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Speaker 1: On February first, twenty thirteen, twenty one year old Eliza
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Speaker 1: Lamb was reported missing in Los Angeles, California. Her last
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Speaker 1: known location the Stay On Maine Hotel, formerly known as
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Speaker 1: the Hotel Cecil, a location which has been shrouded in
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Speaker 1: death and synonymous with mystery for decades. The Hotel Cecil
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Speaker 1: itself has been home to at least sixteen known deaths
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Speaker 1: since its inception in nineteen twenty four. After Elisa went missing,
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Speaker 1: there began a nearly three week long investigation into Elisa
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Speaker 1: Lamb's life, the hotel staff and guests, which led to
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Speaker 1: incredibly eerie and concerning evidence being uncovered. After several guest
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Speaker 1: complaints of the hotel water tasting off flooded rooms in
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Speaker 1: low water pressure, the maintenance staff made a seemingly routine
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Speaker 1: visit to the four cisterns that towered atop the hotel,
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Speaker 1: and on February nineteenth, twenty thirteen, Elisa Lamb's body was
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Speaker 1: discovered naked, floating inside one of the watertowns. This gruesome
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Speaker 1: discovery raised even more questions and possible conspiracies, many which
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Speaker 1: have remained largely unanswered to this day. This is the
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Speaker 1: story of Alisa Lamb in the Cecil Hotel. Let's do
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Speaker 1: a deep dive. So the Cecil Hotel today is a
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Speaker 1: very special episode that I've been wanting to cover for
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Speaker 1: a very long time because the Cecil Hotel is just
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Speaker 1: one of those places. It is one of the most
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Speaker 1: mysterious places in America. As a person who has been
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Speaker 1: a paranormal investigator for a decade now, the Cecil Hotel
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Speaker 1: is one of those places that I've heard so many
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Speaker 1: things about. You know, I've read in depth about Alisa
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Speaker 1: Lamb's story about Richard Ramirez's connection, all of the different
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Speaker 1: killers and murders and deaths that have happened in the hotel.
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Speaker 1: We're going to cover that in a second. And it's
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Speaker 1: very very interesting because I recently visited the Cecil. It's
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Speaker 1: Friday right now when I'm recording this, and just last Saturday,
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Speaker 1: I was inside of the Cecil and I saw this firsthand.
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Speaker 1: I talked to people who live there, and it's just
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Speaker 1: as dark as you can imagine that it is. It
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Speaker 1: is a horrific, negative, evil energy inside of that building.
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Speaker 1: It is depressing, it is, it feels anxious. It's just
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Speaker 1: so bad. It's hard to even describe how bad it
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Speaker 1: is to you the violence that happens there to this day.
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Speaker 1: The woman that we were interviewing who lives there, she's
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Speaker 1: lived there for two years, and she said that just
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Speaker 1: in those two years that she's lived there, she said,
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Speaker 1: maybe somewhere between sixteen eighteen to thirty people have died.
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Speaker 1: I've been taken out of the hotel just while she's
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Speaker 1: been there, mainly from drug overdoses. But like just recently,
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, as of right now when
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Speaker 1: I'm recording this video, there was a dead body found
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Speaker 1: inside one of the rooms of the Cecil, and when
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Speaker 1: the police actually opened up the door, they discovered that
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Speaker 1: a man had been living in that room with the
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Speaker 1: dead body for a full week while it was decomposed,
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Speaker 1: because they were so strung out on whatever substance they
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Speaker 1: had that they just didn't see anything wrong with that. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is some really disturbing stuff. But to really get
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Speaker 1: into this story of Elisa and what happened, we can't
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Speaker 1: even begin to unpack it without first diving into the
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Speaker 1: history and infamy of the Cecil Hotel. So the hotel
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Speaker 1: Cecil opened its doors in nineteen twenty four, situated on
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Speaker 1: what was then a trendy section of Main Street in
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Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles. The hotel was named after the famed
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Speaker 1: Cecil Hotel in London, which was one of the world's
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Speaker 1: top hotels at the time. Interestingly enough, the Royal Air
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Speaker 1: Force was actually formed there at the hotel in nineteen eighteen.
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Speaker 1: While smaller than its London namesake, the Los Angeles version
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Speaker 1: of the Cecil boasted seven hundred rooms and catered to
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Speaker 1: tourists and business travelers alike. Its location was really prime
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Speaker 1: real estate, just steps away from the downtown hub for
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Speaker 1: the Pacific Electric streetcar system, which made it easy for
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Speaker 1: business travelers to reach nearly any part of life. Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Central Station, the main terminus for Los Angeles, was
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Speaker 1: just a short walk to the east, and Downtown LA
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Speaker 1: itself was thriving at the time before corporate giants took over,
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Speaker 1: the area was a bustling ecosystem of diverse companies. Southern
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Speaker 1: California alone was home to numerous banks, small department stores,
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Speaker 1: independent oil companies, and of course, the film industry. The
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Speaker 1: region at the time was a hive of manufacturing, shipbuilding,
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Speaker 1: and construction, so the people of LA were doing really well.
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Speaker 1: They had a nice, clean city, and now they had
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Speaker 1: this huge, grand hotel right downtown. It was a huge
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Speaker 1: building back then. For these countless local businesses, having a
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Speaker 1: prestigious office downtown was a must to impress clients and
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Speaker 1: competitors alike. The Hotel Cecil, with its proximity to these
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Speaker 1: corporate hubs and the nearby bustling Broadway district with its stores, restaurants,
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Speaker 1: and theaters, was a magnet for business, travelers and tourists.
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Speaker 1: But the good times didn't last. Just five years after
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Speaker 1: it opened, the Wall Street crash of nineteen twenty nine
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Speaker 1: and the ensuing Great Depression sent Main Street into a
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Speaker 1: downward spiral, eventually merging into the growing skid Row. And
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Speaker 1: this was just the beginning of the hotel's troubles. In
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine, Union Station opened, moving LA's main train
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Speaker 1: terminal a couple of miles north and leading to the
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Speaker 1: closure of Central Station. Then in nineteen fifty, the Pacific
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Speaker 1: Electric Building also closed its terminus. As downtown LA began
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Speaker 1: to lose its luster, many companies relocated to other parts
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Speaker 1: of southern California, making a downtown office less desirable. There
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Speaker 1: was also a glaring oversight in the Cecil's original business plan.
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Speaker 1: The hotel had no parking for cars when it was
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Speaker 1: designed around nineteen twenty. Parking wasn't a consideration for city hotels,
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Speaker 1: but car ownership in southern California boomed in the nineteen twenties,
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Speaker 1: creating a growing traffic problem that made getting out of
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Speaker 1: downtown a headache. By nineteen sixty one, all the streetcar
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Speaker 1: lines were gone, leaving the Cecil isolated in an increasingly unfashionable,
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Speaker 1: hard to reach, and dangerous part of town. The hotel's
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Speaker 1: lack of parking and dwindling public transport options forced a
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Speaker 1: shift in the business model. You see, without easy access,
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Speaker 1: the Cecil's only viable customers were long term tenants without cars,
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Speaker 1: which led to those tenants being mostly low income residents.
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Speaker 1: Over time, the hotel became a refuge for those living
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Speaker 1: on the fringes of society, drawn in by its central
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Speaker 1: location and extremely cheap rent. Nowadays, we just talked to somebody,
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Speaker 1: it's two hundred fifty dollars a month to get a
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Speaker 1: room at the Cecil, which is crazy cheap, especially downtown LA.
