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be responding to a bunch of your questions.
Alright, so a hostel is an inexpensive alternative to a hotel or motel that offers affordable
food and lodging for a group of people.
A lot of students, workers or travelers take advantage of hostels because it is generally
very cheap to just rent a bed in many parts of the world.
However, there have been a ton of people who have had creepy and scary things happen to
them while they stayed in a hostel.
So, let’s jump right into this list of the top 10 scary hostel stories.
Starting off this scary list in at number 10 with a Teen who set herself on fire in
a hostel.
A 16 year old girl set herself on fire in her hostel room back on October 18, 2016.
According to the police investigation, the young girl set herself on fire because she
didn’t want to stay in the hostel.
Hmm…
I don’t want to sound too obvious, but if you don’t want to stay in that hostel, then
you should’ve packed your bags, went down to the reception and checked yourself out.
She didn’t leave a suicide note or anything in her room and there were traces of liquid
that was discovered near her body.
Apparently, the girl called her mother just minutes before committing suicide and she
wanted her permission to leave the hostel, but she refused.
This is such a tragic case and I wonder what was so horrible about this hostel.
Obviously something must’ve happened to her in this place or else she wouldn’t have
committed suicide.
And her mother probably should’ve been more understanding or at least tried to listen
to her daughter.
This makes me never want to stay in a hostel.
Peeping tom creeps onto this list in at number 9.
Back on October 13, 2016, a man staying at a student hostel in Singapore was caught taking
videos of male students while they showered.
Wow, talk about a huge invasion of privacy.
Why can’t communal showers have proper stalls and doors so that no one can peep at you from
the next stall over?
So, after he was arrested, police found about 70 videos of young men showering on peeping
toms phone.
He would hide in a shower cubicle, and film their entire shower.
Apparently, before he was caught he desperately tried to delete all of the videos but the
students were smart and checked the recently deleted folder and found the 66 incriminating
video clips.
The creeper begged them to not turn him in but obviously they called the police.
This peeping tom is way too creepy to let him get away with this.
And sadly, this type of creeping has been happening more and more in hostels and public
washrooms.
Collapsing in at number 8 we have the roof that almost crushed 190 people.
A girls’ hostel at the University of Science in Malaysia was forced to evacuate 190 students
when the roof began to collapse in 2016.
I know a lot of students wish that their school burned down in order to get out of class but
I’m sure these students were thinking the opposite.
A week before this incident happened, the university got a complaint from a student
about a leak in her fourth-floor room at the hostel.
When the school investigated it they saw that they were being negligent and that the roof
wasn’t properly supported at all.
So before they would have 190 wrongful death lawsuits on their hands, they tried to get
everyone out the building before the roof collapsed and crushed everyone inside.
Luckily no one got hurt, but something tells me that this school is not out of the woods
yet.
I’m sure that they had to pay a bunch of money to repair the roof and I’m sure that
they had to settle with the kid’s families.
Spy camera creeps onto this list in at number 7.
CCTC cameras were found hiding in the ceiling inside of a bathroom of a girls’ hostel
in India.
Wow this is so messed up.
How long have these cameras been hiding in there?
Students who lived in this hostel noticed these cameras when they saw a small red blinking
light coming from the ceiling.
When they went to check things out, they were absolutely shocked when they found a professional
CCTV camera installed in their bathroom.
The girls began screaming and immediately broke the cameras.
They reported it to the hostel management which led to absolute chaos.
These girls must feel so violated and grossed out.
If I were them I would definitely find a new hostel and I would check every nook and cranny
for a hidden camera.
They are going to be affected by this for the rest of their lives.
I would never trust a hostel, Airbnb or hotel again if I experienced this.
I wouldn’t even want to use a public restroom.
The world’s most haunted hostel scares us in at number 6.
Have you ever wanted to see if you could survive the night in one of the most haunted hostels
in the world?
No?
Well, me neither but for some people, this sounds really appealing.
In Ottawa, Canada, there is an old jail that has been half converted into a hostel that
comes equipped with beds, linen, ghostly screams, sleep paralysis and unwanted visitors standing
at the edge of your bed.
My wife stayed here years ago, and she said that some creepy stuff happened to her.
This prison was supposed to be a safe housing for criminals in the area but instead, men
and women were so mistreated here, and they were even hung in this prison.
So now, it is considered to e one of the most haunted buildings in Canada.
