To this day, the mysterious hotel has been the site of many unexplained supernatural events and many unexplained deaths. There is no logical evidence of what happened to the people who stayed here, why they were involved in these events.
The Cecil Hotel, opened in 1927 in Los Angelas, USA, which continues to serve despite all the mysterious events that have taken place for many years, continues to stand where it is with all the secrets it harbors, even though those who want to erase the black stain on its name have changed its name in recent years.
Although it is still a mystery what happened in this hotel, what the secret of this hotel, which is the subject of documentaries, is still a mystery, in fact, in the first years of its opening, cecil hotel was a very decent place where many business people stayed and countless events were held. However, over the years, suicides and murders at the hotel gradually increased as guests began to commit suicide or were mysteriously found dead. In the 1940s, when the United States was in the Great Depression with increasing economic problems, Cecil Hotel became a stopping point for different people, and the increasing crime rates around the hotel completely changed the hotel's customer portfolio. In those years, after it was reported that a woman named Jean Purcell gave birth in the hotel and threw her baby out of the hotel window, the detectives investigating the incident cited the woman's mental health as a reason.
Only 3 years later, in 1947, the dismembered body of actress Elizabeth Short was found in a park not far from the hotel, and the connection between the murder and the hotel was that the young actress had been sitting in the hotel bar minutes before her death. As the number of murders and suicides increased over time, the hotel became known as the Suicide Hotel in the 1960s. In the 90s, the Cecil Hotel was bought by another group for 26 million dollars, but its dark past haunts it, and there are a few more cases that have been the subject of documentaries.
One of the most critical cases took place in 2013. Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old tourist visiting Los Angeles, decided to stay at the Cecil Hotel on the recommendation of someone she met on the road, but she was unaware of what would happen to her. Elisa Lam, who was disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere inside the hotel but agreed to stay here due to her limited budget, was disturbed by the movements of the uncanny people around the Cecil Hotel, and one night she suddenly disappeared and was not heard from Lam, who was seen not to check out of the hotel.
Detectives investigating the case searched the entire hotel and examined CCTV footage after they were sure that Elisa Lam was somewhere inside the hotel. 20 days after Lam disappeared, when guests complained that the water had a different color, authorities decided to examine the hotel's water tank. Elisa Lam's lifeless body had been in the hotel's water tank for 20 days. Despite all the investigations and inquiries, Elisa Lam's death remained unanswered. Two years after this incident, in 2015, another murder took place at the hotel. The authorities couldn't take it anymore and decided to change the name of the hotel.
There has been no news from the Cecil Hotel, which has been renamed the Suicide Hotel in recent years, but those who know the hotel's dark past are still very worried about the hotel.