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Speaker 1: By the nineteen fifties, however, the hotel Cecil had already
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Speaker 1: started to gain a reputation unlike any other in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: which made it even harder for the owners of the
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Speaker 1: business to turn things around. The hotel quickly became known
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Speaker 1: for death, murder, and violence. It's possible that there's a
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Speaker 1: correlation between the Great Depression and the numerous in the thirties,
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Speaker 1: but there have been sixteen reported deaths within the hotel
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Speaker 1: and countless police calls and reports of unsavory activity all
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Speaker 1: throughout the hotel's history. So let's examine some of these
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Speaker 1: listed bizarre deaths from inside of the Cecil. The first
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Speaker 1: really recorded death that I could dig up occurred in
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Speaker 1: November of nineteen thirty one. During that month, a man
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Speaker 1: named W. K. Norton was found dead in his hotel
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Speaker 1: room in the Cecil after ingesting poisonous capsules. Just a
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Speaker 1: week before his death, he had checked into the Cecil
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Speaker 1: hotel using the fake name James Willies from Chicago. We
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Speaker 1: still don't know why the fake name, what happened with him,
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Speaker 1: but he's the first really recorded death that sets all
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Speaker 1: of this stuff off. Then, less than a year later,
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Speaker 1: in September of nineteen thirty two, Benjamin Dodditch dies from
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Speaker 1: a gunshot wound to the head. A maid actually found
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Speaker 1: Benjamin dead from that gunshot wound to the head inside
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Speaker 1: of his room. He appeared to have taken his own life,
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Speaker 1: and he did not leave any note or explanation as
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Speaker 1: to why he did so. The next death was a
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Speaker 1: little over a year later, in July of nineteen thirty four.
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Speaker 1: This was the death of Sergeant Louis D. Borden. In
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Speaker 1: late July nineteen thirty four, former Army medical Course Sergeant
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Speaker 1: Borden was found dead in his room at the Cecil
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Speaker 1: after having slashed his throat with the razor. Now Sergeant Borden, actually,
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Speaker 1: in contrasts to other people, had left several notes which
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Speaker 1: cited poor health as the reason why he was choosing
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Speaker 1: to take his own life already. As you can see,
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Speaker 1: that is four people that took their own lives in
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Speaker 1: less than five years in the Cecil, and it wouldn't
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Speaker 1: get any better soon. March of nineteen thirty seven, Grace E.
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Speaker 1: Magro died from falling off the building. Magro fell or
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Speaker 1: jumped from a ninth story window, but shockingly, on the
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Speaker 1: way down, Magro's body got wrapped up in telephone wires.
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Speaker 1: That's right. She jumped onto the wires and they gruesomely
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Speaker 1: wrapped around her body, caught her up, cut her up.
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Speaker 1: There was blood and other internal organs everywhere on the pavements.
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Speaker 1: I can imagine it was a truly disturbing site. She
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Speaker 1: later on died at the hospital and the police were
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Speaker 1: unable to determine whether her death was an accident, or
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Speaker 1: she had taken her own life, or she had possibly
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Speaker 1: been pushed. Still to this day and nobody knows what happened. Then,
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Speaker 1: in May of nineteen thirty nine, Irwin C. Neblett was
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Speaker 1: found dead in his hotel room at the Cecil after
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Speaker 1: once again he had ingested poison. People don't know if
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Speaker 1: he was trying to take his life, what exactly happened,
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Speaker 1: But this trend of people coming to the Cecil Hotel
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Speaker 1: to die is just going to continue. January of nineteen forty,
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Speaker 1: less than a year after the last death, a woman
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Speaker 1: named Dorothy Seeger dies at the Cecil Hotel. Dorothy was
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Speaker 1: a teacher who registered at the hotel under the pseudonym
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Speaker 1: Evelyn Brent. She then ingested poison on January tenth, nineteen forty,
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Speaker 1: and was reported by the La Times to be near
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Speaker 1: death when the police arrived. Beforehand, Dorothy had sent her
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Speaker 1: relatives a note indicating that she was planning on ending
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Speaker 1: her life. And yes, Dorothy eventually succumbed to the effects
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Speaker 1: of the poison at a local hospital. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know what the deal was with all these people coming
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Speaker 1: to the Cecil to poison themselves, but it's really bizarre stuff.
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Speaker 1: And when we get to September of nineteen forty four,
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Speaker 1: we get to one of the most disturbing events, in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, in the history of the Cecil, the tale
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Speaker 1: of Dorothy Jean Percell. Now, in September of nineteen forty four,
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Speaker 1: Dorothy Jean's newborn infant was thrown from the window of
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Speaker 1: their hotel room. Now, at the time, Dorothy Jean Purcell
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Speaker 1: was sharing a room at the Cecil with her then boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: a man named Ben Levine, who was thirty eight years
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Speaker 1: old and a shoe salesman. Dorothy had apparently been completely
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Speaker 1: unaware that she was pregnant. She had spent the last
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Speaker 1: nine eight months completely unaware that she was with child,
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Speaker 1: and so when she was in the room at the
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Speaker 1: Cecil that night in September of nineteen forty four, Dorothy
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Speaker 1: suddenly went into labor. After this all happened, She later
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Speaker 1: testified that she didn't want to disrupt her boyfriend, who
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Speaker 1: was sleeping at the time, so she went into the
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Speaker 1: bathroom of her hotel room by herself and gave birth
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Speaker 1: to the baby boy. But something wasn't right about the child.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't crying and breathing like Dorothy thought it was
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Speaker 1: supposed to, and so sadly and mistakenly, she thought that
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Speaker 1: she had had a stillbirth and that her baby was dead.
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Speaker 1: And so Dorothy took her baby and threw it out
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Speaker 1: of the window of her hotel room. It then landed
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Speaker 1: on the roof of an adjacent building and died. Dorothy
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Speaker 1: was later charged with murder, and three psychiatrists testified that
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Speaker 1: she was mentally confused at the time of the incident.