So, the next time you are in Ottawa, and you are looking for a good scare you should stay
here because you will most likely be staying in an old prison cell that gets locked at
night and maybe if you are unlucky, you will have an uninvited ghost stay with you in your
cell.
Would you guys actually consider staying here?
I think I’d rather stay in a Hilton but that’s just me.
Four girls kidnapped comes onto this list in at number 5.
In 2013, four girls aged between 12-15 were literally dragged out of their hostel by 25
boys who were armed with knives and other deadly weapons.
The boys were extremely violent as they barged through the hostel doors.
They picked up of four girls and dragged them outside of the hostel.
Witnesses said that the boys were extremely drunk and that they took the girls to a deserted
place.
The poor girls were raped for two hours before they were able to run away.
Seriously though, what is up with the security at hostels.
I understand that they are supposed to be a cheaper alternative for travelers but come
on.
This is exactly why hostels have a bad reputation.
If they had stronger security measures put in place, a lot of these crimes wouldn’t
happen.
I mean, it’s not rocket science.
The police were unable to identify the 25 boys who were involved in this crime so sadly,
they will probably get away with it and they might even do the same thing to another hostel.
Woman stabbed to death outside of Australian Hostel comes in at number 4.
Well, this is probably the worst thing that can happen to you when you are staying at
a hostel.
But actually, Australian hostels have a very bad reputation.
A British woman was killed after she was brutally stabbed at a hostel by a man who shouted “Allah
Akbar” just before the vicious attack.
After he killed this British woman, he attempted to murder two more people at a Sydney hostel.
One of the men who were attacked later died as a result of his injuries.
The Frenchman was arrested at the scene and he was immediately taken into custody.
Originally, the police thought that he was an extremist, but the police later discovered
that the attacker was in love with the woman who he murdered and that he might have been
insane.
I think it is safe to say that he was mentally insane if he followed her to Australia and
attacked her with a knife until she died.
Number 3 brings us to a terrible Hostel owner who raped 14 girls.
At a hostel in Likabai, India, 14 young girls were raped by the owner of the hostel over
the course of three years.
This hostel was affiliated with a nearby private school, so most of the students were living
in this hostel.
The assaults went on for such a long period of time because the owner threatened the girls
with worse violence if they reported him and even the school’s principal refused to believe
what was happening and he even attempted to cover up the truth.
These girls were between the ages of four – thirteen years old and some of the girls
even tried scaling the walls of the school to report the owner to the police.
That’s how desperate they were.
The hostel owner was eventually arrested for sexual abuse and molestation after the girls
reported him to the police.
Oh, and did I mention that he is also a teacher in the school.
Why are people so messed up?
He took advantage of these young girls who trusted him.
I’m just glad they were able to report him and now he is getting exactly what he deserves.
Grenade thrown at German Hostel lands itself in at number 2.
Unidentified attackers threw a live hand grenade at a hostel that was housing asylum seeking
people in south-western Germany.
The grenade was found at night near a building that had 170 people sleeping inside of it.
The pin had been pulled out but thankfully the grenade failed to detonate.
Is this real-life right now?
These people are so lucky to be alive, but I would be too terrified to stay there another
night.
And imagine being the one who found the grenade.
This was clearly an act of extreme hate and violence but taken to a whole other level.
In 2015, there were 1,005 attacks on refugee homes in Germany which is absolutely insane.
Some of the people at the hostel were evacuated while the bomb squad worked on removing the
live grenade.
There are millions of people who have been seeking asylum in Germany and a lot of them
came from Syria.
It’s just extremely sad that they come from a war-torn country and they just can’t feel
safe anywhere they go.
A cannibal bites his way into number 1.
No, I’m not talking about Hannibal Lecture, this is a real-life cannibal who ate the flesh
off of a young woman.
At a hostel for the homeless in Argoed, South Wales Australia, Matthew Williams met a woman,
asked her to come back to his hostel and then he killed her before eating one of her eyeballs
and parts of her face.
Well, her first mistake was agreeing to go back to his hostel.
Like seriously, you should never ever go back to someone’s hostel if you just met them,
especially if they are super creepy.
The hostel owner walked in on the horrific incident and she saw the crazy man killing
this woman.
He was covered in blood and he mutilated the victims body so badly that you could barely
tell that it was a woman.
The man actually died after he was tasered by the police with 50,000 volts of electricity.
It is believed that he was high on a cocktail of serious and heavy drugs because he had
black eyes when she saw him.
Well there you guys have it…