![]() ![]() Bagans doesn’t give a pass to the murderer but does theorize that the serial killer was generating more negative energy and entities at the hotel. I have his death row TV, his sketches, his clothing,” says Bagans before adding, “I study these people.” Bagans says he even visited the Concordia cemetery in El Paso, Texas, where Ramirez “got started” and was said to practice satanic rituals.Īs a result, Bagans believes that Ramirez was engaged in a “top-tier possession” with the horrors he was committing ultimately in the devil’s name. When not investigating the paranormal on television, he collects and exhibits haunted dolls and possessed possessions, along with “murderabilia” from serial killers, such as drawings by Ramirez. He has a fascination with the darker sides of this world - as well as the next. ![]() “Or maybe they had things happening to themselves and had enough of it,” Bagans says.Įither way, Cecil fits neatly into Bagans’ pursuits, and it comes as no surprise that the hotel has long been on his bucket list. “I knew the history of Richard Ramirez there, and the deaths, and knew it was a big creepy building,” Bagans says.Īlthough prior attempts to gain permission to film there had been rejected, he thinks maybe the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdowns convinced the hotel’s owners to allow it because of the location fee paid by production. Despite her death being ruled accidental, with her bipolar disorder deemed a contributing factor, questions remained as to how Lam could have gained access to the roof or closed the lid to the tank from within.īut before that two-and-half minute viral video made Lam a popular topic for podcasts - and before American Horror Story: Hotel drew inspiration from the landmark’s past - the Cecil’s reputation was more tied to tragedy than travel despite its beginnings in 1924 as an LA destination, complete with a grandiose lobby. Her body was discovered in a rooftop water tank weeks after she disappeared. ![]() An elevator surveillance video showed the young woman acting erratically as she pushed buttons, paced in and out of the elevator, and even appeared to be hiding from someone. While on a solo trip to California in 2013, she went missing and died while staying at the hotel. Lam was a daughter and sister, and a real person on a journey of self-discovery before her life ended too soon, and she made the Cecil internet famous. The “Elisa” that Bagans refers to is Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian student with a kind, sarcastic sense of humor who loved fashion and Harry Potter she frequently blogged observations about guys she liked, figuring out a place in the world, as well as her own insecurities and mental health struggles. ![]()
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