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Speaker 1: In January of nineteen forty five, she was found not
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Speaker 1: guilty by reason of insanity. November of nineteen forty seven,
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Speaker 1: a man named Robert Smith once again jumps from the
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Speaker 1: building and takes his own life. He jumps from one
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Speaker 1: of the cecils seventh floor windows. October nineteen fifty four,
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Speaker 1: a woman named Helen Gurney once again jumps from the
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Speaker 1: building and takes her own life. Helen was a stationary
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Speaker 1: firm employee from San Francisco, and she jumped from the
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Speaker 1: window of her seventh floor room and landed on top
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Speaker 1: of the Marquee. You know the sign that says hotel
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Speaker 1: cecil on the side of the building. She actually jumped
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Speaker 1: and landed on that thing that signed and that's where
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Speaker 1: her body sat. One week before, she had checked in
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Speaker 1: at the hotel under the name Margaret Brown. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what's up with all of these pseudonyms that people
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Speaker 1: check in under. It's really really bizarre. February of nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty two, a woman named Julia Francis Moore once again
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Speaker 1: jumps from the building to her death. Julia had jumped
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Speaker 1: from the window of her eighth floor room and landed
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Speaker 1: in a second story interior lightwell, which seems like a horrific,
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Speaker 1: painful death. Julia did not leave a note, but amongst
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Speaker 1: her possessions were a bus ticket from Saint Louis, fifty
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Speaker 1: nine cents in change, and an Illinois bank book showing
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Speaker 1: that she had eighteen hundred dollars to her name. October
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two. That same year, a woman named Pauline
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Speaker 1: Aunten takes her own life at the hotel and sadly
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Speaker 1: takes someone with her the process. Now, this is one
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Speaker 1: of the most bizarre things that you're gonna hear about
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Speaker 1: the Cecil. This is a story that seems straight out
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Speaker 1: of some fictional book or film, But this indeed really
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Speaker 1: did happen in real life. So Pauline Aughten, she knew
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Speaker 1: she wanted to die, and for some reason, just like
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Speaker 1: so many others, she was drawn to the Cecil as
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Speaker 1: a place where she would you kill herself. So on
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Speaker 1: that day in October of nineteen sixty two, Pauline climbed
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Speaker 1: up to her ninth floor room. She had an argument
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Speaker 1: with her estranged husband Dewey aught in and then Pauline
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Speaker 1: opened up the window and jumped from the ninth floor. Now, interestingly,
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Speaker 1: her strange husband Dewey, had left the room just a
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Speaker 1: few moments before she took her own life. We can
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Speaker 1: assume that they had been arguing, he stepped out of
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Speaker 1: the room, and then she decided that it's over and
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Speaker 1: she was going to jump. Sadly, though, Pauline landed on
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Speaker 1: a pedestrian, a man named George Gianni, killing both of
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Speaker 1: them instantly. That's right, she actually landed on top of
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Speaker 1: a pedestrian and killed them. As there were no witnesses
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Speaker 1: to this event, there was nobody saw this whole thing happen.
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Speaker 1: When the police arrived on scene, they initially thought that
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Speaker 1: Pauline and George had taken their lives together in some
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Speaker 1: sort of a pact. However, it was soon determined that
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Speaker 1: George had his hands in his pocket when he died,
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Speaker 1: and he was still wearing his shoes. Hed he have
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Speaker 1: jumped from his room, his shoes would have likely fallen
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Speaker 1: off during the fall or upon impact, and his hands
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Speaker 1: would not have been in his pockets. So yeah, you
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Speaker 1: have someone trying to take their own life from the
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Speaker 1: hotel and they end up also taking someone else's with them.
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Speaker 1: So just a lot of strange, terrible things happening at
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Speaker 1: the Cecil. Then, in June of nineteen sixty four, there's
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Speaker 1: the death of Pigeon Goldie Osgood, who was raped and
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Speaker 1: murdered in the Cecil. In June of nineteen sixty four,
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Speaker 1: a hotel worker discovered Pigeon Goldie, a retired telephone operator,
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Speaker 1: dead in her room. She had been stabbed, beaten, and raped,
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Speaker 1: and her room was ransacked. There was blood everywhere. It
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Speaker 1: was a brutal, gruesome scene. Pigeon Goldie was well known
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Speaker 1: around the area and had earned her nickname because she
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Speaker 1: fed birds in nearby Pershing Square pigeons. To be exact,
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Speaker 1: near her body was the Los Angeles Dodger's cap that
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Speaker 1: she always wore in a paper sack full of bird
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Speaker 1: see she was planning to throw to the birds. Later
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Speaker 1: hours after her murder, a man named Jacques b Ellinger
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Speaker 1: was seen walking through Pershing Square, the same place where
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Speaker 1: Pigeon Goldi used to go love to feed the pigeons,
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Speaker 1: in blood stained clothing. He was arrested and charged with
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Speaker 1: her murder, but was later found not guilty and cleared
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Speaker 1: of the crime. To this day, Pigeon Goldie's murder remains unsolved.
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Speaker 1: In December of nineteen seventy five, Alison Lowell died from
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Speaker 1: once again jumping from the building. But what's interesting is
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Speaker 1: that that woman who jumped and died, her name really
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Speaker 1: wasn't Alison Lowell. In fact, to this day, nobody knows
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Speaker 1: who she is. She still technically remains unidentified. She had
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Speaker 1: checked in on December sixteenth of that year under the
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Speaker 1: name Alison Lowell, staying in room three twenty seven from there,
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Speaker 1: but no one knows who she is. Then, in September
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Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety two, another John Doe died from jumping
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Speaker 1: from the building. This time the body of an African
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Speaker 1: American man was found in the alley behind the Cecil
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Speaker 1: and immediately the police assumed that he had either fallen, jumped,
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Speaker 1: or been pushed from the hotel's fifteenth floor. That's quite
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Speaker 1: to drop. The twenty to thirty year old male, like
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Speaker 1: I said before, has never been identifying. Then in the
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Speaker 1: two thousands, the body of a twenty eight year old
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Speaker 1: man was found outside of the Cecil Hotel. Some people
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Speaker 1: believed he may have taken his own life by jumping
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Speaker 1: from the hotel, although a spokesperson for the County Corner
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Speaker 1: informed the La Times the cause of death had not
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Speaker 1: been determined that man remains unidentified. There's also a lot
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Speaker 1: of speculation surrounding a lot of these deaths, and many
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Speaker 1: of them are not entirely straightforward cases, which adds to
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Speaker 1: the mystery behind the incidents that occur in the hotel.
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Speaker 1: I mean Did all these people really take their own lives?
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Speaker 1: Were some of these people pushed? Were some people forced
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Speaker 1: to take this poison? Did they not know? I don't
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Speaker 1: really even know what to think of all that, but
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Speaker 1: it is crazy. You see. Amy Price, the hotel Cecil's
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Speaker 1: manager from two thousand and seven to twenty seventeen, has
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Speaker 1: claimed in later interviews that they were over eighty deaths
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Speaker 1: that happened just while she was working there in the
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Speaker 1: stretch of a decade. It's also interesting to note that
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Speaker 1: many people died from falling from the building, and you'd
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Speaker 1: think that it would be way more difficult or nearly
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Speaker 1: impossible to access the top of the building after all
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Speaker 1: of these deaths, but somehow, Elisa Lamb did you see
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, after all of these occurrences,
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Speaker 1: a pair of local longtime residents of the Cecil Hotel
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Speaker 1: gave it an ominous new nickname in the press. They
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Speaker 1: called it this Hotel, and this name has stuck many
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Speaker 1: years later. There've also been some extremely infamous guests who
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Speaker 1: have visited and stayed at the Cecil Hotel, so let's
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Speaker 1: talk about them first. There was the Black Dahlia in
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Speaker 1: January of nineteen forty seven, Elizabeth Short, known as the
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Speaker 1: Black Dahlia, disappeared. Just six days later. Her body was
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Speaker 1: found mulated in sections all across Los Angeles. It's been
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Speaker 1: heavily rumored that Elizabeth Short frequented the Cecil Hotel bar
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Speaker 1: and that that was one of the last places she
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Speaker 1: had visited before she was found dead. Then, in nineteen eighty,
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Speaker 1: the Cecil Hotel was home to serial killer Richard Ramirez
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Speaker 1: aka the night Stalker. Now, Richard was never blamed for
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Speaker 1: any of the deaths that occurred at the hotel, but
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Speaker 1: it is theorized that he did a lot of his
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Speaker 1: killing during the time that he was staying there. You see,
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Speaker 1: as it turned out, the night Stalker, Richard Ramirez was
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Speaker 1: a regular presence in the skid Row area throughout his life.
