV, with that being the only light in the room. Suddenly I heard panting, then saw a dog walking from where the door was. It was a great looking solid English Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and friendly as hell. So I leaned over to give him a pat, while wondering how he got into my room. As I got close to his head, he simply disappeared in front of me. As I've had experience with the paranormal, this didn't really phase me. When we left the next morning I casually mentioned about the dog. Turns out, that his owner was sleeping in that room one day and had a heart attack, and that dog stayed outside that room till it died. All this happened 23 years before. Seems like the dog is still entering the room to check on people, and NEVER caused any problems. Except for one guy that apparently didn't like dogs, and went to literally kick him out of the room. His leg went through the dog then he broke a toe, when his foot hit the wall instead.

[@Kreiser_VII]

Stories like this warm my heart so much. I mean yeah, is weird to see that in a place you're unfamiliar with, but with such a sad yet totally wholesome story, including a harmless apparition, how can one stay mad after the initial shock? :3

[@chrislanglois8275]

@@Kreiser_VII especially with an added hilarious event like the guy trying to kick the dog broke his toe. XD rofl makes it even better in another way cuz ull feel safe with the ghost dog cuz uk no matter what its harmless cuz even the guy who showed aggression just caused harm to himself rather than the ghost dog attacking him like a real dog even if it wouldnt hurt physically or hurt them in a paranormal ghost way or some sort of bad luck. it just vanished and he kicked the wall. he got exactly what he deserved no more no less. :D

[@snotmonkey357]

The dog or the owner had a heart attack

[@stupid_jokester2096]

🎼 Ghost dog, Ghost dog, Gho-o-o-ost dog🎼

[@thisbagisnotatoy9639]

I used to work in hotels. Learn how to check for bed bugs- every time we stay in a hotel, the first thing I do is lift up the mattress and check for bugs and/or blood spots. Use the luggage rack so your luggage doesn’t sit on the floor. Use the additional door locks, even in a nice hotel. At best, it’ll prevent housekeeping from barging in on you, ditto if the hotel accidentally double books your room (which happened at the Double Tree where I used to work). Working in hotels ruined hotels for me- I avoid them whenever possible and we actually bought a camper because I’m so grossed out by hotels.

[@colinmoore7460]

The ceiling flickered in and out? And "It's ok, go back to sleep" is better than "I'll hold him down, you hit him!" Which itself is better than "He's finally waking up, thank god!!"

[@rogerramjet6429]

Just missing a couple of kidneys. No biggie, move along nothing to see here. 🤣🤣🤣

[@masyahm.8996]

@@rogerramjet6429😮

[@alexanderbruwer9363]

ALWAYS listen to locals if they tell you an area isn't safe. I live in Cape Town now but grew up in Pretoria (South Africa for those who don't know). Once when I was younger and living in Pretoria I came across this elderly German couple walking around Sunnyside just after sunset (a not very safe area, if you know, you know), they were wearing their travel backpacks and heading to a candy vendor on the street (these people often work in regards to the illicit substance trade and with other unsavory syndicate activity, especially if they're posted in a low pedestrian trafficked area). I was luckily on the right side of the road, and stopped in front of them, asked them where they were going and gave them a lift, apparently other locals told them to not walk around there but they didn't listen. Nearly lost it at them but politely advised them to listen to locals about bad areas otherwise they might just end up victims of a mugging or just dissapearing. I hope they're doing okay though and wizened up in their travels

[@WynneL]

Yeah, the story about those two European girls backpacking through India had me instantly going "wait, how is it no one warned you what a terrible idea that is?!" immediately thinking of what happened to those poor Dutch students Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers. Many European tourists seem way too optimistic about the world. Really nice that you helped that older German couple. I'm an American living in Europe now, and it's amazing to me how safe people feel here. I was raised a very different way, and I won't even open my front door when I'm not expecting someone.

[@kristenswanepoel1449]

Hi!!!!I'm South African!!!! I

[@alexanderbruwer9363]

@@kristenswanepoel1449 Hi!! Altyd lekker om ander Saffas online te sien!

[@kristenswanepoel1449]

@@alexanderbruwer9363 Dit is!!!!😄

[@madamhannah516]

I live in capetown too! Hello fellow south African

[@polyacov_yury]

Video advice: just like you say "story N" to signify the start of a story, you could say "reply M" to signify comments to the story left by other redditors and "comment" to signify your own thoughts. Audio-only viewer here trying to improve everyone's experience :)

[@TibsisTops]

Same. I second this suggestion.

[@roxcyn]

Yes, that would be good.

[@joshs.6155]

Not necessarily scary but the first time I went to Thailand I opened my hotel room and there was a person in the bed and they double booked the room. When they got me a different room there was a blood all over the bed, dried not fresh. So obviously, as any intelligent person would do, said third times the charm and checked out door number 3 and it was fine. I ended up living in Thailand for 4 years lol.

