Would you stay at the creepy CLOWN motel filled with hundreds of wax dolls that’s next to a cemetery?
A CLOWN motel in the middle of the desert was named “America’s scariest motel” although it plays host to bikers, truckers and other long-haul drivers who don’t mind the creepy theme.
The Clown Motel located in the Tonopah, Nevada is housed right in the middle of the Nevada Desert and in close proximity to the Old Tonopah cemetery.
The place looks like the set of a horror film is a real motel with paying customers. Many people are terrified of the creepy theme, even though, according to former owner Bob Perchetti, they only have “happy clowns.”
People from all over the world send clowns to the motel, which has seen it’s collection grown to over 60 clowns.
The grinning neon clown in the parking lot is a small taste of what customers can expect.
Visitors that suffer from coulrophobia are advised to keep driving and find another place to crash.
As you walk through the lobby there area portraits on the wall and shelves filled with glassy-eyed clowns watching your every move.
If that wasn’t freaky enough there is a life-sized clown seated in a chair like a crazed guest who outstayed his welcome.
However, you might still get a good night’s sleep because the 28 bedrooms don’t actually have the clowns in doll form and the pictures in the room can be removed or covered with a cloth at the customer’s request.
The motel gets even more frightening as it neighbors a cemetery right next to it where 300 people were buried, their graves marked with leaning wooden crosses and names recorded on tin signs.
Several of the people buried at the cemetery died of mysterious plague in 1902, along with 14 miners who perished in a fire in 1911.
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Despite a scary overview, there have been some positive reviews on Tripadvisor with one woman saying, “I was delighted with this motel.
“Definitely a novel experience. Barring the transparent creepiness, the locality is infested with black cats and the cleaning-man wears clown pants!”
On Google reviews, a guest comments, “DON’T judge a book by its cover. The outside looks questionable (cause you know…. Clowns) but the newly renovated rooms will definitely surprise you! Very clean and nice looking.”