janice joplin is an icon her voice music
presence is timeless although her life
was short her music in essence lives on
most notably in room 105. janna spent
her last days and last day
in the landmark motor hotel in hollywood
which is now the highland gardens hotel
on october 4th 1970
from an accidental overdose for a
special three-part episode of ghost town
we rented room 105. we spoke to the
night clerk of the hotel
about some of the strange occurrences
that went on and before we get into what
may or may not have happened at the
landmark motor hotel
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to begin with the discussion we had with
the night clerk and
some of the strange occurrences he
experienced on camera
because i watched sit and watch the
cameras i see a lady
dressing not a tire of the day standing
at the bottom of the stairs
looking down franklin seeing
the same person standing in the middle
of the lobby that's the first one i ever
saw here
when you say was she like opaque was she
translucent like what
on camera it looks like a person a
normal impression it actually made me
double do this bit but only on camera
it only shows up my camera the front
door has
open and closed opening closed open and
closed open and closed for about 20
minutes one night
until i went just go to bed and it
stopped doing
the more i talk about it these lights
will start to flicker right here
um when i go into her room i feel him i
literally feel hands pushing me out
that was spooky and it really freaked me
out and i guess if it wasn't spooky it
wouldn't be fun but i don't like fun
fun is overrated now we're going to
explore room 105 where janice joplin
spent her last days and last day we had
a friend of ours who is also
a medium and she read the room and
what's really great about this room is
the closet that serves as a memorial and
celebration to janus and with that
room 105 why am i doing that it's not
doing anything but i feel like
we are in the kitchen this is
probably a wonderful place to shoot up
this is where you're doing it
anybody anybody
i can feel i mean why wouldn't you
shoot up here oh is it clean is it like
there's like a sense of like cleanliness
that easy to clean up yeah i just like
the space but like after you inject
heroin it's usually like
you're looking down or whatever i mean i
don't know yeah
i just i don't know
i love it why did you wink when you said
i haven't done heroin i didn't
understand
when i was 14. i did salvia
get her out of here so my own experience
around here immediately
because i like i'm not i'm not getting
too much except maybe like
a feeling of like some fluorescent light
or whatever
okay it's like so you think that is from
it's like a snapshot of the past yeah i
get like snapshots sometimes
um usually like if i give people like
readings like and i'm touching them i'll
get like
different things that come in my head oh
but like i i have to like practice for a
while you sit down with people at work
and i work at like a tech startup so
we'd be like all right come the
conference room
oh my god i kept reading this one guy
because he had trouble with this love
life that was like
i'm that guy you're that guy yeah great
so
yeah i mean these are probably pretty
new yeah
the these are these could be original
but yeah these definitely feel new and i
don't think that these were here
um the thing that really struck me when
i saw that bottle of southern comfort i
was like
really yeah because like that's what
this was her drink
yeah and um i drank when i was in eighth
grade i had four shots of this
two oh my god i first drank something
yeah
so like this is obviously a dangerous
thing to have in here
and sort of summon some bad feelings oh
interesting
yeah like kind of like knocking over
feelings
um i had heard that this hadn't changed
too much since her death but i think it
has oh this is nasty
this definitely hasn't been changed in a
while gross um
yeah there's nothing too much going on
in here except for
this probably has some like energy
everyone just got dark in the camera too
that's not crazy that's amazing
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the original um i don't know if it
matters like what's the original one no
whatever you're thinking
like it's amazing does it usually do you
learn
if it's original or not yeah because it
helps you you know like
pictures more um
so i know that she died between like a
bed
and a dresser but i don't know where
exactly that was in the room and
i'm not i think she was clutching like
she had changed in her hand from
uh me a cigarette machine from what yeah
she still had the change in her hand
from that
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that freaks me out yeah that's a gnarly
detail
yeah and i know that she was like face
down
the overdressed dusts are so sad because
that person
did not usually need to die and that's
like very
tragic um
maybe feeling a little sick to my
stomach um
but nothing two parts or anything
but i feel like the most i felt less
than that right over there
we don't have to go there yet where were
