LATimes Checks Out Bates Motel

And now, a few words from management at the Bates Motel. Rooms are available now. Really available. No, this is not the building they used when filming “Psycho,” the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller about madness and murder at a creepy motel of the same name. It’s not even the building they used when filming the “Psycho” remake (1998). This Bates Motel is the real deal, a lodging at 2018 Sherman Ave. in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with 13 rooms and a manager’s unit arrayed around a ragged parking lot. It sits along the gritty east end of Coeur d’Alene’s main drag. A website devoted to “haunted places in Idaho” reports that “people have often reported ‘creepy feelings’ ” in Rooms 1 and 3. The following warning is posted at the front desk: “Party policy: No. Don’t do it. Don’t think about doin’ it. And don’t ask”/ Christopher Reynolds , L.A. Times. More here .

Question: Have you ever stayed in — or visited — a scary place?