When 28-year-old travel influencer Sierra Lane checked into The Palisade Hotel in downtown Chicago, everything looked picture-perfect. Her Instagram followers saw a glass of champagne, a bubble bath, and the caption: âFinally some peace.â
That was the last post she ever made.
Room service said her breakfast tray was untouched. Her clothes were still hanging in the closet. Her phone? Charging beside the bed. But Sierra? Gone.
Security footage showed her entering the elevatorâĶ but not a single frame of her leaving. No footsteps, no guests, no sign of struggle. The door was locked from the inside. Police were baffled.
Then things got even weirder.
Two weeks later, a plain package showed up at Sierraâs sisterâs doorstep in Kansas City. No return address. Inside: a dusty VHS tape, labeled only with the word âPLAYâ in red Sharpie.
She bought a vintage player off Craigslist just to see what was on it. What she saw has haunted her ever since.
The grainy footage shows Sierra, clearly alive, sitting in that same hotel room. But something isâĶ off. The timestamp reads: April 6th, 1993âover 30 years ago.
In the tape, Sierra whispers, âDonât try to find me. The walls know.â
The FBI is investigating. Paranormal experts claim The Palisade was built over a demolished mental hospital that allegedly ran time-travel experiments in the late 80s. Reddit is convinced she slipped into a âtime loop pocketâ within the hotelâs structure. Room 327 has since been sealed shut.
So far, no trace of Sierra has been found. But locals say if you stay in Room 327 long enough, you can hear tapping behind the wallsâĶ and a woman crying softly through the static of the hotel TV.
Are you brave enough to check in?