you yeah wherever you
tell us i'm not even moving the camera
it's moving by itself so
it's an easy word of cameras
i like your soundtrack hey where's the
bible
the bible was just in there
i don't know like that's the first thing
i check
really no it's kind of the person
whoever has brooklyn in this rich
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because the shape of the i mean the
shape of the room probably hasn't
changed you know what i mean
so like that probably is intact i guess
right
there's some bad feelings worse than the
other side
yeah but i don't know it could have been
either side i mean the whole
thing you know if you're standing in the
spot and like you feel cold
these are where the beds would be
regardless i'm assuming about the layout
yeah unless there's just one bed over
here like here maybe
yeah i don't know because i really felt
stuff over there
so who knows um it's just more just like
a step of pain
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the entrance is definitely when i came
in
that's when i started feeling like the
not being able to breathe
oh god that doesn't i don't know why
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that closet gives me the creeps okay
it's your [ __ ] right
yep it's my haunted sneakers
well it's a big closet yeah there's like
three of them
yeah this feels very old hollywood to
have these like built-in
like shitty built-in closets that are
just weirdly massive
for no suitable reason
we have these in my um apartment for no
reason either
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where do i just like i think you're
right just like touching the old stuff
helps you feel things more because like
this wood hasn't changed
i don't know popcorn ceilings where are
they from
oh yeah nothing could be up here um
i'm sure this vent probably looks like
an old school yeah
um this room i don't know what happened
here
but it doesn't feel good um maybe it
could be from
all the energy that's yeah right here
because you know i probably i'm i'm
certainly i don't know anything about
this but people are putting a lot of
they came here to kind of and then put
their like thoughts or whatever
and all kind of everyone was right here
so there's got to be like
collective energy right there is yeah so
like
a lot of times when i give these
feelings it's
like i know that there was like a
certain sort of energy there you know
and energies need to create a nervous
right it just goes somewhere
and that somewhere is my
gastrointestinal tract
and my lungs somebody drew a penis
hold on hold on get in there jason
somebody drew another penis as well
um i gotta get my here's the pearl i
know that was her nickname yeah
somebody wrote naked with an eye then
maybe that's their just their street
name
naked
this definitely has a certain smell
you too that
it's like spicy yeah
what if you pushed on one of these
panels and into a secret doorway i would
i would die of happiness yeah oh wow so
they basically
they wrote on walls and then they put up
the glass that's nice
but ultimately it's like a mausoleum
kind of yeah
it is it's like a regular hotel room and
then there's this
weird aspect of like rip rip but that's
the only
aspect of it it's not transformed into
like the janice room
there's no like poster of her it's only
about her death
here right yeah so that's bound to
reflect something and it's also like
in this closet it's not like on the wall
it's like
in a weird closet so something about it
just seems odd that this is the janice
joplin room
but that other than that and this like
that's the only thing that reflects
that it's not yeah i don't mean
it's an odd thing let me go in the
bathroom and not just to take a poop
no okay but also that could we film that
i mean that's
bonus footage for a patreon
oh feathers yeah that's uh i mean
struggling with addiction is like a
super hard thing i miss plenty of places
to play seven minutes in heaven just
saying
no okay i'm just saying
oh i love the shower this is like my
shower at home
got some weird feelings uh like lung
feelings in here
let me imagine this somebody did drugs
in here
once oh yeah like a cigarette or like
some trans fats or something like that
that's drugs right
yeah i definitely feel like i have a
very somber feeling in here
like from the bathtub in general or just
the room in general i don't know why
i'm drawn to the bathtub that's for sure
but like a reflection like a bad
reflection yeah
i'm sure somebody has has laid in here
and thought about something
you know like yeah despair yeah and i
feel
that i definitely feel somber
like sad
it's like crying sad i don't cry soon
that's healthy or it tastes a lot
or a dog's commercial
yeah definitely snapchat is weird it's
freaking me out
you gonna get in it again
you don't have to do anything you don't
want to do we didn't make you do this
yeah but it's cool that you did
yeah can i take a picture of you
standing in the bathtub yeah please
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this is definitely some sort of snapshot
of despair