[@TheLycanthrope09]

Not a hotel, but a cabin my family stayed in once when I was about 13. The whole time we stayed there, the dog kept throwing up and peeing inside the cabin. (He was an adult and fully potty trained by this point, and he'd never acted like that anywhere else before or since.) At first we thought, okay, maybe something in here smells weird to him. Then my sister took a shower, and when she got out, she saw "welcome to stabbin' cabins #1" written in the fog on the mirror. Other weird little moments happened while we were staying there, but those two were the main things.

[@kennethjacobus6541]

In the middle of winter, my girlfriend and I had a reservation at a hotel in Northern Wisconsin. We arrived in the early evening, the door was open, and the place was empty. There was a note for us and a room key on the front desk, though. It was not scary, just eerie, being the only guests in an empty hotel.

[@QueenMabx]

that's pretty cool, all to yourself

[@EugeneRimmer]

IMO that sounds amazing, would love to have that sort of experience tbh

[@thebrickinquestion]

as a person who lives in nicaragua, if you ever come here, run while you still can the spiders are fast and THEY SMELL FEAR AND HAVE A LUST FOR BLOOD, one of the more common ones i come across is called the ''araña pica caballos'' which roughly translates to ''horse stinging spider'', by the name you already know those mfers are no good to mess around with, last time i saw one it was at the side of my bed and shithead was around 20 cm long, you know i ran out squealing and then i came back and got a big ass raid bottle end emptied it on the fucker, scorpions are also a problem but not as common as the big eat shit and die spiders, although they are strangely attracted to toilets? i swear around half of my scorpion encounters have been in public toilets, food's cheap tho

[@goodmorning2386]

good lord that is horrifying

[@JoaraTorres]

Never use venom for insects on spiders and scorpions, for the love of dear god.

[@nano9924]

@@JoaraTorresmotherfuckers gonna evolve😭😭😭

[@EugeneRimmer]

Find it weird that in the story the dude sounds pretty chill about the small scorpions but freaks out about the big scorpion, yet those multiple smaller scorpions are a lot more likely to use way too much venom, compared to a larger scorpions (and thus the smaller ones can be much more deadly)

[@roxcyn]

¿Arañas muy grandes y escorpios? No sé si viajaría allá. 😮

[@adrunkvendingmachine9266]

Imagine waking up and someone goes "It's okay, go back to sleep." and you wake up to find your wallet missing. Dude literally comforting OP back to sleep just to rob them probably makes them the nicest thief I've ever heard of.

[@draydenscarlett3905]

I travelled around eastern NA for three weeks, with most of my nights spent at friend's places since they were kind enough to host me, but I did have to stay at a hotel on three separate occasions. The weirdest experience was probably at a hotel in the Canadian maritimes when I stayed at a massive hotel that had about three large convention spaces between the three floors and a small inner grass courtyard. The rooms were all along the perimeter and my room was functionally on the opposite side of the hotel from the front desk and down a floor. I also checked in on a Sunday for two nights in December so, minus the random events planned in the different spaces, the hotel was rather dead. I don't think I had anyone else booked on my floor so other than the mid-morning knock on the door from housekeeping asking if I needed new towels I didn't really interact with anyone. The room was also quite dated and because I was on the ground floor I had a massive glass sliding door that could be opened to the previously mentioned inner courtyard which I think I triple-checked that the door was shut and I had to adjust the coffee table in the room so that the curtain would completely cover the glass. At least I had the hot tub to myself.

[@gustonzimasheen]

I stayed at a near empty Hotel during the off season, where there were only about 5 ppl staying spread out in a 100 room Hotel. Nothing really happened although I was thinking "Haunted" as I went back to my room late at night with minimal lights in the hallway. In the morning I woke up at dawn, and suddenly froze, while staring at my window. I had 100% certainty that the curtain above my window was going to fall. And then the curtains fell down with a loud crash. Not really a scary story, but kind of weird.

[@Agender_Potato]

When my hair was still long I flipped it over my face and crouched down all weird on all fours and ran at my ex-boyfriend Scared the living fuck out of that dude XD

[@Agender_Potato]

@Tiger_baby_cat nah, you're perfectly fine lmfao

[@Clownish.mp4]

3:19 '[still alive]' has me cackling, what was this man thinking😭

[@Brawllipop]

