Within a popular and well known hotel in sunny, warm California, even though most rooms are wel kept and open to visitors and guests, there is one room that is closed off from the rest of the hotel. This room is simply closed with a "DO NOT ENTER" Sign, even as the lock no longer works, and the door remains, technically, unlocked.
Within this room, one would see something like a time capsule from the 1910's. A seedy motel room, badly made beds, and a single grandfather clock sitting there motionlessly.
However, this clock retains a deadly curse - randomly, it will begin to work again, playing a deep, dark noise in tune with a swing of the internal pieces. Some times, the clock will issue its curse once every ten minutes, and others, it will issue forth up to five times.
The only thing the owners know for sure is that each time an individual is in the room and hears the toll of the grandfather clock, they age 10 years over the course of five minutes, the effect only stopping if the individual leaves the room.
Today, there are more guests, and of course curiosity strikes one of them, later at night, to venture downstairs and explore the prominently enclosed room, and brave the unknown curse...and perhaps drawn in to some extent by its mystical power.