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Hotel Cecil, Most haunted hotel in Los Angeles.
2023
purgatorie
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HISTORY OF THE CECIL HOTEL
If I were to mention “The Cecil Hotel” most people would recognise at least something about it. Some people might make the connection to Richard Ramirez, others would track it back to one of the most mysterious cases ever; Elisa Lamb. Point is, people that recognise the name of the hotel always think of something negative. The Cecil Hotel has an interesting history.
The hotel opened in 1924 at 640 S. Main Street, and since then, it has seen a few instances of macabre events, at least 16 murders, suicides, and unexplained events have taken place there.
THE GRAND OPENING
Like I said, the hotel was built in 1924 by Willian Banks Hanner. It was supposed to be a destination hotel for international businessmen and social elites. Hanner spend around 1 million dollars on the 700- room Beaux- style Hotel, complete with a marble lobby, stained glass windows, palm trees and an opulent staircase.
However, just two years after its opening, the world was thrown into a Great Depression that very much affected Los Angeles. Soon after, the area surrounding the Cecil Hotel was dubbed “Skid Row” and become home to thousands of homeless people.
The once popular hotel, was now a home for junkies, runaways and criminals. Worse yet, the hotel ultimately gained a reputation for violence and death.
SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE
In the 1930s alone, the hotel saw 6 reported suicides. A few residents ingested poison, while others shot themselves, slit their throats or jumped our their bedroom windows.
In 1934, Louis D. Borden slashed his throat with a razor. Less than 4 years later, Roy Thompson of the Marine Corps jumped from atop the Cecil Hotel and was found on the skylight of a neighbouring building.
In September of 1944, 19-year-old Dorothy Jean Purcell awoke in the middle of the night with severe stomach pains while staying at the hotel, and as she went to the bathroom, she gave birth to a baby boy. She had no idea she was pregnant. Thinking her baby was death, she threw him out the window and onto the roof of the building next door. At her trial, she was found “no guilty by reason of insanity” and admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
In 1962, 65-year-old George Giannini was walking by the hotel with his hands in his pockets when he was struck to death by a falling woman. Pauline Otton, 27 at the time, jumped from her hotel room after an argument with her estranged husband. Her fall killed both her and Giannini instantly. In light of all these tragedies, it was called “the most haunted hotel in Los Angeles.”
SERIAL KILLER’S TERRITORY
While it is true that suicides and other tragedies have contributed to the infamy of the hotel, the Cecil Hotel also. has its fair share of serial killers who loved it.
Between 1984 and 1985, Richard Ramirez, ultimately named “The Night Stalker” who gained infamy due to murdering 14 people, lived in a room on the top floor during much of his killing spree.
After killing someone, he would throw his bloody clothes into the Cecil Hotel’s dumpster and saunter into the hotel lobby wearing whatever he left on his body- this never raised any suspicions, given the hotel was always rather chaotic anyway.
In 1991, Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger- who strangled prostitutes with their own bras- also called the hotel home. Apparently, he chose the hotel due to its connection to the Night Stalker (but it has not been confirmed).
ONTO THE COLD CASES
There’s a few of these, namely, a local woman known around the area named Goldie Osgood was found dead in her ransacked room. There was one suspect who was wearing bloody clothes around the lobby, he was later cleared and her real killer was never caught.
Another guest of the hotel was Elizabeth Short, also known as the “Black Dahlia” after her murder in 1947. She reportedly stayed at the hotel, and was found not far from it with her mouth carved ear to ear and her body cut in two.
Probably the most talked about cold case is that of Elisa Lam, a college student from Canada who was found dead three weeks after she had gone missing. Her naked corpse was found on the roof of the hotel, only a few residents had complained about the water tasting funny. Authorities run her death as “accidental”, although you’ll find people who tell you they believe otherwise.
Before her death, surveillance cameras caught Lam acting strangely in an elevator, at times seemingly yelling at someone who could not be seen, as well as attempting to hide from someone, who could also not be seen. This video gained notoriety because people started to believe rumours about the hotel was haunted. Some even finding connections to her case and that of the Black Dahlia, given both were women in their twenties, traveling alone from San Diego to L.A and both of their bodies were found a few days after they had been reported missing.
