‘The amount of sadistic things that went down here‘: Texas man drives by Dallas hotel. Then he decides to randomly look it up

Spooky buildings are a staple of the horror genre. As such, certain places in real life automatically give people the creeps.

One Dallas-area salesman says he finally looked into the eerie feeling he always got from one particular hotel. He didn't like what he found.

‘I went down such a rabbit hole'

Content creator The Corb Show (@thecorbshow) shared some not-so-fun facts about a Dallas hotel. His video has since accumulated more than 347,000 views.

The creator said he used to work as a traveling salesman selling professional beauty supplies. On his old route, he would regularly drive past a hotel near the Royal Lane and I-35 intersection.

“It was like a super eerie feeling I'd always get from it,” the creator said. “And then one day, I just randomly looked up Han Gil Hotel. ‘Cause that's what it said on the front of the building.”

To the creator's horror, he realized that “eerie” gut feeling was apparently justified.

“The amount of evil and sadistic things that happened here is absolutely wild,” he said. “I went down such a rabbit hole. The owner of the hotel used to charge drug dealers and human traffickers $80 a day so they could openly run their business. They could openly sell drugs. They could openly traffic human beings [in] … the hotel.”

The creator claimed he found out that a number of high school students “overdosed in that hotel.” He said the owners “just threw them onto the sidewalk like they were trash.”

“It's a crazy crazy story, and it's just the evil that came from that place,” he said. “I have no idea why it's not a Netflix documentary.”

@thecorbshow Han Gil Hotel Town. Look it up. #dallas #netflix ♬ original sound – thecorbshow

What actually happened at the Han Gil Hotel?

As it turns out, the hotel does indeed have a storied history. According to a 2019 Justice Department press release, the then-owner of the Han Gil Hotel was named Su Amos Mun. He “[pleaded] guilty to maintaining drug-involved premises.” 

“In plea papers, Mr. Mun, 65, admitted that for more than a year, he charged drug dealers an inflated daily rate, or ‘drug tax,' that allowed them to openly sell quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs from inside his hotel rooms,” the press release read. “He further admitted that despite being notified of two separate heroin overdose deaths that occurred inside the hotel, Mr. Mun continued to allow dealers to sell illegal drugs to customers from Han Gil Hotel rooms, often arming himself with a firearm. Mr. Mun also admitted that many of the drug dealers operating out of his hotel were armed with handguns and long guns.”

The press release noted that the hotel had been located less than 1,000 feet from an elementary school. It “had seen multiple deaths, shootings, and drug-related incidents” before a federal judge shut it down in March 2019.

The demolition and the aftermath

Federal prosecutors described the property as a “safe haven for drug distributors” in a DEA statement announcing its 2020 demolition. One attorney said the hotel “played host to a parade of despicable criminals engaged in drug dealing, murder, and human trafficking.”

The Dallas Morning News reported that a woman died at the hotel, but the police recovered her body in a wooded area nearby. A hotel operator told the publication that he “deleted surveillance video of an overdose victim being carried off the property at least once, though it was not the same victim whose body was later found nearby.”

The case ultimately led to charges against 23 defendants. The Dallas Morning News also reported one dealer, Eric “Stuff” Freeman, is serving 30 years in federal prison. His accomplice, Kendrick “Kiki” Washington, is serving the same amount of time.

“Washington, known as Kiki, also got 30 years for admitting in court documents that he used a phone to ‘record Freeman torturing [a] victim with a butane blowtorch,' then showing it around the Han Gil to keep the customers and residents in line,” the publication wrote.

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