10.
Stabbed to Death Mia Ayliffe-Chung was living her best life.
At only 21 years old, the British girl was touring the world with a group of like-minded
backpackers.
It was the ultimate adventure for a girl in her 20s.
But while staying at a hostel in Australia, the dream turned into a nightmare when a French
man walked through the doors and stabbed Mia to death in a heartless, cruel, and completely
unprovoked attack.
Before her life was cut short, Mia had travelled to exotic destinations like Indonesia, Turkey,
Morocco, and India.
Yet despite traveling to places that some might consider unsafe, it was in Australia,
in a hostel filled with young adventurers, where Mia met her end.
Of course, it was not Mia’s fault.
It was Smail Ayad’s fault, the 29-year-old French national who went berserk at the backpacker’s
hostel in Home Hill, Queensland.
Nobody knows exactly what happened with this guy, but the local police did say he was smoking
marijuana before the incident – then during the attack, he was singing the national anthem
of France.
He also shouted Allahu akbar at one point, though there’s nothing to suggest a terrorist
attack.
In this case, people close to the incident believe Ayad was obsessed with Mia.
He was also jealous that she didn't like him back.
So, in a fit of rage, he walked into the room where Mia was laying in her bunk, grabbed
her by the hair, and stabbed her to death.
He also went outside and chased the hostel’s dog, stabbing it to death as well before the
police arrived and subdued him.
9.
Hostel Cannibal Hostel owner Mandy Miles was shocked when
one of her guests turned out to be a cannibal!
Mandy couldn't believe her eyes when she witnessed Matthew Williams, a 34-year-old guy who looked
completely ordinary, leaning over the woman whom he had just tried to eat.
The victim was 22-year-old Cerys Yemm, and she was lying in a pool of her own blood when
Mary walked in on the ghoulish scene.
According to her statement, she was shocked and frightened and didn't know what to do.
Matthew kept his head down, didn't look at her, and almost seemed as if he was waiting
for her to leave.
She managed to squeak, “Do you know what you’re doing to that girl?”
And he replied, “That’s no girl.”
At this point, it was pretty obvious Williams was a lunatic.
Mandy closed the door and then held the knob tightly so he couldn’t escape.
She quickly phoned the police and waited for them to arrive.
A single female officer was the first to arrive on the scene.
She needed to zap Williams with a Taser to subdue him, but somehow, the shot from the
Taser actually killed him.
But just what in the world happened that caused all this bloodshed, and in a small Welsh town
no less?
There is still no answer.
According to The Guardian, the hostel was being used to house single homeless men.
There have also been claims that Williams was a paranoid schizophrenic.
8.
Grenade at Migrant Hostel At a migrant asylum hostel in Germany, a grenade
was thrown through the window.
Amazingly, the grenade didn't explode.
According to the report from the BBC, the incident happened during the night in the
small town of Villingen-Schwenningen.
Somebody pulled the pin out of the grenade, tossed it into a hostel housing 170 immigrants,
and then walked away.
Much to this person's disappointment, the grenade didn't go off.
Nobody was killed, and quite frankly, that’s a miracle.
It is extremely rare for a grenade to simply not explode.
It almost defies all logic.
Everybody was evacuated from the hostel and bomb disposal experts were called in to deal
with the situation.
They did a controlled explosion to dispose of the bomb.
But perhaps most disturbing of all is that the perpetrator was never caught.
Whoever did it was sneaky enough to throw the grenade under the cover of darkness and
keep on walking.
7.
The Childers Palace Fire On June 23, 2000, a horrible fire killed 15
backpackers at the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in Australia.
Nine women and six men were burned up like pieces of meat left on the grill.
The incident started just before 12:30 in the morning.
It was in the downstairs recreation room where a man named Robert Paul Long purposely lit
a fire that spread up the walls, into the stairwell, quickly engulfing the entire building.
Since it was in the middle of the night, most of the travelers were sleeping.
Smoke filled the building, it lost power, and most of the victims simply never woke
up.
As tragic as this was, they didn't experience any pain.
They were knocked unconscious by the toxic fumes and then cooked alive.
At the time of the disaster, 88 people were staying in the building.
70 of them survived the fire, with ten people suffering minor burns and other injuries.
Most of the injuries were from people jumping out of the windows onto the neighboring buildings
in a desperate bid to escape.
Seven of the fatalities were British, three were local, and two were from the Netherlands.
There was also an Irish tourist, a Japanese tourist, and a South Korean tourist who died
in the fire.
In the case of Robert Paul Long, he had recently been evicted from the hostel because he wasn't
paying his rent.
He was also known to hate backpackers.
Oh yeah, and before leaving, he had threatened to burn down the hostel.
This time, the threat came true.
After the incident, Robert was sentenced to life in prison.
6.
Paramedic Punched in the Face Yet another bizarre attack happened at an
Australian hostel, and yet again with a tourist from France!
This time, the French tourist brutally attacked paramedics who were responding to an incident
at a hostel in Queensland.
The paramedics were called very early in the morning, at about 3:40 AM.
They had received reports that a man was feeling unwell and needed medical assistance.
But when the paramedics arrived, they were forced to call for police backup and to hide
in their vehicles because an agitated French guy was trying to beat them up.
When the paramedics rolled up to the building, the French tourist punched a female paramedic
right in her face, reaching his fist through her window.
He then opened the door of the ambulance, dragged her out of the vehicle, and kept punching
her!
Another paramedic ran to her rescue, pushed the French man out of the way, and got her
back into the safety of the ambulance.
