Welcome back.
The AdSixers and Sevens, I'm Tommy.
And I'm Rio.
Today we are diving into the dark and twisted history of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles,
California.
A place that has been barred by tragedy, mystery and an undeniable aura of the supernatural.
Yeah, for real kids, this aura is off the charts.
I cringed at just saying that, so I also want to be holding it now.
But this hotel has seen its share of notorious guests and chilling events, making it the
prime hotspot for a paranormal activity.
Not the movies, of course, let's just be real with that.
And a source of endless fascination for thrill seekers and true crime enthusiasts alike,
me and Rio.
Yeah, like you said, it's not like the movie because this is the real deal.
This is real shit.
Definitely.
The movie was just, all the movies were terrible.
I'm not going to lie.
All they were fucking terrible, yeah.
It's bad.
If you watched the movies and enjoyed, good on you.
Fair enough.
Just not quite for me.
But grab your courage and let's explore the haunting legacy of the Cecil Hotel and what
makes it such a significant part of Los Angeles lore.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Let's get right into the news.
I'm joking.
We can't steal that.
Damn it, King Star.
Yeah, exactly.
The Cecil or the Cecil, I'm not sure which one it is.
The Cecil Hotel opened its doors in 1927, right before World War II, of course, initially
designed as a luxurious retreat for travelers visiting downtown Los Angeles.
It was meant to be a place where the affluent could come and experience kind of all the
glamour, the glitz of this, you know, this city, the city of angels.
However, things quickly took a dark turn and after just a few years, the hotel began to
gain a reputation as a haven for crime, despair and darkness.
It wasn't long before the lavish image of the Cecil started to fade and the hotel transformed
into a residence for the cities down and out during the Great Depression.
Be for real, you know, it's kind of fascinating how a building can change, don't you think?
In atmosphere over time.
So it was obviously built for all of like, oh, come and visit this.
But at the same point, it was like, no, we're just going to affiliate you with drugs and
gangs.
Because originally the Cecil Hotel was meant to embody the glamour of the 1920s, like a
symbol of hope and opportunity, but obviously came the Great Depression.
It just became a refuge centre for those who had nowhere to go, transforming its identity
into kind of just hopelessness, realistically.
Now, exactly.
You know, over the decades, the hotel became infamous for its connection to numerous tragedies
and crimes.
Reports indicate that over a hundred deaths have occurred within the walls since its opening.
Right?
Like the sheer volume of death and despair has become part of its identity, almost, making
the Cecil not just a hotel, but a site of ongoing tragedy and history.
I mean, yeah, one of the most, I think, notorious figures associated with the Cecil Hotel, I
think it was Cecil, what's her name?
Elizabeth Short, I think it was.
Yes, famously known as the Black Dahlia.
In 1947, she was rumoured to have visited this hotel shortly before her gruesome murder.
This case obviously captivated the public and still remains unsolved to this day.
Yeah, so, you know, the Black Dahlia, aka Elizabeth Short, her story is particularly
chilling, especially since her body was discovered in a vacant lot just a few miles away from
the hotel.
The media frenzy surrounding her murder not only added to the public's obsession, but
also linked the Cecil Hotel directly to one of the most infamous murder cases in American
history alone.
If it's so notorious, why have I never heard of it?
I had to research this.
Yeah, I don't know.
I have heard.
I'm kind of catching you out there.
I'm kind of just baiting you out and saying, why have I never heard of this if it's one
of the most infamous murder cases?
It's either or, I'm a fake fan.
I think you're a fake fan because I learned with the Cecil Hotel, I can associate easily
like five to 10 cases.
I won't name names.
I'm not that good, but if somebody was to tell me something that happened in the Cecil
Hotel, I'd be like, oh yeah, of course.
Yeah, I've heard about this.
So we might go into them in more episodes.
Absolutely.
I might have to do my research, but whoops.
You can tell who does most of the work here.
Oh yeah, no, it's definitely me.
Elizabeth Short is kind of just the tip of the iceberg, as I like to say.
In the 1960s, another tragic event did occur when a young woman committed suicide.
This is the one I do know from jumping from the hotel's roof, which grew some death.
This incident was not an isolated case, rather kind of like reflects the whole hotel's dark
legacy of despair and hopelessness and kind of just adds to it more.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, each of these stories adds a layer of darkness to the hotel's history.
You know, the Cecil Hotel became a symbol of loss and tragedy, a place where the cries
of despair echoed through its halls, you know, so poetic.
But you know, the sheer weight of these events seems to linger almost as if the hotel itself
has absorbed the sorrow of its occupants.
