Mr. Nightmare

Real Hotel Horror Story

-Warren Reed

"This happened in the summer and I believe I was about 12 at the time. I was staying in a hotel in a fairly large city with my mom and my younger brother. We were visiting other extended family but chose not to stay in their house. My brother is younger than me by a decent amount so I was usually told to keep an eye on him. On the day we arrived, my mom told me to do just that while she checked us in and received our room card so my brother and I sat down on a couch in the lobby and relaxed a little bit. While we were sitting, a man in about his mid 40's walked into the hotel. The couch was facing the hotel doors so I got a good look at him. I remember that he was very average looking, describing his features in detail could generate several different images. The guy comes in and sits on the couch opposite from ours, I didn't think anything of it until I realized that he didn't go up to the counter first, he just came in and sat down. It made me feel a little uncomfortable, maybe I was being a bit paranoid but I thought he might have followed us in. Thankfully my mom called us over and told us that her room was ready. We left the lobby and went to our room, shortly afterwards we left the hotel to go meet family, I forgot about the man for the rest of the day. We returned at about 7:00 and my mom told us that we could go swimming in the hotel pool. We all went to our room, changed and went to the pool. A few minutes after we got into the water the same man from before walked in and sat down. He was wearing jeans and a sweater so he definitely wasn't going swimming. Again, we didn't think much of it until I could see that my mom was visibly worried. She pointed him out to me and she said that if he didn't leave within five minutes that we need to go back to our room. Five minutes had passed and he was still there so we got our things and left. By then it was close to 8' o clock, we had brought a rented movie to watch so we plan to watch that and go straight to bed. I noticed that my mom was a little on edge because of the man who had been watching us and I got a little more worried myself too. Halfway through the movie my mom got up to get into the shower, while she was in there someone knocked on the door and said Housekeeping. I thought it was weird that the cleaning staff would come this late but we needed another towel so I answered the door. I wish I hadn't been so stupid, it was the same creepy man, he gave me a smile and a little wave. I just stood there kind of motionless, my mind automatically went to the worst possible situation, kidnapping, rape, torture, etc. I heard the water in the shower turn off, he stood there as well for a moment and then he spoke, " how was your swim?" at that moment my mom came out of the shower and saw the man at the door, she pulled me back and slammed the door, she locked it then she called the front desk from our hotel phone to report the guy. I told her to just call the police but she didn't listen, she then requested that we switch rooms. I then heard footsteps stomping down the hallway away from our room, thankfully the guy had left. After that we switched hotel rooms and didn't see the guy again during our stay.