29-freaking-years. He actually looks a little bit like Norman Bates, no? Three words: Creepy, creepy, creepy.
For more than two decades, a Colorado motel owner secretly watched hundreds, maybe even thousands, of guests have sex in his rooms as both of his wives supported him.
Beginning in the winter of 1966, Gerald Foos outfitted more than a dozen rooms with fake ceiling vents at Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado, so that he could secretly watch his guests have sex.
Journalist Gay Talese was first contacted by Foos in 1980 when he wrote him a letter and said: ‘Sexually, I have witnessed, observed, and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years.’
Foos was inspired to get in touch after hearing about Talese’s coast-to-coast study of sex in America – ‘Thy Neighbor’s Wife’ – and felt they shared similar interests.
Talese is set to publish a book, The Voyeur’s Motel, in July but until then he published a story in the New Yorker about the father-of-two who kept detailed notes of everything he witnessed through the ceiling vents and how he never got caught.
‘It’s my life — my secret life,’ Foos, who lives in Denver with his second wife, told the Denver Post.
‘I think the book will create a real situation, let’s put it that way. I don’t know if I’m ready for anything, to be honest with you. I’m just a poor soul.’
He purchased the 21-room motel to achieve his ‘uncontrollable desire to peer into other people’s lives.’Foos said that both of his wives supported him watching his guests have sex, and that his first wife, Donna, assisted him when he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of the rooms.
He covered the openings with louvred aluminum screens that appeared to look like ventilation grilles, but they actually were vents so that he could watch people have sex while in the attic, according to the New Yorker.
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This must have been the inspiration for a particular character from an episode of the recent X-Files reboot who did the same thing.
Not only do we have to worry about bedbugs but also that the bed is bugged.
Makes one want to do a Lisbeth Salander on
that guy.
Great reference, Midget. Yes, though Sweden needs to embrace LS enthusiastically at home.