Another Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
The Creepy Video:
So... turns out we live right next to the Hotel Cecil (now rebranded, from the ground, as "Stay on Main" but all the old paintings on the side of their building as well as ads on surrounding buildings are still around). We only discovered in a few weeks ago when we were on our roof enjoying food and drinks with friends and this story happened to come up. As we were showing another friend who had never read about the Hotel Cecil weird murder/suicide/accident, we look over and see the Hotel Cecil sign and realize that "that random building somewhere in LA" is our immediate neighbor. Creepy, to say the least.
Here's a view from our roof.
So a couple of years ago I was staying in LA with a friend. I was wondering if the tap water in LA is safe to drink, so I did a search from our hotel room, and found this: "Yes, it's fine. Unless you are staying at the Cecil hotel of course." What do you know... we were staying at the Hotel Cecil. I was pretty confused until I looked up the story. I drank the tap water. I was fine.