The last body found in the hotel was in 2015, and it was that of a man who committed suicide, the hotel was talked about was more to be connected to pain, death and suffering, it even inspired the “Hotel Cortez” in American Horror Story season 5 about a hotel that’s about mayhem and murder.
This post is for educational purposes only as demonstrated throughout.
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I believe that they said that Elisa was a fan of roof top! and she saw the movie dark waters! but I am speculating here!, I must say though the video of her in the elevator is just simply creepy! the whole thing is creepy! but I don't believe in ghost demons or the shinning elevators. Rip Elisa!
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Hotel Cecil (Cecil Hotel) c.1924
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Put him in the Cecil hotel
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After watching the Netflix documentary 'Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,' I was inspired to create a Tumblr account to share my thoughts on the platform.
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The Cecil Hotel Ghost Photo
The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is notorious for its dark and haunted history: serial killer Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) and “Black Dahlia” murder victim Elizabeth Short had both stayed there, and the building has played host to numerous gruesome deaths – the most recent of which involved the body of a missing student discovered in a rooftop water tank after hotel guests reported foul-smelling black water coming from their taps.Now it seems a new ghostly guest has signed in at the Cecil, as reported by L.A. affiliate KABC: this week their website revealed the photo, taken by Riverside resident Koston Alderete, which seems to depict a spectral figure outside a window on the building’s fourth floor.
"When I looked at that window, it just looked kind of creepy to me,” Alderete told KABC, “and then I showed my friend, and he kind of freaked out.” He also claims to have suffered nightmares after taking the photo.
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i feel like nico would know a lot about the Cecil Hotel because he was born during its peak + its birthyear was also HIS birth year and it just comes up in conversation and will being the true crime fan he is just asks nico about what he knows and the dude just infodumped and will is left flabbergasted
this would happen and nobody is convincing me otherwise
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The Weird Death of Elisa Lam
For her trip to California, Lam travelled alone on Amtrak and intercity buses. She visited the San Diego Zoo and posted photos taken there on social media. On January 26, she arrived in Los Angeles. After two days, she checked into the Cecil Hotel, near downtown’s Skid Row. Lam was initially assigned a shared room on the hotel’s fifth floor; however, her roommates complained about what the hotel’s lawyer would later describe as “certain odd behavior” and Lam was moved to a room of her own after two days.
Lam had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression. She had been prescribed four medications – Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Seroquel and Effexor – to treat her disorders. According to her family, who supposedly kept her history of mental illness a secret, Lam had no history of suicidal ideations or attempts, although one report claimed she had previously gone missing for a brief period.
Lam contacted her parents in British Columbia every day while traveling. On February 1, 2013, the day she was scheduled to check out of the Cecil and leave for Santa Cruz, her parents did not hear from her and called the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); her family flew to Los Angeles to help with the search.
Hotel staff who saw Lam that day said she was alone. Outside the hotel, Katie Orphan, manager of a nearby bookstore, was the only person who recalled seeing her that day. “She was outgoing, very lively, very friendly” while getting gifts to take home to her family.
Police searched the hotel to the extent that they legally could. They searched Lam’s room and had dogs go through the building, including the rooftop, but the dogs were unsuccessful in detecting her scent. “But we didn’t search every room,” Sgt. Rudy Lopez said later, “we could only do that if we had probable cause” to believe a crime had been committed. On February 6, a week after Lam had last been seen, the LAPD decided more help was needed.
On February 15, after another week with no sign of Lam, the LAPD released a video of the last known sighting of her taken in one of the Cecil’s elevators by a video surveillance camera on February 1. In approximately two and a half minutes of footage, Lam, alone, makes unusual moves and gestures, leaving the elevator at one point while its doors remain open, even after she appears to have pressed every button. When the doors fail to close after she returns, she leaves; the doors close later.
The video drew worldwide interest in the case due to Lam’s strange behavior, and has been extensively analyzed and discussed. It was reposted widely, including on the Chinese video-sharing site Youku, where it got 3 million views and 40,000 comments in its first 10 days. Many of the commentators found it unsettling to watch.
