Cecil Hotel Facts

Sitting in the midst of the exciting streets of Los Angeles is a small, unassuming building with a truly dark history: the Cecil Hotel.


June 9, 2026 | Alex Summers

Sitting in the midst of the exciting streets of Los Angeles is a small, unassuming building with a truly dark history: the Cecil Hotel.


Sitting in the midst of the exciting streets of Los Angeles is a small, unassuming hotel that some people out there would probably like to avoid at all costs—the infamous Cecil Hotel. For practically all of its history, many things have gone seriously wrong inside this building. From spooky tragedies to unexplained mysteries, here are disturbing facts about the one and only Cecil Hotel.


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