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)
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