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Speaker 1: He had been a drug addict and had battled demons
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Speaker 1: of his own for many years before he turned to killing.
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Speaker 1: But because of the Cecil's close approximate location to skid Row,
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Speaker 1: it just made sense that he would choose the hotel
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Speaker 1: to spend time at in between or during his murders breeze.
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Speaker 1: According to a hotel clerk who had known him, Richard
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Speaker 1: Ramirez stayed at the CECIL for a few weeks and
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Speaker 1: supposedly committed a good chunk of his Los Angeles murders
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Speaker 1: while he was staying there. Now, according to people who
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Speaker 1: used to work at the CECIL, they've claimed that they
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Speaker 1: saw Richard stripping off his bloody clothing in the alleyway
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Speaker 1: outside of the building before he would climb the interior
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Speaker 1: stairs to his residence, still wearing his bloodstained underwear. So
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Speaker 1: he would take off his bloody clothing in the alleyway
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Speaker 1: and then walk all the way up to his room
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Speaker 1: covered in blood wearing only his underwear. I mean, what
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Speaker 1: a crazy sight. On August thirtieth, nineteen eighty five, a
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Speaker 1: group of Los Angeles residents spotted Richard Ramirez in the
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Speaker 1: street and stopped him from escaping until the police arrived
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Speaker 1: to arrest him, and in nineteen eighty nine, he was
19:28
Speaker 1: convicted of thirteen murders and sentenced to death, although he
19:31
Speaker 1: would ultimately die of cancer in twenty thirteen. An article
19:35
Speaker 1: that I found online from MovieMaker dot com actually goes
19:38
Speaker 1: into a little detail about the connections between Ramirez and
19:41
Speaker 1: the CECIL. Here's a little portion of that article. One
19:44
Speaker 1: former Cecil resident described the hotel at the time as
19:47
Speaker 1: a lawless place, one that was so chaotic serial killers
19:50
Speaker 1: felt comfortable calling it home. Back in the eighties, I
19:53
Speaker 1: would never go no farther than the sixth floor, the resident,
19:56
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gibbons says in Vanishing. Usually the high floors of
20:00
Speaker 1: the Cecil people used to get killed up in there.
20:03
Speaker 1: Once they got a guy in the room, they would
20:04
Speaker 1: rob him, beat him up, and throw him out the window.
20:07
Speaker 1: So if you didn't want yourself, you might come flying
20:09
Speaker 1: out of there with no wings end quote. Richard Ramirez's
20:13
Speaker 1: room was on the fourteenth floor. But as far as
20:15
Speaker 1: we know, the night stalker never brought any of his
20:18
Speaker 1: victims back to the hotel. It was simply a safe
20:20
Speaker 1: place for him to return to after committing murders. This
20:24
Speaker 1: is another quote. It's one of those hotels that's well
20:26
Speaker 1: known for this type of crime. The Cecil Hotel is
20:29
Speaker 1: where serial killers, you know, let their hair down, says
20:32
Speaker 1: Kim Cooper, an author and Los Angeles true crime tour
20:35
Speaker 1: guide for ESO Tour who was interviewed in Vanishing. One
20:38
Speaker 1: was a figure who stayed upstairs on the fourteenth floor,
20:41
Speaker 1: paying fourteen dollars a night for his room. He'd liked
20:43
Speaker 1: to scare, torture, torment, kill, rape human beings. She's talking
20:47
Speaker 1: about Richard Ramirez. Of course, on at least one occasion,
20:50
Speaker 1: he had actually removed someone's eyes as his human trophies.
20:54
Speaker 1: And then after committing some of the most brutal murders
20:57
Speaker 1: that happened in southern California, ever, he would come back
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Speaker 1: to the Cecil. She added, in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: night he would be in the back alley, covered in
21:04
Speaker 1: blood taking off his clothing. Fellow la historian and esoturic
21:09
Speaker 1: guide Richard Shave also described Ramirez his habit of walking
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Speaker 1: up the stairs to his room in his blood stained
21:14
Speaker 1: underwear barefoot, after discarding his bloody clothing outside. Cooper added,
21:19
Speaker 1: and that's cool, and no one's got a problem with that,
21:21
Speaker 1: because it's that kind of a heavy place now, So
21:24
Speaker 1: shout out to the author of that article. It was
21:26
Speaker 1: a great insightful article. There's actually a room inside of
21:29
Speaker 1: the Cecil that has gotten itself the ominous nickname of
21:32
Speaker 1: the Richard Ramirez Room, the room where he was rumored
21:35
Speaker 1: to have stayed during his murder spree, and according to
21:37
Speaker 1: those who have visited said room people that I know.
21:40
Speaker 1: There are still some bloodstains visible on the walls and floor,
21:43
Speaker 1: but I never went there, so that's all I can
21:45
Speaker 1: really say. Then, in nineteen ninety one, Austrian serial killer
21:48
Speaker 1: Jack Unterworker stayed at the hotel and killed at least
21:51
Speaker 1: three prostitutes while staying there. You see, just after Unterwerger
21:55
Speaker 1: checked into the Cecil, sex workers started dying in brutal
21:58
Speaker 1: ways across the city of Last Angels. But Jack's killer
22:01
Speaker 1: crimespree actually started in his home country Austria decades earlier.
22:06
Speaker 1: In the nineteen seventies, When Jack hunter Worker showed up
22:08
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, people saw him as an Austrian journalist
22:12
Speaker 1: on some sort of an assignment. But beneath that Vanier
22:14
Speaker 1: was a man with a sinister passed. Back in nineteen
22:17
Speaker 1: seventy four, he had abducted and strangled eighteen year old
22:20
Speaker 1: Margaret Schaeffer with her own bra and by nineteen seventy
22:23
Speaker 1: six he had been sentenced to life in prison for
22:26
Speaker 1: that murder. But Jack onunter Werger didn't want to waste
22:29
Speaker 1: his time behind bars. He started writing short stories, poems, plays,
22:33
Speaker 1: and even an autobiography titled Purgatory or The Trip to
22:37
Speaker 1: Prison Report of a Guilty Man. The book eventually inspired
22:40
Speaker 1: a documentary, and Jack's literary success from prison earned him
22:44
Speaker 1: parole in nineteen ninety, and from there his writing career skyrocketed.
22:49
Speaker 1: He became a fixture of bookstore readings, talk shows, and
22:52
Speaker 1: his works were even celebrated in schools. Even Austrian radio
22:56
Speaker 1: played his children's stories. Jack went from a murder to
23:00
Speaker 1: being ultra famous and wealthy. Now, just before Jack's big
23:04
Speaker 1: move to the United States, a dark shadow started to
23:07
Speaker 1: spread across Europe. In September nineteen ninety, Blanca Bokova, a
23:11
Speaker 1: sex worker in Prague, was found strangled with her underwear,
23:14
Speaker 1: and over the next six months, seven more prostitutes met
23:18
Speaker 1: the same fate in Jack's home country of Austria. After
23:21
Speaker 1: all these women died, unto worker then made his way
23:24
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, supposedly to study the Red Light District.
