The Key at the Pine Ridge Motel, August 1996

S2E52 - The Key at the Pine Ridge Motel, August 1996

Published: June 25, 2026

Duration: 6:52

In August of 1996, my cousin Claire spent a single night at the Pine Ridge Motel off Route 9 in western Massachusetts. She was driving back to college early, trying to beat the heat, and she picked a place that looked cheap and quiet. But the room they gave her, number 14, had a deadbolt on the inside that didn't match the key. And the woman at the front desk kept saying the same thing: 'Don't open the door after midnight, not for anyone, not even if they say they're me.' Claire promised she wouldn't. What she heard at 2:47 AM made...