So hotel Transylvania, but literal horror.
Yeah, yeah.
And there's ghosts roaming around the halls.
Mm hmm.
Basically.
And not nice ghosts as well.
They're kind of haunted ghosts and mentally destroyed.
And murderers.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of murderers actually, this kind of links to it.
We can't forget about Richard Ramirez.
He's famously known as quote unquote, the night stalker.
Oh, let me put an emphasis on it.
The night stalker.
How about how about like, oh, the night stalker.
Exactly.
Who infamously stayed at the Cecil.
I will say Cecil, I don't really care.
You will get it right.
Hopefully by the end of the episode one day.
Yeah.
He took his killing spree in the 1980s.
So this was more kind of more recent, but obviously less recent than 1920s when it opened.
He was linked to at least 13 murders.
Oh, beautiful number.
13.
Oh yeah.
It's the unlucky number as well, isn't it?
And his connection to the hotel kind of further solidified its reputation as a haven of criminal
activity.
What a lad.
Honestly.
Where do you think?
I think the unlucky number 13 comes from.
Cause you've got Friday the 13th.
You know, 13 is just known as an unlucky number.
And then this guy is linked to 13 murders.
I don't actually know.
I kind of want to understand where it comes from.
Cause God knows where it's actually, let you know who started this whole 13.
It might have just been hearsay.
You know, people saying 13 is an unlucky number, but it's actually not.
I don't know.
I think there's something to it.
I think there is some, what's it called?
Paranormal link to it.
I kind of want to find out where, where this, cause you've got, you know, the unluckiness
of a black cat crossing your path or splitting poles.
What's that called?
Superstition?
Superstition.
Yeah.
I wonder where the superstition become there behind the number 13 really comes from.
Well, I kind of, I did just search it up.
The belief is that the kind of the number 13 is only unlucky.
Cause it goes back to the Bible.
Where the story of the last supper, where Judas, obviously the apostle who betrayed
Jesus is considered to be the 13th guest at the table.
So that's where it kind of starts, which that's in Christianity anyway, in Norse mythology
or anything else, it might be, I think it was Loki who was the 13th guest and all of
that stuff.
So that's where it comes from.
Makes sense.
It makes sense, but that's a long time.
That's a long superstition.
Yeah.
It really is.
I mean, I can't even realise how things that we think about and, you know, use on a daily,
how far they really go back and how, you know, these traditions almost have carried on for
hundreds of thousands of years sometimes.
Well, maybe not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds and even thousands of years.
Yeah.
Hundreds and thousands of years.
Cause we're not there yet.
Yeah.
We'll get somewhere of course.
But Ramirez's, Ramirez's, oh my God, I cannot say his name.
Ramirez's arrest near the hotel in 1985 brought even more attention to its dark reputation.
Many believe that his malevolent presence might still linger in a hotel, contributing
to the eerie atmosphere reported by guests and staff as well.
That's even worse, like if you work there, you're like, I don't like this atmosphere.
I don't want to work here.
Oh, what's it called?
People retention must be absolute shite.
Oh, you are returning guests?
Why?
Fuck off, go away.
Don't come here.
Yeah.
It's like, I get it.
Come for one night, you know, just a come and go kind of thing.
But return to...
Yeah, exactly.
It's like returning to the place where all this shit happened.
To be fair, I understand if it's coming from paranormal fanatics and investigators like
us that want to go back, you know.
Journalists and stuff like that.
Yeah, no, I can understand.
But as a result of its dark history, let's say, the Cecil Hotel has gained a reputation
as one of the most haunted locations in America, which that's an achievement in itself, like
be real.
Guests and staff alike have reported countless encounters with the supernatural, which kind
of just adds more to the hotel's like mystique, mysteriousness.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And many visitors recount hearing unexplained noises such as disembodied voices, footsteps
in the empty hallways, and even sounds of doors slamming shut.
You know, there's a chilling sense of the unknown that hangs in the air, making the
hotel feel alive with its tragic past.
You know, the walls have a story to tell.
Let me just stop you there though.
I do agree the walls do have a story, but they're in a fucking hotel.
Of course they're going to hear footsteps.
Of course they're going to hear doors slamming.
Yeah, but you hear footsteps and then you look down a hallway and there's fuck all there.
What are you going to think?
That's because they just went in the room and closed the door.
I don't believe the superstition until I actually witness it.
I think that's the way I am anyway.
This is why we need to do more paranormal investigations together.
We actually need to do one, yeah, with me there.
