John McAfee, the outlaw antivirus pioneer who died in a Spanish prison on Wednesday, spend his final months of freedom in a mysterious 'ghost hotel' where he was tracked down by web sleuths.
While McAfee claimed to be jetting around to Belarus and hoaxed an arrest in Norway for wearing a thong as a mask, he was actually staying in the Daurada Park Hotel in Cambrils, Catalonia, according to the New York Post.
McAfee appears to have been hiding out in the hotel from March 2020 until his arrest in October, and was busted by amateur sleuths who spotted Spanish products and images of the Catalonian coast in his photos on Twitter.
At the hotel, no one answered the phones and it was impossible to make a reservation, according to El Confidencial, leading the Spanish newspaper to call the Daurada Park a 'ghost hotel.'
John McAfee, the outlaw antivirus pioneer who died in a Spanish prison on Wednesday, spend his final months of freedom in a mysterious 'ghost hotel' in Catalonia
While McAfee claimed to be jetting around to Belarus and hoaxed an arrest in Norway for wearing a thong as a mask, he was actually staying in the Daurada Park Hotel (above)
The Daurada Park is situated in a small fishing village on the Spanish coast, about 70 miles southwest of Barcelona.
The last TripAdvisor reviews for the hotel were posted in late 2016 and are resoundingly negative, with one comparing it to 'the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's the Shining' and a 'Spanish version of hotel California'.
Spanish media report that the hotel was then purchased by an