23:28
Speaker 1: He even managed to get a ride along with the
23:30
Speaker 1: lapd getting an official tour of the CD underbelly of downtown,
23:34
Speaker 1: and of course, he set up shop at the infamous
23:37
Speaker 1: Cecil Hotel and soon afterwards, three sex workers, Shannon Exley
23:42
Speaker 1: Irene Rodriguez and Peggy gen Booth were found strangled with
23:46
Speaker 1: their bras tied with the same signature knot that had
23:49
Speaker 1: become unto Worker's calling card. Back in Austria, police had
23:52
Speaker 1: been watching Jack, suspecting his involvement in the recent murders,
23:55
Speaker 1: and they finally had enough evidence to arrest him, but
23:58
Speaker 1: by the time they arrived at his home, Jack had vanished,
24:01
Speaker 1: slipping away with his girlfriend Bianka Moraq through Switzerland and France.
24:06
Speaker 1: He stayed on the run until nineteen ninety two, when
24:08
Speaker 1: he was finally caught in Miami, Florida. Extradited back to Austria,
24:12
Speaker 1: Jack face charges for eleven murders, and the jury found
24:15
Speaker 1: him guilty of nine. In nineteen ninety four, he was
24:18
Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
24:20
Speaker 1: But Jack wasn't going to let anyone else have the
24:23
Speaker 1: final say. That very night, he ended his own life
24:26
Speaker 1: in the Graz Carlisle Prison, thus bringing Jack unto Worker's
24:29
Speaker 1: reign of terror to an end. And obviously, with all
24:32
Speaker 1: this death, murder, with these sides and bizarre events that
24:36
Speaker 1: have happened at the Cecil, the place has a pretty
24:39
Speaker 1: robust supernatural history. And it's easy to believe why. I mean,
24:43
Speaker 1: the hotel is drenched in negative evil energy in the
24:47
Speaker 1: location that attracts death and suffering. The deaths that occur
24:50
Speaker 1: there at the Cecil are theorized by some to be
24:52
Speaker 1: the result of negative supernatural energy that lingers on within
24:57
Speaker 1: the location. And I think that's what it is. The
25:00
Speaker 1: place and talking to people, I think that the Cecil
25:03
Speaker 1: Hotel is like a big negative evil magnet that attracts
25:07
Speaker 1: everything negative and evil and dark about the world. It's
25:10
Speaker 1: just it pulls these people in to take their own lives.
25:13
Speaker 1: It pulls seerial. I mean, what hotel have you ever
25:16
Speaker 1: heard of with that many deaths, multiple serial killers, all
25:20
Speaker 1: these bizarre events to this day, deaths and murders happening
25:24
Speaker 1: every single month of year, and then at least a lamb.
25:28
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's just I think that it's definitely
25:31
Speaker 1: it's like its own character. I would describe the Cecil
25:33
Speaker 1: as its own character in its story. It's like an
25:36
Speaker 1: entity that's alive and well, kind of like the hotel
25:39
Speaker 1: and the Shining the Overlook Hotel. How Stephen King has stated,
25:43
Speaker 1: it's not even the ghosts that are really haunted. It's
25:46
Speaker 1: the hotel itself. The hotel is its own evil, negative being.
25:49
Speaker 1: It's kind of how I view the Cecil now. The
25:52
Speaker 1: Cecil closed its doors in twenty seventeen for renovations and
25:56
Speaker 1: to begin preserving the historical architecture after it was voted
25:59
Speaker 1: a historical cultural monument. However, work paused during the COVID
26:03
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic, and in December of twenty twenty one it
26:07
Speaker 1: was reopened as an affordable housing complex operated by the
26:10
Speaker 1: skid Row Housing Trust. The facility provides affordable living accommodations
26:14
Speaker 1: for up to six hundred low income residents, and in
26:17
Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty two, controversy struck when the famous
26:21
Speaker 1: Cecil Hotel room rate advertisement that had been emblazoned on
26:24
Speaker 1: the side of the building for almost a century was
26:26
Speaker 1: illegally painted over. As of August twenty twenty four, about
26:30
Speaker 1: half of the hotel was full of residents, and it's
26:33
Speaker 1: expected that those numbers will rise as skid Row Housing
26:36
Speaker 1: Trust acquires more resources. And that's what it was when
26:39
Speaker 1: we went there. We had to sneak into the building
26:42
Speaker 1: through security and have some help, but it's pretty much
26:45
Speaker 1: all people who were unhoused at one point, are pretty
26:48
Speaker 1: much unhoused. Drug addiction is rampant in their mental health issues.
26:52
Speaker 1: Just from the stuff that we saw, it's not like
26:54
Speaker 1: the Cecil hotel that you would imagine that it would be.
26:57
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Alisa Lamb. Alisa Lamb was the
27:03
Speaker 1: daughter of Hong Kong immigrants and was living in Vancouver
27:06
Speaker 1: at the time of her trip to Los Angeles. Previously,
27:08
Speaker 1: she had been a student at the University of British Columbia,
27:11
Speaker 1: although she was not enrolled at the time of her
27:13
Speaker 1: trip to LA It's theorized that Alisa had dropped out
27:17
Speaker 1: sometime before her trip, or was possibly taking a break.
27:20
Speaker 1: Now Alisa was an aspiring blog writer who would post
27:23
Speaker 1: about models, fashion quotes, and accounts of her life, which
27:26
Speaker 1: included discussions on her mental health. Now Alisa had two
27:30
Speaker 1: known blogs, one created in twenty ten on blog spot
27:34
Speaker 1: named ath the Fields, and another one made two years
27:37
Speaker 1: later on Tumblr named Novelle Nouvaal. Although Elisa's family was
27:41
Speaker 1: private about her mental health, she discussed some of her
27:43
Speaker 1: struggles online, noting that she had dropped several classes due
27:47
Speaker 1: to a relapse. In twenty twelve, she quoted novelist Chuck Polaniak,
27:51
Speaker 1: stating that she felt so utterly directionless and lost, and
27:55
Speaker 1: you're always haunted by the idea that you're wasting your
27:58
Speaker 1: life now. Alisa Lamb was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression,
28:02
Speaker 1: and was prescribed several medications that she took regularly at
28:05
Speaker 1: the time of her death, including well buttrin lamatriguing k
28:09
Speaker 1: t appin etcedrin, spansule, and ven lafaxt I totally slaughtered
28:14
Speaker 1: some of those names. I've never even seen some of
28:16
Speaker 1: those words. But Relisa's family claimed that she had no
28:19
Speaker 1: suicidal ideations, although she did previously write on her blog
28:23
Speaker 1: today has been one of those blod days, full of apathy.
28:26
Speaker 1: Really dangerous too. I can see myself feeling suicidal and
28:29
Speaker 1: it always scares me when I start feeling suicidal. She
28:32
Speaker 1: also wrote, depression sucks period. If someone says to you
28:36
Speaker 1: that they have depression, don't ask why. There is no whee.
28:39
Speaker 1: Tell them every day you love them, Remind them every
28:41
Speaker 1: day it will get better. Now. In the past, before
28:44
Speaker 1: the Cecil Hotel incident, Elisa Lamb had been hospitalized at
28:47
Speaker 1: least once due to mental illness, and she had a
28:50
Speaker 1: long history of not taking her medication properly. When this happened,
28:53
Speaker 1: she would often experience hallucinations that would cause her to hide,
28:57
Speaker 1: and she was hospitalized at least once for one of
28:59
Speaker 1: these episodes. Now, on this specific trip, Alisa was traveling
29:03
Speaker 1: alone to California, presumably as a tourist, from San Diego
29:07
Speaker 1: to Santa Cruz, but made a stop in Los Angeles.
