Ep. 52 - The Cecil Hotel
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is not a place where most people would want to rent a room.That might be why the Cecil Hotel was reported closed, but do not be fooled, the hotel just changed its name to Stay on Main and advertises itself as a hostel. Not only is it a budget hotel frequented by transients, but it has a creepy and murderous past that has caused it to be a source of numerous tales of haunting experiences. This infamous history includes suicides, disappearances, murders and serial killers. The hotel made news in 2013 when the funny tasting water coming out of the faucets was linked to a dead body in the water tower. A disturbing video related to this death has gone viral. You might want to turn on the lights for this episode as we explore the history and hauntings of the Cecil Hotel. The Moment in Oddity features the Dylatov Pass Incident and This Day in History features coffee planting in Hawaii.
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:23.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's The History |
| 0:37.0 | goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you Hello you sputacular people welcome to this 50 second episode of the |
| 0:49.3 | History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost |
| 0:50.9 | ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and on today's episode we're talking |
| 0:58.4 | about the Cecil Hotel and Denise if ever there was a show that makes people want to perhaps keep the lights on while you're listening, this one is probably it. |
| 1:10.0 | I am very sure this one is probably it and so we will let them know why at a moment. |
| 1:16.0 | Very, very creepy location and wow, what a history this place has. |
| 1:23.2 | But before we get into that, |
| 1:24.4 | we want to make sure you guys check out our website |
| 1:26.3 | at History Goes Bump.com. |
| 1:28.1 | It's got everything you could possibly want to know |
| 1:30.0 | about the show where you can find us on social media. We've got our |
| 1:33.1 | emporium over there and we've added some new gear to the store. |
| 1:37.0 | Coffee mugs for traveling. Yes. Take us in your car with you. |
| 1:40.4 | Travel coffee mugs and we threw in our little slogan there you'd be more interesting if you were dead? |
| 1:47.0 | Absolutely and it's not only just the slogan but since before we we tweaked it |
| 1:52.0 | a little bit because before it was already like |
| 1:54.0 | copyrighted or whatever but it's on there with the history goes bump logo which makes it even more |
| 2:00.3 | awesome. |
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