Yeah.
That'll be, you know, great.
Anyway, one staff member who obviously worked at this easel hotel shared a particularly
chilling experience.
And they recounted hearing like laughter coming from rooms that were supposed to be empty,
sending shivers down, obviously their spine and all of that, you know, it's one of those
moments where it leaves you questioning whether you're truly alone.
Fuck that.
I am going to move to the downtown motel where there's most likely pimps, prostitutes, drug
dealers and fucking drugos rather than stay at this hotel because if you're sitting in
your bed and you hear something in your room, fair enough, I would say the room standard
normal hotel activity.
If you hear something in your room, you just, what do you do at that point?
Like I know I would put the covers over my head as if they're going to fucking protect
me.
I mean they might.
Right?
You never know until you try.
Well, realistically, where would you stay?
Would you stay at the hotel motel holiday?
Yeah.
Hotel.
God damn pitbull.
Mr. Worldwide.
Exactly.
I just had to put a reference in there because I just found it fucking hilarious.
I would stay in room 1402 and let's talk about the infamous room 1402.
You know, guests frequently report feeling cold spots there.
A phenomenon that many paranormal investigators attribute to restless spirits.
I have seen TikToks and videos of people.
Yeah, no, I've had some TikToks pop up about that.
It's actually interesting how certain places within the hotel and not just like the hotel
in general.
Yeah.
There's more activity in different rooms.
Yeah.
Like each room has a different kind of vibe, but not about the actual rooms, like the look
of it, like the feel of it.
It's like that gritty like feeling down inside.
I remember seeing this one TikToker who investigated the hotel for a long time.
He got an apartment right across from the hotel and he would document stuff going on.
You know, like every week there was police, ambulances, fire engines constantly going in
and out of the hotel.
There was incidents ongoing constantly, but he also had a perfect visual of room 1402
window and I believe there was renovations going on at the time or just that floor was
like fully shut off.
There was nobody staying in the room, but he had a camera set up directly looking at
the window and you could see stuff like you could generally see people in there.
It was bizarre.
Yeah.
So there was a group who wanted to watch people.
Whether he's a paranormal investigator or just a stalker, I don't know.
We do not know.
Find out next time on it.
I think I, yeah, no, I've heard about that because one of the guests, I think there was
another room 1430, which was on the same floor.
She had a story about a sudden rush of cold air was passing by.
Even in the dead of summer, there was this cold kind of breeze that was coming through
just as if the hotel was telling its own story.
And it's Los Angeles as well.
Los Angeles is fucking warm.
If any of you have ever been, you know, it's absolutely roasting your tits off.
Yeah.
Nevermind during actual summer season.
No, during winter it's warm.
Nevermind during summer.
You just burn alive.
Literally.
The reports just kept getting worse.
There was reports of flickering lights and sudden power outages.
Some believe these incidents are the result of ghostly interference.
And one recent encounter, I guess, claimed to see a shadowy figure standing at the end
of the hallway late at night.
When they approached, you know, the person to see who it was, the figure just vanished,
leaving them with an unsettling chill that lingered throughout their stay.
I'm not surprised.
If you've seen someone, you're like, oh, who's that?
Maybe if it's a staff member, I'm going to go and ask them a question or ask to get catered
for ice or drinks or whatever.
You start walking.
First of all, who the fuck are you?
Who?
Why would it be me?
I'd just be standing at the edge of the corridor with a black hoodie on going, brrrrr.
I'd just stand, like, I'd walk, I'd start walking towards them, right?
And then as soon as they disappeared, my first thought would be, oh fuck, the mushrooms have
kicked in.
Fuckin' shit.
I think that's just such, like, a haunting experience.
Right.
I can only imagine how unsettling it kind of must have been, especially as me, because
I'm a scared little bitch.
True.
Like, I would be running out of that place as soon as possible.
I'd be like, no, not for me.
I want a refund.
I want to go home.
Just imagine you're running with, like, your Louis Vuitton bags with clothes flying out
left right and center.
You think I can afford Louis Vuitton?
Fucking hell.
Yeah, from Egypt, okay?
Nah, I can't even afford that.
Like, you're running with your suitcase half open, your clothes just flying out, you're
like, fuck this, no, bye, see you later.
No, I'm not even closer half on.
I'd just be fucking naked, just sprinting down the corridor with drag in my suitcase
behind me.
Mommy, is that a ghost?
No, it's just one of the fucking droggos running naked again.
No, it's just Tommy.
It's a standard occurrence in room 1430.
1430, 1402, one of them, yeah, sure.
