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Apparently, nearly every establishment has a ghastly story of a guest who checked out of life – while still checked into the hotel.

“I used to ask my hospitality professors, ‘What’s the weirdest thing that ever happened to you while working at a hotel?’” says Stacy Jean. “Their answers inevitably began with ‘Well, the thing that people don't realize is that people die in hotels …’”

“Almost everyone who has ever been a manager in a hotel has encountered a dead body,” agrees Susan Deluzain Barry, adding: “Except me!!!” She goes on to share a particularly gruesome anecdote involving “a woman [who] had too much to drink, slipped into her Jacuzzi, and literally BOILED to death. True story.” Shudder.

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