Location 5: Hollywood VIP Hotel

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-formerly Liberty Hotel before extensive renovations

-modern 21 room hotel

-Liberty Hotel feat. on episode of Hotel Impossible on Travel Channel

-show covered disturbing things, but didn’t talk about darker history

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-early 200s, before hotel revamped, husband and wife owners struggled with money

-always on brink of closing despite prime location & 90% year-round occupancy

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-financial struggles = building falls into disrepair

-can’t hire staff to maintain

-owners sunk all of their savings into the dream

-as hotel unraveled, so did they

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-couple divorced but stayed business partners

-stress became too much for husband: shot himself in home office w/ bills splayed out on desk

-wife declares bankruptcy and moves on with her life

-next owners see potential in property + bankruptcy saleL

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-new couple made renovations and tried to stay open at same time = problems

-every time they started a project, a hundred other issues would crop up

-costly and slow progress

-as if someone trying to stop them from finishing

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-guests could hear 2 people arguing & complained

-but no one could find the source

-some contractors quit because someone kept moving/hiding tools

-owners thought it was just bad luck and money problems until they had a first-hand encounter

-ghostly form but they are convinced it was husband for before, who died by suicide

-inspecting work on second floor & door slammed shut

-tried to open, but knob just kept spinning

-floor creaked & they turned to look

-heard what sounded like gunshot

-felt hot liquid spray on their face and bodies

-saw they were speckled in dark red liquid = blood

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-called for help

-maid pried open door

-called police

-police were skeptical & said it wasn’t blood

-they said it was a spray from a pinhole in the hot water pipe across the room

-red = rust inside pipe

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-owners accepted explanation in moment

-but plumbers came and checked out pipe

-couldn’t find any holes or leaks

-and didn’t explain loud bang they heard

Key Names & Dates

-Formerly Liberty Hotel

-21 rooms

-couple buys in 2000s