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The world of horror is littered

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with unnerving locations,

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places that draw from and have in turn

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seeped into the public imagination.

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There are the places of what we commonly

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call the natural world, seemingly

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imbued with a timeless spirit that

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transcends the human imagination.

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The mystical Island mountain, the

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Luru, also known as as

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rock found deep in the Australian

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Outback, or the mythical rocky

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outcrops and abandoned mines of

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Cheshire's Olderly Edge in England,

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as evocatively portrayed in the work

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of Alan Ghana, to name but

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two. Then there

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are the places of the natural world that

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we often find portrayed metaphorically

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as extensions of our own site psychees.

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We often talk of the dark, foreboding

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forest or the ominous deep

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black lake. We like

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to consider them Youngian or

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Freudian locations of the subconscious

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that hint at something terrifying, lurking

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deeper within or just below

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the surface, something unseen

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pulling at us, daring us to confront

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an unsettled past or

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innermost fear. Perhaps the

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psychological effect of these places

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is generated by our own projections.

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They become in the post modernist sense,

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not places but spaces

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whose ability to unnervous is

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dependent on our own individual

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perspective. The fears

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supposedly encapsulated within

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them are our own to decipher

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and overcome. But

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in truth, as far as we know, such

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places don't declare themselves

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to have any emotional meaning whatsoever.

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The dark forest does not set

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out to be any more foreboding than

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a white sandy beach, And

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if it did, to ask if it intended

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to be ominous, eerie, or weird,

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would require us to communicate in

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a language that we don't currently

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speak. Far more

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chilling, therefore, are those places

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that require us to cross a genuine

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threshold to enter, Places

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that constitute worlds that

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are resolutely not our own

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to interpret human

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constructions, locations

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that might not only house our darkest,

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unconscious fears, but physically

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embody those of others too.

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You're listening to Unexplained and

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I'm Richard McLean Smith.

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In his Gothic masterpiece The

3:03

Fall of the House of Usher, Maestro

3:06

of the Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe,

3:09

presents to us as stately building,

3:11

as alive with eye like

3:13

windows, and as foreboding

3:16

as any of its gloomy inhabitants.

3:19

Its manifestation, which is also

3:21

a metaphor for the Usher family themselves,

3:24

is so inextricably linked with

3:26

the souls of the eponymous Madeline

3:28

and Roderick Usher, that, upon

3:31

their death, it is immediately split

3:33

in two by a great fissure

3:36

from its roof to its base, before

3:38

it crumbles to pieces. Moving

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from the realms of the weird towards

3:44

something a little closer to horror.

3:46

If we travel along Route thirty nine

3:49

towards Ashton, turn left

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onto Route five, past the

3:53

small village of Hillsdale, and

3:55

up into the high lands beyond, we

3:58

might, if we are unfortunate, find

4:01

ourselves chancing upon the gates

4:03

of Hill House. This

4:05

most unnerving of places

4:07

marks the main location for Shirley

4:09

Jackson's chilling classic The

4:11

Haunting of Hill House, often

4:13

considered one of the finest haunted

4:16

house stories ever written. In

4:18

Jackson's novel, Hill House,

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seen of a number of troubling deaths

4:23

throughout its eighty year existence,

4:26

becomes the focus for a paranormal

4:28

investigation led by psychical

4:31

researcher Dr John Montague.

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Montague is aided by a group of assistants

4:38

selected because of their past paranormal

4:40

experiences in the hope

4:43

that they will be especially receptive to

4:45

anything supernatural that may

4:47

or may not be occurring there. It

4:50

is primarily through the perspective of Eleanor,

4:53

one of the assistants, that we become

4:55

acquainted with the number of increasingly

4:58

disturbing events that take place.

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However, as the novel reaches its

5:03

tragic conclusion, we are left to

5:05

wonder whether anything at all had occurred,

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or if we had merely been witnessing the

5:10

unraveling of Eleanor's mind.

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Doctor Montague insists the

5:15

evil is the house itself, and

5:18

whether it had been by design or

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simply the idea of the

5:23

house's ghoulish history pressing

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in something of the building

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had got inside her head. A

5:32

similar theme emerges in many

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true life cases of alleged domestic

5:36

supernatural disturbances, such

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as those that took place at thirty East

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Drive in Pontefract or at

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number two hundred and eighty four Green

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Street in Enfield. In

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these stories, we find the recurring

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notion that any new resident of the

5:53

property is an invader, occupying

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a space that isn't theirs to occupy.

