The Clown Motel

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On a cable ghost show I was watching a few nights ago they had this story on it about a motel in Nevada: When you are on the highway in Nevada traveling the 441 miles between Las Vegas and Reno you might want to stop at some point. Maybe even stay overnight somewhere. One of the towns out there in nowheresville is one named Tonopah, once known as the greatest, richest, and best mining town in the world. In the early 1900's it was a mining town. On February 3, 1911, there was an accident in the mine and 17 men died. One of the men's kids wanted to build a monument of some kind in remembrance of their dad, Clarence David. They decided to build a motel. David loved clowns and so in this motel are about 600 clowns of all shapes and sizes. Some are painted on the wall. Some are in the form of nic-nacs on shelves, but, in each and every room there are clowns. Can you imagine? It seems that a ghost named The Trickster inhabits this hotel and makes himself known in weird ways. Some visitors are greeted by The Trickster and they see him walking over to them from the cemetery next door to the motel. He likes to appear as a shadow figure or they might be awakened by him standing at the foot of their bed. The Trickster can be very disconcerting. How do you feel about clowns? They weird me out. Image courtesy of public domain pictures.