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Crime scene at the Cecil Hotel.
that hotel is where this took place -
5. THE CECIL HOTEL INSPIRED A SEASON OF AMERICAN HORROR STORY.
Perhaps the strongest argument for the Cecil Hotel being haunted is that it inspired season 5 of
American Horror Story, a.k.a.
American Horror Story: Hotel, which was set in a hotel not unlike the Cecil. The anthology series starred
Lady Gaga as a vampire who owned the fictionalized Hotel Cortez. The season also featured Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, John Carroll Lynch, and Zach Villa, playing versions of Hollywood icon Rudolph Valentino, and serial killers Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez—who haunt the Cortez—respectively.
2. AT LEAST TWO SERIAL KILLERS CALLED THE CECIL HOTEL HOME.
Lending to its legend, for years the Cecil Hotel has operated partly as a low-income residential facility and was reportedly called home by at least two infamous serial killers: Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. “The Night Stalker” (who is the subject of yet another
new Netflix docuseries) and
Johann "Jack" Unterweger, an Austrian man who, upon being released from prison after being convicted for the 1974 murder of a woman, became something of a minor celebrity ... then began killing more women.
3. A NUMBER OF BIZARRE DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED AT THE CECIL HOTEL.
By the 1960s, the Cecil Hotel had
been dubbed "The Suicide" by many of its longtime residents because of the rash of deaths that occurred at the hotel in its early years. In 1931, 46-year-old guest W.K. Norton became the hotel's first documented death by suicide. Even those who weren't staying at the hotel seemed to be in danger of its seemingly ominous aura; in 1933, a 25-year-old truck driver was killed when a large truck drove into the hotel, and pinned the man against it.
7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel