“Here we are, Hotel Cecil. You know, this is one spooky hotel, a guest was mysteriously found in the water tank.” Of course we knew this. It was the sole reason we had decided to stay in this hotel. Our favourite convention, TAPSCon, would be held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles this year, and apart from our hotel being haunted, it was also conveniently close. Maeve and I jump out of the car, retrieve our bags and head towards check-in. We had made this reservation as soon as we heard about the location for this year’s largely recognized gathering. It was a tradition that we resided in haunted buildings while our stays in foreign cities.
“I have a reservation under Gaia Atwood.” I tell the receptionist.
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This continues for a long while and I suggest we get some food and take a ride around town, Maeve agrees. We walk out the front door of the hotel and catch our Uber. We drive on Pasadena’s “Suicide Bridge” where over one hundred people have jumped, we pass Linda Vista Community Hospital, a haunted hospital we are going to take a tour of during our stay, and we finally arrive to the Venice Beach Boardwalk.
After an eventful day, we found ourselves back in our room half asleep. I take out my tooth brush from my suitcase and grab Maeve’s toothpaste, I enter the bathroom and turn on the cold water. I drop my toothbrush out of fear and anxiously call out for Maeve. She runs into the bathroom and shrieks. I pick up my toothbrush and blink three times hoping we are both hallucinating. We are not. The water coming out of the tap is indeed black. I immediately call the lobby and request a new room due to this incredulous situation. The receptionist claims that she has one room available but no one has ever wanted to stay in it. I cannot believe our luck, Elisa Lam’s room was available and we did not even know about it. I tell Maeve the great news and she believes my idea is absurd due to the black water that is still coming out of the tap. I convince her that staying in the same room that Elisa Lam was in before her final moments would top any other trip we have ever experienced and she gives in to my pleads. We change rooms and Maeve immediately goes to sleep. I, on the other hand, could not get over this incredible turn
“I have a reservation under Gaia Atwood.” I tell the receptionist.
She presses several keys, asks …show more content…
This continues for a long while and I suggest we get some food and take a ride around town, Maeve agrees. We walk out the front door of the hotel and catch our Uber. We drive on Pasadena’s “Suicide Bridge” where over one hundred people have jumped, we pass Linda Vista Community Hospital, a haunted hospital we are going to take a tour of during our stay, and we finally arrive to the Venice Beach Boardwalk.
After an eventful day, we found ourselves back in our room half asleep. I take out my tooth brush from my suitcase and grab Maeve’s toothpaste, I enter the bathroom and turn on the cold water. I drop my toothbrush out of fear and anxiously call out for Maeve. She runs into the bathroom and shrieks. I pick up my toothbrush and blink three times hoping we are both hallucinating. We are not. The water coming out of the tap is indeed black. I immediately call the lobby and request a new room due to this incredulous situation. The receptionist claims that she has one room available but no one has ever wanted to stay in it. I cannot believe our luck, Elisa Lam’s room was available and we did not even know about it. I tell Maeve the great news and she believes my idea is absurd due to the black water that is still coming out of the tap. I convince her that staying in the same room that Elisa Lam was in before her final moments would top any other trip we have ever experienced and she gives in to my pleads. We change rooms and Maeve immediately goes to sleep. I, on the other hand, could not get over this incredible turn