Is this story really a true one? They said it happened in Paris at the "turn of the last century", but I had a hard time believing it.
If true, what were the circumstances around the actual story?
It is based on an old urban legend. Even though they said it was fact, it is fiction.
shareTo me it just sounds like that lady was crazy. Maybe her mom had already died days (or years) before, and she got confused about which hotel she was staying at (suffering some type of dementia most likely)
..or maybe not, lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSVP9LuRhU
Chances are if it was true the hotel was behind killing her mother and getting rid of the body...perhaps there was another Room 245 in the hotel?
Find it hard to believe that the mother just disappeared.
This is one of my favourite stories to tell, although I'd already heard it and it's perfectly reasnoble explanation a long time before I saw it here. The woman was found to be suffering from the plague, and instead of cause mass panic or illness nationwide, the woman was killed and her body disposed of, and in the time that her daughter was out fetching medicine, the hotel staff emptied the room and treated the returning woman as if she was deluded.
"We all know Melina has a little case of the runs"
That's the basic storyline of a Jean Simmons movie from the 50's.
shareYep; it's called "So Long at the Fair."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042980/board/nest/180434586
its creepy how johnathan frakes states fqct without any research done because the explantion of the woman having the plague and being.murdered is scary as *beep*.
shareTrue! Except that she wasn't murdered...they simply recognized that she had a terminal illness and didn't want anyone to find out, or there'd be mass panic during their busy season.
I like you, Um. I like largeness...share
This was an exact remake of an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, "Into Thin Air".
shareYep, this one's explained in the back of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" (where it's told with the title "Maybe You Will Remember...") The story of a hotel and entire city covering up the death of a guest suffering from some form of plague was "reported as a true story in England in 1911 in the London Daily Mail and in American in 1889 in the Detroit Free Press." It inspired two novels, a movie, and various retellings such as the one in the book and "Room 245." No police reports were filed or newspaper stories printed, so it was as if the girl's mother had never existed.
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