I Found a Hidden Camera in Our Airbnb — And the Host’s Chilling Reply Changed How I See Travel Safety Forever

for hours that night, putting as much distance as possible between us and that house. By the time we reached a hotel in the next city, exhaustion had set in — but so had a new kind of fear.

I pulled out the inexpensive prepaid phone I had used to book the Airbnb. Without hesitation, I smashed it into pieces. It was the only way to ensure we couldn’t continue reading …