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The haunted hotel: inside the former brothel serving nightmare fetishists

7 mins | Jul 25, 2019

Why do some people love to be scared? The haunted hotel industry is thriving thanks to those who fetishize nightmares. Josiah Hesse, writing in the Guardian, explores the dark corners of Colorado's most famous haunted hotel.

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