A man who posts on TikTok as @thecorbshow said in a video that people who live in Dallas, or who have lived there, should look up Han Gil Hotel Town. On-screen text in the clip read, “Han Gil Hotel Town. Crazy.” He said it was an “absolutely wild story about this hotel.”
He said he used to work as a traveling salesman selling professional beauty supplies near the Royal and Interstate 35 area. He said he drove past the building all the time and always got a “super eerie feeling” from it. He said the name on the front looked like Honegill Hotel, and that he later looked it up.
He said he “went down such a rabbit hole.” In that first video, he claimed the owner “used to charge drug dealers and human traffickers $80 a day so they could openly run their business.” He also said dealers could “openly sell drugs” and “openly traffic human beings into the hotel.” He urged viewers to look up Han Gil Hotel Town and said he did not know why it was not a Netflix documentary.
A 2021 report described the hotel’s raid, cases, and demolition
In a follow-up TikTok video titled “Han Gil Hotel Town Pt. 2,” the same man said he had not remembered that the owner and the owner’s wife were both involved in what he called a “drug tax.” He said federal agencies raided the hotel and that it shut down in 2019. He said 24 people have been convicted of various crimes tied to the property. Other hotels have faced scrutiny for illicit activity too, as a Minnesota hotel’s vending machine was allegedly stocked with Narcan needles and syringe disposal containers.
He said that in the last year before it closed, a 19-year-old girl was raped, killed, and dumped in a park in Oak Cliff, and that she was found a month later. He also said two former Coppell High School students overdosed there. He named the main dealer as Eric Dwayne Freeman, nicknamed “Stuff,” and said there is a recording of Freeman torturing a woman with a blowtorch. He named Rashad Hill as the hotel’s enforcer and said Hill was the person who raped and killed that 19-year-old girl.
A 2021 Dallas Morning News article reported that the building opened in 1965 as a nursing home and sat about 1,000 feet from an elementary school. The newspaper said a federal judge once called it a “hotel of horrors.” A woman who told the paper she had lived there described it as “an addict’s paradise with endless dope and countless ways to obtain it even if you didn’t have the cash.”
A fire inspector who checked the building in 2018 reportedly saw drugs, scales, cash, and firearms in plain sight. Prosecutors said the owner recorded activity in the rooms and that armed men guarded rooms where cartel members did business. Hotel’s dark reputation like this has been documented for years, as seen when a woman checked into a run-down hotel and allegedly discovered terrified girls crying for help in what was actually a brothel.
Dozens of federal agents raided the hotel in March 2019. Prosecutors obtained a temporary restraining order to shut it down, and 10 people were indicted on drug-related charges. Federal prosecutor Rick Calvert later said, “The Han Gil Hotel was one of the most dangerous places I had ever encountered.”
The newspaper reported several deaths tied to the site. Authorities said a woman identified only as L.R. overdosed and remained in the bathroom of Room 342 for several hours. Her body was later reportedly wrapped in a comforter and dumped in a secluded part of East Oak Cliff.
After Justin Bruckman, 21, overdosed at the hotel, the paper said his friends were not allowed to call 911 because of fears police would show up. They drove him to a hospital, where he died. Shun Handy, 22, was killed after an apparent argument at the hotel. The paper said Jonathan Pitts was accused of shooting Handy, grabbing Handy’s dog, and fleeing.
Videos recovered from the hotel reportedly showed a woman being burned with a blowtorch and beaten with a chair leg, as well as bodies being carried out of rooms. Salvation Army volunteers who work to get prostitutes off the street told the paper they encountered women there who were “so obviously victimized and so obviously brutalized.”
Hotel owner Amos Mun pleaded guilty in August 2019 to a federal charge of maintaining a drug-involved premises and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum punishment, the newspaper reported. At sentencing, Mun claimed he “did not know much about what was going on in those rooms” and that his only mistake had been buying a hotel in a bad part of town.
U.S. District Judge Karen Scholer told Mun that “you saw it, walked by it, encouraged it, profited from it.” In his plea papers, Mun admitted he charged drug dealers an inflated daily rate, or “drug tax,” that allowed them to sell heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other drugs inside the rooms.
The paper identified the hotel’s main drug dealer as Eric DeWayne “Stuff” Freeman and his enforcer as Kendrick Lamel “Kiki” Washington. Each received a 30-year prison sentence. As part of Mun’s plea, he forfeited the property. The government sold it with a requirement that the building be demolished. Demolition began in June 2020. Then-U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox said, “With the destruction of the building, we have closed a chapter of the Han Gil horror story.”
In his second TikTok, the man said the hotel had holes in the walls so people could move between rooms. He said the owner knew a raid was coming and tipped off other people. He said that after his first video, many people came forward and said they used to score dope there, stay there, or pick up a friend from there.
He called the place a “hellhole” and said the story seemed “swept under the rug.” His second caption tagged Netflix and said the hotel’s Google reviews might make viewers chuckle if the rest of the account felt too heavy.
Viewers who said they knew the area added their own notes under the first video. One commenter treated the location as enough on its own and wrote, “35 & Royal…enough said.” Another said a classmate’s prison term was tied to what happened there: “One of my classmates is doing 40 years because of events that happened there.”
A third commenter said they were glad to have left Dallas and wrote, “Dallas is demonic. I’m so grateful to be out of that dark dark place.” Someone else said the building is gone: “They demolished it! It’s just an empty lot surrounded by chain link fence.”
Another commenter said they grew up next door when the site was still an old folks home: “I grew up in the apartments next door. For years it was an old folks home. That whole area has changed. I drive by for memories occasionally.”
Published: Sep 13, 2026 06:45 am