A couple check into a cheap hotel one night. They're given a room on the fifth floor, but when they arrive, the man notices a horrible odour permeating the room. They leave their stuff and return to the front desk to complain. Unfortunately, the hotel is booked solid, and so they can't be moved. Instead the hotel owner offers to give them a free meal in the hotel restaurant while their room is cleaned again. The couple accept.
While they enjoy their free meal, the cleaning staff change all the sheets in their room, vacuum, polish and run bleach down the drains. The couple return to their room late that night, after several drinks from the bar. To the man's annoyance, the terrible smell is still present. Now, however, he's too tired to care. They decide they will complain again in the morning, and the two of them go to bed.
By the next morning the smell is worse than ever. Annoyed, the man decides to track down the source of it himself. He pokes into every nook and cranny of the room, checking under the sink, around the window, under the loose carpet in the closet. Nothing.
It's only when he lifts up the bed that he discovers the source of the smell. There's a slit there in the side of the box-spring mattress, from which the stench seems to emanate. The man pries it open and peers inside. There, wedged in between the springs is a dried and decaying corpse.
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