Unpacking The Eerie
Unpacking the Eerie is a passion project that merges the intersections of our dark curiosities with our deeply held values. Each episode we’ll dig past the surface of morbid fascination, scavenging for unasked questions surrounding the stories that creep the hell out of us. We hope that when you listen, you’ll experience the feels, the enjoyment, the horror and interludes of comedic relief that we do. - 2 politicized social workers based in the PNW and in India.
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Music Credit: Creepy Mood by Oleg Fedak
Unpacking The Eerie
HALLOWEEN REWIND: A Lethal Location Pt. 1 - Accident, Cover Up or Cult?
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It's been 5 years since we started Unpacking The Eerie! Man does time fly. In honor of this anniversary, and in honor of Halloween we're doing some re-releases. Hope you enjoy!
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TOPIC: Cecil Hotel//Elisa Lam - October 2020
Join us as we begin to explore the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, CA and the mysterious death of Elisa Lam. This disturbing case was deemed an accident, but was it? Unpack the eerie with us this week as we dig into the life of Elisa Lam, the suspicious circumstances that surrounded her untimely death in February 2013 and the location where it took place: a site that has seen a shocking number of unnatural deaths since its grand opening in the 1920s.
This is the first episode in a series about the Cecil Hotel.
CW: ableism, suicide, sexual, physical and racial violence, mental illness
Sources:
Articles/Blogposts/Websites
- https://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/a45235/creepy-history-cecil-hotel-los-angeles/
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/cecil-hotel-los-angeles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hotel_(Los_Angeles)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_and_violence_at_the_Cecil_Hotel
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongva (Learn more about indigenous LA here)
- http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi06e.hp
- https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvezpv/hospitals-are-dumping-mentally-ill-patients-in-los-angeles-skid-row
- https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2587-6-morbid-facts-about-people-dying-in-hotel-rooms.html
- https://medium.com/@jddean/the-serial-killers-who-haunted-the-cecil-hotel-5586e6f7d2d1
- https://abc13.com/archive/9412802/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NwnYRej6o&feature
Reach out to us with thoughts, comments, questions or collab requests!
Theme Song Title: Creepy Mood | Artist Name: Oleg Fedak
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Theme Song Title: Creepy Mood | Artist Name: Oleg Fedak
P.S. We're in the process of updating our intro and making edits to our episodes. You may notice inconsistencies as we do that!
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