So this didn’t happen to me, necessarily, but I was there for it. This was back in 2017, I had just gotten a new job at a brand new hotel as a night audit- basically a front desk associate who runs all the numbers for the hotel overnight. It’s usually a pretty quiet job and I didn’t normally see anyone until about 6-7am when guests were checking out early. This night, I was just fucking around, making myself a white chocolate mocha, and suddenly this middle aged dude walks in from off the street. I get excited, because again, I usually don’t see people, and I give him a warm welcome and ask him if he could use a room for the night. He says he needs a room, and I’m just stoked to finally have *a* guest staying with us. So I ask his name, for a valid form of ID, and a valid credit card for incidentals (like if you wanted to charge snacks to your room or you steal pillows or something). Dude says “I want to pay cash for the room”, and I tell him that’s totally fine, when he checks out, he’s more than welcome to pay cash, but we do need a card on file for incidentals (per policy). He gets a little argumentative (I assumed because most middle aged men get sussy when it comes to their card info), but he relents and gives me what I require to book him a room. I give him his key card and wish him a good night, and when he leaves the lobby, I’m back to rolling my rolly chair across the lobby as far as I can. An hour and a half later, two police officers showed up. Naturally, I treat them like any guest, warmly welcome them, ask them if I can get them a room, etc, and they ask me if Mr. Middle Aged Man checked into the hotel. As front desk, legally, I’m not allowed to disclose that information on a normal basis, but they flashed their badges and I told them that yes, Mr. Middle Aged was checked into our hotel. They tell me to call my manager as MR. MIDDLE AGED WAS TO BE PUT UNDER ARREST, and I was just like 😬 as I called my manager, who was at first pissed that I called him at three am, but as soon as I told him the cops were here to arrest a guest, he told me “10 minutes”, hung up on me, and drove to the hotel to meet us. He has his master key with him and he escorts the cops to the room that Mr. Middle Aged is in. I heard some door-kicking and then a very loud POP, and I only found out secondhand what had happened. Mr. Middle Aged was wanted for the crime of beating his wife with lethal intent with a weapon (unsure what the weapon was, to this day), and he thought he had killed her but she was still alive and had their Google home call the cops when he left. When he got to the hotel room, he dead-bolted the door and apparently just sat in the room until the cops showed up, to which he pulled out a gun and put it in his mouth. Luckily, this guy was a dumbass and ended up shooting through his jaw and ear instead of blowing his brains out, so they were able to take him to the hospital, stabilize him, and arrest him. Thank god I got the card number, because we had to charge that credit card for the blood-spatter clean-up, fixing the window because the bullet shot through his jaw, ear, and the window, and of course repainting the room. I really hope the wife is okay, but that guy can seriously go to hell.

[@willku9000]

30:48 actually Mr Facts, Samara was the ghost girl from the American remake of The Ring (who was hilariously played by the same actress as Lilo from Lilo and Stitch). Seeing as this story was in Japan, it would have likely been Sadako, the ghost from the original Japanese version of The Ring, who would have been crawling out of said TV. This information doesn’t matter much but since you were being pedantic I felt like being pedantic as well.

[@kimhohlmayer7018]

I just loved that you know and correctly used the word pedantic.

[@willku9000]

@@kimhohlmayer7018 Lol yeah, it’s not one you hear often. 🤣

[@Kida559]

Australian here, I was 7 at the time and we'd just moved to Brisbane and decided to drive from our place there to visit family in Sydney for Christmas. We decided to stop overnight half way in Coffs Harbour at a motel, I'm drifting off to sleep and feel movement at the blanket tucked into the wall which wakes me up. I turn the light on just in time to see a massive huntsman spider scuttle up the wall from the side of the bed. I scream, everyone wakes up, lights go on, huntsmen everywhere!! There's like 8 of these monsters in various places around the room. Mum grabs my brother and I out of the room while dad runs to reception and returns with bugspray and the reception guy with a can of his own. The dude couldn't believe what he was seeing. They sprayed, we changed rooms, the next morning we got a free breakfast and half of our money back

[@dynodish]

Bet they didn't have cockroaches.

[@BraydonMiso]

I had a group of friends I booked a room with during a comic con. We snuck in some extra people, which you’re not supposed to do. Anyways, earlier in the day, we took the elevator to get up to our room. We pressed the floor number. It ended up taking us up to a floor that wasn’t in the directory. A floor that doesn’t exist… The elevator door opened up to a creepy dark maintenance corridor. We joked about how creepy it was and that it took us to the backrooms. I peeked around the corner and no one was in sight. We waited for the elevator to close and it ended up bringing us to our floor. Fast forward to that night. we needed extra blankets and pillows. Around 10pm, two of the girls in our room (in their early 20’s) went to go down to request blankets and pillows. They get to the lobby and an employee comes out and says “follow me”. He was probably in his late 30’s or so. Mine you, This is comic con, so the two girls were dressed in fairly skimpy/sexy cosplays. The girls were hesitant but went anyways because it was just for getting blankets. The guy gave off weird vibes. He took the two into the elevator which brought them into the backrooms floor. As if the previous incident was foreshadowing. The guy told the girls to wait alone in the hallway while he went to fetch blankets. Luckily one of the girls brought their phone and secretly filmed the whole thing. The guy came back with blankets smiling and sent them back to our room. He said “see you later ;)” They were super spooked by the whole thing. In the morning, we told the front desk about the whole situation and described the man. They said no man who looked like that worked there and that no guests would ever be brought to the maintenance hall. The hotel gave us a refund and said if we come back for next years comic con, we will get a discount.

[@bluestonecreeper720]

Wow, the advice took effect quickly. Thanks! And great job as always, truly brightens up my day every time, thank you.

