SPoT Life X Zaturdays: Road Trip to Damn Am LA
Posted on Saturday, May 9, 2015 by Paul
The Hotel Cecil’s Gruesome Past aka Our Damn Am LA Trip
THERE IS NO ROOFTOP BAR at the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The receptionist checking us in made that clear, or at least made it clear that there was something very strange about Milligan asking about it. She seemed surprised, embarrassed, amused? We’d find out why later, and none of us liked the answer. Well that’s not exactly true, I liked the answer but that just proves there’s something a little bit wrong with me.DON’T stay at Stay on Main if you’re sure you want to survive the night. That’s Schaefer looking relaxed in front of the house of horrors.
Oh oh oh! Didn’t Daewon do that one thing there? And didn’t J-lee do that other thing?
Atiba, Koston, and Shoulder Hands.
This is Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker. Cecil local, always down for a good time. Shake Junt!
Old Googs spilled the beans right away. He informed us that Richard Ramirez, one of the most notorious serial killers of all time lived at the hotel in the 1980s, Serial Killing’s Heyday. Richard was known as the Night Stalker when he was on the loose. After going out on a spree, he’d throw his blood soaked clothes into the dumpsters behind the Cecil and call it a night. A Night Stalker wannabe Jack Unterweger also lived at the hotel. He murdered three prostitutes, strangling them with their own bra straps. Additionally, the suicide rate at the Cecil has historically been off the charts. One time a deranged patron jumped off the roof, landed on a passerby down below and they both sailed off to the great hereafter. It’s no wonder the victims of these horrors have been roaming the halls ever since, causing all sorts of problems for guests and staff alike. Whatever you do, don’t ride the elevators alone, speaking of which… the clincher for Milligan was the story from only two short years ago when 21 year old Canadian student Elisa Lam mysteriously disappeared while staying the hotel. After an investigation, all the authorities could uncover was surveillance footage of her acting strangely in the elevator. After exiting the elevator she was never seen again. Well not alive at least. It was only after guests complained that the hotel’s water had an “odd color and disgusting taste” that someone finally thought to take a look in a water tank on the Cecil’s roof, where they discovered her decomposing body. Gross! Press reports claimed the roof was only accessible via a locked door and fire escape, but on our last night I personally climbed out onto the fire escape from the 15th floor and took the ladder straight up to the roof with no obstructions, before quickly turning around and climbing straight back down in a panic. So much for press reports.
They definitely don’t want you on the roof, especially if you’re going to end up dead in one of their water tanks.
This was our wannabe SPoT Life co-host Junior who showed up everywhere. He’s bros with errbody in LA. Look for him in Frank’s edit on RIDE. Diamond Park.
We showed up at Supreme on the day they released their White Castle co-lab and there was line out the door. Thankfully Schaefer is connected and got us in VIP style.
Schaefer said I had to put myself in the article, I’m usually too modest for that. But here I am tearing the bowl a new one. Pretty sure I did like 10 NBDs and blew away everyone there. Just kidding. I sucked.
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