A Lethal Location Pt. 1: Accident, Cover Up or Cult?

This Halloweek, we begin to explore the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, CA and the very mysterious death of Elisa Lam. This disturbing case was deemed an accident, but was it? Unpack the eerie with us this week as we dig deep into the life of Elisa Lam, the suspicious circumstances that surrounded her untimely death in February 2013 and the location where it took place: a site that has seen a shocking number of unnatural deaths since its grand opening in the 1920s.

This is the first episode in a series about the Cecil Hotel.

CW: ableism, suicide, sexual, physical and racial violence, mental illness

Sources:

Articles/Blogposts/Websites 

https://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/a45235/creepy-history-cecil-hotel-los-angeles/https://allthatsinteresting.com/cecil-hotel-los-angeleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hotel_(Los_Angeles)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_and_violence_at_the_Cecil_Hotelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongva (Learn more about indigenous LA  here)http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi06e.hphttps://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvezpv/hospitals-are-dumping-mentally-ill-patients-in-los-angeles-skid-rowhttps://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2587-6-morbid-facts-about-people-dying-in-hotel-rooms.htmlhttps://medium.com/@jddean/the-serial-killers-who-haunted-the-cecil-hotel-5586e6f7d2d1https://abc13.com/archive/9412802/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwnYRej6o&feature=sharehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/elisa-lam-death https://www.reddit.com/r/elisalam/https://www.historicmysteries.com/what-happened-to-elisa-lam/ Her blog: https://etherfields.blogspot.com/ 
1. Her tumblr: https://nouvelle-nouveau.tumblr.com/ 


2. 
   https://www.scarymommy.com/elevator-game/ 


3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam

Podcasts:

1. Hollyweird Paranormal


2. Haunted Places 

Documentaries/Videos

1. Horror at the Cecil Hotel 


2. Elisa: The Documentary, The Paranormal Scholar


3. Student Doctor's Answer to Elisa Lam's Unexplained Death