like looking at it i don't know like i
can imagine
janice or whoever laying here
and feeling like very heavily
sad and maybe even unloved in a way
yeah this is like freaked me out
a lot be like chilling now and under
trying yeah
oh did you get your picture yeah okay
oh
have you ever been in a hotel with the
old hairdryers oh my god yeah oh my god
this
those are scarier than those um
your first time would you remind if i
had like
a little like alone time in here yeah
absolutely yeah no i don't mind we'll be
back and then
uh take as much time as you need no just
two minutes okay
okay
so we're back in after you were alone
with the room yes
and you made a friend i see you too
so i went back to this corner
and i was standing here
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and i just felt
a lot of sadness like uh like i
started tearing up like actually it's
hearing him um
i stood here for a while and
they went over here started to feel a
little sick
went over there like to the other side i
didn't really feel too much
then i went in the kitchen
and really
started to feel like very like
like i was up against here started very
angry
um and so ed whereas before you weren't
really getting much felt that like going
up against here yeah
kind of feeling like this would be a
great place to do heroin
um but i don't know if she did or
anything
i definitely felt some anger and then
i went and i grabbed my friends out in
comfort and just took a sniff
and it is absolutely foul but oh yeah
yeah that that corner was really the
i don't know she got in a corner but i
think she died on
this side of the um
hotel um
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and i definitely
felt that sadness but
i don't know the sequence of events or
anything
but
thank you do you think that there's any
like
do you feel like what you're feeling is
her
or is it like so many experiences here
compounded
cause i imagine maybe even people that
were like you know when you kind of
you look up to people that are tragic
you kind of follow in there
kind of like where they've gone and to
feel that's
you know going to like jim morrison's
grave site i'm sure has a lot of stuff
so you think maybe there's also a little
bit of that too like i mean people who
have addictions or you know have that
sort of lonely life
or what have you to be near other people
that they look up to they've also been
lonely like oh i
you know your songs mean something to me
or yeah you know yeah they've left their
energy here yeah
yeah so how do you tap into like her
energy or is it just
it just like i felt it just a couple
times
yeah you know um
mostly having this bottle my hand
looking out at the street
yeah because you put that right in the
middle of the table like kind of like
like it was not do that you didn't put
that did i do that
i thought you did that i put it in the
center of the table
i've been the one the whole time but um
and another thing was that tub yeah just
sitting there
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not like sorry for myself just
kind of the tub in the corner are kind
of close to each other too you know sort
of right yeah
yeah that same energy yeah and like i
don't know the technical terms for
anything i didn't study this
yeah what did you say about at uw
madison michael badgers
oh i studied communication arts like
radio television
virus much oh yeah violence no asd
asd building um just grade writing
which i don't use and then um creative
writing get english
yeah i'm getting i'm getting a resume
right now just threw your imdb in there
and they're all good
i did creative writing i did a little
bit of comm arts but i was an art major
bfa in illustration don't use that
so yeah i mean i do write but not like
my first screenplay was trash
i remember my professor reading at me
like why so he literally
was like why for a lot of the choices
that i made
so aaron's also feeling that i'm also
feeling that
no but like the thing is i came in here
i'm not like a sad person
like i'm typically i would say in like
a good mood i just get like very much
into my work or whatever i get like
annoyed at work but you're not like
depressed i'm not a depressed person
yeah
and like um my life is very stable
i have a great job a boyfriend a dog
really want to do that
and like really great friends like haley
and a lot of people from
chicago who move down here with me so
i'm like a family person
so i guess what you're saying is you're
not someone who's just like
it's it's not just everything's a
trigger for you to be whatever so it's
coming from a place of like oh this is
like hitting me pretty hard okay yeah
um if you were to tell me oh this is
actually room 104 and she didn't die
here i'd be like well that's [ __ ] up
because there's definitely some
yeah in here um and also be kind of
pissed
yeah you guys let me on so much thank
you for checking out this video
if you want to check out the three-part
special on ghost town about janice
joplin you can find it in the
description below
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off to not have fun