Apparently another visitor as well.
Recounted feeling someone tugging at their blanket while they slept.
Only to wake up and obviously find that no one was there.
And that's the personal accounts that just really bring to life the stories of Cecil
Hotel.
Dude, if I'm sleeping and I feel somebody tugging my blanket, I don't even know what
I'm thinking.
It's just me, Pookie.
I'm just cold.
Climb on in, boy, climb on in.
I just want my blanket back, like.
No, it's truly chilling.
It is.
Horrible.
But a group of paranormal investigators once visited the hotel and recorded unexplained
whispers in the middle of the night.
It was as if the spirits were trying to communicate, like adding another layer to the hotel's
ghostly lure.
Yeah, and adding to this, one particular kind of creepy story comes from a couple who stayed
in, I think it was room 701, and they reported hearing children laughing and running down
the halls, but found no children anywhere in the hotel.
At all.
It's these unsettling moments that just contribute to the overall feeling of the unease, and
why visitors are kind of scared to go there and scared to stay there.
No, the more like you talk about this, the more I want to visit it at the same time.
At the same time.
I'm like, if I knew there was very little guests staying there, because the hotel's
never really full, and then I just heard stuff.
I wonder why.
Damn, maybe we should look into that.
Not because it's haunted, yeah.
No, definitely not.
Each of these stories adds to the hotel's haunted legacy.
It feels as though the Cecil Hotel is alive, you know, echoing the pain and suffering of
those who have passed through its doors.
It kind of traps the history, and it traps the souls of the people that were lost or
doomed there.
It's as if it's a prison for people that got lost in the halls of the Cecil Hotel.
I agree, but at the same point I'm thinking, damn, this would make a fucking good zombies
map.
I mean, prove me wrong.
A hotel of the dead.
Yeah, true.
Exactly.
Or a movie at least.
I mean, we had Monster House, but not Monster Hotel.
I preferred Monster Zink.
That was just Hotel Transylvania to be fair.
Monster Zink, did you just say?
Wait, what?
Yeah, Monster Zink.
Oh, I thought you said Monster Sink.
Like, why are monsters haunting a sink?
It sounds like a really bad setup.
You just start hearing dripping.
It's water torture.
The monsters start waterboarding you.
Fucking hell.
That is terrible.
That's great actually.
Copra just by Rio and Tommy.
Exactly.
Let's get back into it anyway.
And I think we should go for one of the most haunting and kind of widely discussed stories,
which obviously is the main reason of this episode.
Linked to Cecil Hotel is that I've, I want to say this right, Elisa Lam.
I think that's right.
Yeah, I think so.
I can't really ask her.
Well, no, she's dead.
Unless you can speak with a Ouija board, which even then you can't speak to them.
Maybe what you call it, that speak box.
Spirit box.
Yeah, I've got one of them.
But she mysteriously disappeared during her stay at the hotel.
So she didn't leave.
She stayed in the hotel itself and disappeared.
A case has been like reviews multiple times.
The public have been involved.
Police, everybody has been kind of interested in this case to find out what happened.
Especially with the circumstances that her body was found in.
It leads back to monster sink because her body was discovered weeks later and the rooftop
water tank, you know, under circumstances that raised.
Sorry.
I shouldn't be laughing at that.
I'm laughing at the sink.
Yeah.
She's the one hot in the water.
Oh, that's terrible.
Imagine staying at the hotel, right?
And finding out there was a decomposing body inside of the water tank of which you shower
and drink the water from the taps.
I'm not knowing that there's a dead body in there.
That would fully creep me out.
But just the circumstances raised countless questions.
You know, the very nature of her death was bizarre and it's been a topic of intense speculation
and debate ever since her tragic death.
But even before her disappearance, Elisa was captured on security, like the CCTV cameras
acting erratically in an elevator out of all the places.
Like who would do that?
If you're watching on YouTube, we're going to roll the clip now.
If you're listening on Spotify, Apple podcasts or anywhere else, you won't see the clip.
Fuck yourself.
They go to YouTube.
You can see the clip on YouTube.
We'll roll it.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Why does she act like that?
I don't know.
Do you think I know?
So basically, I haven't watched the video.
Basically she's like going in the elevator, like going in and out as if somebody's chasing
her or something's happening, but there's nobody else in the video.
It's just, it's, it's bizarre.
I'll let Tommy talk about the video more.
Yeah.
It's almost like she's talking to an unseen presence.
Like there's a schizophrenia or something like, you know, you're talking to something
that's not actually there.