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At time times, it might seem

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that in some way or another, the

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property itself has developed a

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spirit all of its own. For

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me, although Robert Clatworthy

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and Joseph Hurley's iconic

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Bates Mansion as depicted

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in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, comes

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a close second, the true

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House of Horror comes, complete

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with its own abbatoirs, bespoke

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skin clad interiors, and

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a fridge stocked with bloody

6:35

meat. You may recognize

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it as the family home of Leatherface,

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disturbingly depicted in Toby

6:42

Hooper's mesmerizingly deranged

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Leaving

6:48

aside the more cerebral interpretations

6:51

of Hooper's classic, such as

6:53

it being a metaphor for the cannibalistic

6:55

tendencies of capitalism,

6:58

personally, on a simply sceral

7:00

level, watching The Texas Chainsaw

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Massacre for the first time was to be

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exposed to a level of horror previously

7:07

beyond the comprehension of my teenage

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mind. What all

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the aforementioned fictional buildings

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have in common is that they are locations

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so inextricably linked to their

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original occupants or

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to the unsavory events that occurred

7:24

within them, they have become inseparable

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from them. There is the sense

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that, even if they were empty, they

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continue to incubate the things

7:34

that have happened inside.

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They are places of events so

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unfathomably monstrous that

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no level of will can expunge them

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from the space. Incidentally,

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Psycho and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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were partly based on the life of murderer

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Ed Geene, whose proclivity

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for manufacturing ornaments and furniture

7:57

from human bone and skin can

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tee U news to shock the world. More

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than sixty years later, after

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Geene's conviction, it was decided

8:07

that his house should be torn down. So

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incapable were the local community from

8:13

separating the location from the events

8:15

that had taken place inside, there

8:18

was no other option but to remove

8:20

it entirely above

8:23

all other locations. Surely,

8:25

the hotel is the creepiest

8:27

of dwellings, both in fiction

8:30

and fact. It's

8:32

little wonder when you consider all the

8:34

daily comings and goings of

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hundreds of unrelated guests,

8:39

not to mention all those who'd come

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before them, so many

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events and bodies criss

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crossing through time. The hotel

8:49

is a chaotic clash of psychical

8:51

intersections, all held together

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in one singular place. Some

8:57

may be familiar with HH Homes and

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his Murder Castle, formerly

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located on the corner of South Wallace

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and sixty Third near Jackson

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Park in Chicago.

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Holmes began construction of his

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two story multi purpose building in

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eighteen eighty seven, which was home

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to a variety of commercial properties

9:18

and private apartments. Five

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years later, he added a third

9:23

floor with the apparent intention

9:26

of taking advantage of the many tourists

9:29

due to visit the city for the World's

9:31

Columbian Exhibition later

9:33

known as the World's Fair. That

9:36

Holmes was a ruthless serial

9:38

killer is in little doubt as

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to whether he really killed over two hundred

9:43

people squirreling their bodies away

9:46

in secret passages and channels

9:48

that he'd built purposely into

9:50

his infamous hotel. Is

9:52

anyone's guests. Holmes's

9:56

Murder Castle was eventually burned

9:58

down by the man himself in

10:00

an insurance scam shortly

10:02

before his capture in eighteen ninety

10:04

four and subsequent execution

10:07

two years later. Fans

10:19

of Stephen King have the Stanley Hotel

10:22

of Esther's Park in Colorado

10:24

to thank for inspiring his most iconic

10:27

location, situated

10:29

overlooking Lake Esters in the shadow

10:31

of the Rockies. It was there, in nineteen

10:34

seventy four that King spent

10:36

a fortnight terrorized by

10:38

nightmarish visions of his three year

10:41

old son being chased through

10:43

the hotel's corridors by something

10:45

dreadful and unseen. As

10:48

you may have guessed, these night terrors

10:51

would inspire King to write The Shining,

10:54

with the Overlook Hotel replacing

10:56

those disquieting halls of the Stanley.

