update: over the last 3 weeks there are now security guards and renovations happening! the things i claimed to have seen in this video were the things i've seen over the last couple years😊
Wow a nice kid like you living in such a creepy and dangerous neighborhood2!! People on many documentaries on the topic have left links to your channel. Like on Sloan Bella's 2 videos on the Cecil and on ms Lam, the 14 video investigation on Brain Scratch, he's done the most in-depth research into this case and has bebunked a ton of misinformation!! Stay safe there's a negative vortex around the hotel area, according to 2 psychics Tarot by Janine did a deep dive in February 2021 into this case. There's definitely a vortex which attracts a certain type of person to the area!
I'm a new follower and I'm a little freaked out that you told everyone where you live my dear. Maybe it's the mom in me but please watch your back. Be careful.
@@lizascorps I'm pretty sure that the people commenting are simply joking around, like in my post, lol. And, along with myself included, most of the comments were made in conjecture with the song, Hotel California, and simply didn't know that it was or wasn't written for a hotel in Mexico. And, since the Cecil Hotel is in California and the title of the song is, Hotel California, and the many creepy things that have occurred in the Cecil, mirrors the long list of bizarre happenings, tragedies, crimes and mayhem. So, of course it's logical for countless #'s of people around the world to think it's exactly about the Cecil. Anyways, my friend, the song Hotel California. is an awesome song no matter which hotel it's actually written about. written about. With that being said, I'm absolutely positive that nothing's going to f- up that song, lol. By the way, since you've mentioned another deviant Hotel that you believe the song was written about, you should maybe make a suggestion to do a story line concerning that hotel. I'm sure I'd be interesting, lol. Take care. God Bless.
I stayed at the Cecil Hotel back in 2009 without knowing of the infamous energy surrounding it. My partner and I shared a suite with a friend, and she ended up sleeping in our bed because she kept hearing knocking on the wall in her room. We laughed it off at the time, but now that all of this information is surfacing about the hotel, it makes me wonder...
@@HolleySabrinaSally he stayed back in 2009 when it was open, it closed in 2017 for renovations which may be available as an apartment sometime in 2021
@@guiltymanners I wouldn’t either. Not bc it’s paranormal bc I promise you there are no hauntings going on there..I wouldn’t sleep there bc it’s probably infested with bedbugs
at that point there wouldnt be any scary movies to watch, i would just try my best to watch as many movies that have a good perspective to them like my little pony 👍
Hey I have a fun fact about the night stalker. My husband’s uncle and cousin are the people responsible for catching him and holding him for police putting his reign of terror to an end. This is very true. His uncle recently passed away. RIP
Can we just take a minute to appreciate his human decency. He told the girl “hey look at me! Do you need help!” That’s a hero without a cape. If she was a true jumper, he could have saved her just by speaking up as he did.
I stayed at the Alexandria Hotel, also in downtown LA. It’s haunted. Years later my dad worked security there for 2 months. He had experienced all the elevator lights turn on (like every floor selected) and the doors opened. He got out and took the stairs lol What I experienced was a bit weird. My lady was in the room while I got us some waters and drinks from 711. I came back up to the room but the key wasn’t working. My service sucked! No reception. I was knocking and the harder I knocked, I was scaring myself. I was practically pounding the door. My lady answered but slowly answered. I was pissed and asked why she didn’t answer sooner and she said she just heard gentle knocks. Guys, I was POUNDING the door. She wasn’t a fan of our stay
So the thing is, with Elisa Lam, the hotel's history and her mental health are not mutually exclusive. When someone who is mentally ill encounters a place with a history that is already so ripe for opening people up to subliminal suggestibility of things like negative energy, it can have a hugely aggravating effect on their mental illness. People can pick up on that kind of publicity through unconscious exposure as well as through active engagement, so if she heard in passing it could have seeded things in her emotional consciousness. Same with certain times of the day (5am being the peak time for deaths to occur), and even just with lonely, barren places, which people often seek out when mentally ill for one reason or another, and which in fact can aggravate things such as depression or suicidal ideation. In a hotel as big as that, once it's acquired a reputation, as long as many people are staying in it and coming and going, there is going to be a significant number of people with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illnesses among that number just by statistical probability, and a greater proportion of them than in another hotel are bound to have their conditions aggravated by dint of suggestions of the hotel's negative history, energy etc. Thus the cycle of aggravation to notoriety to aggravation to notoriety becomes indefinitely self-perpetuating and self-magnifying, and the hotel's image grows more entrenched as such. That, plus the fact that because it has that reputation, probably far more deaths and suicide attempts etc. that take place in it get reported to the mass media, than they do in other less infamous hotels - but that doesn't mean they don't also take place in other