7 Haunted Hotels, From The Inspiration For ‘The Shining’ To Colombia’s Suicide Palace

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Guests were met with such low water pressures in early 2013 that the complaints were too many for the hotel to ignore. An inspection of the tanks yielded the discovery of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam, whose body had been decomposing within for more than three weeks.

Not only could the coroner not discern a clear cause of death — video of the young woman’s ride in the hotel elevators only furthered the eeriness of her passing. The now-infamous footage shows a clearly uncomfortable, somewhat disoriented, and vaguely afraid woman behaving very abnormally.

In the end, her case has never been solved — like so many others whose lives ended at the Cecil Hotel.

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The Shining again after probably 30 years, I have to say it still holds up. Good snuggle with your gal flick.

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My wife refuses to watch it with me, she says it just looks too old. I think the idea of an alcoholic spouse losing it with a hatchet is just a little too real for her.