the Cecil has become this exalted space of crime,

of violence, of...

of... of... of spookiness.

So when it comes to the Elisa Lam case,

I think that we're hoping for a ghost.

I think we're hoping for a monster from the depths

that just came in and captured her and threw her in a tank.

Because it's what we've come to expect.

It'd be easier if we could just tell you

the Hotel Cecil is haunted

and it's got some sort of uncanny force,

but nobody knows that.

But there is something haunted

about a lot of pain and struggle...

and people having their lives fall apart in there.

It's not what we normally think of as a ghost.

But it does feel different in places

where people have suffered.