hotels. An illusion of superstitious circumstances and coincidences thus begins to develop, when in actual fact the number of tragedies associated with it probably aren't that much more than most other places in reality. I suspect some of the movements in the windows are due to reflections on the panes from outside, e.g. a pigeon perched on a ledge somewhere that can't be seen but the movement of which catches the reflective plane of a window pane such as to appear like a movement from inside. Could a light on in a house opposite also reflect like that? I'm not sure but in very improbable, isolated instances where the light is a certain quality and falling in a certain way, I wouldn't be surprised if it could. Another thing to google is 'hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations'. I have had hypnogogic hallucinations - when I am dozing in bed and my brain formulates the sound (not thought, SOUND) 'hurry up' as a way to get me up to go to the loo when it knows I need to go and soon(!) It's very bizarre because I can tell from the sound's rough, gravelly, growly, almost multitudinous quality, coupled with lack of pinpointable general pitch, and lack of a sense of specific direction from which it came, that's it's originating in my brain as a composite electrical signal attempting to approximate the electrical signature of the words, and not as an external soundwave translated by my brain into corresponding sound signals that DO come from the actual words being spoken. I suspect some suggestible people have found themselves falling into a brainwave pattern conducive to such hallucinations, that then further confirm their ideas of the hotel, whether when ghost hunting or when staying in it as a guest. BUT that does not meant to say ALL occurrences can be explained by these things! Just some things to rule out as possibilities when wanting to ghost-hunt places rigorously and accurately, in order to chase the real truth of such matters.
I live in the other country but I m still scared Like I yestaurday saw someone in my room I almost screamed but what I saw was that it was just my gaming chair 💺
Yeah I thought that was pretty wild too lol. extremely unsafe in this day and age. Especially since the ppl in this area are unstable, it just takes one crazy to hunt him down.
My grandfathers (i have 2 on my dads side both names Cecil) who lived near the Cecil Hotel and they both died after visiting the Cecil Hotel. After learning about the Salem Witch Trials in school and watching this I am invested in the paranormal world.
you should set up a 24/7 camera pointed twords the cecil hotel for like a week and let the skeptics see a live feed of the happenings. Like the comment
When I lived in La I helped pass out harm reduction kits on skid row. I had a few friends down there. Hearing their theories was always interesting. The most solid one to me was that the Cecil isn’t haunted by spirits. It’s “haunted” by the denizens of skid row.
This has nothing to do with the Cecil hotel but recently I moved into a 2 story house in a really nice neighborhood. I'm guessing the neighborhood was established in the early 90s? I had several roommates but everytime I was alone in the house at night I would hear someone coming up the stairs ( not quietly either) then something heavy falling on the floor in the hallway upstairs just past the staircase. The kitchen cabinets would open and close rapidly ( they were the old 1980s 90s magnetic kind) but when I'd go to check no one was there but the cabinets upstairs would start in ( there was a linen cabinet in the hallway just outside my bedroom door and the same in the laundry room across from it with the same magnetic doors as the kitchen) and whenever I'd go into the bathroom ( upstairs) to wash my hands otlr brush my teeth I'd hear the same noises in the bedroom directly attached to it - meaning if I took a step forward & the floor creaked I'd hear a phantom echo in the adjoining bedroom. right after. The toilet area was separate in its own little room and I don't recall hearing anything in that area. One evening as I was leaving that same bathroom to go back to my room I saw someone standing almost at the top of the stairs I didn't stand there & get a good look bc at the time it was no big deal but they were wearing a dark hoodie & the hallway light wasn't on which wouldn't have been strange in & of itself if no one was there but bc of that I couldn't tell who it was I merely said hey how's it going & proceeded to my bedroom.Whoever or whatever it was said nothing which I thought was odd & when I mentioned it to one of the other roommates they said their grandson had seen the same thing in the garage. Needless to say I never showered at night when I was alone in the house and as far as the heavy object falling on the floor upstairs one other roommate heard the same thing when she was downstairs by herself. I was upstairs in my room when she came in to tell me and although I told her I'd go downstairs so she wouldn't have to be alone down there she flat refused. I countered by telling her it was all through the house; you go upstairs you'll just hear it downstairs. I have no idea the history of the house except that while I was there it was a fairly shady shelter home for people who were about to be homeless so a lot of unsavory people blew in and out of there constantly but prior to that the house's history is a mystery I just know what I heard and experienced and the really creepy feeling I'd always get walking through the upstairs hallway but to look at the house inside and out and the really nice neighborhood where it was located there was just no reason to feel that way. Btw when I tried to type the word "Cecil" it kept getting auto corrected to" devil." Weird...
