Cecil Hotel is considered by many to be among the most haunted buildings in Los Angeles, if not the world. Now known as Stay on Main, the downtown lodgings reportedly served as a base of operations for serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger, and has been the site of multiple unsolved murders and numerous suicides. The hotel is even linked to the murder of Elizabeth Short, better known as the Black Dahlia. But a new Netflix documentary about the Cecil focuses on what might be the most famous—and chilling—incident of all, the disappearance of Elisa Lam.

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I designed our numerous sets to take us back to the Cecil Hotel in its heyday which opened in 1927. My goal was to create an atmosphere where rooms appeared as they were, but left and forgotten; occupied by only the ghosts of its past.