Creepiest Hotel Stories from Reddit Travelers (r/AskReddit - Reddit Scary Stories)

to all reddit travelers what is your creepiest hotel story my mom was traveling for work and sat next to a man fellow business traveler on the plane they had a casual conversation and exchanged business cards later that evening she's in her hotel watching TV and gets a phone call from the front desk that her husband is here and they wanted to know if they can give him a key to the room turns out the creep on the plane was pretending to be her husband to try to get into her room found a hotel in Yangon Burma the day we got there for pretty cheap they mentioned the rates were low because maintenance was being done on several floors we sleep fine wake up and head to breakfast at breakfast we met some Germans who had also stayed the night in our hotel they said they had not slept well because during the middle of the night someone woke them up to move them from the floor they were on we US and the Germans found out later that they had been moved because they were on one of the levels reserved for maintenance and part of the maintenance included gassing the rooms for bugs during the middle of the night they were just going around the room shoving the gas nozzle or whatever under the doors and letting them run wound up killing the two people next to the Germans before they realized they'd accidentally booked people on that floor we weren't on that floor thankfully but it has always stuck with me how seemingly easy it could have been to have gotten mixed up in that good night sleep tight don't let the bed bugs fix iation spray kill you at night in 1996 while air drying naked after a shower lying on my hotel bed in Beijing with the curtains drawn I received a call demanding I put on clothes what the f so the room was bugged it was in Red China in a hotel authorized for foreign guests I hope you proceeded to do the windmill for them and pick up pennies I arrived at a secluded coastal hotel south of Maher Murray's Turkey around 2:00 a.m. it had been a long day in Istanbul followed by a flight and long bus ride into marmaris where I hackle dwith non-english-speaking taxi drivers who were not even aware that this small resort exists when the taxi pulls up to the hotel it's on fire when the owner standing out front ceases he opens the taxi door excitedly you come I have nice room for you i point out that the hotel is on fire but he simply gestures and says small fire no problem you come I am utterly exhausted I find myself following the owner into the hotel stepping over fire hoses waving away smoke passing firefighters as they run up and down a very nice staircase we pause at the second floor landing and the owner tells me see fire only on this side of Hotel this side no fire you come my exhaustion removes every ounce of common sense and I follow him to a room down the hall the room is indeed fire free I quickly scan the in case of fire message on the back of the door check the window escape and promptly pass out with my gear and boots on in the morning I awake alive wondering if I dreamt the entire thing I go down the smoky stairs past the chart other side of the hotel the owner is so happy to see me still alive that he eats breakfast with me I went back a few years later in the hotel had fully recovered I once stayed in a B&B which had a shared bathroom the first night I got up at probably like 2:00 a.m. and I was bursting for a pee the bathroom was down the hallway not too far but seemed like such an effort in my tired state I get to the bathroom and opened the door and there was this guy just standing in the bathroom dressed head to toe in a mime costume face painted in everything he was squatted down on the floor but his trousers were still up I looked at him for a second he gave me a wave with a smile and began just silently pushing I just ran back to my room locked the door and decided to pee in a bottle I'm still not sure if I was just really tired and seeing things or something it's seriously the strangest thing I've ever I arrived late at a hotel for a business trip flight had a malfunction so we had to land they fixed it on the tarmac and we never deplaned room already paid for confirmation number in hand etc I got there about five hours after I was supposed to be there of course they gave away my room I already wasn't happy from all the delays and I wasn't going anywhere the event I was there for was in their hotel I wanted my room I was polite but resolutely firm they did some scrambling and asked if I would consider a damaged room under construction as long as the sheets are clean so I can go to bed I don't care was my reply mistake the room they gave me was literally a crime scene the case had been closed so there was no legal issue to contend with but someone had been killed or nearly killed not 100% sure in that room they had primed over the bloodstains on the walls and ceiling but had only taped down semi clear plastic over the pooled blood on the carpets multiple small holes in the walls had obviously been patched and sanded but there were multiple small holes in the wall