Facebook still buzzing about viral ‘bunkbed motel’ linked to Scientology
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — For weeks social media users in Pinellas County have had videos showing bunkbeds in an empty motel in Clearwater popping into their feeds and many are saying it’s the Church of Scientology.
Marc Jason is a media personality in the county and hosts the Pinellas Podcast on Facebook. Three weeks ago, he interviewed “Shawn aka wip” on his show after Shawn sent him videos of the motel with bunkbeds lining the rooms, but no occupants.
10 Tampa Bay News set out to try to confirm where the motel is, who owns it and what might be done with it, after efforts to contact the podcast and the man who took the video were unable to be reached.
Through research, we confirmed the motel is on Frontage Road right next to U.S. 19 and just south of Gulf to Bay Boulevard. The social media buzz, with more than a million views of the podcast’s clips and counting, comes as a group trying to prevent Scientology development downtown got another boost this week.
“Save the Garden” is trying to stop the city from selling a street to the church so it can build a large entertainment and theater complex.
Wednesday night, we spotted a Scientologist working security at the motel, which Google Maps shows used to be a Quality Inn, and asked him if he knew what it’s turning into.
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