I was almost stranded in Colorado while driving during a snowstorm. I reached out to my girlfriend and asked her to help me look up motels as I didn't have good

I was almost stranded in Colorado while driving during a snowstorm. I reached out to my girlfriend and asked her to help me look up motels as I didn't have good internet service. She said that a small motel near me had great reviews. "This was the best part of our trip to Colorado!". 4.5 stars on TripAdvisor. I decided to check in. It was clearly immediately a mistake. There were so many red flags - from the weaving, amphetamine addled check in clerk, to the smoke stained room with ripped, stained bedsheets, and how the proprietor didn't even give me a room key. The room door could not be locked from the inside - the knob was smooth and no deadbolt. There's no way those reviews could be legitimate. The hotel was terrifying and I left after 20 minutes and filed a CC chargeback. I looked it up myself and the place had 1.5 stars on Yelp, 2 on Google, 5 on Facebook and as mentioned, 4.5 on TripAdvisor. Upon reading and comparing, the Facebook and TA reviews seemed obviously fake. Yelp contained stories of the manager talking to the children of guests at the vending machine in an incoherent way and asking 'if they'd seen Billy' and various other disturbing stories. I looked into the manager, Wayne, and found his Facebook page. It was filled with references to Satan worship, group sex and demonic possession. The necklace he wore which I thought was a Star of David was actually a pentagram, as displayed in his collection on FB. He had photos of his dog that he claimed depicted demonic possession on his FB page, as well as photos of their satanic altar at the motel. So, my conclusion was that TripAdvisor and Facebook are very, very bad at preventing false reviews compared to Yelp or Google.