they gave me a completely new bed and TV from on-site inventory so I was comfortable but man it was creepy as hell the creepiest part was the priming job it was so obviously blood splatter you could see where the person had been hit and where they fell you could also see how they had tried to get up and where they had finally collapsed okay so I already posted this on another thread but when I was about four years old my family ended up staying at the Cedar Lodge Motel where Kari stainer worked right before he murdered four women my family drove to Yosemite and it was a long drive for us three kids all under the age of seven plus two adults and a F ton of mountains will do that by the time we arrived at the motel it was late we were all cranky and we couldn't wait to get out but the moment we pulled in something set my mom's teeth on edge and she insisted that we left and found another hotel reservation or not my mom has always had this like sixth sense and her gut has actually saved us a couple of times but my dad was tired and convinced her to ignore her gut and stay for just the night and the next morning we'd leave I can remember my mom actually refusing to let go of our hands making us stay right by her side as she kept looking around while checking in to try and get her to relax my dad suggested we go to the pool thinking it would calm her down well when we got there there were no towels so my mom called the front desk the moment the man delivering towels arrived my mom immediately grabbed us out of the water and rushed us back to the room the man gave her the absolute creeps and she says there was just this feeling of pure evil when he looked at us that night my mom and dad pushed the dresser in front of the door and had us all sleep in the same bed the next morning we left to go to another hotel but my mom couldn't stop talking about how evil that motel was about two months later she and my dad were up late watching the news when they started reporting on a man who had murdered a woman and two young girls in Yosemite just as my mom began to say I bet it was at that motel they showed Carrie Stanners face and said it occurred at the Cedar Lodge Motel Carrie stainer was the man who brought us our towels at the pool we've never gone back to Yosemite and my mom is always insistent that we listen to our gut feeling and when every bone in your body is telling you something is wrong gtfo I was staying in Birmingham Alabama a Hyatt nothing crazy nothing obviously creepy one night around 2:00 a.m. I woke up to a man screaming like stabbed in the heart scream i sat there in a panic wondering if I should call someone but when I didn't hear anything else I chalked it up to a dream the next night I woke up around 3:00 a.m. and had this horrible feeling that someone was in my room I rolled over and there was an old man sitting on the AC it was boxed in smoking looking away from me I stared at him for a few seconds and he turned to look at me so I shot up out of bed ready to run and no one was there I don't lucid dream while I have vivid dreams they are not that vivid I can describe that man to a tee and yet he was never there okay I've got three creepy stories back from when I was backpacking through India with my girlfriend we are two girls from Europe in Bangalore we booked a hotel after 18 hours spent in a night bus we were very tired and wanted a bed in some food the boys at the reception were kind of creepy and staring at us all the time but we shrugged it off and went in our room at around 9:00 in the evening at around 11:00 the lights went completely off I tried to call the reception but the phone was out suddenly the door handle to our room started moving I turned on the lantern on my phone and looked at the door it was slowly opening my girlfriend screamed and I jumped off the bed pushing the door back into its place the person outside was pushing as well so we fought like this for a little while then I locked the door again five minutes pass and we hear the noise again the person outside had a key and now they were opening the door slowly it was so creepy I kept banging on the door shouting get the eff out help we called the police who eventually did nothing we didn't sleep the whole night we were in south booking a hotel my girlfriend was using the bathroom when she suddenly started screaming I went in just in time to see a hole in the ceiling and a tie the person ran immediately and we could hear the footsteps on the roof after our six months travels we were really tired of booking cheap and scary places for sleep I had an accident and was barely moving so I asked my girlfriend to book the nicest hotel ask specifically for white sheets it was my time to shine so the hotel looked nice white sheets indeed the guy at the reception was sleeping in a sleeping bag in the reception but whatever we went to sleep in our white sheets just to wake up hours later covered in ticks and bug beds full of our blood five out of seven my husband's family is from India and zero out of ten of them would recommend two girls backpacking without any males through India actually zero