The Morbid, the gruesome and the unexplained: July 2015

Last night was a stormy night, and because I am a bit crazy I decided to watch horror movies, who doesn’t like their ghost stories with a side of insomnia after all? My movie choices were “The Shinning” by my all-time favorite writer Stephen King

followed by “1408” which is also written by the Master of Horror Stephen King.

This led me to (Have insomnia) to look at some stories of Hotels that have been reportedly hunted throughout the years. Here are some of their stories.

Cecil Hotel

The Cecil Hotel in California has been home to several suicides and mysterious deaths throughout the years. The Hotel itself was buildt as an affordable hotel to tourists but in after the depression it became a haven for prostitutes, drug dealers and thieves.

In fact, Elizabeth Short AKA the black Dalia stayed at the Cecil Hotel on January 8 and 9 in 1947. No one ever found out who Elizabeth had come to stay with at the Hotel, but many employees came forward after her murder that claimed to have seen her in the Lobby.

In October of 1954 Helen Gurnee a 50 year old woman, registered under the name Margaret Brown stayed at the Hotel for a week. Before jumping to her death from the window of her room in the seventh floor and landing on the Marquee sign in the front of the Hotel.

On Oct 12 1962 Pauline Otten, a 27 year old woman jumped to her death from her ninth floor Window after having a fight with her husband. Her husband later said that he had decided to cut short the fight by taking a walk and going out for dinner. that was the last time he would see her alive. Pauline Otten jumped out of her window landing on George Giannini a 65 year old man who was walking by the hotel at the time, both died instantly.

On June 04th of 1964 Goldie Osgood or "the pigeon lady" to her friends since she spent her free time feeding the birds, She was a retired telephone operator who made ends meet by working at the Hotel was found murdered in her Hotel room. She had been strangled, Stabbed and raped. Close to her body police found a sac of pigeon food,

Hours later Jacques B. Ehlinger was apprehended in Pershing Plaza, his clothes were drenched in blood, but since no connection to the crime could be established he was not accused of the crime.

From 1984 to 1985 Richard Ramirez AKA the Night Stalker stayed at the Cecil Hotel at a room located in the top of the Hotel. During his stay he killed 13 women, after each killing he would simply dump his bloddy clothes in the hotel dumpster located in the alley behind the hotel.

Richard Ramirez

As many serial killers do, Ramirez had a fan. the most famous of his fans was Jack Underweger AKA the "Vienna woods Killer" who killed three prostitutes during his own stay at the Cecil Hotel.

Jack Unterweger

All of these stories are horrifying enough, but they all culminate with the unfortunate events that ocurred on January 31st 2013 when a Canadian National Elisa Lam went missing.

Elisa Lam was of Chinese decent, her family had moved from China to Canada years prior to the events of that night. Her mother and Father worked extremely hard to give Elisa and her younger sister the best life they could in their new country. Elisa worked hard during her short life, and many saw her as a quiet but happy individual. There have been conflicting reports about the events, since although some say she suffered from BIpolar disorder, others say she suffered from nothing more than shyness.

Elisa was a responsible young girl, whose only crime was to want to see the world before she began her life in the workforce and possibly getting married to her long time boyfriend, a young boy from Chinese decent. Elisa called her parents everyday to tell them she was alright and to speak to her young sister. on Feb 1st there was no phone call. After a couple of days, her parents called the Hotel to find out the whereabouts of their daughter. The Hotel manager checked her room and finding all of her things still unpacked decided to clear the room and keep her things in case she came back. They told the parents that perhaps she had simply moved on, since Elisa had expressed her desire to vacate the premises on Feb 01 to continue her across the United States.

Elisa parents were quick to respond. they got themselves on a plane and went straight to the police. The police began to plaster posters all over the vicinity.

Elisa Lam's property was taken to the police, at which point they found a small blue camara. as they developed the pictures they found the last one to be a bit puzzling since it did not quite fit with the rest which were normal tourist pictures of Elisa posing infront of the camara by one or another tourist site. the picture the police chose for their missing poster was one of theses pictures, in which you see a happy Elisa posing. The last picture however has dark connotations, its selfie taken in the her hotel room bathroom.

