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Have you watched the police interrogation of rapist/murderer Col. Russell Williams, who walks in smiling and arrogant and leaves in cuffs, his life reduced to a pile of ashes? It’s a site to behold.

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To what is Freddy listening?

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How in god's name–with a case getting this much media attention–is it possible that police were not tailing her most likely killer?  https://theghostdiaries.com/gabby-petito-homicide-did-police-seriously-just-let-her-killer-walk-away/

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The death cult arrives

The Ghost Galleon, 1974

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While social distancing, buy from local bookstores & read!

Pop quiz: did you know serial killer Richard Ramirez once lived on the same floor as Elisa Lam's surveillance video?? Learn more about the mindblowingly creepy history of the Cecil Hotel in my true-crime book, GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam.

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780806540054

This is a fantastic time to read AND support local indie bookstores & authors. 📚 Powell’s just announced they're rehiring 100 employees bc online orders are soaring! 

Please consider buying my book from Powell's online store. 📚

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780806540054

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Richard Ramirez On The 14th Floor With Elisa Lam

This is a wonderful time to read a creepy book alone in bed. My new true-crime memoir, GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam, explores, among other things, the history of the Cecil Hotel and how it factored into one of the most haunting and tragic cases of the century.

Learn new details of serial killer Richard Ramirez at the Cecil, as well as the hotel’s second serial killer, Jack Unterweger. 

During his killing spree in the 1980s, Ramirez lived on the 14th floor at the Cecil - the same floor where Elisa’s infamous surveillance footage was filmed.

I discovered new evidence in the Lam case suggesting a coverup by the LAPD and Cecil corporate management.

Book is available in Kindle and all other ebook formats.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46184565-gone-at-midnight

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This photo of one of the windows of the Cecil Hotel was taken by a teenager named Koston Alderete, who was staying at the Cecil about ten years ago. He had no idea the history of the hotel and the fact that dozens of people have climbed up into the window sills and jumped to their deaths.

In the new book, GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam, incredible new synchronicities are uncovered regarding the history of the hotel and the killers that have lived there. 

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Take A Dark Trip Into the Cecil Hotel (without leaving your room)

In this unprecedented epoch of isolation, now is a better time than ever to pick up a good book: try our new true-crime memoir GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam.

Read never-before-heard stories from tenants of the Cecil Hotel about the strange energy that dwells there and infects the minds of the mentally ill, the pathological, the criminally dangerous, and the psychotic. It’s one of the most haunted hotels in the world and its dark secrets are finally surfacing.

ORDER NOW and get it delivered by mail from AMAZON or GOODREADS

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What happens when 3 narratives - mental illness, paranormal, and homicide - collide under one roof?

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The water cisterns on the roof of the infamous Cecil Hotel, where a maintenance worker found Elisa Lam’s body in 2013. The roof also contains a utility room, which directly connects to the tank in which Elisa died. Was the lid open or closed?

Author Jake Anderson’s forthcoming true-crime memoir, GONE AT MIDNIGHT, explores theories of the case, as well as new evidence gathered over 5 years of investigative journalism. 

PRE-ORDER the book here: https://amzn.to/2vus6N9

[Drone images by Ryan Washburn]

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a nightmare on loop

This is the hallway they walked down....

....to reach the room where the nightmare plays on loop.

They learned sinister new truths about the past and the full story of the predators within. Truths that will be released in a forthcoming tell-all book. An investigative journalist’s 5-year odyssey to expose what happened to Elisa Lam on the 14th floor of the Cecil Hotel....

GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

“Riveting . . . scary, compelling . . . and expertly told.”

--M. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author

Pre-order here: https://amzn.to/2vus6N9

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Infamously haunted Cecil Hotel planning rooftop pool parties

On March 15th, 1937, twenty-five-year-old Grace E. Maguro checked into the Cecil Hotel. In the middle of the night, while her companion slept, Grace climbed into the moonlit window frame and jumped from the 9th floor. Her body was found the next morning entangled in the telephone wires, framed like some gruesome abstract art exhibit for shocked passersby to interpret.

The Cecil Hotel is widely considered to be one of the most haunted hotels on the planet. Inside its walls, there have been countless suicides, unsolved murderers/strange deaths, and two serial killers: Richard Ramirez (The Nightstalker) & Jack Unterweger (The Austrian Ghoul).

For his new book, GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death Of Elisa Lam, author Jake Anderson spent years interviewing tenants, analyzing old records, discovering new evidence & spending terrifying nights alone in its rooms.

In 1964, Pigeon Goldie Osgood, who was known locally for feeding the birds in Pershing Square, was stabbed, strangled, raped, and killed in her room at the Cecil Hotel...

A former Assistant Manager claims someone has died in all 600 rooms.

In the midst of Jake uncovering stunning & exclusive new revelations in the infamous Elisa Lam case, the Cecil Hotel abruptly closed down, citing renovation plans for a brand-new bar & pool on the roof where Elisa died.

What really happened to Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel? Predatory sexual assault & homicide, mental illness, or paranormal activity? Or perhaps it's all three—informational relics of past trauma repeating the same horrific patterns on loop. 

Now the hotel owners plan to lure a new generation of revelers to drink and swim on the same roof where Elisa tragically died....what could go wrong?

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This is the Cecil Hotel. The forthcoming book GONE AT MIDNIGHT: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam explores the uncharted depths of the despair, suicide, murder, creepy anomalies, and serial homicide that has haunted its walls since the 1920s, including new evidence in the Lam case.

Author Jake Anderson spent 2 nights alone there and almost lost it. He learned someone has died in all 600 rooms.

Photo by Jared Salas

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Pre-Order The Ghost Diaries co-founder Jake Anderson’s new true-crime memoir on the Elisa Lam case. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46184565-gone-at-midnight 

The culmination of 5 years of research and investigation, Gone At Midnight explores several intersecting narratives: the history of the haunted Cecil Hotel, home to two serial killers and countless mysterious deaths; the stigmatization of mental illness; and exclusive new evidence that may reopen what many consider to be one of the eeriest cases of the century. 

Release date: February 25, 2020 - Publisher: Kensington (Citadel)