#cecil hotel

[iwanttobeastranger]

[victoriapedroza]

Hotel Cecil, Most haunted hotel in Los Angeles.

2023

purgatorie

[canadaloveselenasblog]

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!

[helena-bottom-farter]

Hotel Cecil (Cecil Hotel) c.1924

[putting-gummigoo-in-places]

Put him in the Cecil hotel

[lunadramslesworld]

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.

~ 03.05.2024 ~

[myhauntedsalem]

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.

[theballadoftimburton]

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

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

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.

[castingspellsanddaisies]

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

[chatibelieveinghosts]

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!

[scholarofgloom]

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

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.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Cecil Hotel in Nice, Côte d'Azur region of France

French vintage postcard

[freakyauthor]

Elisa Lam Unsolved Case...

Hey, I can't place my finger on her case so I have been doing research on it. There are so many things that don't point to suicide which is what the police says...I need help if anyone has anymore information plz reach out. Any information about her contacts or things that haven't been said.

[myhauntedsalem]

The Curse of the Cecil Hotel

One of the most famous hotels in Los Angeles, California the Cecil Hotel is rumored to be one of the most cursed hotels in the world, so much so that it is the inspiration behind Stephen King’s story 1408 and the television series American Horror Story: Hotel. Many believe that the hotel is haunted by the many people who have met their gruesome ends in the building and that they encourage others to kill themselves and commit murder.

When the hotel first opened in the 1920′s it enjoyed a great success as a tourist destination. This changed in the 1930’s when it became a budget hotel for transients and salesmen. After that suicides started to happen regularly at the hotel. Many people have died due to throwing themselves from the windows of the hotel, earning itself the nickname of Suicide Tower by the 1950s. One woman jumped to her death after an argument with her husband and landed on a man in the street below, killing him instantly. Several murders have also been linked to the Cecil Hotel, including the death of Goldie Osgood, who was found robbed, strangled and raped in her hotel room. Her murder has never been solved. Years later, in the 1980’s, the hotel became home to serial killer Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker who killed 13 women during his stay at the Cecil. He was not the only serial killer to call the Cecil Hotel home because in the 1990’s, another killer called Jack Unterweger murdered three prostitutes while staying at the hotel. Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered several woman in his home town in Austria before fleeing to America. It is also believed that the Cecil Hotel was one of the last places Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia was seen alive.

One of the most well known and modern deaths that occurred in the Cecil Hotel occurred in February 2013 when the body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam was found naked in one of the water tanks on top of the hotel. She had been decomposing inside the water tank for two weeks before guests and hotel staff started complaining that the water had turned black and started to taste odd. No one knows how Elisa got into the water tank. Not only would she had had to get through a locked and alarmed door but then she would have had to push open the heavy lid of the water tank and somehow close it after her. The last known sighting of Elisa was on CCTV in the hotel elevator where she is seen acting strangely and apparently talking to someone who is not there. During her autopsy she was found to have no drugs or alcohol in her system so that was ruled out hallucinogens as the cause of her strange behavior on camera. Her death remains unsolved to this day and some believe that she was just another victim of the ghosts of the hotel.