Elisa Lam was not found. However in the Hotel Cecil strange things were occurring. Several guests were reporting their water to have a sweet and pungent taste. As the guests would turn on their showers the water could ran black for a few minutes before returning to their normal clear color. Finally the water pressure stopped and the management finally saw it fit to send a repaiar man to the water tanks that were on top of the Hotel.

As he opened the tank he noticed that the water black and thick. Thinking that perhaps rats had climbed in and died inside the repair man opened up the valve and allowed the water to drain out of the tank. what he found was much more morbid than just a couple of rats floating at the bottom of the tank, Elisa Lam's body laid putrid and lifeless at the bottom of the tank.

The police rushed to the scene but fire fighters and rescue workers had to rush to the scene due to the small entrance hatch through which no human being could have entered, not even a small person such as Elisa.

Further investigation revealed a security tape in which Elisa can be seen entering the elevator at early hours of the morning, she presses several floors but the elevator does not move. she waits and then sticks out her head as if she has heard something outside the elevator...she walks out looks around, appears to see nothing but enters the elevator with fear and hides. She presses all of the floors again, but the doors continue to stay open. Again she appears to hear something walks out of the elevator and seems to see something towards the right of the elevator. She seems to talk to someone, waving her hands in the air in frustration and then stretches her hands in front of her as if trying to touch something.

Finally she exits the elevator and she is no longer seen. only moments later, the doors that had not closed for over three minutes while she was in the elevator close and the elevator begins to move.

She was never seen again.

It is also important to say that to get to the water tanks above the hotel Elisa would have to have opened the roof doors that had alarms and only Hotel employees had the keys to these doors.

Here are some videos on possible theories.

More hunted hotel stories to come ....(25/07/2015)

Have we been visited by extraterrestrials in the past? And are we being visited, and studied by them?

There are so many theories in the subject that it is hard to keep track. Some say that close encounters have been occurring and have been documented since the first man or woman took ink to stone. Some say that there are documented close encounters in the bible and could be the true origins of the idea of a God. There are so many theories, and I will not attempt to debunk or to certify any of them. My aim is to inform on as many theories and claims as possible, you can be the judge.

What is the difference between a first, second and a third encounter?

According to Wikipidia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter) a close encounter is when a person witnesses a UFO, or an Unidentified Flying Object. This classification was first coined by Astronomer J Allen Hynek in 1972.

In his book The UFO EXPERIENCE: A SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. Hynek states that a scientific view must be taken for any UFO sighting to be taken seriously. He claims that to prevent any mistakes to be made (basically that we are actually seeing a UFO and not an airplane) the object must be seen from a height of no more than 500 feet.

Should you see an object from less than five hundred feet you then have three classification that the sighting can be classified under, these are

Nocturnal lights; Lights in the night sky,

radar-visuals; UFO reports that have Radar confirmed visuals,

daylight discs; UFO’s seen in the daylight sky.

Close encounters of the first kind are defined as a visual sighting of a UFO, when a sighting of the object has been seen at less than 500 feet.

A close encounter of the second kind is a UFO Sighting when a reaction has taken place do the object. This includes a disturbance in animal behavior, the interference of an electronic device, as in your radio going haywire, or your watch stopping, a physical reaction by the witness, as in loose of time, or paralysis, as well as a physical evidence of the object being left behind, such as scorch marks.

Close encounters of the third kind is when the subject not only sees the UFO but also sees the individual driving it. The creature, or humanoid, robot etc. must be present for an encounter to be classified as a third kind.

So now that we know what each encounter is, let’s take a look at some theories about why they come to earth in the first place…

Theories about UFO’s interest in EARTH.

Curiosity

Some claim that aliens are simply curious in regards to us, perhaps after they discovered our planet, scientists and alien tourists simply want to come down and have a look.

Minerals

Some say that perhaps earth has one kind of mineral that they do not contain in their planet, and so scavengers are sent down to extract the precious mineral. This was probably best represented in the movie “Aliens Vs Cowboys” where aliens had come down to extract gold during the cowboy period of the USA, maybe they got a flyer about the ‘Gold rush’!

To Protect

Some abductees claim to have been given visions about the earths doom, and therefore claim that aliens are coming down to prevent this from happening. This theory has also captured the imaginations of Hollywood producers, since it is the premise to “The day the earth stood still” I just hope all aliens are as good looking as Keanu Reeves.

