He Discovered A Stranger Hiding Inside Of His Hotel Room One Evening, And It Was The Most Terrifying Moment Of His Life
One of the biggest travel tips I’ve heard is to carefully inspect every hotel room you stay in once you check in because you never know what sketchy things you can find there.
One man’s story about a stranger he discovered in a hotel room he was sharing with his friend and girlfriend has given me a whole new outlook on hotel safety.
This happened in 2008 when he was 20-years-old and working in Denver, Colorado. His girlfriend, who would later become his wife, drove to Denver from their home state along with his best friend Tim to celebrate his 21st birthday.
They decided to book a hotel room for the weekend to go all out and celebrate. Saturday was the day they went the hardest, and they had a great time. They were drinking a lot and partying throughout the city.
They all got back to their hotel room around 1:00 am. The room had two queen-sized beds; one was right next to a big window, and the other was up against a wall next to the bathroom.
The three of them talked and talked all night until about 4:00 am. Then, as his girlfriend was watching TV on the bed closest to the bathroom and he and Tim were seated on the end of the other bed, he heard the sound of a door opening and closing.
He figured it was his wife getting up to use the bathroom until he heard the noise again and noticed that his wife hadn’t moved.
Tim had also noticed the strange noises, and the room fell silent. Then, Tim said that there might be someone else in the room.
“I lurched forward from the foot of the bed to look into the pitch-black entryway. I could barely make it out, and I wanted to believe I wasn’t seeing it, but there was a man dressed in all black with a black baseball cap pressed into the 90-degree corner of the entryway where the room door and wall met,” he recalled.
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It took them moments of staring at the man in pure shock before Tim had the courage to ask him if he needed help with anything.
“Is this room 1709?” the man asked.
Tim told him no, and the man just shook his head before walking out the door.
“We then erupted into a million curse words and paced around the room,” he explained. “I called the front desk. They told me that he was drunk, and they found him in the stairwell.”
As the hotel employees gathered details on this man and what he was doing at the hotel, it all became super creepy.
Eventually, they discovered he was not a guest at the hotel, so they had to call the police. But he escaped police custody and must have been stumbling around the hotel hallways until he entered their room. The room he spoke of, 1709, didn’t exist.
“We still have no idea what that was all about or how he managed to get a keycard to our room,” he said. “We were sure the door was closed. It was easily the most terrifying moment of my life.”
His story is a good reminder to always use every lock available in a hotel – including the latch! Even better, purchase a portable door lock to travel with you and stay extra safe.
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