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Marriott's 'Peep Hole Curtain' Sure to Put Erin Andrews' Fears to Rest

Where: 111 Crawford Avenue [map], West Conshohocken, PA, United States, 19428

We love what we find in our HotelChatter Flickr Pool like this snapshot of a Peep Hole Security Curtain submitted by member BNilsen.

Apparently, the Marriott West Conshohocken (a suburb of Philly) has this on each of its guestroom doors, allowing pretty young sportscasters like Erin Andrews to undress in peace. Marriott's peephole curtains may not be as cute as these, but still, they do the job.

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Hotel Peeping Toms Not Limited to Pretty Sportscasters

We were just starting to get over the uncomfortable idea that the creepy stalker of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was actually helped on his perv mission by a hotel staffer when we came across this news last night--a family staying at a TownPlaces Suites Hotel outside Denver were also the victims of a hidden camera placed inside their hotel room.

Robert Reams and his family checked into their hotel room during a vacation in August. But while they were there, they had no idea that someone was watching them. WOWT TV reports:

From a hole nearly invisible to the eye, David Fugate was in the room with the family. The hole caught the attention of a hotel employee after the family checked out. "The maintenance people poked a pin in the hole and it poked back. They went and got a knife and cut it open to look inside," says Reams. "When they looked inside the wall they found a camera." Fugate had been observing the Reams family from an adjacent room using a wireless camera.

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Erin Andrews Stalker Asked For, and Received, a Guest Room Next to Hers

Where: 2555 W. End [map], Nashville, TN, United States, 37203

Last Friday, the creepy stalker who videotaped sexy ESPN reporter Erin Andrews through a peephole in her hotel room was found, arrested and charged with one count of interstate stalking using harassing and intimidating surveillance. But it turns out, Michael David Barrett wasn't just a clever predator on the hunt for his prey. Oh no, he had some help from the hotel.

A lawyer for ESPN blasted the management at Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University for failing to protect Andrews. The reason why? Computer records show that Barrett requested and was given a room next to Andrews and that their rooms were located in an alcove off the main hallways. It even shows up on the computer records as "GST RQST TO RM NXT TO [Andrews]." So much for guest safety and privacy, huh?

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The Erin Andrews Peeping Incident: Isolated Creep or Common Occurrence?

Here's one, if you haven't heard it already, that will send tingles up your spine: blonde ESPN reporter Erin Andrews — the crush object of many a sports fan (and many a lady-fan, really) — was changing in her (still unidentified) hotel room while a still-at-large creeper filmed her through what looks like a peephole. Ugh.

The video footage was uploaded to a website and is still making its way around the internet, though an expert source interviewed by Deadspin believes that the footage was shot from an adjoining hotel room using "a gooseneck or fiber-optic camera [threaded] through a hole in the wall about a quarter-inch across."

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