The Vanishing Hotel Room

It begins as a tale of travel — and ends as one of disorientation so deep it borders on the impossible.

The story of the Vanishing Hotel Room has circulated for over a century, told in variations

across Europe and Asia, but always with the same chilling outline: a traveler

arrives in a foreign city, only to discover that the very room they occupied,

and sometimes the person they loved most, no longer exists. The most famous

telling is set in Paris in the late 19th century. A young Englishwoman and her mother were

said to have checked into a grand hotel after a long journey. The mother fell ill,

and the hotel staff directed her daughter to a local pharmacy to fetch medicine. But when the girl