BONUS: “Checking Out” Hotel Horrors: The Notorious Cecil Hotel and Hotel Horror Movies

Shock Waves

Blumhouse + FANGORIA Podcast Network

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Join ShockWaves co-host Rebekah McKendry along with special guest and weird history expert David McKendry for a journey into strange hotels and why they often serve as a haunting backdrop for both ghost stories and movies. The duo discusses the notorious, supposedly haunted Cecil Hotel located in downtown Los Angeles which was the main inspiration for AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL. Bekah and David also share their own extraordinary tales of traveling around the country and the bizarre hotels they encountered.

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0:00.0	Don't say it. On Friday January 13th.
0:04.0	From Santa say it. Don't think it.
0:07.0	Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't think it. Don't think it. Don't think it.
0:11.0	Don't think it. Don't think it. Don't think it.
0:12.0	Bye-byebye man.
0:13.0	With the PG-13. Oh, I, oh, you're not. Greetings and welcome to a bonus episode of Shock Waves. I am your host Rebecca McHenry and with me is
0:54.6	somebody who's never been on the show before but I know really well. Dave
0:58.3	McKendry. We've met before. Occasionally we converse. So is this a very special episode
1:04.6	it is a very special episode of shock waves like one of those schmaltzy 80s
1:10.5	special episodes where
1:11.9	80s what's your what's your favorite very special episode?
1:15.0	I gotta go with Alf.
1:16.0	Okay.
1:17.0	Have you did you see the Alf one?
1:18.0	Which Alf one?
1:19.0	Okay, so in the very special episode of Alf, they did this Christmas episode of Alf this is not what the
1:23.8	episode is about by the way but anyway I could come back and do a whole thing
1:28.0	on very special episodes so on the very special episode of Alf, like Alf was usually really funny, you know this furry little
1:35.7	alien running around trying to eat the Tanner's cat and things like that.
1:39.1	On the very special episode of Alf, the Tanner's go stay at this cabin in the woods and they decide to take
1:44.4	alf with them. And then these creatures come up and randomly try to kill them?
1:48.6	No, no, it's actually far more depressing than that.
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