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There will be few who've peered down

11:02

the corridors of King's Overlook who

11:05

don't feel something of those nightmares

11:07

he experienced back in seventy

11:09

four, or who fail to sense

11:11

something of the strange and eerie in

11:14

almost any hotel they've stayed

11:16

in. Since there

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is one hotel that, for reasons

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we will soon explore, holds

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a special place in the pantheon

11:25

of hotels with a strange

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and sinister past. In

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twenty thirteen, this place

11:33

became host to one of the most

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disturbing and tragic deaths

11:37

of recent times, a

11:39

mystery that remains to this day

11:43

unexplained. Sarah

11:52

Scandalesa's Facebook and Twitter

11:54

pages. Again knowing

11:56

her sister's avid use of social media,

11:59

it seemed unuws usual that she hadn't posted

12:01

anything in the last twenty four

12:03

hours. Meanwhile, her

12:06

father, David tried Elsa's

12:08

number one more time as

12:10

her anxious mother, Yena, watched

12:12

on. David held

12:15

the phone to his ear and gazed out at

12:17

the window as an afternoon sun

12:20

threatened to break through the clouds.

12:23

Concern rippled across his face when

12:26

the call once again clicked

12:28

through to voicemail.

12:31

Ordinarily, it wouldn't be unusual

12:34

that a twenty one year old woman on a

12:36

solo trip to Los Angeles might

12:38

forget to call home once in a while.

12:41

But this was Eliza, and they had

12:43

an agreement. She could take the trip

12:45

on one condition that she called

12:47

in with her parents every day to

12:50

let them know she was safe. And

12:52

besides, Eliza was happy

12:54

to do it, she knew how difficult

12:57

the last few years had been on them.

13:01

Sarah scrolled through Elsa's

13:03

pages again. Her last

13:05

tweet was from twenty seventh of January

13:07

twenty thirteen, five days

13:10

ago. It read speakeasy

13:13

in block capitals, but that

13:15

was back in San Diego.

13:18

Then there were the photos from the zoo,

13:20

also in San Diego, and

13:23

finally, the live recording of a conan

13:25

O'Brien show in La that she'd

13:27

attended two nights back. She

13:30

seemed to be having a great time. Sarah

13:33

told her parents not to worry, that

13:35

it was probably nothing, but suggested

13:38

they'd try calling the hotel just

13:40

in case. Where did she say

13:43

she was staying again, She said the

13:45

Stay on Maine. David

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pulled up the number and called it, immediately,

13:51

relieved to finally have a voice to

13:53

speak with on the other end of the phone.

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Yina and Sarah watched expectantly

13:59

as David spoke to the front desk. Their

14:02

relief at the prospect of finally getting

14:05

some information soon turned

14:07

to worry at the look on David's

14:09

face as he hung up. Elisa

14:13

had been due to check out that morning,

14:15

he explained, only she'd never

14:17

appeared and wasn't in her

14:19

room with a new

14:21

guests set to use it. The hotel

14:24

would keep her things in the basement until

14:26

she returned. He

14:28

shouldn't be too concerned, they said, there

14:31

could be any number of reasons why his daughter

14:33

wasn't there. David

14:36

tried to remain optimistic, but

14:38

couldn't shake the gnawing in the pit of his

14:40

stomach. Something

14:43

was wrong. Friday

14:51

evenings were one of the busiest at Pause

14:53

on Hastings Street, North Burnaby,

14:56

the Chinese restaurant owned and run

14:58

by David and Yena. It

15:01

was a small but popular place in the quiet

15:04

Vancouver suburb, distinguished

15:06

by its large yellow light box at

15:08

the front. The family

15:10

had arrived from Hong Kong in two thousand

15:13

and three, and since then they

15:15

and their restaurant had become a much

15:17

loved asset to the local community,

15:20

serving some of the best valued Chinese

15:23

food that side of Vancouver. On

15:26

that night of Friday, February first,

15:28

however, Yina and David were

15:30

finding it increasingly difficult to

15:33

focus, and as the customers

15:35

continued to arrive, their distraction

15:38

was becoming noticeable. Unable

15:41

to hold off any longer, the pair

15:43

decided to make the call. A

15:46

short time later, David stood

15:48

in the kitchen waiting to be put

15:50

through to the Royal Canadian Mounted

15:52

Police to make an official report

15:55

that his youngest daughter, Elisa

15:58

Lamb, was missing. Though

16:01

there was some relief to finally

16:03

have the police involved, it was quickly

16:05

tempered when they were told that nothing

16:07

much could be done until the following

16:09

morning. That

16:12

night, the Lamb family failed

16:14

to get any sleep as they waited

16:16

desperately for any contact from

16:19

their daughter. Having

16:21

made the call on a weekend, it wasn't

16:23

until Monday that the Los Angeles

16:26

Police's Missing Persons Unit

16:28

was alerted to Elisa's disappearance,

16:31

and it wasn't until the following day

16:34

that a call was put through to detectives

16:37

Wallace, to Nelly and Greg

16:39

Stearns of the LAPDS

16:41

Robberies and Homicides Division

16:44

to formally begin the investigation.

