People Are 'Too Scared To Sleep' After Watching Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel

Ever since new Netflix documentary, Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel dropped earlier this week, fans have been glued to the shocking and disturbing story of college student Elisa Lam.

And now, viewers are saying they've been "too scared to sleep" after bingeing the docu-series, which you can watch the trailer for below:

The doc, directed by Joe Berlinger (whose previous work includes The Ted Bundy Tapes) the four part doc delves into the mysterious happenings at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles.

The eery establishment is renown for mysterious deaths and a number of suicides between the 1930s-1960s. Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the subject on Netflix documentary Night Stalker, even stayed in the hotel for several weeks during the 1980s.

But the Netflix doc hones in on one case in particular - the shockingly mysterious disappearance of 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam, who vanished while staying at the hotel.

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Elisa's disappearance garnered international attention several years ago, when CCTV footage of her in the hotel elevator went viral online.

In the clip, she appeared to be acting erratically, talking and gesturing towards the corridor, before entering and exiting the elevator several times.

The footage was unsettling, and many claimed paranormal activity could have been behind her disappearance. One month after she vanished, Elisa's body was recovered from a water tank on the roof of the hotel.

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Now, after watching the disturbing documentary, viewers have been taking to social media to discuss how much of a terrifying watch it really is.

One person tweeted: "W

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"I was up late last night and decided to watch the first episode of cecil hotel lol and the way i refused to sleep after that bc I was so hyperaware of the sounds around me at 3 in the morning," said one.

Meanwhile other viewers called it "the most disturbing documentary [they] had ever seen".

If you're yet to watch, we recommend you do so immediately - but probably not before bedtime...

Lucy Devine

Lucy is a journalist working for Tyla. After graduating with a master's degree in journalism, she has worked in both print and online and is particularly interested in fashion, food, health and women's issues. Northerner, coffee addict, says hun a lot. Get in touch at [email protected].

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