It’s witching hour deep in the Nevada desert. The time of night when ghosts and demons are most likely to appear. I’m standing with a torch in an eerie, dark bedroom of the self-proclaimed “most haunted motel in America” to try and glimpse the paranormal in action.
“Can you feel that cold air?” says Christopher Alefeld, my ghost hunting guide for the night. “You can feel it in some of the rooms, it just feels different. More tense”.
Our ghost-detecting equipment (an “EMF Meter”) bleeps and lights up with activity, indicating it has picked up on changes in a nearby electromagnetic field. It feels like I’m a member of the Ghostbusters when I’m told a sudden unexplained spike in the EMF reading is considered evidence of the paranormal.
But here at the Clown Motel it’s a regular occurrence. They even have a disclaimer on their site about the potential risks involved with a supernatural encounter. And, yes, you heard correctly – because your run-of-the-mill regular haunted motel just ain’t scary enough, this is a clown-themed haunted motel.
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Located next door to an old cemetery in a historic mining town called Tonopah, dead miners and former murder and suicide victims, as well as those wiped out in the ‘Tonopah Plague’ of 1901, are said to use the 5000+ clowns that fill the motel’s adjoining clown museum as vessels to communicate with the living. And I’m staying the night.
Of course, I opted for the room with a “malevolent entity who has a tendency of waking our guests in the early hours of the morning”. Go hard or go home, that’s what I say. Now hand me that disclaimer!
I go to bed and despite myself, I drift off. Until suddenly I’m woken at 4am to a loud clatter in the room above. Isn’t that supposed to be an empty room? The sound of restless footsteps thudding around continues for a few minutes, then falls silent. I just hope whoever or whatever it is, isn’t too malevolent.
The next morning, I find I’ve survived the night. My ghostly experience seems the ideal way to…
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