My sisters friend stayed at the Cecil hotel in 2013 when the girl was found dead, she also said that the water was a weird taste of dirt and salt or something. She met the girl in the lobby and said she was very friendly and offered her a mint and they said they could meet up sometime. She was also staying on the sixth floor and said she would hear whispers in her ears at night and would wake up with weird scratches and bruises and would hear screaming when nobody else could. But her sister was staying on the seventh and said that there would be shadows in the hallways and saw silhouettes of people in the window looking like they would jump. Ever since I have been super interested in the Cecil hotel.
You should report this to the police and the detectives who've been on that case.Because the case could be wrong and this information is useful.They can figure out what happened with details.Please inform the detectives, the managar who've worked here during 2013 and the police.This is important.
Her family and experts said that in the elevator video she was behaving like she was having a manic episode from not taking her medication . Her autopsy showed that she had a below expected amount of her medication in her body, which was backed up by the extra medication in her bags. Her death is clearly more likely to be an accident due to a manic episode than a murder.
@KillaCrossover318 She could easily have opened the water tank, the lid is only 15-20 pounds. And she hit the door open button when she was pushing all of the buttons for the floors, which on that specific elevator holds the door open for a long time.
oh my god... i almost lost it, when he said "that was nice" and the siren said "your welcome"..... wow either GREAT EDITING OR GREAT LUCK.... either way, was too perfect.
@@olivepaul4798 I also just saw a video of a guy going on a tour around the cecil hotel and they said it is not open as a hotel only for current residents that live all on the same floor.
Of all the scary, horrifying murderers out there, that guy was the most terrifying of all. After reading what he did to people, how he got in their homes, I couldn't sleep for a very long time. You never feel safe again.
Exactly like I can’t believe he had actual fans for what he did I saw the documentary of the night stalker on Netflix and I couldn’t fall asleep that night I was terrified 😖
That is the understatement of the year. He was a monster. But even monsters have fans. Ted Bundy had more than than 100 young female victims. He would leave them in the wilderness and go back to "visit" their bodies until they were too decomposed for his purposes. He still had women falling over him until the day he was put in the electric chair. I feel like that should be a diagnosis on its own. It can't be healthy to be attracted to such dangerous psychopaths.
yep you can walk inside about 10ft in between the double doors before the lobby to get a closer look but that’s it for now! the neighborhood patrol started doing this about a week ago for the tourists and i did it the other day too!
I don’t believe that they don’t have more security camera footage of Elisa Lam either. If she really went up the fire escape they must have caught her on camera, they are literally everywhere.
@@Vanill0a Yes... Ryan you are right . I am not sure if you would want to see a video on another Elisa Lam but if you type in the Search bar "Slone Channels Elisa Lam" I found that video to be very believable... and I am not into believing physics but she felt to me like she was speaking facts . I just thought to pass this along to you ; it is good to know that people still care about her... even if we can not do anything now .
As a plumber that works in hotels every single day I’m sorry to say but I’ve ONLY seen cameras in hallways and lobby’s and the honest truth... most times they just have the power cord loose in the ceiling 🥵. So I kinda understand...
i’ve stayed there with my family before but we weren’t aware of its history. but the whole time the energy was very off. everything about it was very weird. it was definitely an experience.
@@cosmic2830 they could hire scare actors and turn it into something big! True crime fans visit dammers house museum all the time it’d be one in the same in concepts really
I agree! Since it’s no secret that it’s haunted, they can just capitalize off of that reputation now and so many thrill seekers would pay big bucks to stay there and experience the paranormal. Even the majority of the people he spoke to in the video said they’d stay there knowing what happened!
