A mysterious magician’s box
“My daughter and I checked into a hotel in Las Vegas for a weekend of relaxation. As we entered our room, we found the luggage rack expanded next to the bed, with a black magician’s box sitting on top. It had a magician’s business card slipped into a slot on the front, and a combination lock, which was locked. The box was the exact size of a human head. (Full disclosure: I’m not actually positive it was a head in a box, but it totally could have been!)
“My daughter thought it was some kind of contest put on by the hotel—if you can break into the box, you win what is inside. I was convinced it was a head. (I tend to go towards the macabre.) We tried to break in (maybe the combination was the phone number on the business card?), but didn’t succeed. We called the front desk, and they sent security. Not housekeeping—security! The guard said he had no idea why it had been left in the room, and promptly removed it. We never did find out what was inside. I still say it was body parts. Why else would a magician leave his box behind?!” —Jennifer Campana
A presidential pet
“A goat dressed like former US President Abraham Lincoln. There’s no more story here, at least none that I know. Working as a cleaner in a hotel, went to clean a guest’s room, dreading it since they’d been there for a stag do, found the goat. Don’t know how it got there, or how it was removed, but it made a good story for a while.” —Reddit user bluepaul
A book about salad
“As the owner of a bed and breakfast for the last eight years, the craziest thing I ever found was an old battered notebook with “Why I love salad” written on the front and then literally 40-80 pages on why salad was amazing. There’d be the occasional suggestion that the author believed salad to be alive in some sense. Looked like it had been written on and off over the course of several years.” —Reddit user ShaneMcDeath
Maybe this guest was just looking for some motivation to get their five a day? But no need to wade through his weighty tome, find out here 8 clear signs you’re not eating enough vegetables.
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- Christopher Mitchell, travel blogger
- Katharine Moffitt & Jessica Newton, Pechanga Resort & Casino