You know, pressing multiple buttons as if she's trying to escape.
The whole thing just creeps me out.
The footage obviously has become infamous and is often referenced in discussions about
her case, but yet nothing has been done about it.
I don't, can anything really be done?
Actually not knowing.
Oh, anyway.
No.
The erin is-
You can't arrest a ghost.
Yeah, no, exactly.
Or you know, you can't diagnose her with schizophrenia after her passing.
You just-
I mean you can, you'd just be a fucking idiot.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
But the erinness of that video adds to the mystery even more.
Definitely.
You know, after her body was discovered, the Cecil Hotel faced intense scrutiny.
Many speculated about the possibility of foul play while others wondered if supernatural
forces were at work.
And I think, you know, the circumstances surrounding Elise's death, it prompted a wide range of
theories like, you know, if you heard something like that, you theorise something yourself.
Yeah, because you know, she was found in the water tank on top of the roof.
How did she get in there?
You know, it is not easy-
Water tanks are not easy to get into.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
It is so hard to open.
Nevermind get in and then close it behind you, especially that the latch was on the
outside of the water tank.
Come on.
How does that happen?
It's just a theory.
A game theory.
You're fired.
Good.
No, but like, I do agree.
Like how does that happen?
Some people like, obviously believe that she was experiencing a mental health crisis, whilst
others suggest she may have fallen victim to something more sinister, like demons or
ghosts or paranormal, of course.
And the hotel itself became a focal point for all of those theories, as its dark past
seemed to seep into the narrative which surrounds obviously her disappearance and how she got
into a water tank.
Literally, you know, it's fair enough if there was some mental health issues going on at
that time, but that still does not explain how she climbed into that water tank alone.
You know, somebody must have been there to help her open it and then close it behind
her whilst her body was in there.
I still feel it would take more people because water tanks are like very heavy metal.
Literally.
And her clothes were found outside of the water tank.
Yeah.
So it's as if she's like, you know what, I am going to bathe in the water tank.
I am going to remove all my clothing.
No, that just, it does not make sense.
Unless you just phased through the wall.
Yeah, there's a specific glitch in the matrix where if you punch the wall fast and hard
enough, your hand will phase through it.
Exactly.
Do not try at home.
Or if you're just, you know, for all you scientists out there, moving forces, you know, one force
goes to another and you can just like go through metal because you're a fucking god.
Slip through the atoms.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Since Alyssa's tragic death, you know, reports of paranormal experiences linked to her case
have been increasing.
You know, some guests claim to have felt her presence in the hotel, describing a deep sadness
that permeates certain areas, especially near the rooftop water tank.
Wait, I'm sorry.
What are guests doing near the rooftop water tank?
Wanted a drink.
Wanted a shower, you know.
Just wanted a chill.
That's true.
I must say rooftop is accessible to public, which I doubt because not all rooftops are.
Well not all are.
No.
I mean, it depends because American hotels are different, aren't they?
True.
I guess.
Like that one scene in-
They might want to go out for a smoke or something.
Yeah, exactly.
I was going to say it's the scene from the hangover where they're all on the rooftop
taking ecstasy.
All mega mined.
Not mega mined, monsters versus aliens, where he's on the roof.
I don't know why that came into my head, but that's the only thing I fucking got.
Why did mega mined come into your head?
I think that's just because that's me.
True.
Yeah, exactly.
But one visitor shared a particularly emotional experience, recalling how, I think, you know,
it was like how they felt an overwhelming urge just to cry while standing near the rooftop
tank.
You know, casual things as you do.
Like, I just want to have a massive breakdown right next to this rooftop tank for no reason.
You know what, fair, it's a quiet place.
It's fair, honestly.
It's fair.
Yeah, I don't blame them.
It's just almost if Elise's spirit was trying to communicate with them, which in itself
is just haunting just to think that a place meant for rest has become a site of sorrow.
It's very true.
You know, hotels are designed for people to go in and rest and escape, kinda.
Yeah, it's sad, but others have reported strange noises coming from the rooftop, particularly
at night.
You know, the whispers and sensations experienced by visitors contribute to the ongoing fascination
with Elise's story.
I mean, they said they heard like strange noises from the rooftop, but we don't actually
know what noise it is, do we?
I'm guessing like banging on the water tank, like metal clanking or, you know, as if somebody
was slamming a metal door, kind of thing.
That's what I'm imagining.
Or if somebody was like, um, kneeling on the edge of the rooftops going, I am the vengeance,
I am the dark knight.
Jesus Christ.
What's with all the references today?