[@djmartin4776]

"Are you alone?" "Nope, I'm here with my glock, but he's been quiet so far"

[@Myrus_MBG]

29:13 - Waking up and still having your mind in “dream mode” so to speak is quite common. Sleep paralysis is an obvious example, but I have experienced many times where for the first 10 minutes after I’m awake I am hallucinating audio and then the moment I stand up to check it out it’s gone (the scariest was hearing my cousin call out my name as if he was being kidnapped. I ran into his room after like 10 minutes of him calling to find he was asleep the whole time, so definitely not real). My mom hasn’t hallucinated for more than a few seconds after waking up, but she’ll sometimes have pretty intense visions of people in her room with a glowing blue aura casting spells on my dad. I guess whatever process that’s happening when you dream to make you experience stimuli that aren’t there doesn’t always turn off on time. As with the person in the story though, they usually disappear when you jolt up to check them out.

[@romecottrell6444]

I used to work for Double Tree Hotel by Hilton. I worked on the second shift and I was by myself. My job was cleaning up guest rooms , sometimes I am by myself. I have seen a odd person wondering around the 10th floor , I radio 📻 the front desk and reported the guy 👦. Security guard 💂‍♀️ came up to investigate 🔎 what the guy 👦 wanted and then he was asked to leave the hotel 🏨.

[@vedesh6907]

Don’t do this to me man!!! I’m staying at a hotel for the night, tonight!!!!!

[@Kreiser_VII]

Be safe, mate! Barricade stuff if you need to and make sure everything is in place!

[@flamefangstar]

Hope it went well!

[@jot1809]

we stayed at a really lovely B&B in scotland, nearby to a loch. it was very quiet and it was just and old guy and his dog. nothing was creepy about the stay tbh, but.. as we were leaving, i waved goodbye to the man and commented that the dog was so cute. my cousins and sister asked, "what dog?" and claimed they never saw a dog there

[@shadowstrider42]

"Room was full of spiders, and on the second night-" The what now? Look, i don't care how mind-blowingly good the breakfast is, if my room's full of spiders there is no second night, or a first...

[@killpops]

Story 19 : Huh, hearing about the country you live in randomly pop up in one of these stories is hella surprising. Mostly because its a tiny ass country in the Caribbean that hardly gets talked about.

[@legionofanon]

I stayed at a hotel in Canada, i always forget the town name, and the door deadbolt didn't work the way it did at every other hotel I've stayed at, where when thrown not even house keeping can open the door by turning the handle. Well i was there for a weekend stay while at work and had house keeping walk in on me sleeping in bed and woke me up. Since then whenever i was at that hotel i would take the remote in the room and jam it between the handle and deadbolt switch. For whatever reason they only ever knocked after they couldn't ever the room. Decent place but scary knowing the locks almost meant nothing without additional "locking" of the locks

[@jcurses]

Having gone with my spouse, New Hope is a lovely, local ‘mom and pop’ venue. Yes, they are B&Bs but they offer a full complimentary home made breakfast/brunch. It doesn’t feel so much like a B&B as it does a renovated 18th-19th converted house. There was a log book in there; apparently people claimed they saw the ghost “Barney”. I’m guessing that he was a friendly spectre seeing as everyone was saying it was nice visiting his house. Great weekend, I would recommend New Hope to any couple looking for a nice getaway.

[@bluethunder92291]

Your assumption about economic lodge is spot on lol 😂 I also had bad experience with this hotel chain

[@heyitsrae5407]

This is a good format. Keep these videos we love them!!!

[@enderborn6860]

24:34 damn Eraser Head fell on some hard times after 1A graduated poor guy has to be a hotel receptionist

[@joebenzz]

- "You alone?" - "No i'm with my two friends, Smith and Wesson."

[@azertyytbytb2490]

Man im really happy that you try to improve your content i don’t know if you will see that but it really set you apart from other

[@WynneL]

8:38 This is one of those times when "bigass stick" would've sounded a lot less wrong than "BIG BUTT STICK." 😂

[@natashaestes154]

Why do people believe the bedspread is cleaner than the sheets? Good lort.

[@MortalPortal666]

Yay you pronounced Melbourne perfectly ❤️

[@minegabyyt]

The office guy from story 41 looks so chill, like he works at a place that feels like a horror movie in itself and he just wants to sleep.

[@Welshcrusader-v2u]

It’s so insane that we have the ability to just sense something is going to go wrong

[@Darkinu2]

That last one: Happy Sadako noises? 😂😂

[@aismakessounds]

It was 1:30am when I was awoken by a loud crack. Someone had not only opened the door to my room, but undone the chain lock thing as well. Turns out it was the husband of the lady at the front desk.... I'm not sure if he worked there, too, or what exactly he would be doing getting into ANY of the rooms at 1:30am. I was traveling alone for work and had somehow been "checked out" while I was at work, but my keycards still worked so I had no idea about it. Overall, a very weird and scary situation. I bought extra hotel room locks that I now take with me whenever I travel (which I often do for work). It's definitely put me on edge whenever I hear noises outside of my hotel rooms at night. I tried reporting it to manager and to Marriott Bonvoy, and while they offered me a giftcard, I don't think they ever actually sent it. Overall, it was just a horrible experience, and I've added Marriott hotels to my "avoid staying here" list.

