![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 22 semi-automatic rifle from the roof of the Cecil. Neblett (39) takes poison in his room.ġ940 Dorothy Sceiger (45) consumes poison in her room.ġ944 Dorothy Jean Purcell (19)throws her newborn baby out the windowġ947 Robert Smith (35) jumps from his 7th-floor window.ġ954 Helen Gurnee jumps from her 7th-floor window, hitting the hotel marquee.ġ962 Julia Frances Moore (50) jumps from her eighth-floor window.ġ962 Pauline Otton (27) jumps from her ninth floor window, killing George Gianinni (65) walking on the street below.ġ964 Goldie Osgood, known as “Pigeon Goldie” as she often fed the birds at the nearby park, was found in her room at the Hotel Cecil, raped, cut and choked to death.ġ976 Jeffrey Thomas Paley shoots at people with a. Borden (53) cut his own throat.ġ935 Hotel resident Virgil Tallman (30) was hit by a car.ġ935 Nick Damiano was shot by Harold Daniels after an argument.ġ935 Louis D Borden (53) slashed his own throat.ġ937 Grace E Magro (25) jumped to her death from a ninth floor window.ġ938 Roy Thompson (35) jumped of f the top floor of the hotel, hitting the skylight of the building adjacent.ġ939 Erwin C. was killed in an accident with a small plane.ġ931 WK Norton (46) took poisoned capsules in his room.ġ932 Benjamin Dodich (25) shot himself in the head in his room.ġ934 Louis D. Bartlett, author of the books Gourmet Ghosts v.I and v.II,ġ926 Elderly resident William McKay dies in his room.ġ927 Hotel resident Edmund Barrett Jr. Vintage postcard of the Cecil Hotel (1950s).Ĭonsider the following timeline of bad luck, suicides, eerie events, murders, accidentals deaths that have befallen residents or guests of the Hotel Cecil, as compiled by James T. There’s a force at play there that humans don’t understand and the evil that resides there might be demonic in nature. In fact, the hotel’s history is so riddled with darkness, one wouldn’t be surprised if the hotel was built on a fault line or two crossed ley lines or perhaps an old Chumash or Tongva burial ground. The paranormal activity that has occurred there signals that this is no ordinary haunting: it has all the signs of a building that is soiled and contaminated by evil. While all hotels are going to boast their fair share of suicides, accidental deaths and perhaps the occasional murder, given the sheer volume of people that go through it, the Hotel Cecil has a history that is so blackened with death, one can only conclude that there is some thing sinister that is interwoven within the bricks and mortar of the building. ![]() Some have referred to the Hotel Cecil as the deadliest hotel in Los Angeles and that distinction is most appropriate. “We’re just going from one dodgy place to another,” Baugh said, resigned, “but at least there’s water.The Cecil Hotel before it was rebranded as “Stay on Main” in 2011. Their tour agency placed them in another downtown hotel with a less than sterling reputation, from what they heard. Instead, they were trying to find a new hotel. Those who chose to remain in the hotel were required to sign a waiver in which they acknowledged being informed of the health risks and were being provided bottled water, Powell said.īaugh and his wife, who were on their first trip to the U.S., had planned to go to SeaWorld on Wednesday. It had once been the occasional home of infamous serial killers such as Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, and Austrian prison author Jack Unterweger, who was convicted of murdering nine prostitutes in Europe and the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reported.īy noon Wednesday, the Cecil Hotel had relocated 27 rooms used by guests to another hotel, but 11 rooms remained filled, Powell said. The hotel is on Main Street in a part of downtown where efforts at gentrification often conflicts with homelessness and crime. The Cecil Hotel was built in the 1920s and refurbished several years ago. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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