Case of Elisa Lam

Hotel Cecil: She Checked In, But Doesn’t Checked Out

Haunted Hotel? Or A Realistic Explanation?

Francesco Joseph
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readMar 10, 2021

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Public Domain: LAPD

Who was Jack The Ripper? Who shot Kennedy and Tupac?

Throughout history, there have been many unsolved mysterious cases. The mysterious case of Elisa Lam was one of the more bizarre ones in modern history.

February 14th, 2013, Downtown LA, Cecil Hotel, Canadian student-traveler, Elisa Lam hasn’t been seen for two weeks now. This sudden disappearance shrouded in mystery spun into internet rumors about conspiracy theories from paranormal activity to government mind control, and invisibility cloak technology.

Maybe it was the LAPD covering up, working with the secretive Illuminati?

Or maybe it has a realistic explanation?

Skid Row

Like most young people, Elisa Lam liked to travel, to see the world and its vastnesses. However, unfortunately, her first stop to America was also her last, January 29th Elisa Lam checked into the notorious Cecil Hotel located on the historical shady, Skid Row, where she never checked out.

Since the 1930’s Skid Row was known for its condensed population of homeless people, over 12,000 homeless live there annually. Where tons…

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