Joking about sexual assault isn’t cool. At all. Ever.
Then there’s this: Metta World Peace, the 36-year-old Los Angeles Lakers veteran, says he was inappropriately touched by a ghost at the notoriously haunted Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City during L.A.’s recent road trip to OKC.
Seriously.
Weird as this might sound, he’s not the first NBA player to complain of being visited by a ghost at the Skirvin. There’s actually a detailed history of the Skirvin being haunted, and there’s more than one report of a female ghost conducting some sexually inappropriate behavior with her male guests.
From SB Nation:
What kind of ghost would touch Metta World Peace inappropriately? Well, that’s well within the M.O. of “Effie,” a former housekeeper who purportedly loves to mess with guests staying at the hotel.
Hotel records do not show any history of a housekeeper named Effie working at the Skirvin, but ghost proponents claimed her grizzly death was swept under the rug. Now she roams the halls and rooms. Effie is characterized as “playful,” typically rattling doorknobs, crying out in the night or propositioning men in their rooms.
However, more serious claims have been leveled, as well. Several men claim she appeared naked in the shower with them without being invited, while at least one former guest claims they were sexually assaulted by Effie — much like Metta World Peace.
Ghosts are scary enough, but this is next-level stuff. We’ll let Metta explain, per the Orange County Register.
“The ghosts were all over me. I just accepted it,” Metta World Peace said. “They touched me all over the place. I’m taking one of the ghosts to court for touching me in the wrong places.”
World Peace insisted he was serious before explaining why he did not stay somewhere else.
“I was watching a good movie and I was tired,” said World Peace, who incidentally said he saw “Money Monster.” “I didn’t want to move.”
So there’s that. Happy Halloween, folks.
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