The franchise begins with a group of haunted house creators who lease the hotel to open a "Hell House" attraction. On opening night in October 2009, a catastrophic "malfunction" occurred, resulting in the deaths of 15 people, including staff and guests.
Check-in was a blur. The receptionist seemed... altered, her eyes taking on a milky white hue as she handed me my key. I brushed it off as a weird side effect of the hotel's apparently faulty lighting. the abaddon hotel
The hotel was built by Andrew Tully. While it operated as a standard hotel for a time, Tully harbored dark intentions. Lore suggests Tully was part of a cult or practiced occult rituals intended to open a "gate" within the property. Shortly after the hotel's opening, Tully and his staff disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving the building abandoned for decades. The franchise begins with a group of haunted
The name is deliberate. In Hebrew theology, means "The Destroyer" or "The Place of Destruction." It is the angel of the abyss, the warden of the bottomless pit. The hotel is not just a place where people die; it is a place where souls are consumed —trapped in a loop of reliving their final terrified moments for the amusement of Andrew Tully and his choir of dead clowns. The receptionist seemed
The room itself was... functional, I suppose. The bed creaked and groaned like a tortured animal, but I managed to get some rest. That was, until the hallucinations started. At first, I thought it was just the lingering effects of a long day's travel, but as the night wore on, the visions grew more vivid. I saw shadowy figures flitting around the edges of my vision, heard whispers in a language I couldn't quite decipher.
Revealed in the sequels, the hotel sits atop a cave system containing a portal to another dimension. The goal of the haunting is to harvest souls to keep the portal open or to allow the entity to cross over fully.
Condemned / Hazardous. Accessibility: Restricted by local authorities. Threat Level: Extreme.