Creepy America Episode 5: Hotel California

By Noah Hoffmann

"There's an America you never knew existed..."

A series of horror short-stories, "Creepy America" recounts the webshow of the same name. Filmed, edited, and published by friends Zoey and Liam, the two traveled from state to state trying to find the truth behind the strange happenings, local hauntings, and urban legends all across the continental United State. Told years later from the perspective of Liam, these tales describe the events that transpired on the show, from the evolving friendship of the two co-hosts to the vast conspiracy uncovered piece by piece as more and more secrets are uncovered.

In this episode, Liam finds a man named Stevie Sims who claims that the “Hotel California,” the one described by the hit song of the same name, is not only a real place, it’s a dangerous one. And he needs to find a way to escape it before it’s too late.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: Nov 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463408735

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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Creepy America: Episode 5

Hotel California

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords.

Copywrite 2019 by Noah Hoffmann

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

The Adventures of Solaire

 fantasy adventure filled with magic, steampunk, and pirates.

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Episode 5

Creepy America

Episode 5

Hotel California

Bethesda, Maryland

When you stop and think about it, life has a strange momentum all of its own, doesn’t it? During the time you’re trying to get something started, whether that be a career, a commitment, or even a hobby, it feels like an uphill battle. It's exhausting. It's not fun. But if you have enough willpower, you can finally crest that hill and give it one final push, and then it’ll be rolling down the mountain side, and instead of propelling it, you’re just trying to keep up.

That’s what I think about when I reminisce about our fifth episode, Hotel California. We had completed our trials by fire: the cohabitation , the methodology behind the research, the deadliness of our subject matter. One we had arrived at Bethesda, that large rock with Creepy America painted on the side was barreling down the summit. All that was left to do was chase after it and see where it led.

So I’m going to meet you back here at nine, right? Zoey asked as I got out of the car.

It was a solution to the problem we had been discussing since Hurricane. We had two needy children, Faces of America and Creepy America, and both were demanding our attention in ever increasing volumes. Particularly problematic was the research portion; for Faces, we had to spend a good deal of time on foot tracking down people who were worth interviewing, and ever since realizing that all our previous research topics were bogus, we had to do that for Creepy America too.

After shooting around various ideas, we decided that the best solution was just to split it up. Zoey could spend her time looking around for interviewees. I would ask around town to see if I could find inklings of the bizarre and strange. Neither one of us would advance past that point; Zoey still wanted a cameraman and it’d just be stupid for me to go exploring the dark on my own. But this way, we cut in half the time it took to do one thing.

Hence the question. Zoey was dropping me off at the Ritzman hotel that was  just outside the boundaries of the town. My plan was to spend some time chatting with both the local staff and some of the out-of-towners, seeing if I