16:48

The timing could not have been worse.

16:50

The department would never want to be seen

16:53

to prioritize one case over another,

16:56

but it had been understandably distracted.

16:59

Two days previously, in Orange

17:01

County, a young woman and her fiance

17:04

had been shot in their car after

17:06

a night out. Such

17:08

a killing was rare enough, but that

17:10

the woman, twenty eight year old

17:13

Monica Quan, happened to be

17:15

the daughter of former LAPD

17:17

Captain Randall Quan had

17:19

hit the department hard. When

17:22

a manifesto claiming responsibility

17:24

for the crimes appeared online

17:27

the following day, written by

17:29

former LAPD officer Christopher

17:32

Dorner, all hell broke

17:34

loose. Nonetheless,

17:37

the Lambs couldn't have had a better

17:39

person for the job than detective

17:41

to Nelli, a man who knew

17:44

only too well what they were

17:46

going through. In

17:54

two thousand and seven, on a mild

17:56

May evening, Wallace to Nelly,

17:59

had just wandered out to his garage

18:01

when a young girl trembling

18:04

and with tears in her eyes approached

18:06

the house. Wallis recognized

18:09

her as his neighbour and a friend

18:11

of his youngest son, Bryant. He

18:14

recognized too the bloodstained

18:17

cap clutched in her hands, which

18:19

belonged to Bryant. Wallace

18:22

learned soon after that his eighteen year

18:25

old son had been shot in

18:27

the head at point blank range, only

18:29

blocks away from their home. He

18:32

died later that night. To

18:36

Nellie, a diligent and methodical

18:38

worker, listened patiently in his

18:40

Los Angeles office to the missing

18:42

person's officer on the other end of

18:44

the line in Vancouver, making

18:47

a note of the important details. Age

18:50

twenty one Chinese

18:52

Canadian, five foot four

18:54

with long black hair and brown eyes,

18:57

and weighing approximately one hundred

18:59

feet fifteen pounds. Name

19:02

Elisa Lamb. Last

19:05

known location stay on

19:07

Maine Hostel on South Main

19:09

Street, part of the Cecil

19:11

Hotel building. To Nelly

19:14

knew it Well. It's

19:17

located on Seventh and Maine

19:19

Downtown, formerly a major

19:21

business and financial district, once

19:24

referred to as the Wall Street of the

19:26

West. By twenty thirteen,

19:29

it was home to the city's skid Row

19:31

neighborhood, one of the largest

19:34

stable populations of homeless

19:36

in the United States. Although

19:39

there are many who be quick to portray it

19:42

as a no go area for that very

19:44

reason, that wasn't an immediate

19:46

concern to Tonelli. Yes

19:49

there was crime there, much like any

19:51

other bustling city of the world, but

19:54

petty theft and drug dealing was

19:56

one thing. The possible murder

19:58

of a Canadian tourist, if

20:00

that was what he was dealing with, was

20:02

quite another. In

20:05

fact, due to a recent relaxing of

20:07

development laws, the area was

20:09

experiencing a quiet upturn in

20:11

fortunes and had become an increasingly

20:14

popular location for tourists keen

20:17

to take advantage of its comparatively

20:19

low rates. As

20:21

for the Cecil Hotel, that

20:24

remained something of a local oddity,

20:27

a stubborn but long since faded

20:29

paean to a distant, more glorious

20:32

past. It's

20:34

hard to imagine it now, but the

20:36

Cecil, built at a cost of

20:38

one million dollars, was once

20:40

considered one of the more glamorous establishments

20:43

of the area. Opened

20:45

in nineteen twenty five to great

20:47

fanfare in all its Beaux

20:50

Arts grandeur, the Cecil,

20:52

comprising of seven hundred rooms

20:54

across fourteen floors, was

20:57

opulently decorated throughout

20:59

with marks, bubble, and pretty mosaic

21:01

patterns. Its

21:03

lobby a grand Art Deco

21:06

fantasy of the finest stained

21:08

glass and brass.

