Last updated: 6 September 2026
The Sinister Inn Tour ("the Tour," "we," "us") is a self-guided, GPS-based walking entertainment experience covering publicly accessible locations in and around Los Angeles, California, together with an optional paid virtual reality experience and optional merchandise.
All content is presented for entertainment purposes. The narration blends documented history with local legend, rumour, folklore, speculation, and dramatisation. It is not journalism, not a historical record, and is not represented as verified fact. Nothing here should be relied upon as accurate information about any person, business, property, or event.
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to any business, venue, landmark, museum, hotel, cemetery, or property named or depicted in the Tour. All trademarks and property names belong to their respective owners and are referenced descriptively only. Featured businesses have not reviewed or approved this content.
By using the Tour, you agree that you will:
We may suspend or terminate access for conduct that violates these terms.
You participate voluntarily and entirely at your own risk. The Tour takes place outdoors in a real city, on real streets, potentially at night, and may involve walking significant distances. You are solely responsible for your own safety, health, decisions, transportation, and belongings, and for supervising anyone in your care.
Tour content is intended for mature audiences and contains descriptions of death, violence, crime, and disturbing subject matter, plus intense horror content, jump scares, and flashing imagery in the VR experience. The Tour is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Tour and its operators are not liable for any injury, death, illness, loss, theft, property damage, arrest, citation, or other harm arising from your participation, your travel to or from any location, your conduct, the conduct of third parties, or your use of the VR experience. The Tour is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee that GPS, audio, the map, or any feature will function without interruption or error.
All Tour content — narration, audio recordings, writing, artwork, designs, and software — is owned by us and may not be copied, recorded, redistributed, performed publicly, or used commercially without written permission.
We may modify the Tour or these terms at any time; continued use constitutes acceptance. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, and any dispute shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California.
| Information | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Precise GPS location | While the Tour is open and you have granted permission | To unlock stops when you arrive and to count how many people are nearby |
| Name and email address | Only if you create an account | To sign you in and save your progress across devices |
| Home or mailing address | Only if you choose to provide it at registration | To place the Tour's final personalised location; see 3.3 |
| Anonymous device identifier | Automatically | To remember your progress and to attribute presence without identifying you |
| Tour progress | As you visit stops | To unlock audio and track completion |
| Whether you took part in a Convergence | Only if you are present when one occurs, and only if you have an account | So the location it opens stays available to you if you sign in on another device. Stored as a simple yes, without a place or a time, and readable only by you |
| A record that your device visited a stop, and when | Each time you arrive at a location | To show how many people have visited a place in the last seven days. Stored against your anonymous device identifier, never your name, and never shown to other participants |
| Participation in a Convergence | Only if you are present when one occurs | To record which devices opened that Convergence, so it appears only for the people who were actually there |
| Usage analytics | Automatically | To understand how many people use the Tour and which features are used |
| Shipping address, and phone if given | Only if you buy merchandise | To print and ship your order |
| Your email address for announcements | Only if you choose to submit it after completing the tour | To let you know when something new is released. Entirely optional, separate from any account, and you can ask us to remove it at any time |
We never see or store your full payment card details. Card information is entered directly with Stripe and handled entirely by them.
We do not sell your personal information. We share only what is necessary with these service providers:
| Provider | What they receive |
|---|---|
| Google Firebase | Account details, progress, anonymous presence data, analytics |
| Google Analytics | Anonymous usage events |
| Stripe | Payment and billing information, shipping address |
| Printful | Name, shipping address, email and phone, for merchandise orders only |
| Netlify | Website hosting and standard server logs |
| Formspree | Email addresses submitted to the announcements list, and nothing else |
| OpenStreetMap / Nominatim | Map tiles, and any address you submit for lookup — see 3.3 |
We may also disclose information where required by law, or to protect the rights or safety of any person.
