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Disney’s Hollywood Tower Hotel based on the Twilight Zone is the ultimate horrifying hotel experience. Guests get a scary ride up a hotel elevator. But it’s the freefall when the elevator ride drops, that makes you want to scream.  Avoid this Disneyland hotel ride if you’re afraid of heights, elevators and the dark.

Just this week a female college student’s expectations quickly turned to panic and horror at the Motel 6 in Carlsbad.  She said she was tricked into thinking she was going to be paid for a modeling session with a stranger who solicited her services through a dating website. A would be attacker lured her into the room and tried to sexually assault the 20-year old, she reported. No doubt she’ll have to recover from a feeling of terror as she recalls her experience at Motel 6.

Every hotel room has a story to tell. With 300-500 people sleeping in your hotel bed annually, there’s bound to be lots going on–and not all of it is good.  When I road to Yosemite on the public train-bus and someone pointed out the Cedar Lodge Motel in El Portal, it sent chills through me as the person mentioned this is where three women were killed by the handyman at the hotel in 1997. Cary Stayner murdered Carole Sund, the tourist’s 15-year-old Juli Sund; and their travel companion, Argentinian exchange student, 16-year-old Silvina Pelosso. The handyman is the first person you normally trust when you need your shower fixed.  Stayner sits on death row now, while guests continue to check into their hotel rooms at the Cedar Lodge, never knowing that a former hotel worker murdered three guests.

Last year three travelers unexpectedly died after staying at the “new” upgraded Curry Cabins in Yosemite National Park. From July to August 2012 guests may have been exposed to hantavirus from the droppings of mice and rats living withing the walls of the cabins. You never think that when you receive the new, upgraded cabins, it’s  potentially going to bring the death of you!

Remember Richard Ramirez, the Nightstalker, who died in prison recently? He reportedly was a frequent guest of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles during the 1980s. That’s when room rates were as cheap as $14. It’s reported that he stayed in a room on the 14th floor while killing 14 people.