Coexistence

Due to the high claims of experimentation, and sperm and egg removal a theory surfaced that claims that aliens are trying to genetically become more human so that they can coexist in our planet. Some women claim to have been impregnated, only to have the fetus removed weeks afterwards. This theory also extends to claim that perhaps the alien planet is or has been destroyed and so they have repopulate their species through dna manipulation. Superman anyone?

Invasion

This theory was popular about fifty years ago, but since so much time has past the theory is loosing its edge. Had aliens that years ahead of our technology come to invade our planet, I think they would have done a long time ago.

Now that we know possible reasons why they come here, lets get to the fun part….

Encounters of the third, second and third kind

David Noll and his wife from Western Ohio, USA

April 23^rd 2005

Mr. & Mrs. Noll are retired educators who live in a quiet suburban of Columbus Ohio. Both Mr. & Mrs. Noll where enjoying a nice relaxing moment sitting in the porch of their backyard when a large bright object appeared in the night southern sky. Mr. Noll took out his 7 x 50 field glasses thinking the object was perhaps a satellite. To his surprise what he saw was a rectangular shape of about 50 to 60 feet wide. It had five windows. Through one of the windows both Noll and his wife claim to have seen a man, of perhaps six foot tall, he was wearing a light colored suit that covered him from his neck to his arms. They continued to watch as the object hovered there for 40 minutes, the next night the object was still there. The object was made of a dark metal, and although rectangular in shape Noll claims that the sides of it where “fuzzy.”

Lech Chacinski from Szczecinek, Poland

Aug 11,2003 5 Am

Mr. Chacinski was driving down a deserted road at five in the morning close to the small city of szczcinek, Poland. When on the side of the road he could see three figures standing in a triangular formation. They were wearing what he thought were space suits. As his car was coming closer the figures stepped in front of the car, still in triangular formation. The individual in the front raised an arm in a “Stop” gesture. Chacinski felt as if he had no other choice and stopped the car. On top of the helmet he could see a communication antenna or device which suddenly lit up. He then heard a voice in his mind.

“can you hear us?” the voice asked “yes” he replied.

He stepped out of his car.

“What is your car made off?” they asked

“what are your clothes made off?”

“What kind of fuel runs your car?”

After answering these questions the beings told him that he should “Take care of the planet, or they would come back and destroy it”

According to the sources crop circles appear in this sector all the time.

(What I think of this account: To begin with, what was he doing out there at five in the morning? Was going to work? Or was he coming back from a bar? My other question is intergalactic beings come from millions of miles away to ask what kind of fashion materials we are using on earth? And finally, why would they destroy our earth if we are already doing such a great job of it ourselves?

George Adamski, USA

1950

According to some accounts Adamski was the first person to recount his first, second third kind encounter with aliens. Some however say that he made a living through made up stories and hoax pictures.

Adamski claims in his books “Flying saucers have landed” “inside space ships” and “flying saucers farewell” that he has been, and take trips with friendly Nordic space brothers.

October 9, 1946

During a meteor shower, Adamski and some friends claim to have seen a cigar shape mothership at the palomar gardens campground.

Summer 1947

Adamski claims he saw 184 UFO’s oass over the palomar Gardens

November 20, 1952

Adamski and some friends are in the Colorado desert, near the town of desert center, California when a large submarine object hovering in the sky. Adamski left the group believing that the UFO was in fact looking for him. He claims a small ship flew from the larger ship and came close to him. A humanoid that looked very much like THOR, with long blonde hair and tan skin came to him and communicated with him telepathically. He claims the alien introduced himself as Orthon from Venus. I guess Orthon had a tan being that Venus is a volcanic planet.

The Brazilian Navy Case

January 16 1958

While on a training exercice 48 seaman including their captain Carlos Alberto Bacellar and two civilians all witness several UFO’s flying past them. At the time they were travelling in the south Atlantic ocean near tinidade island. One of the civilians was a technical photographer who had his camara with him, and he was able to capture the event with several shots.

Anxious as they were, photographer Amiro Barauna and captain Carlos Alberto Bacellar made a makeshift darkroom within the ship to be able to print the now amazing pictures. Captain Barcella was present during the entire procedure to make sure the film was not tampered with.

On February 21^st, the president of Brazil juscelino Kubitschek came forward to claim that the photographs had been analysed by the navy and had certified them authentic.

*this is one of my favorite cases!