Have you ever booked a hotel room that didn't live up to the pictures online?

You thought you were getting a tub and instead you get a step-in shower? And not even the nice kind with an overhead showerhead and spa quality products. Like one with plastic walls with someone's hair still stuck to it, or where the

bed spread makes noise every time you move because it's basically made out of plastic,

where instead of the promised scenic view, your window looks out at a window

of an apartment in the building next door where an exhibitionist just happens to live?

Turns out, you might want to consider yourself lucky after a night in a place

like that if you manage to make it out alive. Welcome to Strange and Un explained with, Daisy Egan. I love a night away at a nice hotel as much as the next guy, and it takes a lot for me to complain, or worse, take to the internet to complain.

I once spent the night in a motel six that was so disgusting I couldn't even make it through the night.

But did I bother leaving a review?

No, because staying at a motel six was on me.

If you expect anything other than a filthy nightmare

where someone almost certainly died in the room very recently,

that's a you problem. My one-star review isn't going to make a difference, but at the very least I do expect to not be murdered.

And I definitely expect to not be murdered by the hotel owner. If I'm not going to make it through a night, I want it to be because I decided to leave, not because I decided to leave, not because I was chased down hallways that led nowhere to doors that opened on brick walls and ultimately to a pit filled with lie in the basement.

You know what I mean?

If that were to happen to me, I would be leaving a very strongly worded review, for sure.

Of course, the people who checked into H.H. Holmes' Murder Hotel wouldn't have been able to leave a nasty Yelp review.

Not only because the internet didn't exist in the mid 1800s, but because they never checked

out.

Chicago in the 1890 was a hoppin place to be.

City planners had done a bang up job of rebuilding after the Great Fire of October 1871.

The announcement that their Fair City would be home to the World's Fair in 1893 brought the

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