out of ten would recommend backpacking through India at all you are so lucky you survived was in San Juan del Sur Nicaragua last year massive spiders all over the room even woke up with a couple of little scorpions in my bed the first morning next night I'm sitting at the bar drinking and chatting with a mate feel a tickle on the back of my neck and think it's a mosquito or something brush the back of my neck and another mother-effing scorpion this time way bigger plops on the ground at my feet stared at it for a moment in shock squealed like a girl squashed it and kept drinking gah I hated those big spiders in Nicaragua they're so fast and if they come in contact with you you'll get a painful rash worst-ever well apparently I am never going to Nicaragua oh I have one though this has turned out quite long to describe so mine takes place at a London hostel a few weeks ago I have two friends with me that are both male and we're staying in a nine bed mixed dorm there are three sets of three-tier bunk beds I'm in the bottom bed of the right bunk friend one in the top of my bunk friend to and bottom bed of middle bunk so we get in at 2:00 a.m. and I'll just quietly get in our beds after a few minutes of lying there trying to sleep I hear rustling behind me I'm lying on my side facing the wall so I think it is just someone going through their bag and ignore it then I feel a hand on my hip over the cover I turn around and it's a random guy telling me to move over and trying to pull at my cover I initially thought he was drunk and wasn't sure which bed to be and so I tell him to go find his own bed and then he shuffles away to bottom bed of left bunk then he comes back again I again tell him to go back to his own bed and he shuffles back to his own again this happens another couple of times with me gradually speaking louder and getting less polite telling him to f off so I'm shaking cause the situation is making me nervous and message my mate that's on the top bunk saying I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep that night he messages back casually thinking it's cause of someone's snoring this is when I find out both my mates have earplugs in and although they've heard me speaking they each thought I was speaking to the other friend so I tell him the situation and he starts keeping an eye out I hear the guy go to the bathroom that is ensuite but I can tell from the light he left the bathroom door open whilst doing so and refused to look my mate fills me and that the guy was walking round with his pants down and deliberately left the door open to get me to look but either way the guy goes back to his bed after and we think the situation is finally over then it happens again my mate keeping an eye out shines his phone light on the floor and shouts for the guy to f off apparently he was crawling across the floor again towards me the guy suddenly takes offence at my mates light shining on him and starts actually climbing the bunk ladder like King Kong to get to my mate on the top and was trying to take his phone they wrestle for a while with my mate actually kicking the guy in the neck to try and keep him away only for the guy to swing backwards and come straight back at him again I use this time to run for security who find the guy still hanging on the bed when they get there then call the police and have a guy taken away in a riot van and banned from the building whilst the police had dragged him outside waiting for the riot van the guy even headbutt of the brick wall several times no idea what that guy was on because it wasn't alcohol but definitely on something to take a kick to the neck and still act like nothing happened afterwards the guy kept trying to blame my mate when security came as well saying things and broken English like come up here and see how violent this guy is my other mate that had slept through the whole incident kept saying the next day that he couldn't believe how friendly everyone in London is my company would put us up in the Shilo in downtown when we were in Salt Lake City a co-worker of mine was awakened in the middle of the night by the sounds of a bunch of kids in the hallway it went on for longer than he could tolerate so he opened the room door to tell them to hush only to fine the hallway empty he could still hear the children so figuring they were in an adjoining room he called down to the front desk to complain the man at the front desk claimed to be certain there were no kids staying on that floor but that he was certain the noise would subside in a bit he offered to send up some earplugs my coworker was a bit annoyed how can you say there are no kids here when I'm hearing kids but went back to bed and eventually fell asleep the next day when he was checking out a different clerk made the mistake of asking the routine question was everything satisfactory with your stay my coworker gave her an earful about the noisy kids and how the other Clerk had dismissed his complaints the clerk looked a little uncomfortable and said in a half whisper we are not supposed to talk about our history with guests but please do a Google