If you choose to submit your email address at the end of the tour, it is stored with our form provider, Formspree, and used only to tell you when something new is released. We will not sell or rent it, and it is not connected to your tour account or progress. Every message we send will include a way to unsubscribe, and you can also ask us to remove you at any time using the contact details in section 6.
The Tour stores data on your device (local storage) to remember your progress, your anonymous identifier, and settings. Our providers may set their own cookies. You can clear this at any time through your browser, though doing so will erase your Tour progress if you are not signed in.
Live presence data is short-lived and drops off within minutes of you leaving. Visit records described in section 3.3 are retained to power visit counts. Account data and progress are kept until you ask us to delete them. Order records are retained as required for tax and business purposes. We take reasonable measures to protect your information, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Depending on where you live — including under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA — you may have the right to know what personal information we hold, to request deletion or correction, to limit the use of sensitive personal information such as precise location, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. To make a request, contact us at the address in section 6.
The Tour requires your device's location to work. It is used to unlock stops when you physically arrive, to show your position on the map, and to count how many other participants are near you. You can refuse or revoke location permission at any time in your browser settings; the map will still work, but stops will not unlock.
Other participants can see aggregate counts of how many people are near a location. While you are playing narration, they can also see that an anonymous person is listening at a named stop, and can send a short sound or recorded line that plays over your narration. They never see your name, your email, your account, your exact coordinates, or your movement history, and they cannot tell one participant from another or follow anyone between stops.
Alongside the stop name, other participants see a broad indication of how far through the tour you are — for example early in their tour or on their last haunt. This is deliberately coarse rather than an exact count, so that it describes a stage rather than a person.
If someone reaches you, they are told anonymously whether the sound played and whether you stopped the recording shortly afterwards. They are never told who you are, where you live, what account you hold, or anything that could identify you or let them find you again — only that the person they reached reacted.
You can stop appearing to others, stop receiving anything from them, and stop any reaction being reported back, using the single toggle in the listeners panel. Sounds are chosen from a fixed set we provide — participants cannot record, upload, or send anything of their own, so nothing another person sends can contain their words, their voice, or any personal information.
When you arrive at a stop, we store a record that your anonymous device identifier was there, with a timestamp. This powers the "people who have been here in the last seven days" count, and, if you are present when a Convergence occurs, determines that the resulting location appears for you.
These records are tied to a randomly generated device identifier, not to your name or account, and are never shown to other participants in a form that identifies anyone. Other people only ever see totals. You can clear your device identifier at any time by clearing your browser's site data, which disconnects you from all previous records.
If you choose to enter a home or mailing address, it is stored with your account and is sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to convert it into map coordinates. This is used solely to place the Tour's final personalised location. It is never shown to other participants. Providing an address is optional; the Tour works without it.
Portal access is a one-time purchase granting entry to the VR experience for twenty-four hours from the moment access is granted. It requires a compatible VR headset browser. Because access is delivered immediately and consumed digitally, it is non-refundable once opened, except where required by law. If a technical fault prevented you from entering at all, contact us.
The shirt is offered to participants who complete the Tour and may be purchased only during a twenty-four hour window that begins when you finish. This window is strictly enforced and the offer cannot be reopened. Items are printed to order by a third-party fulfilment partner.
Because each item is made to order, we cannot accept returns for change of mind or incorrect size selection. If your item arrives damaged, defective, or materially different from what was ordered, contact us within 30 days of delivery with photographs and we will arrange a replacement or refund. Delivery estimates are not guaranteed.
All payments are processed by Stripe under their own terms. Prices are in US dollars. You are responsible for any customs duties or import charges on international orders.
The VR experience requires a clear physical space of at least six feet by six feet and involves walking, not just sitting or standing. Before entering, clear your space of furniture, pets, cables, and other people.
You assume all risk associated with use of virtual reality equipment.
Questions, privacy requests, deletion requests, or order problems:
Thousand Bit
josephmares@gmail.com
We aim to respond to privacy requests within 45 days as required by California law.
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