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Home to Hollywood and situated at the edge of the country right up against the glistening Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles represents the promise of futurity: fortune and fame, health and beauty, sunshine and open space. But as with all things, these positive dreams mean nothing without their opposites. So if you look under the surface of all the city s lightness, you ll find darkness: decaying bulbs on what used to be a neon sign and a neglected lot where a lush lawn has wilted due to drought. The multiplicity of Los Angeles, its penchant for performance and all things macabre, is exactly what lures people in. Hotel Cecil is no exception.
Welcome to Hotel Death : Horrors of Los Angeles hotel where serial killers let their hair down are laid bare in new Netflix series that details mysterious disappearances, suicides, and grisly murders
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the first installment of the anthology series, which focuses on eerie places shrouded in murder and death
There have been at least 16 deaths at the Cecil Hotel since it opened in 1927
Six people reportedly committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone, while a teen mom threw her newborn baby out of the window after giving birth in 1944 Pigeon Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed at the Cecil Hotel in 1964