Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions (Published 2015)Jacob Lopez at Burlingame State Park in Rhode Island. He messaged his mother for help while in an Airbnb apartment in Madrid.Credit...Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles’s mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen. Her 19-year-old son told her that his Airbnb host in M
