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Man who lives opposite ‘haunted’ hotel where people have died has seen terrifying things at night

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Updated 16:07 22 Oct 2023 GMT+1Published 15:54 22 Oct 2023 GMT+1

Man who lives opposite ‘haunted’ hotel where people have died has seen terrifying things at night

The man shared what he has witnessed whilst living opposite to the ‘haunted’ Cecil Hotel, notorious for housing serial killers.

Mia Williams

Mia Williams

A man living next to the 'haunted' Cecil Hotel has revealed the spooky things he's seen from his window.

The man has shared what he has witnessed whilst living opposite to the ‘haunted’ Cecil Hotel, notorious for housing serial killers and accommodating mysterious goings on.

Peet Montzingo moved into his two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles in 2019, and after wondering why it was such a cheap area to begin with, he now knows why and has been documenting his experiences on TikTok.

The hotel is infamous in the US as one of the most ‘haunted’ places in the country, and has been known to house infamous murderers - such as the 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez.

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Suicides have allegedly taken place there, and many people have reported ghostly sightings.

The hotel also gained even more fame after being the subject of the Netflix documentary, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which documented the disappearance of guest Elisa Lam.

The hotel closed in 2017, and Peet explains this is why it is so eerie.

“It was so creepy."
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Talking to The Sun, he said: “I've seen strange shadows, flickering lights, you name it. At night, I always take a look just to make sure nobody's looking at me from any of the hotel's windows.”

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He recalled his first ever encounter with a ‘ghost’ at the hotel, which he has nicknamed ‘the cigar man incident’.

He said: “I woke up in the middle of the night one time, and I looked out my window and I saw an old man staring at me while smoking a cigar.

"I remember thinking ‘How can he even see me if it’s pitch black?’

"So I decided to run to the other side of my apartment to see if his head were to follow me - and it did.

"He was looking at me and I freaked out, jumped behind the couch to hide and I realised the hotel Cecil hasn’t been open for years.

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"I went to peek one more time and he was gone. It was so creepy."

After this experience, he became ‘instantly obsessed’ with the spooky hotel, and started making content about it for his now 24 million followers.

The Cecil Hotel featured in a true crime documentary that freaked out millions.
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That’s one thing he can thank the cigar man for!

Desperate to try and make his way into the hotel, one day he got lucky and a security guard let him in at 3am.

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We would rather you than us, Peet!

He said: “The moment I got in I just started running up the stairs all giddy thinking 'I can't believe I made it'.

"But as soon as I got to the 9th or 10th floor, it hit me.

“The energy just changed, it felt heavy and very scary. It felt like I was being watched.

"I also started hearing so many doors slamming shut elsewhere, which wasn’t happening before.”

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The hotel is now no longer the Cecil Hotel, and instead reopened in 2022 as affordable housing to help the homelessness problem in LA.

Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@peetmontzingo/MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images

Topics: Crime, TikTok, Netflix, US News

Mia Williams
Mia Williams

Mia is a freelance writer for LADBible, and an award-winning trainee journalist at the UK’s No.1 journalism school, News Associates.

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