4:20 I had a similar thing happen. I’m very skeptic. But it made…zero sense. I was in the kitchen one night washing dishes. This house was HAUNTED. I mean… my ancestors enslaved humans in this property for labor in the “land of the free” haunted. I’d never felt bad vibes from the ghosts there. I’d seen so much shit that I kinda argue with myself whether I saw what I saw, while also KNOWING I saw what I saw. I can tell some stories lol. But I usually don’t because I know people would doubt it, and it’s infuriating to think because even I would but I know it happened. Anyways, I was standing in the kitchen and this bottle of dish soap shot off the counter and went at least three feet and hit the fridge. It literally looked like someone walked up and smacked it with their hand. I had unreasonable idea someone tied a string to it but no one was home, and no one in my family would do that. I was standing there trying to justify it like “it couldn’t have fallen like that… maybe it started to slide from a slight angle in the counter..no… that doesn’t make sense”. Nothing makes sense about it.
@Wrathful Coma pretty sure the ghosts and strange shit ppl have been seeing are just the poor and homeless fucked up on meth and bath salts, and crack rocks 🤦🏻♂️😳
@@AngeIoss that’s just what I think. This area by skid row has so many homeless and ppl messed up on drugs every day. I would never stay the night around that area 🤦🏻♂️
As someone with BPD, the documentary made me feel like I was responsible for my mental health and anything problematic that could happen to me would be blamed on that. I'm terrified that if I were ever murdered they would blame it on a manic episode. I know in my gut that Elisa wasn't safe.
Check out 2 videos by Sloan Bella a LA psychic of 35 years, there's a portal at the Cecil long before it was built. Lam wasn't manic at the time of her murder. She was a targeted person before heading to California. Tarot by Janine did a deep dive Friday in February on the Cecil, same conclusion. Sloan did a Cecil video a week ago and a Lam video a year ago. Brain Scratch did a 14 part thorough investigation of the Lam case, even used a Behavioral analyst to debunk the elevator video! It was spliced together and the girl was talking to someone and got scared.
yeah and what if the killer gave her extra medication or no medication to have her a manaic episode and then murder her and knowing that all the blame woulde be on her maniac episode all those hallucinations and all? and i dont understand why some clips in the elevator are cut? what if the killer gave staff alot of money to remove that part which cut?? so many unanswered question....
I lived in the Cecil on the 5th floor for almost a year in the 1990s. It was a very strange place and it was well known even then to be haunted. You live in a very crazy area of Los Angeles as it is. It has a very predatory vibe and ive seen lots of ppl lose their minds in that neighbourhood.
I mean it could be them being into true crime and stuff because I don’t gloriefie serial killers and I would tbh to see where it took place and it was gloriefied so much in like 80s and 90s too on wanting to date them and it still is now
@@zabritorres5079 $100 is a fairly good price for a drone. The drone that Peet had was a really good one. I have a strong feeling that the reason his drone kept crashing is because of all the evil energy that is in the hotel. Something is trying to keep him out. I wish Zac Bagans would link up with Peet so they can get more footage. 🙏🏼😈👻⚡️
Well apparently spectral entities/ghosts will drain the energy out of the batteries of any nearby gadget so, poor drone, a moment of silence for it pls. 😔
Fun fact: the hotel is no longer going to be open as hotel, it will re-open as an apartment building or as a homeless shelter sometime this year (2021)
BAHAHAHAHHAHAHA they really think people are going to live there in their dreams they might as well open it up as a hotel and let the drunks sleep their
Some people are not that fortunate and would take any housing they could so...yeah, it's either gonna be an apartment building or a homeless shelter, can't exactly remember
Most hotels have live in staff even during the times when they're closed. The windows and doors are often opened in warmer climates to allow the buildings to breathe and prevent moisture building up. its more prevalent in older buildings but it does take place in modern hotels that are next to or near large bodies of water.
We stayed in a hotel room that hadn't been used in months, maybe a year, and closed up. We could water skate across the tile and bathroom. The rooms were dripping water - down the walls. Like I mean coated in a sheen. This makes so much sense about letting it breathe. But how do they keep rain and animals from coming in and pooping everywhere?