Police arrived shortly after and arrested the lunatic, who apparently had some kind
of mental issue.
Last we heard, he was being charged for assaulting a public officer.
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5.
Robbed in Colombia Tourists in Bogota were having a pretty rough
time before the pandemic.
In the historical La Candelaria district of Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, armed
men were walking into hostels, robbing tourists, and sometimes even assaulting people.
Hostel owners admitted that in just eight months, there were at least seven occasions
of armed individuals storming hostels and robbing the people who thought they were taking
an exotic South American vacation.
In one case, an American tourist was sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
To make matters even worse, none of these robberies seemed to have been investigated
by the police.
Foreigners who were the victims of assaults and robberies took to social media to complain
about the lack of enthusiasm by police officers to investigate the crime scenes.
In the incident of the American tourist being assaulted at gunpoint, she said that the police
simply drove her to the international airport and then stuck her on a plane out of the country.
4.
Dead in a Suitcase At a hostel in West London, a woman was discovered
in a rather unusual place.
She was found dead and crammed into a suitcase.
Her name was Joanna Borucka, a 41-year-old national from Poland.
Her body was uncovered at the Pay and Sleep Hostel at around 3:00 PM on Friday, December
18.
But what's really crazy is that the last time she was seen alive was nearly a month before,
on November 20.
And in addition to the ghoulish discovery of her corpse, her boyfriend from the month
prior has gone missing and has yet to be found.
It's not clear exactly how long the suitcase was at the hostel.
It was discovered by a painter who noticed a foul stench coming out of the mysterious
piece of luggage.
According to the hostel residents, the woman had been living on the top floor for quite
some time, until a Polish guy told others at the hostel that she had gone out and probably
wouldn't be back.
At the same time, her boyfriend went missing too
The case heated up in January when police launched an international manhunt for the
man they believe murdered this unfortunate girl.
They say he's a Lithuanian named Petras Zalynas, and he could be hiding in Germany.
All these months later though, they still haven’t found him – and no official m
otive for the murder has been given.
3.
Nightly Kidnapping A British backpacker traveling around Australia
accidentally got herself kidnapped by another guy who was staying at her hostel.
The girl's name is Mary Kate Heys, only 20 years old at the time.
The kidnapping went down when she was woken up at about 4:30 in the morning by a Swedish
backpacker who she claimed was in a manic state.
He was completely nuts, pretty much begging her to go on a road trip.
Even though he looked out of his mind, Mary agreed to go with him.
They were supposed to travel from Mooloolaba, which is located on the Sunshine Coast, to
the small town of Gympie, near Brisbane.
But things got heated once the journey was underway.
The man refused to let Mary out of the car.
He was clearly disturbed, ranting about aliens and trying to convince Mary that he himself
was an alien!
She couldn't believe what was happening, especially since he had been totally normal just the
day before.
Fearing for her life, Mary managed to secretly text her father on the other side of the world,
sending him her live location and asking that he phoned the police in Australia.
She even gave him the exact description of the car they were driving.
Luckily, the police intervened before anything crazy could happen.
The man was taken away and likely sent to a mental health hospital.
As for Mary, she kept on with her travels – though she was a little more careful about
who she got into the car with.
2.
Death in Cambodia There was an absolutely bizarre death at a
hostel in Cambodia that doesn't even seem real.
The victim was a girl named Natalie Seymour, from Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom.
She was only 22 years old, backpacking across Southeast Asia.
It should have been the time of her life, but instead she was discovered dead in her
hostel before her trip was even half over.
She was staying with her Canadian friend in the touristic Cambodian city of Kampot.
But rather than being murdered by some kind of lunatic, she was killed by taking the wrong
medicine.
According to the in-depth report by the BBC, Natalie had purchased an unknown drug to treat
a severe spout of diarrhea.
At the place where the girls were staying, there was no nearby medical facility.
The only hope Natalie had to get better was to take the strange medicine that you purchased
at a random pharmacy.
Hours after taking the medicine, Natalie fell terribly ill.
She texted her mother in the United Kingdom and explained she was very sick.
She had stomach cramps and chest pain because she was puking so much.
A local Cambodian took Natalie to a doctor, but the girl was unconscious by the time they
arrived, so she was simply sent back to the hostel.
Hours later, staff found her dead in her room.
After an autopsy, it was revealed that Natalie died from liver damage.
Her liver had probably been destroyed by whatever medicine she was taking, ending what should
have been a long and promising life.
1.
Snuck into Bed At a hostel in Miami Beach, the unthinkable
happened.
A woman was on vacation with her boyfriend.
For the nightly outing, they chose to go to a bar on Miami Beach and do a little partying.
But at 1:30 in the morning, she left the club by herself and returned to the hostel to go
to sleep.
It's not clear exactly why her boyfriend remained at the club, but he just didn't go back with
her.
After all, he probably assumed she would be safe since they were paying for a private
room inside the hostel facility.
When the unnamed woman got back to the hostel, it turned out to be anything but safe.
Because her boyfriend didn't have a key to get back in, she left the door to her room
ajar.
After lying down on her bed, a total stranger ended up strolling into her room and climbing
into bed with her.
This was the worst possible thing that could have happened.
The stranger turned out to be Joel Patrick Bush, a crazy person from Alabama.
The 61-year-old vagrant then proceeded to assault the girl right there in the hostel!
Luckily, things didn't get too far.
The girl yelled loudly enough to draw attention and scare the guy out of the room.
The police were quick to arrive and arrest him, charging him with one count of sexual
battery.
However, it never was revealed what the lunatic was even doing in Florida or how he managed
to get into the secured building.
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