[@Farhan_049]

Hey, Mainly Fact guy, did you know that the American Bird Eating spider has an average leg span of 28 cm?😆

[@ryanroberts1104]

This is *EXACTLY* why I will not stay in a hotel without a loaded Glock next to me! The *ONE TIME* I was too tired after all day on the road to get it out of the back of the truck and load it (driving through states had to keep it unloaded) so I just passed out in the hotel. It seemed nice enough. When I go outside in the morning (to get my gun) there are police and news cameras everywhere. Some guy got shot and killed in the hotel while I was sleeping on the same floor! Never could find a report on why...

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

In the US you are allowed to carry/conceal a loaded personal weapon while traveling, regardless of the laws in each state you travel through, as long as it is either, A) legal both were you're originally coming from and where you are planning to end your travel, or B) you are licensed to carry a firearm (or have CCW reciprocity) in both the state you are originating from and the state where your trip is planned to end. This is clearly covered in the large majority of CCW courses. Source- I am NRA certified to teach CCW courses (and begin the legal portion of the CCW applications for my students) in both NC & MI. TL,DR: You DO NOT need to unloaded, or un-conceal, a weapon while traveling, regardless of the specific laws in any state you may pass through, as long as it's legal where you start and end the trip.

[@ryanroberts1104]

@@dark2023-1lovesoni You do when you are driving a Penske truck, and the gun cannot be loaded inside the cab anywhere because it could never be out of reach, then you have to put it in the back of the truck, hide it, and lock it with a separate pad lock...I'm not putting it in there like that loaded. And loading it isn't the part that is hard when I'm tired...it's the going out to the back end of a locked truck. And you do have to keep it unloaded when you don't know what state you are traveling to that night and you just stop where ever you are when you can't keep the wheels straight anymore. Shit, half the time I don't even know what state I am in - the story above happened in Kansas city - I literally do not know if it was the one in Kansas or Missouri.

[@Upirium]

the psycho motel one sounds kind of like part of the plot of Identity lol

[@ashcarter72]

Story 19 I'm from St. Kitts, and yeah, that sounds about right for St. Kitts. I nearly drowned because some piece of s*** kid shoved me off the slide into the pool and my best friend was the one who saved me because the life guard was on their phone -_-

[@starlight_maven]

Saint Augustine, Florida. My mom, brother, and I were spending the holidays there. We booked a motel, but when we got there, there were no staff members. Not even a front desk. We come to find out that it's a contactless motel for the COVID era, and we checked in virtually. But if a near-empty motel didn't creep me out, I don't know what did. And Saint Augustine is very haunted.

[@thetageist]

I love how Mainly Fact guy voiced "Sports team in big game, being played in Florida" as if those were placeholders. They may have been, I don't know hehe

[@pauloldfield8378]

The WiFi gets shut off at 11 pm? ARE YOU FREAKING JOKING?! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT, PEOPLE NEED THIER NETFLIX LATE AT NIGHT WHEN THEY'RE BORED DAM IT!

[@davidmeakin2610]

Not Scary, but odd. In St Petersberg RU. Staying in an apartment. My wife and I just finished doing what husband and wife do on holidays. Recovering in the lounge room when we hear the door unlock. I jump to my feet to find a beautiful woman with a suitcase standing in the hallway. I block her path and she tries to push past me. I'm a big guy so after a few attempts she stops. She tries to talk to me in Russian, we don't speak Russian. All I can say is NIET! Ultimately she pulls out her phone, talks to someone and passes me the phone. Turns out she is there to clean the apartment and the owner forgot to tell us! LOL 😆

[@BlazeNStar]

You got so caught up in the giant speedy spiders that you ignore the very friendly scorpions that just want to cuddle and tag along with you at the bar.

[@MayuraMinazuki]

I didn't get to stay a lot in hotels in my life and only recently started doing so for my cosplay hobby, attending conventions. It's all still new and a bit scary for me. So me and my gf arrive the day before con and hang out 6 costumes in total, put out the wigs and props, and a huge make-up collection. In short, our tiny room was a maze. The first night I had a very vivid impression of someone walking around the room. I think it's my gf going to the bathroom or something. For some reason I feel anxious about it, but turn around, don't look at them, and try to fall asleep again. The next morning I talk to her about not sleeping very good, having that bad feeling when she was up, and yet not noticing her getting back into bed. She tells me, she didn't get up. For context, I take medication that mellows my anxiety and helps me sleep, so I wasn't fully conscious when I saw that person. But I have never before or after dreamt of someone walking around the room, even when sharing a room with friends of friends I just met, or at that shady B&B with flimsy doors and a stranger next door. My nightmares are also usually reoccuring and no one-time events. My gf insisted, despite all of that, I probably heard steps outside and my brain made that up. Luckily my 900€ camera and our cash for the convention weren't missing. I guess due to that, and in an attempt to calm me down, she kept insisting. After that we used the door's extra lock (the handle on the outside worked only after using the key card, so I thought at first that was enough) and we placed a chair behind the door every night, after that. I did not have the same dream again, even though I kept hearing people walk by.