My parents used to stay at the cecil hotel and they told me some stories from what they experienced. My mom said that she used to hear knocks on the walls and thought it was the person next door because she had no clue abt the paranormal stuff. But one day my mom woke a with a huge scar on her hand and she asked my dad who did that but my dad was clueless. But this repeated a few times so they decided to record what happened at night and excatly after they fell asleep the camera would stop recording and my mom would hear knocks and wake up with scars, so one day they decided to complain to the staff and to their horror there was no one staying on same floor as them! After they knew this they decided to move out but couldn't find some valuable stuff but after they did find what they needed some sort of situation would occur so my parents decided avoid all of this and move out!
I swear to god, peet is the most protagonist character. Grew up as a misfit in his family, investigating the paranormal, and I’m guessing he has a curse of some sort?
@@cherryheartssz because he’s more blessed than cursed, he (I think) was the only one who was born and grew normally, meanwhile his mother and sister are very short and not the normal way, but they all live a happy life
Many years ago I was living in an attic in Italy, alone. I was studying art. Every night I would hear a ruckus in my kitchen. As if someone is banging pots and pans. I also heard my kitchen door open ocassionally. This happened whenever I'd happen to be awake at night or wake up. During my last night night there I had ruled every possible natural cause out and I was terrified, after realizing what's going on. The noises from my kitchen started again at 5am. I turned on the light to my bedroom and thought to myself "At least I'm glad they don't come into my bedroom". Then, I hear the door open to my kitchen, to the hallway. In the hallway is the light switch to my bedroom. The switch makes a noise when you press it. I hear a loud bang on the switch followed by the noise. Then another try. And then a third try. On the third try my lights go out in my bedroom. There's a paus, of someone lingering. Then I hear them turn and walk back into the kitchen again. I was absolutely terrified. I then slept in a hotel, before I left the place. Tbh I think new age practices can attract that kind of experiences and make you vulnerable. I would advice against it. I actually chose to become a Christian after this and I am no longer harmed by stuff like that.
What about old age practises like genocide, ethnic cleansing, burning "witches", raping and pillaging? All you religious nutjobs that talk about how "immoral" we are now because we allow LGBTQ and are more Liberal. What's more immoral? Allowing people to live as they please (new age practices) or killing, murdering and raping being acceptable in society? (Old age practices)
@@bluebell1611 "Advise against new age practices as they make you vulnerable" what? Against demons? Against evil? It's clear what OP was getting at, if you understood something else then that's on you. These so called "moral" religions have a shady past to say the least. I simply compared what common old age practices were compared to new age. Would you like to live in the 1600's?
Have you not seen the videos of 100s of people saying they want to stay at this hotel because of everything that has went on, many ghost investigators want to see this place also. It’s like the real conjuring house everyone was scared of it but 1000s of people went to it because of its history, people have been interested in the Cecil hotel for decades and that won’t change.
@@Juliette5044 people have been trying to visit it for years its not just the documentary many horror fans have know about this hotel before the docu. But its been closed for a while.
@@Juliette5044 there are literally thousands of people who visited and stayed there from all over before they closed and before the doc came out.... it’s always been a tourists site. And it closing down only made people want to go even more.. if it reopens people are gonna flood in. This “one documentary” didn’t give this place its hype.
its not just the Cecil hotel, Ive lived in downtown la for many years, there are a lot of old buildings, that have been remodeled and made into apartments, lower end apartments and higher end apartments. I was at the hotel Alexandria visiting a friend who lived there and these were the Lower income apartments, and the building is just CREEPY, dingy lighting, windows on every floor just open, its cold and dank and just LOOKS haunted. I was leaving my friends apartment and waiting for the very old elevator that took for ever to get to my floor. as im waiting I felt my basketball shorts lift up from the bottom like someone was reaching their hand up my shorts, I looked down and NOTHING was there. I said F the elevator and ran down the stairs all the way home.. never went back there again. downtown Los Angeles has so much history in these old buildings its no surprise.
The older buildings ghosts are very pronounced. I was in an old CA coastal hotel, and in the morning the other side of the bed wrinkled up all the blankets without me moving as I watched it happen. So they physically can move things. The architecture of the building was stylish and upon entering my room initially there was a problem with a faucet I had a repairman fix.