29:10
Speaker 1: Alisa checked into the hotel on January twenty sixth, twenty thirteen,
29:15
Speaker 1: and planned to check out on January thirty first to
29:18
Speaker 1: continue her travel to Santa Cruz. While she was staying
29:21
Speaker 1: at the hotel, she contacted her parents every day up
29:24
Speaker 1: until the day that she disappeared, which was supposed to
29:27
Speaker 1: be her checkout date on January thirty first, two thousand
29:31
Speaker 1: and thirteen. It should be noted that Alisa never officially
29:34
Speaker 1: checked out of the hotel. Now later that day, when
29:37
Speaker 1: she failed to check in with her family, they immediately
29:40
Speaker 1: contacted the LAPD and they flew down to help with
29:43
Speaker 1: the search. Sadly, Alisa Lamb was officially reported missing on
29:47
Speaker 1: February first, twenty and thirteen. Something to know here and
29:51
Speaker 1: why it's been hard for people to get evidence or
29:53
Speaker 1: why it was hard back then is that there are
29:55
Speaker 1: no security cameras located on the floor that Alisa Lamb
29:58
Speaker 1: was staying on, so it was hard for officers to
30:01
Speaker 1: track her movements to see where she had gone or
30:03
Speaker 1: what she had been up to. And on January twenty seventh,
30:06
Speaker 1: a couple days before she went missing, Alisa had posted
30:09
Speaker 1: on her blog expressing unwonted attention from men in the area,
30:13
Speaker 1: stating I'm going out tonight. I really hope no creeper
30:16
Speaker 1: comes near me. Seriously, though, those Italian and Mexican guys
30:19
Speaker 1: go after you strong. Alisa was initially booked into a
30:23
Speaker 1: shared room, However, she was moved to a private room
30:26
Speaker 1: due to erratic behavior. On January thirtieth, Alisa was allegedly
30:30
Speaker 1: locking her roommates out and telling them they couldn't enter
30:32
Speaker 1: without a password, as well as leaving notes telling them
30:35
Speaker 1: to go away and go home now. Hotel staff who
30:38
Speaker 1: claimed to see Alisa in the days surrounding noted she
30:42
Speaker 1: was traveling alone. However, some reports state that there was
30:45
Speaker 1: CCTV footage from the elevators that captured her with two
30:49
Speaker 1: men who gave her a box. It's unclear who those
30:52
Speaker 1: men were but the box appeared to be from the
30:54
Speaker 1: last bookstore, the local shop. The men, to this day
30:58
Speaker 1: have never been identified. The owner said that Alisa was outgoing,
31:02
Speaker 1: very lively and very friendly, and was discussing getting books
31:05
Speaker 1: for her friends and family and books that might be
31:08
Speaker 1: a little too heavy for her to travel with. The
31:10
Speaker 1: owner claimed it appeared she had plans to go home
31:12
Speaker 1: and see her friends and families. She was preparing to return.
31:16
Speaker 1: The last time anyone saw Alisa alive was when she
31:19
Speaker 1: was caught in an area of the hotel where guests
31:21
Speaker 1: were not supposed to be. She was asked to leave
31:24
Speaker 1: by hotel staff and was last seen walking towards the elevator.
31:27
Speaker 1: Phone records indicated that Alisa had planned to meet up
31:31
Speaker 1: with a man but had never showed up. The man
31:33
Speaker 1: had an alibi that cleared him as a suspect from
31:35
Speaker 1: the case. That should be noted, Elisa's blog was still
31:38
Speaker 1: running after she had gone missing, making people believe that
31:41
Speaker 1: she might have still been alive. The last post went
31:44
Speaker 1: up in December twenty thirteen, but it was never confirmed.
31:47
Speaker 1: Many believed her blog continued to post through the queue feature,
31:50
Speaker 1: where users could queue posts for a later date while
31:53
Speaker 1: some personal items were located in her hotel room. Elisa's
31:57
Speaker 1: phone was never known to be found during the investigation.
32:00
Speaker 1: On February thirteenth, twenty thirteen, the police released CCTV footage
32:05
Speaker 1: of the last known sighting of Alisa Lamb. This was
32:08
Speaker 1: a two and a half minute long video which was
32:10
Speaker 1: taken on February first, twenty thirteen, from the hotel elevator.
32:14
Speaker 1: In the video, Alisa is seen acting incredibly strange and erratic.
32:18
Speaker 1: She appears to be popping in and out of the
32:20
Speaker 1: elevator as if to be hiding from someone, and is
32:23
Speaker 1: pressing every button on the elevator panel. She's seen waving
32:26
Speaker 1: her hands and moving in and out. When the door
32:28
Speaker 1: does not close, she exits the elevator. The door then
32:32
Speaker 1: closes sometime after she exits. No one else is visible
32:35
Speaker 1: in the video besides Elisa, and it should be noted
32:38
Speaker 1: that she looks like she's staring at people or things
32:41
Speaker 1: all around her. Obviously, this footage went incredibly viral and
32:45
Speaker 1: many viewers found it unsettling to watch. Theories began to
32:49
Speaker 1: emerge almost immediately as it gained traction, with some theorizing
32:53
Speaker 1: that it looked like she was hiding and trying to
32:55
Speaker 1: get away from someone, and that she had been trying
32:57
Speaker 1: to get the elevator door to close, which is why
33:00
Speaker 1: she was pressing buttons. Others theorized that she looked like
33:03
Speaker 1: she was under the influence of hallucinogens or that she
33:06
Speaker 1: was suffering from some sort of psychosis. Some claim that
33:09
Speaker 1: the footage was tampered with before being made public because
33:12
Speaker 1: the timestamp is obscured in the video. It was also
33:14
Speaker 1: theorized that the footage was sped up or slowed down,
33:17
Speaker 1: and that some of it was missing. It appears around
33:19
Speaker 1: the two fifty seven mark that the elevator door seems
33:22
Speaker 1: to jump around. This could have been done to protect
33:24
Speaker 1: the identity of someone who was in the video, related
33:27
Speaker 1: or unrelated to the disappearance. But one of the most
33:30
Speaker 1: chilling theories is the Korean Elevator game. Now some people
33:34
Speaker 1: theorized that Alisa could have been participating in this game
33:38
Speaker 1: called the Korean Elevator Game, which has some complicated and
33:42
Speaker 1: intricate rules. The game is basically an urban legend intended
33:46
Speaker 1: to take you to another world in which you may
33:48
Speaker 1: not return if you don't follow a very strict set
33:51
Speaker 1: of instructions. Now. For weeks after Elisa went missing, people
33:56
Speaker 1: who were staying in the hotel began to complain about
33:59
Speaker 1: the water tasting off, the water pressure not working, the
34:02
Speaker 1: water being discolored. People were saying there was this funky
34:06
Speaker 1: rotten taste to the water, and that something was just
34:09
Speaker 1: off with the water tank, and that the water was
34:11
Speaker 1: dark in color and looked rotted, almost like mud, and so.
34:15
Speaker 1: On the morning of February nineteenth, twenty thirteen, maintenance worker
34:19
Speaker 1: Santiago Lopez went atop the Cecil Hotel to check on
34:23
Speaker 1: the four water towers. He then opened up the water
34:26
Speaker 1: tank and discovered Elisa Lamb's naked body floating in one
34:30
Speaker 1: of the four one thousand gallon tanks, a tank which
34:33
Speaker 1: provided water to guest rooms, a kitchen, and a coffee shop.
