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…