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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

20: Cecil Hotel I Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, True Crime, History, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This downtown Los Angeles hotel is famous for all the wrong reasons. It was home to some noteworthy serial killers, many suicides, and one unsolved death.

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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:16.0

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0:18.0

Geographic restrictions and Ties and C's apply 18 plus.

0:20.0

At this hotel, stay away from the windows and don't drink the water.

0:24.5

I'm Jason Horton.

0:26.0

I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:27.0

And this is Ghost Town. So I feel like this one is got you written all over.

0:46.5

This one is me this is my signature. This is my email signature in this case.

0:50.4

What? Meet me at the hotel.

0:53.0

I was supposed to do the link in the hotel in its history.

0:55.7

Yeah, this one is great.

0:57.8

It's such a wonderful picture of LA in terms of true crime and mystery and grotescity is that a word

1:08.4

grotesqueity no sounds like grotesqueness. Yeah, because it is, it's this non-descript hotel.

1:17.6

And I want to like paint the picture a little bit too before we start in that this hotel is kind of on the

1:22.3

cusp of downtown and MacArthur Park.

1:24.6

So it's in this strange, like kind of close to USC no man's land of shit hotels that people stay in because they're doing God knows what kind of a thing.

1:35.6

Kind of a place and historically I think this is accurate, you guys don't care. It's a sort of place where there was a lot of sprawl after like right

1:47.4

before the car kind of took LA and spread it out a bit they were all these

1:51.7

hotels in different properties created around downtown because people thought they had to live really close to downtown to be in the finance district and to develop LA like that and then of course the car made that all change, and it became a much more distinct part of a giant city versus just being the epicenter of a city.

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