[@badmelon18]

34:40 what does “flooded with H” mean?

[@dmgroberts5471]

Lots of people using heroin, probably.

[@islandlivin808]

Thanks for the tip about the door stop!❤

[@samday414]

Unfortunately those kind of experiences are really common in Indian hotels. Every woman I have ever met who has been to India has some kind of horror story to share about how they were nearly raped or sexually assaulted. I will never go to India for this reason.

[@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

22:15 if this was in the states, it's possible that was a remnant of the underground railroad. Most of those places either get boarded up or turned into tourist/historical spots, but it's not impossible. Or, depending on the city, it could've lead to underground tunnels. Seattle for example has an entire underground city that's pretty much been left to rot.

[@markisaki979]

Story 12 has such a wholesome twist!

[@southernfriedwestcoaster]

Thanks for the vids

[@VegimorphtheMovieBoy]

More (hilariously) creepy than scary but stayed in a B and B in Hannibal, Missouri on a trip with my mom ten or so years ago, and overall, had a great time. One of the attractions/tours we went on was a local ghost tour that included exploring a graveyard with ghost hunting tools and passing by several hotels that were said to be haunted. Part of me wondering if there were any ghost sightings at our B and B. There were not, but lo and behold, someone had died in the room we were staying in back in the 1800s. While I did get some sleep the night after I learned that, my overactive imagination didn't do me any favors XD

[@yukiutaware1064]

Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton, Montana. Stayed there a few times. Lovely old building on the river and lots of stories from the locals. Only two things ever happened to me there, but one was just an owl that spooked me by saying hello right above the door I stepped out of to get some air. The other was a little more unusual. I heard the papers I left on my desk shuffle and then what sounded like someone sigh and then breathing lightly. If you've been to Fort Benton, it is an incredibly quiet place, especially at night. It was unmistakable. I sat up and saw an inky shape standing near the window like someone lost in thought and not realizing I was there. I could hear the breathing coming from it. Decided that I was either really tired or it was just an imprint at worst, so I went back to sleep with no issue. It really is a beautiful building, but being used to more modern designs of hotels and motels, some of its curvy halls and door placements feel strange. If you can afford it, try one of the big suites, especially the one right in front of the haunted staircase. Supposedly you can hear the ghost hooves of a horse that comes from when a drunk man climbed the stairs back in the old days on horseback and got shot by the original owner of the hotel.

[@chasezly]

the way he said 'next night' in story 17 was like he was thinking "you stayed *another* night?!"

[@selimacast725]

My mother and I were in our hotel room in Buffalo last year and as we were waking up overheard two people loudly doing it one room over. It was pretty funny

[@faye5838]

I deeply regret watching this at three in the morning...

[@RaynmanPlays]

Since he can't do it himself, look up Daniel Shaver. Doesn't really get more "horror story" than that.

[@starfieldgames5976]

that third story wrote like a comedy skit

[@reddit.stories997]

Wonderfully entertaining, as always.

[@lifeside959]

This isn’t about travelers but in 7th grade at school in art class we were peacefully painting when my group heard some arguing with a teacher the teacher heard some 8th graders taking about how abortion was a good thing and shouldn’t be banned the teacher started yelling at them saying that abortion is killing babies and u should feel like crap if u ever did do and abortion Not done yet she then showed pictures of dead babies to us and said that is what it looks like after class we went straight to the dean and told her she got suspended not fired but it has always been in my head since that day

[@Ironbanner12]

Me and my family were on a road trip and we stopped the night at a town called Raniganj. The hotel was sorta in a remote area a bit away from the city. This hotel was old as shit. Looked like it has never been renovated. The rooms were weird as well. The ceilings were high and the bathroom smelled horrible. That wasn't even the worst part. I kinda vaguely remember some light tapping at the door, which scared the life outta me. Truly the worst hotel experience I had. Also in Kenya there were hyenas howling outside the tent where we stayed so it was creepy.

[@jasperpike242]

Dear me you big girls.blouses. When a child leopards used to come snuffling around our veranda at night. They liked cats, never got mine tho. never lost a wink of sleep

[@mollieoshay]

its rly scary when ppl ask me if im alone at work (normally i am) but we have 2 extra cars that sit out front so i just tell them "nah homie's in the back lifting water buckets and being stronk"

[@cshijinx]

My grandparents went to Yosemite many times.I do remember them telling me that one of the hotels they stayed at some guy who worked there made,both of them uneasy and they never went back to that hotel. Don't know if it was around the time of Cary Stainer but I wouldn't be surprised

[@Keldonlord]

"Sprinkle this, they will die" Also known as I've tried and I've given up LOOOL

[@lisastafford3455]

My brother once told me a story, how "some chick was outside arguing with this weird @$$ guy, and me and my buds told him off." I showed my brother this video. He says you're welcome, OP.

