Most recently, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam died during her stay under mysterious, disturbing circumstances. Serial killer Richard Ramirez even called it home during much of his 1985 murder spree. The Cecil has seen more than its share of violence over the years: at least 16 people have died there, and it has been the location of countless other brutal crimes. And if you believe in this sort of thing, there are also the ghosts of all those who’ve suffered and died at the Hotel Cecil, whose checkered history is the subject of the new Netflix documentary Crime Scene: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. The ghost of a beloved streetcar system that was ripped out in the 1960s, leaving L.A. The ghost of a thriving financial district, once dubbed 'the Wall Street of the West,' now abandoned. Even on a crisp, bright Sunday morning, they’re impossible to miss. To walk around downtown Los Angeles is to see ghosts.