SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil
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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202649 min

The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has had no less than 16 unnatural deaths, from suicides to murders and everything in between. Listen in to the history of this decidedly creepy hotel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Hotel Cecil is probably best known as the site for the very sad death of Elisa

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This is an iHeart Podcast, Guaranteed Human. The Hotel Cecil is probably best known as the site for the very sad death of Elisa Lamb in 2013, or maybe you know it as a setting in American Horror Story. It turns out that Elisa was just one in an unusually long line of deaths that

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took place in the Cecil, which seems to have had way more than its fair share of tragedy since it was built in 1924. I'll leave it to you to get to the bottom of what's up with the hotel Cecil. Welcome to stuff you should know a production of I heart radio.

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Hey, welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Brian over there. And Jerry's hanging around sunnier lurking. Okay.

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