21:11

No more than five years after opening,

21:13

however, a global depression triggered

21:16

by the Wall Street Crash took

21:18

hold. Within ten

21:20

years, many of the city's banks

21:22

and businesses had gone under, taking

21:25

with them the vibrant nightlife

21:27

and movie theaters of Downtown's

21:29

Broadway district. As

21:41

the wealthier residents of Downtown

21:43

LA flocked to the suburbs in

21:45

the forties and fifties, the

21:47

region's bubble had well and truly

21:49

burst over the next

21:52

fifty years, Although you might have

21:54

still found fragments of its former

21:56

majesty peeking out from under

21:58

its yellowed and peel wallpaper,

22:01

the Cecil eventually became home

22:03

to a number of transient and low

22:06

income residents. Its

22:08

once pristine facade steadily

22:10

fading along with its prices.

22:14

In two thousand and seven, three floors

22:17

of the Cecil were given over to

22:19

a team of designers hoping to

22:21

capitalize on Downtown's recent

22:23

gentrification. The

22:26

following year, the Stay on Maine

22:28

opened its doors for the first time,

22:31

covering floors four to six of

22:34

the original building. It promised

22:36

a boutique hotel experience

22:38

for the cost conscious traveler. Despite

22:41

some early teething problems, the

22:44

Stay on Maine quickly established

22:46

itself as one of the better low

22:48

cost hostels in Los Angeles,

22:51

and it was easy to see why it

22:53

might have appealed to Elisa. But

22:56

there was one other thing about the Cecil,

22:59

something that you wouldn't find on any

23:01

hotel listing, something

23:04

rather unsavory. The

23:13

first to die was forty six

23:15

year old W. K. Norton.

23:18

His body was found in his room in

23:20

November nineteen thirty one after

23:23

ingesting poison capsules.

23:27

Next came twenty five year old

23:29

Benjamin Dodditch, found

23:31

by a maid one morning in September

23:34

nineteen thirty two, dead

23:36

from a self inflicted gunshot wound

23:39

to the head, the remnants of which

23:41

remained stained on the walls for

23:43

months. Former

23:46

Army Medical Corps Sergeant

23:48

Louis Borden fifty three,

23:51

was found dead in July nineteen

23:53

thirty four. After

23:55

Borden checked in one evening, he

23:58

proceeded to write suicide notes to

24:00

various members of his family, then

24:02

slit his throat with a razor. The

24:06

first of the jumpers was Grace maygro

24:09

in March nineteen thirty seven. She

24:12

dropped from the ninth floor of the hotel,

24:14

only for her four to be broken by

24:17

telephone wires strung across

24:19

main street below. She

24:21

later died at a nearby hospital.

24:25

In January the following year. Marine

24:28

fire fighter Roy Thompson had

24:30

been staying at the hotel for several weeks

24:33

when maids discovered he hadn't been

24:35

in his room for days. He

24:37

was found dead on the skylight of a

24:39

neighboring building, having presumably

24:42

leapt from the top floor. Robert

24:45

Smith and Helen Gurney jumped

24:48

from the seventh floor in nineteen forty

24:50

seven and nineteen fifty four, respectively.

24:54

Julia Francis Moore did

24:56

the same from the eighth in nineteen

24:58

sixty two, and later

25:00

that year police investigated

25:03

what they assumed to be the double suicide

25:06

of twenty seven year old Pauline

25:08

Otton and sixty five year

25:10

old George Giannini. However,

25:13

they later concluded that it was

25:15

Otton who leapt from the building

25:18

and accidentally collided into Giannini

25:21

on the street below, killing

25:23

him instantly. In

25:25

December nineteen seventy five,

25:28

a still unidentified woman is

25:30

believed to have leapt to her death from

25:32

a twelfth floor window. Then

25:35

there were the other suicides through poison.