[@thewhiteshellmermaid9328]

So not a horror story, but it’s all I got. There’s this big fancy resort located up on an island a few hours from the nearest city. There’s nothing really up there, save a golf course, campground and beaches. There’s not even a proper store. This resort has been through a few owners over the years, including both Radisson and Lakeview(current), and stood more or less abandoned for several years by Radisson until Lakeview took it over. It’s this huge building on sprawling grounds that back onto the golf course. After Lakeview came in, they cleaned it up and opened for business, but you can still tell it has an uncertain past. I honestly love it there, it’s beautiful and the place has the most. . .I can’t even describe it, vibe, especially in the off season. Then, it’s quiet save for the hum of the place’s own generator. It would be a perfect setting for a horror/ paranormal movie or show. Or book.

[@transilvanianwinds]

hi mainly facts guy we need more horror/scary stories!!

[@PARTYGOER_BACKROOMS]

Mainly horror

[@allster0crowly]

The Grudge could use TVs, Cameras, Bags, Backpacks, Keyholes, Shadows, Gaps, Bedsheets, Showers, Bathtubs, etc. anything with a shade or dark area in it can be used for it to appear if your one of its targets. How you become a target? Staying at the house where they died or witnessing it outside the house targeting someone already being hunted by it.

[@TheCell-vx3pk]

@3:38 You said wall with so much emphasis, I kinda was taken aback by it. Like: Wow, that BnB even had a wall. One. Wall. Maybe my demands for a BnB are a little bit too high.

[@itweeb4765]

"This side, no fire!" 🤣🤣

[@Kat-tr2ig]

In the early 90s we travelled from Ohio to Florida. Our car broke down in West Virginia so to make up time Dad drove as far as he could before becoming too tired. We made it to South Carolina when we decided to find a hotel, but the only place available was this disgusting motel that smelled funky and you could hear gunshots nearby. We get to our (gross, smelly) room and Mom had me go get ice (because evidently she hates me). When I flipped on the lights, THOUSANDS of cockroaches skittered away. In the room Dad was plugging holes in the walls with toliet paper to keep the roaches out, and gunshots kept going off all night. I have travelled to several places, including "third world" countries, but nothing compares to that motel in South Carolina.

[@johnhof223]

I love the face cam. Also, grew up homeschooled and I have so many I can't even think of a specific example of them. For sure a lot of weird/hyper-religious types tho. I know that.

[@jonathankruger6356]

Being someone who accidentally caused horrific experience at the hotel. It was one of those school trips sort of things and everyone from my school new are suffered from night terrors so they all had noise cancelling ear plugs. On the third night in we see the owners of the hotel walling around drained with ashen faces. We learn that on the night we arrived they were discussing the idea of selling the hotel that they inherited, only to be met with blood curdling screams every night. They were convinced that was one of their great grandfathers being upset with them upset with them wanting to sell. We chose not to tell them because we would have been throwing out. On our last day before checking out and trying not to smile mischievously, I told the owners that we performed a blessing and the screaming should stop. The skeptically thanked me, but seeing I wasn't there to screaming the night was all the proof they needed

[@VegetaReal204]

Story 2 is actually relatable. The first time I watched The Ring I got a phone call after the movie was over and I nearly crapped myself.

[@greyhound5769]

13:31 “if I had a Nickel for every time someone pooped in my hotel shower, I would have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice”

[@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

10:48 some biker gangs are actually surprisingly wholesome. I've heard of one that rescues pets, and another of a bunch of really big dudes with really small dogs.

[@rantinggrannyb7408]

I'm flying to the East coast next week. You've just scared the hell out of me, I just hope I don't end up with a story for this thread.

[@Yourlocaltrashgoblin]

You okay bro? You sounded like you were gonna cry when talking about the spiders 🫠

[@fidgetdestroyer3117]

Where are y'all finding these air BNB's I've never been in one where I didn't get the whole house to myself, the most invasive host I've ever had only came over to water the plants outside. . . Wtf are y'all doing cause it's not practicing safety measures

[@fyredance]

Some B&B's are really weird, for sure, but definitely not all of them. My mom has a B&B in PA (no not the doll one LOL), and I assure you that there are no weird things (or any weird food) going on in hers, she's very personable and not creepy, and you don't have to share a bathroom with someone else. Nobody likes someone else's shower water.

[@Magnumscrotus]

So ive not even told anyone this story but my mom. Last year i went to a wedding in jamaica, stayed at a nice resort although the resort did look like it was a few decades old. Id had a few weird problems with my door locking me out. Atleast one out of 3 times was my own fault, but by the third time the maintenance guy just made a new key for me and reset the lock. Now i wasnt in the hotel room for most of the trip, but after the wedding i was kinda sick and stayed in my room most of the day. At one point later in the evening i heard some one knock on my door, but there was no one there. Didnt see anyone in the hall so dont know where they couldve run to or why. Later i was on the toilet and they had a phone by the toilet for some reason. It rang, i picked it up and only heard this frantic sort of static beeping, like it was shorting out or somethjng. That night i couldnt sleep and felt like shit so i took a long relaxing shower with the lights dimmed. When suddenly i heard another knock at the door, only it wasnt the front door. It was my bathroom door.

