Best of Spooky Shows: The Mysterious Cecil Hotel

Psychic Teachers

Samantha Fey

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week's Best of Show, we revisit the spooky Cecil Hotel which has seen an unusual amount of murders, suicides, serial killers and unsolved deaths. Is it haunted? A beacon for evil energy? Or something else? Tune in to find out.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Fey, and I'm Deb Bowen,
0:05.1	and we hope you're in the mood for a spooky show this week. How would you feel about staying
0:10.2	in a hotel that is rumored not only to be haunted, but to also be overshadowed or even possessed
0:16.8	by something evil? No, we're not talking about the Stanley Hotel. In today's episode, we're going
0:21.9	to be discussing the sorted, scary, often lured history behind the Cecil Hotel, which has been
0:27.9	home to countless suicides, mysterious disappearances, a few serial killers, several murders,
0:34.0	and one very, very strange death. The Cecil Hotel, located in downtown Los Angeles, was built in
0:40.3	1924 by Hotelier William Banks Hunter. It cost him a million dollars to build the 700-room
0:46.4	elegant hotel. But poor Mr. Hunter had bad timing. Just two years after the hotel was finished,
0:52.2	the great crash happened, and the country was plunged into the Great Depression. The neighborhood
0:56.7	came to be known as Skid Row, leaving the Cecil Hotel to feel like a beautiful young debutant
1:01.7	with nowhere to go. Now, instead of attracting international businessmen, her marble hotel lobby
1:08.0	became home to drugies and criminals. During the height of the Great Depression, the hotel was the
1:13.0	site of six suicides. Some chose to end their suffering with poison, others chose to slip out a
1:18.6	high-story window, and the rest resorted to the cold, hard steel of a gun barrel. Deb, would you
1:24.8	like to give us some of those exciting details? No, Samantha, I would not, but I will.
1:33.6	Actually, you missed one method of suicide, and that was that some people slit their own throats.
1:39.3	Yikes. Yikes, I just got to say that, and I am not going to talk about all six of those suicides,
1:44.1	but I do want to tell you about two during the 1930s. One was Army Sergeant Louis Borden,
1:50.8	who slashed his throat with a razor. Less than two years later, Roy Thompson of the Marine Corps
1:58.1	jumped from a top of the hotel and was found on the skylight of a neighboring building. Can you
2:04.0	imagine looking up your skylight and seeing that? No. In September of 1944, 19-year-old Dorothy
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