los angeles has it all and by all i mean
true crimes haunted places
the paranormal and a very weird and dark
history there is one place in la that is
like a one-stop shop
it's like a greatest hits of all those
things
and it's not great i guess depending on
your definition of great
but it is all happening or it has all
happened
at the hotel cecil in downtown los
angeles and yes currently it's called
stay on main
and it's currently under renovations but
to all the real ones out there
it is the hotel cecil or cecil hotel
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beginning a little bit this cecil hotel
was built in 1924 and opened its doors
in 1927 and it's been a vortex for all
things weird and dark and strange ever
since
so right on the heels of the great
depression there were many suicides at
the cecil hotel there were at least six
reported so just right out of the gate
there's at least six
poison people slitting their own throats
or just making a grand exit and jumping
out one of the windows like in 1937 the
body of gracie magro was found
covered in telephone wire as she jumped
out
of a ninth story window in 1938 maureen
roy thompson jumped off the roof of the
cecil
and was found on a skylight in one of
the neighboring buildings
in 1944 19 year old dorothy jean purcell
woke in the middle of the night with
stomach pains
and she gave birth in the bathroom and
she had no idea she was pregnant and in
her shock and disbelief
and lack of understanding she thought
her baby was dead
and threw it out the window and was
found on the roof
of another neighboring building in 1962
george giannini
65 was just strolling by the hotel hands
in his pocket
minding his own business and he was
struck to death by pauline otton 27 who
jumped out of
the ninth story window remember the
night stalker richard ramirez well he
stayed at the hotel in the 1980s pretty
famously and it was during his prolific
serial killing career and supposedly he
threw
his bloody clothes in the cecil's
dumpster and i think would
show up in the lobby just wearing his
underwear and everyone was like
it's the 80s i don't know it's normal i
guess
austrian serial killer jack unterweger
was known for
strangling prostitutes with their bra
and he would find a lot of the
prostitutes
right around the hotel cecil because at
that time
and for a lot of its history the hotel
cecil
was kind of like a mothership i guess
or a ground zero of all that and of
course
there is no la story without mentioning
elizabeth short
the black dahlia which i did a previous
episode on that you can also check out
and allegedly she stayed there
soon before she died and for something a
little more ghostly there was a 2014
sighting on the ledge of the hotel cecil
and it made the news so
why am i doing this just watch it a new
and ghostly twist for a downtown hotel
with a macabre
pass the hotel cecil was a part-time
home to the night stalker and the black
dahlia
it's had its share of suicides and
strange deaths over the years and now
this
this photo showing a ghostly figure
outside a fourth floor window
a riverside boy with a love of scary
films and ghost stories took the picture
he says it looks a little too real and
of course this video
was always going to end up here and
probably
one of the strangest chilling most
discussed incidences is
the case of elisa lam in 2013 21 year
old college student elisa lamb
from vancouver was found dead in a water
tank on the rooftop
of the cecil hotel her clothes were
found nearby but
what's perhaps the most strange and the
most
noteworthy visually are these videos of
elisa lam
in the elevators of the hotel no one's
quite sure what's happening there's a
lot of speculation
i'm sure somebody is right it's very
eerie and it's very strange to watch
because you know
those videos were captured very soon
before
her untimely death i've watched that
video so many times and it never gets
any
less strange and and sad
but it will forever be part of the
history
and the mystery and the lore of the
hotel cecil and if you want more los
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