@@lemone9639 he should have put it in quotes and put the name of the person who did the original comment. I should be the last one talking though because in English class I just copy everything from online pretty much word for word
i think we need to remember that this hotel is on skid row, homeless people could possibly get in, also tenants are still there as far as i know, so there must be some general owner who maybe goes in every once so often to fix something or check up on some things etc.
@@avamccarron3735 no it’s right on the border of skid row. I stayed here in 2012, when skid row had a bit of a tighter “parameter”. It’s definitely overflowed into Hotel Cecil territory by now judging by how the rest of L.A. is looking nowadays. :(
There are still 7 residents living in the hotel. They are the only people allowed in there. And when the only way they can get in and out of the hotel is through the front door. So that is why some people get in cause they follow the residents coming in or out. There is also a sign on the door saying to not break in cause it disturbs them.
Only thing I can say about lights and stuff is there is still power in that building probably for the reason of preventing break-ins, or since the building is so big and they aren't demolishing it is being used as just a relay of sorts, or used for emergency power. This doesn't explain shadows, it doesn't explain why room lights in particular would come on necessarily, but I do know of some really shoddy wire jobs in large buildings from the 20s to the mid 70s that to run water pumps or keep the whole street up the lights come on for water pumps to run really well. I doubt it has had regular electricians called in to walk through the place as well and some rodents and stuff gnaw through some wires and cause some shorts. Again can't explain the shadows or curtains but at least shed some hypotheses on why some lights could be turning on randomly and even the fire alarm.
Fun fact: some people do still stay there, how do I know, welp I have a friend who stays there from time to time *he's homeless* and it's not that hard to get into the building some people *mostly homeless * do break in
Dude! You should watch Secrets of Sulfur Springs! It's about a hunted hotel and time traveling! (It's really good, especially for a Disney channel show)
I went to take pictures of the cecil hotel when i visited family in LA. We didnt want to leave the car, so my cousin just parked nearby and I just took pictures from the back seat. As I started shooting, the alarm went off in the parked car behind us, and that freaked us out both from a supernatural standpoint and a dowtown LA standpoint, so we decided to leave. I remember that the few pictures I did took turned out nice, almost oddly so considering I took it at night, and I'm pretty sure I posted them as part of an "LA Trip" album on Facebook, I am stating these things in speculation because when I returned home and showed the album to my friends, the pictures of the hotel had disappeared from my facebook and hard drive, all other pictures of that day exist.
There will always be security or maintenance staff coming and going to ensure the building is secure and maintained. So that explains the windows open , lights etc . Even if you don't think they're coming in and out, they will be . Perhaps in a different entrance
The first death there was in 1927, three years after they opened. And the deaths kept spiraling down from there. How did such evil come here so early on? That’s what I want to know
@@_Laneverita Who are you to tell us to get better idols? We can decide on our own who we stan and who we don't. You stan your artist, we stan ours. There's nothing to dicuss, everyone has their own taste.
The reason I’m not scared of ghosts is because my grandmother once said; “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑,𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓“ ♥︎♥︎♥︎♡︎♡︎♡︎
I love this channel because it’s a mix of horror and comedy. Some videos it’s ghost hunting and talking about the Cecil, other videos it’s him and messing around with his mom.
I’ve never stayed there, but I have a story regarding elevators with my dad and his brother, when my dad and his brother were at their old jobs. On their way to the elevator they saw a man walk in. They held the door open but when the elevator reopened. The guy wasn’t there. Makes me think yknow?
AHS Hotel is based on the James Oviatt building. The art deco styling is almost identical to the Cicada restaurant on the ground floor of the Oviatt building. When Ryan Murphy was looking for a story someone suggested the Oviatt building because there were stories of people seeing a man there whom they think is Mr. Oviatt himself (James Patrick March is the manifestation of this in Hotel) the chandeliers that are in the Cortez hotel now hang in the Cicada restaurant. The art deco design in the Cortez are almost identical to the Cicada restaurant. A lot of people make the assumption that the Cortez is based on the Cecil, but this isn't 100 percent accurate. Some of the stories, and characters are based on things that happened at the Cecil, but the story, and inspiration, design is all based on the James Oviatt building.
