In the United States alone there are over 200,000 unsolved missing persons and murder cases(Ashlee). On February 19, 2013 that number got a little higher. Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old Canadian student whose mysterious disappearance at the notorious Cecil hotel caught widespread media's attention. The exact circumstances leading to her death are still unknown to this day, but since footage of Elisa Lam acting peculiar in an elevator has gone viral many theories have begun circling the internet. In 2013 videos surfaced of Elisa Lam acting unusually in elevator surveillance. Elisa is seen looking paranoid and frantic, pushing multiple elevator buttons, peeking around corners anxiously, and pressing herself against walls as if she was hiding …show more content…
RoomSpook, a website that keeps track of hotel deaths, notes at least 13 suicides that happened at the hotel. Plus not just one, but two, serial killers stayed at the Cecil. Richard Ramirez, the infamous ‘Night Stalker’, is believed to have spent numerous weeks there while carrying out his home invasion crime spree between 1984 and 1985. Ramirez was a devil worshiping rapist and killer who terrorized LA during this period, breaking into homes all over the city and attacking people while they slept. A night clerk at the time was certain that Richard Ramirez stayed in a room on the top floor of the hotel. A couple of years later, in 1991, an Austrian, Johann Unterweger, traveled to LA and where would he stay? The Hotel Cecil of course. supposedly, he chose it in honor of Ramirez. Throughout the five week stay at the hotel he reported to have brought three prostitutes back to his room, where he raped and murdered …show more content…
They decided to take the supernatural theories to the test and do their own investigating of the infamous Cecil hotel. The Ghost Adventures team firmly believes dark entities live within the hotel and do not rule out paranormal participation in Elisa's death, all though a former manager has come out to say she does not believe the Cecil is haunted. Along with its reputation, there are two elements to Elisa Lam's case that makes conspiracy theorists think the paranormal might be involved. The inaccessibility of the roof to guests and the dispute surrounding whether the water tank hatch was closed have convinced some that someone - or something - was on the roof with her that night. Ghost Adventures was not the only series that caught wind of Elisa Lamb's disturbing death. Netflix came out with a true crime docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at Cecil Hotel, which tells the story of Elisa Lam. The first episode of the docuseries sets up a story of a damned location, the infamous Los Angeles Cecil hotel that has been the location of so many crimes that Ryan Murphy basically set up a season of “American Horror Story” there in the "Hotel" year. But the series then changes to focus very heavily on one specific case, the captivating disappearance of a Canadian tourist Elisa