It's at that point we started to realise that there was something wrong." "Many of them, they are talking to themselves, punching walls, they're doing all sorts of crazy different things. "Every time we came back at night, we noticed a lot of people walking around, homeless people," he said. Mike said that due to the fact they were just using the hotel as a base and were not spending much time there, they didn't ask to switch hotels - but they did notice strange activities on their way back to the hotel at night. We had no point of reference in America." 'It was clear, but just tasted odd' "It just said Downtown LA, which is a very large area. "We didn't know where we were, because the holiday package didn't say Skid Row," he explained. Mike joked that at the time, he and Sabina were comparing the area to Union Street to make it seem better, but in hindsight they are both shocked they did not recognise the danger they could have been in.Īt the time, they had no idea the hotel had a reputation for housing prostitutes and drug addicts over the years, nor that it sat in the centre of Los Angeles infamous Skid Row. You can stay up to date on the top news near you with PlymouthLive's FREE newsletters – enter your email address at the top of the page "We just thought they were exaggerating and it wasn't that bad." "They would say, 'You need to be very careful when you walk up and down there, you need to change your hotel right now, you need to go'," he said. ![]() Mike said he and his now wife were warned that they needed to be "very careful" and admitted they had no knowledge about the area they were staying in. Police outside the hotel (Image: HANDOUT FREE TO USE) "We'd say the Cecil Hotel and their face would change." Mike said: "I think it was two or three days in, somebody was asking us, 'Oh where are you staying?' Mike explained that many strange things happened during their stay in Los Angeles, including being warned about the hotel they had chosen to stay in. 'Many strange things happened at Cecil Hotel' ![]() Mike has now dissected several vital parts of the documentary involving him and his wife that he felt weren't clear, as well as how their lives have changed since. The exact circumstances of her death have still yet to be solved, but the much-delayed autopsy report concluded that she had died by accidental drowning. Over the years, dozens of conspiracy theories have been bounced around and Mike and Sabina even had their own theory that "someone in the hotel had to have been responsible".īut after they watched the Joe Berlinger documentary, their own opinions changed about the way that Elisa had sadly died. ![]() While the series has enthralled viewers, one Plymouth couple learned their complaint played a crucial part in the discovery of Elisa's body 19 days after she was reported missing.Īt the time, Michael and Sabina Baugh were not aware they were living through an event which would later be reported and talked about worldwide. The gripping four-part series explores the disappearance of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian student who went missing in 2013 on the day she was supposed to check out of the hotel. Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel has been on everyone's lips since it was released on Wednesday.
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