[@nicbennett6442]

I checked in and was given my hotel key on a recent trip. Head to my room, tried to open the door the attendant gave me verbally - wouldn't open, look at what's written on the cardboard holder and it had a different number. So, walked down the hallway and proceed to open and enter the room only to have it pushed back and a panicky voice asking what I was doing... I'd been given the same room as this poor lovely older lady. I apologised and went back down and had it fixed! I think I gave her a heart attack... Also gave me one if I'm honest.

[@Gfw36026]

Not my story but my uncles. Him my auntie and cousins were staying at a villa in France they booked with my other uncle and cousins. (My family didn’t go due to circumstances at the time) the first night there was a loud thump and crying from another room. My uncle went in to see and it was my cousin who was a baby, not taking or walking at this point. On the floor in the middle of the room crying. Outside of his cot. No one could work out how it happened. The next night my uncle could hear children laughing running up and down the corridor outside his room. He got out of bed annoyed thinking it was his daughters (also very young 6-8) he waited till he heard the laughs come past his door as his room was right at the end and there was a bit of extra corridor that some hotels have. He knew he could corner them and confront them and as he jumped out the door there was no one there. Which started to make him question things since he WAS very anti paranormal and thought it was all bullshit. The 3rd night he was starting to get close to falling asleep when he felt the end of his bed depress and as he looked down the bed he saw a little boy and looked again wide awake now and still saw the boy which I said ran towards the window which was like a wooden slide window which rattled when the boy went through it. This woke up my auntie who asked what that noise was. I think my uncle lied and said it was nothing but I can’t remember. But he said he stayed up all night and they left in the morning. They had paid to be there for nearly 2 weeks. But he was happy to lose the money and pay to stay anywhere else. It completely changed his view of paranormal. I was never/am still not sure on paranormal. But talking to him a few years back and seeing how he got freaked me out because nothing scares him. Yet this was a time I saw him get serious and legitimately showed fear. I’m so glad I didn’t go on that trip.

[@agustinamagpie]

Bit different as I (F, 22 at the time) wasn't a guest, but a new employee at a crappy hostel. It was like an old house turned hostel. No night shift front desk after midnight, and I opened at 6:30 am. No other employees until 9:00 am. One morning I was alone at the reception, and a guest comes over and closes the only door in the office I was at. Starts asking weird and creepy questions like if I'm alone and at what time people arrive and if there's other guests and if they're early risers. Then as he gets closer to me he casually points at the roll of tape I was using to close boxes and says "I could tie you up with that, and you couldn't escape I bet". I instantly reply "I don't think that'd look so good on camera" and I point out the security camera. He laughed and immediately left. It was such a malicious encounter I genuinely wonder if I misinterpreted something. Fucking terrifying. I ended up telling the owners and they kicked him out. While cleaning the room, housekeeping found a SHIT TON OF DRUGS

[@420Xing]

There’s a lot of haunted hotels and motels around Alaska, there’s one I remember in vivid detail. Wasn’t all that scary but I was a younger child with a vivid imagination and also a child who watched haunted movies since I was 4. To the story though my mom and I were traveling into town for shopping I think, we went to this hotel that was fairly cheap but not too ratchet and was right near the airport. Come nighttime we’re in bed early and my mom is snoring dead asleep next to me while I’m too restless to sleep, I heard these weird little foot steps around the floor, like a toddler running around. But it was too fast and too little to be a toddlers considering when they run it’s more a thump noise then feet paddering. In native cultures around Alaska there’s these creatures called ‘little people’ there’s a lot of myths and legends about them but essentially they’re around the wooded areas or the mesh areas somewhere away from the villages and cities. Little 6 yo me thought they were coming to get me. I woke my mom up thousands of times telling her that the ‘little people’ is gonna get me. Didn’t sleep until 6 am

[@janetschuck4318]

The hotel door latch is NOT secure. Seriously, do not depend on it, it's SUPER EASY to open the shut latch. Watch a u tube video and you will see it can be easy opened in seconds and it will not make a sound. The rubber door stop is one of the best security measures and always check the windows, especially if the outside is a textured wall.

[@SigmasFunkyEarrings]

24:35 Bro that ain’t a receptionist, that’s Aizawa 😂 Sorry for my nerdiness on MHA. But that joke had to be made.

[@philosophicaljay3449]

Ya, I always check the laws of anywhere I am traveling and need to make hotel reservations. If I can bring a gun, I do so. If I can't bring a gun but can have a knife, I bring a knife. Call me paranoid if you want, but I would rather be safe than sorry. Someone wants to break into my room in the night, they will be quite surprised (I am a light sleeper when not sleeping in my own bed).

[@fangthedergon1863]

I'm not superstitious or anything but moms just know stuff with their kids. I got severe food poisoning (like may need a hospital bad) and she called my buddies house cause she said she had a bad feeling and it was 2am at night

[@yeejay6396]

Holy fk. Mommas intuition

[@peggy052]

I stayed at the same Hyatt in Birmingham and I had a seizure there. Also got there at about 2 A.M. to see 3 college kids drinking while walking down the hall. Real creepy place