The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel [Netflix Documentary Series] Out Now

[Smithy]

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Ooh this looks like it’ll be a good one :eyes:

[Niamh.]

Oh is that the Elisa Lam case? That one is creepy

[Smithy]

Yeah, but it also talks about the hotels history, Richard Ramirez and other serial killers used to stay there :umm2:

[Cherie]

Oh is that the Elisa Lam case? That one is creepy

You posted a link to that in the other thread in the case where the guy was found on the rubbish dump

[Niamh.]

Yeah, but it also talks about the hotels history, Richard Ramirez and other serial killers used to stay there :umm2:

omg really? When is this out, definitely will be watching this

You posted a link to that in the other thread in the case where the guy was found on the rubbish dump

Yeah that's right, I have my opinions on what happened to her but the I never knew about the serial killers staying at that hotel

[Smithy]

Feb 10!

[Smithy]

Out now :D

[Niamh.]

Oh yay, thanks for the reminder Smithy, will watch this asap

[GoldHeart]

I remember the woman acting like she's being followed into the lift by an invisible force,it was one of the most creepy bizarre things I saw on YouTube . Her death makes no sense wasn't she found in a water tank dead ? . She looked terrified beforehand like she was being terrorised :shocked: .

[Niamh.]

I remember the woman acting like she's being followed into the lift by an invisible force,it was one of the most creepy bizarre things I saw on YouTube . Her death makes no sense wasn't she found in a water tank dead ? . She looked terrified beforehand like she was being terrorised :shocked: .

Yeah, she did suffer with bipolar though so it seemed like maybe she was having an episode

[Cherie]

oh cheers, its always the same, there is nothing to watch or too much to watch

will get to this after the Sopranos and IWDY

[GoldHeart]

Yeah, she did suffer with bipolar though so it seemed like maybe she was having an episode

But how did she end up dead , this situation has never sat right with me .

[Niamh.]

But how did she end up dead , this situation has never sat right with me .

I don't think anyone is ever going to be able to answer that unfortunately

[Vicky.]

Ooh this looks decent..will watch it later on I think. I remember that lift video..weird stuff like

[LaLaLand]

Just sitting down to watch this now.

Can't sleep - sadly I doubt this will help! :omgno: :joker:

[LaLaLand]

I’m two eps in - there’s just something really sinister about the whole thing and the place in general. Ergh.

[Niamh.]

Is that where the phrase Skid Row came from or was it called skid row because of that phrase?

[LaLaLand]

Is that where the phrase Skid Row cam from or was it called skid row because of that phrase?

A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are people "on the skids". This specifically refers to the poor, the homeless or others either considered disreputable or forgotten by society. A skid row may be anything from an impoverished urban district to a red-light district to a gathering area for the homeless. In general, skid row areas are inhabited or frequented by individuals marginalized by poverty or through drug addiction. Urban areas considered skid rows are marked by high vagrancy, and they often feature cheap taverns, dilapidated buildings, and drug dens as well as other features of urban blight. Used figuratively, it may indicate the state of a poor person's life.

The term skid road originally referred to the path along which timber workers skidded logs. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. Areas identified by this name include Pioneer Square in Seattle; Old Town Chinatown in Portland, Oregon; Downtown Eastside in Vancouver; Skid Row in Los Angeles; the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; and the Bowery of Lower Manhattan.

From Wiki.

[LukeB]

Is this really scary and tense to watch like night stalker was?

[LaLaLand]

Is this really scary and tense to watch like night stalker was?

No this is more eerie than anything I’d say. Just very creepy and weird.

Hotel is basically a living nightmare from what they say though, a free for all of dangerous criminals, addicts, drop outs, mentally ill etc mixed in with unsuspecting tourists looking for a cheap room. Horrible.

[LaLaLand]

When the two tourists from here in the UK said they’d been drinking the water/bathing in it etc omg. Knocked me sick!

[Niamh.]

From Wiki.

Thanks :love:

[Ammi]

...I’m into episode 3 and I’m finding it a little disappointing, I have to say...maybe it’s because we’ve discussed the Elisa Lam case so much as well on here...?..obviously it offers nothing new with that because there isn’t anything new to offer...everything about her behaviour just before her ‘disappearance’ seems so similar to the Jack Wheeler case and connected to her bi-polar and maybe she hadn’t taken her medication...it also seemed that she’d only recently had medication prescribed that she felt was more right for her because others that had been tried, hadn’t been suited...but paranoia as she was displaying seems very linked to me....I’ve mentioned before about someone that I knew with bi polar and she took her own life, she frequently through her life had suffered from paranoia...


....with the hotel in general, there didn’t feel anything spooky or chilling or sinister to me either...the lift access in particular was used by hotel residents plus general public and the area had much drug related and violent crime etc...and the hotel’s system didn’t really protect their resident in any way in their access systems...it’s an ok watch but it’s not really revealing anything thought provoking for me...I feel so sad though for those working there through those times of criminal incidents and violent incidents at the hotel....

[Niamh.]

