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Travel restrictions and season season. He's applied. Have you ever checked into a hotel and walked into your room and instantly you knew with every fiber of your being that someone absolutely died in there at some point?

Like there's not a dead body sprawled across the polyester duvet, but the stench of despair, the sticky carpet and the streaks of dried something on the bathroom walls gives a pretty good indication.

That happened to me once at a motel six in Vacaville, California. Vaca in case you don't know means cow in Spanish. The sign at the border of Vacaville reads, welcome to Vacaville, we suggest you keep driving.

Welcome to Strange and unexplained. I'm your host Daisy Egan. Every week I bring you stories of the weird, unusual and inexplicable.

This week pack your overnight bag and get ready to check into a room you may never escape from.

Before we dive in, a quick note. This episode was written and recorded months before the Netflix documentary about the Cecil Hotel came out.

So some of the questions I pose have been answered, but we chose to keep the episode as is. In general, most hotels, except for the extraordinarily fancy ones, seem to be repositories for loneliness, desperation and bodily fluids. Some more than others.

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You've probably heard of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Ryan Murphy did a season of American horror story based on it. I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's very Ryan Murphy E.

To which I say, keep Sarah Paulson, forget the rest.

The most famous story from the Cecil is about a Lisa Lamb, and will get to her, but Lamb's mysterious death was only the most recent in a century long string of awfulness that took place at the Cecil.

From suicides to gruesome murders to serial killers lurking the halls, the Cecil Hotel, as you'll soon find out, is either cursed, or just a magnet for the most down and out people, unlucky enough to need a hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Built in 1924 for a million dollars, 15 million in today money, by Hotel Your William Banks' Hannah, the Cecil Hotel boasted 700 rooms, a marble lobby, stained glass,

and a grand staircase. As fancy as it was, the Cecil had shared bathrooms, which will become an important nugget of information later.

On sweet bathrooms weren't common in hotels and boarding houses until a little later. The hotel opened in 1927 and was a big success almost instantly, hosting visitors from out of town, as well as local Angelenos.

The Cecil may well have been on its way to being a destination for international business and social elites, as Hannah had intended.

But in 1929, the Great Depression hit. That's some really shitty luck. That's like someone opening a new high-end restaurant in January 2020. Like, how could you possibly see what was barreling toward you?

You might be thinking, Daisy, what the F is stranger unexplained about a fancy hotel that goes bust in the Great Depression. To which I say, please stop yelling at me, I'm getting to it.

Even before the stock market crash in the fall of 1929, things started looking shaky for the Cecil.

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