search for Rachel David and you'll understand what happened to you we get similar complaints every few weeks and we try to never put kids on that floor in the van on the way to the airport he read on his phone the story of how a mother Rachel David had tossed her seven children off the 11th floor balcony of the hotel then called the International Dunes to their deaths before jumping herself holy crap thank you for sharing what a messed-up story feeling effed up right now imagining a mother prying her children's fingers off the railing and watching them screaming on the way down what the eff checked into a hotel on vacation everything was going okay woke up one night to erratic movement of the door handle as if someone was trying to get in or break the door down always happened in the dead of the night when in deep sleep as soon as I woke up it would stop spoke to a hotel manager about it then he told me it was a patient who was recently released from a mental institute who does this as he still thinks he is locked up in the Institute a combination of not taking his medication and sleepwalking makes his randomly try and kick doors down within the hotel the family was very wealthy and connected and the manager didn't want to kick up a fuss for checking out someone who can shut his business down very quickly I left after a week because it got worse this happened to my father not me but definitely too creepy not to share my father went with a group to go on a trip to Tanzania to do some medical work in a poorer village for a few nights of the trip the group stayed in a hotel my dad was sharing a room with another man from the group separate beds one night he is woken up by his roommate who has the light on he looks terrified trembling and praying my dad asks what's wrong but he won't say anything about it my dad is obviously concerned but since he can't do anything about it he goes back to sleep the next night in the middle of the night my father gets up to pee he walks to the bathroom and starts to relieve himself when he catches a very strong scent of body odor he and most of the people from the group our daily deodorant wearers being from the US many locals in Tanzania don't wear it as frequently so when the smell hits his nose he realizes he and his roommate might not be alone he turns around and sees standing there in the doorway a local woman shaking violently her eyes rolled up locked on the ceiling he panics as no one should have been able to get into the room he turns back around towards the bathroom in a moment of confusion but when he turns back she just gone as if she had never been there shaken he goes back to bed thinking maybe he was dreaming or seeing things he lays back down on his side and Adrenaline's starting to wear off he begins to doze off again suddenly the smell returns he slowly rolls over and looks to his left there in the bed beside him is the woman laying flat on her back eyes glued to the ceiling again panicking he breaks his line of sight to her and again she is gone my dad wasn't able to get back to sleep the woman never made another appearance he asked his roommate about it the next morning and he had encountered the same thing the night before which was why he was so shaken it could be explained by the fact that they were both on anti malaria drugs which can have side effects that include strange dreams but still super creepy and definitely weird that even if it was caused by the medication both my father and his roommate experienced the same thing my girlfriend works as a TV commercials producer and often travels to South America mainly Argentina one night she woke up at around 3 a.m. to find a male hotel employees standing at the foot of her bed staring at her when they checked the CCTV he had been doing it for hours that night and for the previous three nights when I was about 4 my family was at the resort in st. Kitts I was swimming with some of the friends I made there when one of them speaks of a woman at the pool calling her I didn't know what that meant at the time she had some mental disability I don't know what it was one point during the swim I found myself in front of her and out of sight of my parents I don't remember anything leading up to this moment but I remember her telling me close your eyes and you'll get a big surprise I did not knowing any better and she started hitting the top of my head with her fist and holding me underwater luckily my mom spotted this happening and stopped it the woman who tried to drown me had a helper who was supposed to keep an eye on her but was found suntanning and not paying any attention at all my mom lost it on her for not paying attention this whole thing was more scary than creepy but it stuck with me ever since so I thought I'd share I toured around in bands a lot in my 20s and not once but twice came back to my hotel room to find a turd in my shower I was the only person with a key to the room one was in Germany and one was in Belgium two years apart completely separate to her and crew phantom crapper strikes again [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat Aug 24 2019