Episode 73: Hotel Of Horrors (Serial Killer - H. H. Holmes)
You’ve booked a room in a nice hotel that everyone calls “The Castle.” You quickly realize things are not what it seems here.
Doors with spikes attached. Vaults filled with acid. Secret peepholes in the rooms. Staircases that start and stop out of nowhere.
You see the “elasticity machine” it’s supposed to stretch your body so you can be taller. The owner wants to create a new race of giants…
Everything feels so strange. Why the weird maze like layout? And who is H. H. Holmes?
Source notes:
Book - “Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America’s First Serial Killer” - by Harold Schechter
Book - “Devil In The White City” - by Erik Larson
Documentary - “H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer”
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/hh-holmes
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-serial-killer-is-hanged
https://www.history.com/news/murder-castle-h-h-holmes-chicago
https://www.biography.com/news/american-ripper-hh-holmes-jack-the-ripper
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