I can't get through like paranormal things cause I have to make it funny cause I just
can't think of it.
You're not going to be able to sleep tonight.
No, I'm not.
I'm really not.
After recording this episode, are you going to put on like, um, CBBs or something just
to, uh,
Fuck yeah.
Number Jacks.
Let's go.
I'd happily watch the number jacks right now.
Fair enough.
Or Balamori.
Balamori did slap.
Never watched it.
Really?
Um, we're not going to get into that, but we are going to get into the paranormal investigator.
Um, because he claimed to have captured an EVP.
Oh my God, Tommy, what does that sound for?
Oh my God.
I'll tell you.
It stands for an electronic voice phenomenon.
Oh my God.
We've talked about this before.
Have we?
Yeah.
Um, we were talking about it in the episode where we covered the Enfield poltergeist.
Oh yeah.
We were.
I mean, probably might need to listen to that one first surely, but we're not going to get
into that semantics.
Um, but while near the water tank where obviously Alyssa died, um, they heard a soft whisper
saying help me.
Ew.
Which, yeah.
If somebody whispered to me, help me.
Right.
And I, there was nobody there saying, ah, get to fuck.
I'm gone man.
See you later.
Get to fuck.
No, I'm not doing that at all.
Jesus Christ.
But the story of Alyssa Lam adds another layer to the hotel's already tragic narrative.
You know, it's a reminder of how places can absorb the energy of their occupants.
As I said, you know, they're trapped within the walls.
They just can't escape creating a tapestry of human experience that is both beautiful
and tragic at the same time.
I mean, extremely tragic.
You know, the whole of every, every single death, every single murder, every single thing
that's happened, just the whole aura, as we keep on saying, is just, it's completely different
to any hotel that you'll ever stay at.
Yeah.
And people kind of just often say that staying at the Cecil Hotel feels like being part of
an ongoing story where obviously the past is never truly laid to rest.
The hotel's dark history just seems to linger in the air, creating an atmosphere that's,
you know, both captivating, but massively unsettling.
Yeah, quite literally.
You know, the Cecil Hotel has since been rebranded as the stay on the main.
I don't know where that name came from.
I think I like that name honestly.
I prefer the Cecil Hotel, but its dark reputation continues to loom larger, but its dark reputation
continues to loom large despite the name change.
You know, the stories and hauntings persist.
You know, the history will never leave the place as long as the building stands.
I don't think they can.
Even if they were to knock the building down and rebuild, the land has still got history.
You know, that place in general, you just can't get rid of it.
It's in the soil, it's in everything.
You cannot get rid of it.
You know, visitors come seeking a glimpse into its stored past.
Yeah, which, stored, storied, I mean, it's both actually.
Stories are stored.
In the storage.
The storage storage.
That sounds really stupid.
You know, another word for story storages.
No?
A fucking library.
It's so shippin' man, so true.
It is, it's a story storage.
No, it's a fucking library, mate.
Oh my god, okay, that was very good.
Very good.
Yet, this hotel, obviously the hotel, the Cecil Hotel, the Hotel Cecil, remains a significant
part of the Los Angeles lore, attracting thrill seekers and paranormal enthusiasts alike,
who are drawn to this notorious history.
It's, you know, I always say it's fascinating, just how a place can hold such a gravitational
pull, inviting people to explore its shadows, to learn its stories, to cover it on a podcast,
or to even go to it and record some videos in person.
Yeah, it's, you know, it's people that are listening right now, you are all part of this
gravitational pull because you are listening to the history and the stories of the Cecil
Hotel, which makes you part of this invitation to explore its shadows.
It's either that, or you really like the sound of mine and Ryo's voice and it puts you to
sleep.
So I hope you're having sweet dreams.
If you do, I am glad, because I have recently upgraded my microphone, if you could not tell.
Just for the podcast, of course.
Absolutely.
So shout out to Mr. Beast.
For no reason whatsoever.
Shout out my dad.
I'm the only listener right now.
What the fuck?
Shout out Mr. Beast.
Listen, he paid for someone's car in America, okay?
What, because you mentioned them in the podcast?
No.
Well then you're going to get fucking nothing then.
I'm not expecting to get anything.
I just want to show to them.
I just wanted to show them out for no reason.
You never know.
Okay.
I haven't even watched his thing on the Amazon Prime.
I don't really want to watch either.
No, it does seem kind of dumb.
Oh well, shout out Mr. Beast anyway.
God damn it.
That's terrible.
Let's just take a breather.
Yeah.
Rehydrate and all that.
