Sid Vicious was a punk rock icon, former bassist in the Sex Pistols, a heroin addict, and a suspected murderer. In 1978, his girlfriend, 20-year-old Nancy Spungen, was found murdered on the bathroom floor of the Chelsea Hotel room they shared in New York City. Less than four months later, Sid died of a fatal heroin overdose. His death came as a surprise to very few people.
Sid infamously once said, “I’ll die before I’m 25, and when I do I’ll have the lived the way I wanted to.” This is the tragic timeline of his misfortunate life and doomed 19-month relationship with Nancy.
Hotels are in some ways inherently creepy places to begin with. How many people have been on that bed, putting their head to that pillow, sharing the same space that you occupy now? All of these people with different lives and paths, staying in that same place, their time there overlapping in time, it is all rather spooky when you think about it. What has gone on in that room and who has passed through its walls? Who has been in there with you? Such questions become even eerier when you are staying in a room of a hotel with a traumatic past, sitting and sleeping on the very same furniture that has been there since the beginning. One place where this is prominent is a historic hotel in the state of New Mexico, which has a dark, turbulent history and is by all accounts infested with ghosts and possessed of its very own cursed room.
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Historic St. James Hotel in Selma reopens
Historic St. James Hotel in Selma reopens By Bryan Henry | January 26, 2021 at 5:31 PM CST - Updated January 26 at 10:26 PM
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Itâs been a journey, but the historic St. James Hotel in Selma has reopened.
Rhaglan Hospitality took ownership of the hotel nearly two years ago, and Tuesday the company held a ribbon cutting.
The hotel, which has been around since 1837, has been through several owners. Two years ago the city of Selma sold it to Rhaglan Hospitality out of Birmingham for about $300,00.
Rhaglan Hospitality spent in the neighborhood of $5 million renovating and cleaning up the property, including adding a new staircase. There are 55 rooms and a spectacular view of the Alabama River.