34:37
Speaker 1: Once again, like I just said, Alisa's body had been
34:39
Speaker 1: found naked, with her clothing also floating in the water.
34:43
Speaker 1: The clothing in the water looked similar to those in
34:45
Speaker 1: the elevator footage and was coated with sand like particulate.
34:49
Speaker 1: Her watch and room key were also found in the tank.
34:52
Speaker 1: There was no reported evidence of any foul play that is,
34:55
Speaker 1: physical trauma or sexual assault or on Alysi's body, making
35:00
Speaker 1: it highly unlikely that she was dragged into the water tower.
35:04
Speaker 1: People have said, maybe she was murdered and put in there,
35:06
Speaker 1: but wouldn't there be some sort of bruise or some
35:09
Speaker 1: sort of marking anywhere on her body. Toxicology reports indicated
35:13
Speaker 1: traces of medication which was prescribed to her, as well
35:16
Speaker 1: as over the counter medication sinew tabin ibuprofen. She had
35:19
Speaker 1: a very small amount of alcohol in her system zero
35:22
Speaker 1: points zero two percent, but no other recreational drugs. Investigators
35:26
Speaker 1: noticed that the concentration of the prescription medication in her
35:29
Speaker 1: system indicated that she was under medicating or it stopped
35:33
Speaker 1: taking her medications recently. This corresponded with the fact that
35:36
Speaker 1: it appeared she had more medication in her room than
35:39
Speaker 1: she should have compared to the fill date. Some information
35:42
Speaker 1: on the autopsy report was incomplete. It did not say
35:45
Speaker 1: if or wind results of the rape or fingernail kit
35:48
Speaker 1: were processed. Records indicate some cutaneous pooling of blood in
35:52
Speaker 1: Lamb's anal area, which some suggested was a sign of
35:55
Speaker 1: sexual abuse or anal rape. However, this also could have
35:59
Speaker 1: been a result of bloating in the course of the
36:01
Speaker 1: body's decomposition. Now, immediately after Elise's body was found, the
36:06
Speaker 1: police knew they had to search the hotel, and they
36:08
Speaker 1: searched the entire hotel to the fullest extent that they
36:11
Speaker 1: legally could, meaning the police couldn't go into every room
36:15
Speaker 1: in the hotel because there was no probable cause that
36:17
Speaker 1: a crime had been committed in these rooms. Elise's room
36:21
Speaker 1: appeared to be messy, however, there was no sign of
36:24
Speaker 1: forced entry. Doors and stairs that led to the water
36:26
Speaker 1: tower are locked and only the staff has access via
36:29
Speaker 1: pass codes and keys, and bizarrely, any attempt by a
36:33
Speaker 1: resident or a guess at the hotel to access the
36:35
Speaker 1: water towers and the roof would have immediately triggered an alarm,
36:39
Speaker 1: which none of the staff members that night recalled hearing.
36:43
Speaker 1: The only way to bypass those security measures would be
36:46
Speaker 1: to go through the hotel's fire escape. Search dogs went
36:49
Speaker 1: through Elisa's room and through the rooftop, but were unsuccessful
36:53
Speaker 1: in tracking her scent to the water towers. Her scent
36:56
Speaker 1: was lost near a window that connected to the hotel's
36:58
Speaker 1: fire escape. It was quite should know how Elisa could
37:01
Speaker 1: access the inside of the cistern there was no permanent
37:04
Speaker 1: access to them, and hotel workers themselves had to use
37:08
Speaker 1: the ladder that they would bring up there to get
37:10
Speaker 1: up and look down into the water. The cisterns or
37:13
Speaker 1: water tanks were also protected by heavy, very well secured lids.
37:18
Speaker 1: Many wonder how Elisa Lamb, a small, petite woman, could
37:22
Speaker 1: have crawled up there, opened up those heavy lids, and
37:24
Speaker 1: crawled into the water tank all by herself. Now. The
37:28
Speaker 1: hotel employee who found Elisa's body said that the lid
37:31
Speaker 1: was open at the time of him finding her body,
37:34
Speaker 1: meaning that it was not closed behind her when she
37:36
Speaker 1: was inside. It speculated that she may have entered the
37:39
Speaker 1: cistern when the water levels were low and became unable
37:42
Speaker 1: to escape as the water levels rose when the tank
37:45
Speaker 1: was refilled. Now June twentieth, twenty thirteen, Elisa's cause of
37:50
Speaker 1: death was ruled to be accidental due to drowning, with
37:53
Speaker 1: her bipolar disorder being a major factor in her death.
37:56
Speaker 1: The case is considered closed. On September twentieth, twentan at thirteen,
38:00
Speaker 1: Alisa's parents filed a lawsuit claiming the hotel was negligent
38:04
Speaker 1: and caused wrongful death due to the fact that they
38:07
Speaker 1: did not anticipate the water tanks to be a threat
38:09
Speaker 1: to guests and the lids were not locked. On December fourteenth,
38:13
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, the lawsuit was dismissed. The judge ruled that
38:16
Speaker 1: it would not have been foreseeable for a hotel guest
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Speaker 1: to fall into the water tanks as no guests were
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Speaker 1: allowed on the roof of the hotel. The judge also
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Speaker 1: stated that the fact Elisa would have had to climb
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Speaker 1: up a ladder to access the water tanks would not
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Speaker 1: have indicated to her that she was not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be up on the tanks. It's interesting for them to
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Speaker 1: admit that that she would need a ladder to climb in,
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Speaker 1: yet there's still no confirmation on how she got into
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Speaker 1: the tank on her own. I don't know if they
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Speaker 1: found a ladder up there or what, but I mean,
38:43
Speaker 1: there wasn't a ladder by the entrance when they found Elisa.
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Speaker 1: Here's a couple theories. There's the mental health theories. Elisa
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Speaker 1: was experiencing at the time, according to this theory, a
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Speaker 1: severe manic episode due to her not taking her medications properly.
38:57
Speaker 1: This manic episode led to hallucinations which she experienced before,
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Speaker 1: which explained that elevator footage and may explain why she
39:04
Speaker 1: felt the need to flee to the water towers. Alisa,
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Speaker 1: according to this theory, was trying to take her own life.
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Speaker 1: She had a history of depression and may have seeked
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Speaker 1: out the water tower to drown herself. However, it didn't
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Speaker 1: appear at the time that Alisa had any suicidal thoughts
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Speaker 1: or ideations. She hadn't told anybody that she was thinking
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Speaker 1: about taking her own life. She hadn't written about it
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Speaker 1: on her mental health blog. She hasn't reached out to anybody.
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Speaker 1: She was telling the bookstore owner buying stuff to bring
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Speaker 1: back to her friends and family, talking about how she's
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Speaker 1: excited to go home doesn't add up. The theory also
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Speaker 1: states that Alisa was on a concoction of drugs that
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Speaker 1: may not have shown up on toxicology reports or were
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Speaker 1: out of her system by the time she was found.
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Speaker 1: Could these additional drugs that Alisa may have been on
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Speaker 1: have played into her mental faculties failing, I don't really know.