Exactly.
You know what?
I'm not even going to cut this out, you know?
Just let people hear what really goes on.
How we have random breakdowns.
For some reason I can't stop laughing at it.
I'm crying.
I'm fully crying.
Right?
So this is why when we record an episode, you know, the recording session can be an
hour to two hours and the episode itself is like 30, 40 minutes is because we do this
random stuff and then we just have five minutes of laughing and trying to get ourselves together.
Because we're just actually fucking stupid.
Right.
Exactly.
And I feel like we should just, you know, keep more of these raw stupid moments.
If you would like that, let us know.
Honestly, just keep them in.
If not, we'll start cutting them back in.
We're still going to do it anyway.
We do not give a shit.
Viewer retention, what's that?
Literally.
But many ghost stories and ghost tours have sprung up, you know, guiding guests through
the hotel and sharing tales of its haunted history.
You know, these tours often include stops at key locations like room 1402, room 1430
and the rooftop water tank where Elise's body was found.
I think the Cecil Hotel has become a backdrop for storytelling now, where every corner kind
of holds a piece of its haunting history.
With each tour is like a narrative shed.
It just adds another layer to the lotel's, the lotel's, the hotel's legacy.
We at the hotel.
Lotel, lotel, lotel, yeah.
We'll not go back to that.
No, no, we've already had our sing along.
And the hotel's reputation has inspired numerous documentaries and films, including a chilling
Netflix documentary that re-enlightened, you know, public interest in Elisa Lam's case.
You know, the documentary not only highlighted the circumstances of her death, but also explored
the hotel's long history of tragedy and crime and everything that has went on through the
98 years.
I think so.
It must be.
It was 1927.
1927, yes.
98 years or so.
Nearly a hundred years old.
Oh my God.
Okay.
That's incredible.
It's crazy.
Century, not century.
I don't know.
So the Cecil, it serves as a haunting reminder of how the past can linger, influencing those
who pass through its doors.
It reflects the darker side of the American dream, of course, showing how quickly luxury
can turn into despair.
Absolutely.
And it's a place where reality and the supernatural intertwine, leaving visitors with more questions
than answers.
You know, you go there to do an investigation and try and get some answers, but you end
up leaving, scratching your head even more than you did going in there.
You know, many who visit the hotel report feeling an inexplicable heaviness, you know,
a reflection of the suffering that has occurred within its walls.
You kind of feel the urinous and the twisting of the stomach whenever you get a kind of
... the knots.
Yeah.
That kind of sick kind of feeling that something's watching you.
The impact itself extends beyond its guest, doesn't it?
Because it goes to the staff as well.
The surrounding kind of Skid Row area, as they like to call it, has been known for its
high levels of homelessness, poverty, everything above that sort.
And the hotel itself has become a microcosm of just broader societal issues.
Exactly.
You know, the hotel has been a point of contention within the community.
Some see it as a blight while others recognise its historical significance.
People residents often share stories about the hotel reinforcing its notoriety and making
it part of the community's fabric.
Yeah, I think it's weird though, because many people in the area believe that the hotel
attracts negative energy, reinforcing the struggles of the surrounding community itself,
in a reminder of how certain places can hold on to the pain of those who occupy them, making
it difficult to move forward and have that mentality of two step backwards instead of
two steps forwards.
And it's essential to consider how the hotel represents not only the tragic stories of
individuals, but also the broader societal issues to play.
You know, this is the hotel has became a case study and how places can absorb the energy
of their occupants, or better or worse.
Now this leads into an interesting conversation about how society views mental health, homelessness,
you know, the intersections between crime and care.
The hotel serves as a reminder also of the need for compassion and understanding in such
a world that can be overwhelming.
Absolutely.
Either way, that's just my view on it.
Let's dive deeper into some of the experiences shared by the guests at this said horror hotel.
Many visitors, of course, report feeling an overwhelming sense of dread upon entering
the hotel, let alone staying in it.
And one guest recalled walking into the lobby and immediately feeling cold and uneasy as
if they were being watched.
It's fascinating how places can evoke such strong emotions almost as if they have their
own kind of energy field or manipulate people.
You know, a building manipulates your feeling and your senses.
It's bizarre.
Now others have shared stories of waking up in the middle of the night, obviously such
strange noises, such as the sounds of like scratching on walls and whispers and laughs
that came out of absolutely nowhere.
These experiences blur the lines between obviously the reality and the supernatural, which leaves
many questions for us, let alone other people.
And how will you perceive it?
It truly is a powerful reminder of how deeply a place can impact our emotions and experiences.
