The incredible horror at a motel in Texas

The funniest story I've heard in a very long time was from a hotel chain represantive that I meet at a conference earlier this year. It is pure gold.

The story is far too insane for me to keep for myself. We are going to South Texas, right at the border to Mexico.

The event took place in late October at a motel in the town of MacAllen.

Early one Saturday morning, a guest walks to the front desk. A travelling salesman from Canada. He is checking out. After checking out, which took less than a minute, he explained that unfortunately he had clogged the toilet. He tried to sort the issue out himself by flushing, but the water still did not go down properly.

A few hours later, around ten o'clock, the plumber arrived.

After struggling with the blockage for fifteen minutes with a vacuum pump and many other tools, he determines the issue was much too serious. He went down to the car, and retrieved a machine with a thick steel spiral, more than a dozen meters long, and five centimeters thick.

At the end of the spiral was a claw that could be operated from the other end. He slowly lowered the spiral into the toilet, still completely full of water.

Centimeter after centimeter, the drain was fed by the giant spiral, which rolled off the machine. When it got to three meters, he still hadn't found anything in the way. He decided to go deeper.

At five meters it stopped. But the claw could not grab any object that was in the way. Suddenly, the spiral quickly descended another two meters into the toilet. After struggling a bit with the machine, he tested the claw again.

He finally caught something! When he pulled the spiral back the seven meters through the drain, it turned out that a shower curtain had been in the way.

What kind of sick person had flushed a shower curtain, the plumber thought, and began to gather his tools.

Fifteen minutes later, the plumber took the stairs down to the reception.

There was now full blown chaos.

There was an ambulance on the street outside, as well as two fire engines and half a dozen police cars. A hysterically screaming woman was laying on a stretcher attended to by ambulance staff. Several police officers ran up the stairs towards her room, guns drawn.

She had stepped into the shower. Suddenly she had heard a strange scratching sound coming from the toilet. When she peeked out from behind the curtain, a tentacle of steel had emerged from the toilet, chased her around the bathroom and tried to grab her with a claw.

She had ducked, jumped and fought with the monstrous creature from hell for several minutes. Finally, the claw had grabbed her shower curtain and dragged it down the drain.

Peter Ternström

peter@granturismo.org