At first glance, this photo posted to Reddit several days ago looks like nothing more than your average abandoned motel. If anything, it's in better shape than most. But then you decide to zoom a little closer.
Yeah, probably best to just keep driving. Then again, the description helps to put the seemingly gruesome scene into perspective:
"I shot an old fenced off motel in the ghost town of Amboy, CA. I noticed later that one room looks to have blood spatter on the walls."
Wait a second, that explains nothing! In fact, it's even more horrifying now. On top of that, most of the comments on the picture are to the effect of, "I live not far from here and all the stories about this place are creepy as hell." So what in the world is up with this motel of nightmares?
Enter Metro News, who point out that while the town of Amboy (located in the Mojave desert along Route 66) has indeed been virtually abandoned since the early 1970s when Interstate 40 moved in on its turf, the motel itself was the location of several movie shoots including the 1986 thriller "The Hitcher." So the most logical explanation is that one of those films simply left some fake blood behind on one of the windows. But this is the Internet, after all. Who wants to be logical?
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