You know, if we go into even buildings that don't have a history, but we still get, you
know, weird feelings.
For example, if we go into a hotel, we'll feel fine, we'll feel relaxed, but if we
go into a hospital, we'll feel uneasy.
It's that feeling associated with different buildings.
And here with the Cecil Hotel, you get a feeling that should not be associated with this building.
So it makes people be like, why am I feeling this in a place that's meant to be seen as
a place of rest, relax, and just escaping reality?
But instead it was death, taxes, and uncomfortableness.
Literally, like the stories we've heard, you know, paint a vivid picture of the hotel
as a living entity, you know, rich with history and hauntings.
I think one particularly striking account came from a guest who stayed on the seventh
floor.
They reported feeling a cold breeze brushing against their skin, followed by the distinct
sensation of someone touching their shoulder.
Obviously no one was in the room with them, but feeling of touching on the shoulder and
a cold breeze, it's like, ugh.
So we've had this cold breeze or this cold draft a few times.
Which is weird because I don't know if you know the, what's it called?
People speculate that if you have all of a sudden shivers or you feel a cold breeze,
it's a spirit passing through your body or something like that.
I mean, yeah, I've heard that multiple times, but-
Which would make sense in a hotel.
You know, if people feeling-
Touching the shoulder.
Yeah.
I guess, you know, they pass through their body and then kind of focus their energy on
them to actually get into a person's attention and touching them or whatever.
I don't know.
I don't know how the spiritual world works.
Could the ghost have been a masseuse?
That's interesting actually.
Or the ghost just needed somebody to lean on, going through a tough time.
Nah.
They're dead.
Okay.
That's, it's fair.
But it's eerie, you know?
Oh yeah, impossibly.
Other visitors shared that they felt compelled to take a photograph of the hotel's rooftop
as if they were forced to do it, but only to later discover an unusual mist captured
in the image.
We know what that is.
It's an orb.
Oh yeah.
It's Batman.
Of course it is.
He's just lurking there in the night.
Yeah.
I don't know, they can't explain what the mist is, but you know, as somebody who's really,
really interested by this, I see it as an orb.
Yeah.
It's like that game Phasmophobia.
Love that game.
Yeah.
Obviously I play, it's, you know, noticing the signs and the patterns of what's happening.
And you could, you know, you might be able to see faces, you might be able to see like
figures, you might be able to see shadows, things like that, which kind of captivate
in the photos themselves and develop later on.
And it just adds to the whole aura of the Cecil Hotel, because it's just such a repository
of human experiences.
Both obviously more tragic, but there are some joyful ones as well.
Because each story just contributes to the story, the story storage, as we're going
to call it.
The library.
Yeah, the library of the hotel.
As a place of both beauty, but mostly darkness.
And as many more people visit, the legacy of the Cecil Hotel continues to grow, you
know, intertwining the past with the present in a hauntingly beautiful way.
And speaking for myself, I would love to visit the hotel.
I don't know whether I would have the balls to sleep a night in one of the haunted rooms.
I wouldn't be able to sleep regardless.
Yeah.
Knowing all of these stories, I'd be awake the whole night.
I'd probably, I'd feel fine sleeping in a standard room, but I'd love to put myself
to the test and actually stay at one of the rooms like 1430, just to see and record everything
and do the paranormal investigations that we want to do.
I mean, if any of you guys have actually stayed at the Cecil Hotel, just let us know.
Honestly, put it on our Reddit or, you know, contact us.
Yeah, just anyway, because we want to hear the experiences.
You can contact us on Facebook at 6s and 7s, Reddit at 6s and 7s podcast, or email us at
6s and 7s podcast at gmail.com.
Or even Instagram at 6s and 7s.
Simple as that.
We're everywhere.
You cannot miss us.
Absolutely.
You know, we're not like a ghost.
Or are we?
So there you have it.
A glimpse into the haunting legacy of Cecil Hotel.
A place where history and mystery collide, leaving behind echoes of despair and intrigue.
It's a story that reminds us of the complexities of human experience, you know, the intertwining
of joy and sorrow and how the places we inhabit can shape our stories in profound ways.
If you're ever in Los Angeles, which you might be, just remember that behind every
single wall of Cecil Hotel, it lies a tale waiting to be told.
And don't drink the water, because you never know what's in the hot tanks.
Don't have a shower, don't drink water, don't use the monster sink.
But anyways, thank you so much for joining us today.
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We'll see you next time on At Sixes and 7s.
Will we?
Eh, probably not.