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Speaker 1: There's also the murder theories. Now, many questions still surround
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Speaker 1: how Alisa got into the tank without any help and
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Speaker 1: why she was naked. She had spoken on her blog
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Speaker 1: about wanting to meet new people and getting unwanted attention
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Speaker 1: from men, as well as having plans to meet with
40:04
Speaker 1: someone that night. Is it possible that she could have
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Speaker 1: actually met with someone who harbored bad intentions? You see,
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Speaker 1: the hotel was located on skid Row, an incredibly dangerous
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Speaker 1: and high crime area at the time. The hotel worked
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Speaker 1: as an apartment stay for people who couldn't pay their deposits.
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Speaker 1: Because of this, the hotel at the time sometimes attracted criminals,
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Speaker 1: people who were on the run, or people who had
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Speaker 1: just left prison and couldn't live anywhere else. The hotel
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Speaker 1: faced lots of security and safety issues and head quote
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Speaker 1: thousands of nine to one one calls a year end quote.
40:36
Speaker 1: A detective says they head around three calls a day
40:39
Speaker 1: to quote Hell on Earth scene to quote Hell on
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Speaker 1: Earth scenes, end quote. Unfolding there at the cecil, It
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Speaker 1: may have been that Elisa ran into someone in the
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Speaker 1: hotel who meant to cause her harm, especially if she
40:51
Speaker 1: was unwell and vulnerable due to her mental illness. A
40:54
Speaker 1: hotel staff member could have been involved. As mentioned, there
40:58
Speaker 1: are still many questions surrounding how a Lisa not only
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Speaker 1: got up to the roof, but how she managed to
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Speaker 1: get into that damn tank. It's physically impossible. People also
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Speaker 1: cite the potentially edited elevator footage when they're talking about
41:10
Speaker 1: this theory. Was there a staff member who may have
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Speaker 1: been involved in her death who isn't speaking the full truth.
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Speaker 1: There's also the tuberculosis theory. You see. A theory began
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Speaker 1: on Reddit that believed that Elisa was the test subject
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Speaker 1: for a new tuberculosis medication. This Reddit post states quote
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Speaker 1: after she was found, a huge outbreak of a unique
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Speaker 1: drug resistant TB occurred in the same area of her disappearance.
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Speaker 1: How do you diagnose TB with a lam Elisa test,
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Speaker 1: LAMB Elisa test, LiPo arab. I can't say that lam
41:43
Speaker 1: enzyme linked immunosorbin assay Eliza early enough. There was an
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Speaker 1: outbreak in downtown LA's skid row. A hotel manager confirmed
41:52
Speaker 1: that there was indeed that outbreak of TB within guests
41:55
Speaker 1: and that they did need to be tested after visiting.
41:58
Speaker 1: This is around the same time of her disappearance. There
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Speaker 1: was also a large and highly acclaimed TB testing center
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Speaker 1: at the university. LAMB attendant theorists believe that she may
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Speaker 1: have known too much and was killed. Then there's also
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Speaker 1: the supernatural theories the Cecil Hotel itself. Many people claim
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Speaker 1: that the hotel has dark forces that lie within. With
42:18
Speaker 1: its dark history of murders as in violence, it's no
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Speaker 1: surprise people may want to link Elisa's death to its history.
42:25
Speaker 1: Some people believe that there was a sinister energy guiding
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Speaker 1: Alisa to her death. Many refer to the elevator footage
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Speaker 1: in which it looks like she may be talking to spirits.
42:34
Speaker 1: Also interesting to note is that the elevator does not
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Speaker 1: move or close during the entire video until Lamb exits
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Speaker 1: the elevator. People believe spirits and negative forces may have
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Speaker 1: been holding the door open so she would exit out
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Speaker 1: to the roof instead of returned downstairs. And based on
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Speaker 1: what I heard from people's mouths, this documentary will be
42:54
Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel, The Paranormal Files soon. I believe
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Speaker 1: that the hotel is alive and it can almost control
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Speaker 1: people like puppets. You'll see what I'm talking about in
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Speaker 1: my YouTube video. That's just my own theory. But there's
43:05
Speaker 1: also that Korean elevator game that we talked about earlier.
43:08
Speaker 1: Some people believe she may have been taking part in
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Speaker 1: this frightening dimension hopping game and that something went wrong
43:14
Speaker 1: within the game that led to her death. Another theory
43:17
Speaker 1: is called the Dark Waters theory. Many claim that Elisa's
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Speaker 1: murder was incredibly similar to the movie Dark Waters. The
43:23
Speaker 1: film's plot is shockingly similar to Elisa's death, where hotel
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Speaker 1: guests find flooding in their room due to a body
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Speaker 1: that was in the water tank. The movie trailer even
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Speaker 1: features a malfunctioning elevator, similar to Lamb's elevator footage video. Well,
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Speaker 1: it seems like the most likely answer to Elisa's death
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Speaker 1: is that she suffered from some sort of psychotic episode.
43:43
Speaker 1: There are still some pieces of her story that remained unanswered,
43:46
Speaker 1: like how did she get into the tank? Why was
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Speaker 1: she completely naked? Why is there no other remaining footage
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Speaker 1: other than that single piece of elevator footage? What else
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Speaker 1: may have happened at the hotel that was never made public?
43:58
Speaker 1: What is to be made of the permeating dark history
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Speaker 1: of the Cecil. Is it just tragic coincidence or is
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Speaker 1: it a deadly mixture of location circumstance and copycat murders?
44:08
Speaker 1: Could it be that the Cecil Hotel really harbors negative
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Speaker 1: energies and forces that push people to commit murder or suicide,
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Speaker 1: or that it's really just a microcosm for its surrounding environment.
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Speaker 1: Those are questions to which will never truly have answers.
44:23
Speaker 1: Now today was a bit of a shorter episode. Thank
44:25
Speaker 1: you everybody for joining me on this journey. If you
44:28
Speaker 1: want to watch our investigation of the Cecil Hotel, it
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Speaker 1: is going to be on the Paranormal Files YouTube channel
44:34
Speaker 1: my other channel. We paid off security guards to get
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Speaker 1: in there and we were given unfiltered access to the
44:39
Speaker 1: hotel for an extended period of time. We got to
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Speaker 1: talk to residents, We went up to the roof area,
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Speaker 1: we visited all the rooms rooms from this story, took
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Speaker 1: the elevator and I can't even remember that. I don't
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Speaker 1: know who the last person was to get footage in there.
44:53
Speaker 1: But it has gotten significantly downhill and is incredibly dangerous.
44:57
Speaker 1: The security guards even warned us that if we have
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Speaker 1: a knife, we should bring it into the hotel with
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Speaker 1: us to defend ourselves, and they said they don't even
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Speaker 1: go on other floors unless they have multiple people with them.
45:08
Speaker 1: But with all of that said, guys, thank you so
45:11
Speaker 1: much for listening. Thank you to everybody. If you want
45:14
Speaker 1: to check the resources and where we got this information
45:17
Speaker 1: for this episode, check the link in the description of
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Speaker 1: this show. I'll be back next week next Wednesday, with
45:23
Speaker 1: another crazy episode of the Conspiracy Files. I hope you
45:26
Speaker 1: enjoyed this kind of little paranormal supernatural side quest that
45:30
Speaker 1: we had here. I thought this was a great episode.
45:32
Speaker 1: But yeah, keep that tinfoil hat on, keep asking those
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Speaker 1: hard questions, and I'll catch you on the next one.