Several theories evolved to explain her actions. One was that Lam was trying to get the elevator car to move in order to escape from someone who was pursuing her. Others suggested that she might be under the influence of ecstasy or some other party drug, but none was detected in her body. When her bipolar disorder became known, the theory that she was having a psychotic episode also emerged.
Other viewers argued that the video had been tampered with before being made public. Besides the obscuring of the timestamp, they claimed, parts had been slowed down and nearly a minute of footage had been removed. This could have been done to protect the identity of someone who otherwise would be in the video, either related or not to the disappearance.
During the search for Lam, guests at the hotel began complaining about low water pressure. Some later claimed their water was colored black and had an unusual taste. On the morning of February 19, Santiago Lopez, a hotel maintenance worker, found Lam’s body in one of four 1,000-gallon (3,785 L) tanks located on the roof providing water to guest rooms, a kitchen, and a coffee shop. Through the open hatch he saw Lam lying face-up in the water. The tank was drained and cut open since its maintenance hatch was too small to accommodate equipment needed to remove Lam’s body.
On February 21, the Los Angeles coroner’s office issued a finding of accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor. The full coroner’s report, released in June, stated that Lam’s body had been found naked; clothing similar to what she was wearing in the elevator video was floating in the water, coated with a “sand-like particulate”. Her watch and room key were also found with her.
Lam’s body was moderately decomposed and bloated. It was mostly greenish, with some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. There was no evidence of physical trauma, sexual assault, or suicide. Toxicology tests showed traces consistent with prescription medication found among her belongings, plus non-prescription drugs such as Sinutab and ibuprofen. A very small quantity of alcohol (about 0.02 g%) was present, but no other recreational drugs. Investigators and experts have however noted that the concentration of her prescription drugs in her system indicated that she was under-medicating or had stopped taking her medications recently.
The investigation had determined how Lam died, but did not initially offer an explanation as to how she got into the tank in the first place. Doors and stairs that access the hotel’s roof are locked, with only staff having the passcodes and keys, and any attempt to force them would supposedly have triggered an alarm. The hotel’s fire escape could have allowed her to bypass those security measures; her scent trail was lost near a window that connected to it. A video posted to the Internet after Lam’s death showed that the hotel’s roof was easily accessible via the fire escape and that two of the lids of the water tanks were open.
Apart from the question of how she got on the roof, others asked if she could have gotten into the tank by herself. All four tanks were 4-by-8-foot (1.2 by 2.4 m) cylinders propped up on concrete blocks; there was no fixed access to them and hotel workers had to use a ladder to look at the water. They were protected by heavy lids that would be difficult to replace from within. The hotel employee who found the body said that the lid was open at the time, removing the issue of how she could have closed the lid from inside. Police dogs that searched through the hotel for Lam, even on the roof, shortly after her disappearance was noted, did not find any trace of her.
Theories arose pertaining to the elevator video. Some argued that she was attempting to hide from a pursuer, perhaps someone ultimately responsible for her death, while others said she was merely frustrated with the elevator’s apparent malfunction. Some proponents of the theory that she was under the influence of illicit drugs are not dissuaded by their absence from the toxicology screen, suggesting that they might have broken down during the period of time her body decomposed in the tank or that she might have taken rare cocktails of such drugs that a normal screen would not detect. The very low level of her prescription drugs in her system, and the amount of pills left in her prescription bottle, suggested she was under-medicating or had recently stopped taking her medication for bipolar disorder, which might have led to a psychotic episode.
The autopsy report and its conclusions were also questioned based on the incomplete information. For instance, it does not say what the results of the rape kit and fingernail kit were or even if they were processed. It also records subcutaneous pooling of blood in Lam’s anal area, which some observers suggested was a sign of sexual abuse; one pathologist noted it could also have resulted from bloating in the course of the body’s decomposition, and her rectum was also prolapsed. Even the coroner’s pathologists appeared to be ambivalent about their conclusion that Lam’s death was accidental.