25:38

W. K. Norton's being the first

25:41

Navy officer erwin Neblett

25:43

in nineteen thirty nine and

25:45

Dorothy Scheiger the year after,

25:48

both found dead in their rooms

25:50

by staff, And although

25:52

there is no putting a grade on such

25:55

a litany of tragedy, perhaps

25:57

the most shocking death to occur at the

25:59

Cecil was that of a newborn

26:01

baby in nineteen forty four.

26:05

Nineteen year old Dorothy Purcell

26:07

had recently moved in with Cecil

26:09

resident thirty eight year old Ben

26:12

Levine when she found herself

26:14

going into labor. Unaware

26:17

that she had even been pregnant, and not

26:19

wanting to disturb Levin, she

26:22

stumbled to the bathroom and

26:24

almost immediately gave birth

26:26

to a baby boy, apparently

26:29

in a state of post natal shock,

26:31

Dorothee believed the child to be

26:34

dead and threw it out

26:36

of the window. In

26:39

the summer of nineteen sixty four,

26:42

retired telephone operator and

26:44

full time resident of the Cecil, Goldie

26:47

Osgoode, was found raped,

26:50

stabbed, and beaten to death in her

26:52

room. Her murder remains

26:54

unsolved to this day. All

26:57

in all, fourteen deaths

27:00

by unnatural causes, and

27:03

that wasn't everything. According

27:12

to former Cecil hotel resident

27:15

Raoul Enriquez, in late

27:18

July and August of nineteen eighty

27:20

five, when rates had dropped

27:22

as low as fourteen dollars a night,

27:24

he lived next door to a man

27:27

on the fourteenth floor who introduced

27:29

himself to him as Richard. Richard

27:33

said he was from Sia Dad Juarez

27:35

in Mexico.

27:38

This Richard would turn out

27:40

to be twenty five year old Richard

27:42

Ramirez, who between April

27:45

nineteen eighty four and August nineteen

27:47

eighty five brutally murdered

27:50

at least sixteen people, raping

27:53

and mutilating many of his victims

27:55

before his eventual capture and arrest.

27:59

His horrific crimes often

28:01

perpetrated after walking into people's

28:03

homes at random would land him

28:06

the nickname the knight Stalker.

28:09

Then in nineteen ninety one, it

28:12

is thought that Jack Untervega stayed

28:15

at the Cecil Hotel over

28:17

a period of time in which he terrorized,

28:20

raped, and murdered at least three

28:22

women. Untevega

28:25

had previously been convicted for murder

28:27

in Austria after strangling

28:29

an eighteen year old woman to death in

28:32

nineteen seventy four. While

28:34

in prison, he began to write about

28:36

his experiences, reflecting

28:39

on the nature of his crime. His

28:41

work earned plaudits from the country's

28:44

literary elite, with his novel

28:46

Purgatory even becoming a best

28:48

seller. By the time of

28:50

his release in nineteen ninety he

28:53

was a national celebrity and widely

28:55

heralded as a model of rehabilitation.

28:58

A year later, Unterevega was

29:00

commissioned to write a radio piece

29:03

about sex work. It was

29:05

during a research trip for this piece

29:07

that he murdered the three women. Having

29:11

gone on the run after committing the murders

29:13

in Los Angeles, Untevega was

29:16

eventually caught and arrested in Miami

29:18

in February nineteen ninety two, when

29:21

it transpired that he had in fact

29:23

killed at least eight women since

29:26

his release in nineteen ninety.

29:29

Some have suggested that Untervega

29:32

decided to stay at the Cecil because

29:34

of its association with Richard Ramirez,

29:37

as if the hotel had effectively

29:40

drawn him in with the screams

29:42

of its past, a sinister

29:45

siren call broadcast on

29:47

only the rarest of frequencies.

29:50

There are some, too, who claim it was

29:53

no accident that Ramirez

29:55

himself found its way to the

29:57

Cecil, nor why

29:59

so much dead and depravity had

30:01

been concentrated in this forgotten

30:04

corner of La. They

30:06

say there was always something unsettled

30:09

about the place, something

30:11

dark and unfathomable that lingered

30:14

within its many dimly lit

30:16

corridors. To some,

30:19

it seemed sometimes as

30:22

though the building itself was

30:24

alive. You've

30:29

been listening to part one of Unexplained

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Season seven, episode fourteen,

30:36

If These Walls Could Scream.

30:39

Part two will be released next Friday,

30:42

January twenty sixth. This

30:45

episode was written by Richard McLain

30:48

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