“THE TWILIGHT ZONE TOWER OF
TERROR™”BACKGROUND STORY

According to Disney legend…the Hollywood Tower Hotel first opened its doors in
1928 and quickly secured a place of honor in the booming Hollywood film
community.  The elegant and imposing structure, styled in an eclectic Pueblo Deco
manner, still dominates the Hollywood landscape.  This star among stars was at the
height of its popularity in 1939 when a mysterious occurrence forced it to close.

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was boarded up on the evening of October 31, 1939, and
so it remained until its grand reopening in the spring of 2004.  Though the grounds
are weed-choked, the walkways cracked, and the fountains dry, the hotel seems
largely unchanged within.  Unread mail waits at the front desk.  A forgotten set of
luggage stands nearby.  On a table by a window sits a deck of cards, a dusty wine
glass, an unfinished post card.  Aside from the layer of dust and the patina of age,
the lobby is just as it was on the last night the hotel was open for business, over
sixty years ago.

There is something peculiar about the elevators, however.  Behind the “Out of
Order” sign, the doors are damaged and bent.  The force responsible was obviously
very great.  The elevator indicator registers off the scale, below the Basement
level.  It was here the mysterious occurrence took place one stormy, rain drenched
evening.  As the elevator ascended, lighting struck the tower.  The elevator
plunged, carrying its five terrified passengers to certain doom.  

But this was no ordinary storm, no ordinary stroke of lightning.  Before it reached
the bottom of the shaft, the elevator and its passengers simply vanished, along with
a large section of the hotel.  The hotel immediately emptied - staff and guests
utterly unable to contend with the baffling incident.  No one ever came back.  The
hotel remained as it was, untouched, undisturbed.  Until now.