Since her death, her Tumblr blog was updated, presumably through Tumblr’s Queue option that allows posts to automatically publish themselves when the user is away. Her phone was not found either with her body or in her hotel room; it has been assumed to have been stolen at some time around her death. Whether the continued updates to her blog were facilitated by the theft of her phone, the work of a hacker, or through the Queue, is not known; nor is it known whether the updates are related to her death.
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About The Elisa Lam's Case | A Tarot Reading
DISCLAIMER: This reading MUST NOT be taken as legal proof of anything. This reading was simply done by and for people looking for some clarification concerning her case that's still open. Thank you.
Was there someone else involved in this? Someone from the Hotel's staff or an outsider (it could be more than one person)?
2 of cups + 3 of pentacles
Uh-hum...I see that there was someone somehow involved in all of this. And Elisa knew that person, and they had some involvement with each other somehow. Maybe someone whom Elisa even had grown an attachment with? Yes, that's very possible with the 2 of cups.
I asked for 3 more cards to understand the involvement of the person: 9 of cups + 2 of wands reversed + 6 of swords reversed
Yeah... It could've been someone that Elisa was interested in, but the person didn't show up. She was definitely hoping for ''something'' to happen with a person in that hotel, but the person dumped her.
From her footage in the elevator, was Elisa interacting with somebody or was she having a manic episode (as shown in the series about her case?)
8 of swords reversed + the hanged man + 9 of cups
It feel like... She was playing hide and seek? Elisa was in such an euphoric moment. She was anxious towards something, and she couldn't wait to get it. Yes, it's like she was playing hide and seek with someone. ''Come and get me, come here and get me!'' type of thing.
But...Was there a real person or not?
Page of cups reversed + knight of swords reversed + death reversed
Honestly, it looks like she could've been having a manic episode. I see Elisa in such a lack of control over her own thoughts, her actions, really emotionally and mentally instable during that corridor/elevator footage. And it looks like she has been refusing medical help? I don't know about her medical report, but the cards point to Elisa either stopping some treatment that she was doing or even denying seeking help.
How did she (or better saying, her body) end up in that tank, after all? What most likely happened?
the high priestess reversed + 4 of cups reversed + the wheel of fortune reversed
Oh no... She fell? Like... She wasn't paying attention to her surroudings, just walking... And then in a sudden miscalculated movement she slipped and fell. She could had sit herself in the top of that tank, stayed there for a while, pondering what to do (she was really confused about what to do), then when she tried to get up she slipped and... Really a stroke of bad luck. I see Elisa being self-absorbed during that moment, what could have caused that? Somebody that was supposed to meet her but didn't appear?
And the security from that hotel was really bad from what i could find out, so no one would had stopped her.
Shock is the term, folks.
Well, here it it. Again, i'm so sorry for postponing this reading for you.
Take care, everybody, and thank you! <33
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I’ve spent the last few days watching video essays about The Hotel Cecil and scrolling through Elisa Lam’s tumblr. Let’s just say it’s a very odd case at that. I was especially curious about how much it reflected the movie Dark Water. And I wish I could figure out how she ended up in the water tank - or better yet, how the staff didn’t notice she was in there! The elevator video as well, that was so intriguing. I scrolled her tumblr and such, and I know she had some severe depression and other issues. However, to me, that doesn’t make sense as to the way she was acting in the video footage. I am going to watch the Netflix documentary later today, so I am very excited to see how they interpreted it there as well!
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In September 1944, a 19-year-old guest at Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel, Dorothy Jean Purcell, unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy in her room. Believing the baby was stillborn, she tragically threw him out the window. This incident is just one chilling episode in the dark history of the Cecil Hotel, known for grisly homicides and mysterious disappearances.
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I accept the answer that it was probably an accident while Elisa Lam had a psychotic episode, yadda yadda yadda, but they just glossed over the fact that the tank's lid was closed? like okay maybe she opened the tank and jumped in and then couldn't get out and drowned, but she couldn't have closed the lid herself. who the fuck closed the lid. literally no one cares
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I'm so glad I found you tumbler!! I found you through a documentary called Crime Scene: The vanishing at the Cecil Hotel on Netflix. Poor Elisa Lam.
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