Ammi the last episode does give more information (stuff I didn't know anyway)

It was where I always leaned anyway, she was having a manic episode, that's clear from how she was behaving in the lift and the new (to me anyway) information added to that of how she was acting very strangely and her room mates complained about her so she was moved to a room on her own, plus the Manager remembers her behaving strangely at reception one time. And then of course the two most vital pieces of information, the lid of the water tank was not closed as someone wrongly reported earlier and toxicology discovered that she had stopped taking her Bipolar medication. Her body didn't have a mark on it, she wasn't sexually assaulted..........I don't think this one is a mystery at all.

Felt sorry for that guy that was caught in the cross fire as well, the Mexican guy.

Anyway, over all it was OK, glad I watched it though because even though I was pretty convinced that that's what happened, those last few details I didn't know really confirmed it

[Smithy]

Watched the first two eps so far, the thought that people unknowingly drank that water... :yuk:

Hearing everything about the Hotel too... take away the supernatural stuff and American Horror Story literally hit the nail on the head with this place :umm2:

[Marsh.]

How long was her body in the tank?

[Marsh.]

The fact that simple stories like this are creepy as hell, and far creepier than any vampire scene Ryan Murphy could create in Hotel.

[LaLaLand]

Finished this last night.

Overall very sad, but those coincidences were UNBELIEVABLE (the TB swab test thing was just eerie!) :omgno:

[Niamh.]

Finished this last night.

Overall very sad, but those coincidences were UNBELIEVABLE (the TB swab test thing was just eerie!) :omgno:Yeah that was a bizarre coincidence

[Smithy]

How long was her body in the tank?

19 days

[Marsh.]

19 days

:yuk:

[Smithy]

Just finished ep 3, personally I think she had a psychotic break and thought someone was chasing her, she ran to the roof and hid in the water tank and then realised she couldn’t get out and died.

The show said that when the POLICE arrived the lid was on the tank, but they didn’t say how the maintenance man found/left it, so it’s quite possible it was off when he found her and he put it back in place when he went to report it.

A lot of the show so far, without meaning to sound rude, is just a bunch of saddo’s on the internet theorising what happened to her, like the guy that set up the Facebook page saying he couldn’t stop thinking about her and when they found her body he was devastated, like... Chile, go outside, touch some grass or smn :skull:

[Niamh.]

Was that the guy with the weird voice Smithy? Just wait until the last episode that guy is creepy as ****

[Smithy]

Yeah the tale end of the ep is they found him on YouTube so they think he killed her :skull:

[Niamh.]

No sorry not that guy, the creepy you tube sleuth guy

[Smithy]

Oh no not yet

[Niamh.]

The one with the stalker vibes

[Smithy]

They’re talking about her under medicating and the big mystery behind it but like.. she’s on holiday? I always forgot to take my pills on holiday

[LaLaLand]

The guy who runs her Facebook tribute page is ODD.

How he got someone to film themselves touching her headstone so he could feel “closure” - dude wtf?

[Smithy]

They’ve literally just said my theory so :smug:

[Niamh.]

The guy who runs her Facebook tribute page is ODD.

How he got someone to film themselves touching her headstone so he could feel “closure” - dude wtf?Yeah he's the guy I was talking about

[Smithy]

A lot of the show so far, without meaning to sound rude, is just a bunch of saddo’s on the internet theorising what happened to her, like the guy that set up the Facebook page saying he couldn’t stop thinking about her and when they found her body he was devastated, like... Chile, go outside, touch some grass or smn :skull:

Yeah he's the guy I was talking about

Yeah that’s who I meant there too sksksksks

[Niamh.]

Yeah that’s who I meant there too sksksksksI couldn't remember if he was the same guy who got his friend to touch her grave or not [emoji38]

[Smithy]

I feel like Netflix is desperate for another Making a Murderer show that goes viral with a case that’s had a wrongful conviction or an obvious suspect that has gotten away with it, but everything they’ve done recently, this, an American murder next door (or whatever it was called) have just seemed a bit try hard in comparison

[Niamh.]

I feel like Netflix is desperate for another Making a Murderer show that goes viral with a case that’s had a wrongful conviction or an obvious suspect that has gotten away with it, but everything they’ve done recently, this, an American murder next door (or whatever it was called) have just seemed a bit try hard in comparisonI just finished watching the Devil next door and it was amazing

[UserSince2005]

Finished watching episode 3, this is getting good. I remember following this case a bit at the time and I’m now finally getting the revelations I didn’t know about
Like the tb test being her name
This freaky morbid guy
**** I’m scared watching this.

Watching eppy 4 now

[Ammi]

...I’ll try to pick it up again, the few episodes I watched didn’t offer anything new and didn’t grip but maybe I gave up too soon...?...

[UserSince2005]

Oh ffs, not them building up all the tension and theories in the first 3 episodes all for them to be debunked in the final episode with the known evidence from the start.

[Smithy]

...I’ll try to pick it up again, the few episodes I watched didn’t offer anything new and didn’t grip but maybe I gave up too soon...?...

Nah you didn’t, nothing new at all