The Cecil (Suicide) Hotel (Part 2)

History, Mysteries, Paranormal 4 Minutes

Considering all of the deaths and suicides that have taken place at the Cecil Hotel, might there be a horrific history from the 1700’s giving rise to phantoms and ghosts or auras, if you will? People seem to be attracted to certain “spots” around the world, saying things such as “I don’t like the energy coming off of that place” or “there is something dark that draws me here.” Most people use that metaphorically but might there actually be something to it? Hmmm….there is blood in that soil!

The Tongva are an indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately 4,000 square miles. In the pre-colonial era, the people lived in as many as 100 villages and primarily identified by their village name. The name Tongva is the most widely circulated name and gained popularity in the late 20th century. Others choose to identify as Kizh and disagree over use of the term Tongva.

Southern CA Native American Tribal Territories

On October 7, 1542, an exploratory expedition led by Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo reached Santa Catalina in the Channel Islands, where his ships were greeted by Tongva in a canoe. The following day, Cabrillo and his men, the first Europeans known to have interacted with the Gabrieleño people, entered a large bay on the mainland, which they named “Baya de los Fumos” (“Bay of Smokes”) on account of the many smoke fires they saw there. This is commonly believed to be San Pedro Bay, near present-day San Pedro.

Present day San Pedro Bay

The Gaspar de Portola expedition in 1769 was the first contact by land to reach Tongva territory, marking the beginning of Spanish colonization. Franciscan padre Junipero Serra accompanied Portola. Within two years of the expedition, Serra had founded four missions, including Mission San Gabriel, founded in 1771 and rebuilt in 1774, and Mission San Fernando, founded in 1797. The people enslaved at San Gabriel were referred to as Gabrieleños, while those enslaved at San Fernando were referred to as Fernandeños.

Painting of Mission San Gabriel by Ferdinand Deppe (1832) showing a Gavrieleno kiiy thatched with tule, a giant species of sedge grass.

There is much evidence of Tongva resistance to the mission system. Many individuals returned to their village at time of death. Many converts retained their traditional practices in both domestic and spiritual contexts, despite the attempts by the padres and missionaries to control them. Traditional foods were incorporated into the mission diet and lithic and shell bead production and use persisted. More overt strategies of resistance such as refusal to enter the system, work slowdowns, abortion and infanticide of children resulting from rape, and fugitivism were also prevalent. Five major uprisings were recorded at Mission San Gabriel alone.

It is estimated that nearly 6,000 Tongva lie buried on the grounds of Mission San Gabriel from the mission period.

Two late-eighteenth century rebellions against the mission system were led by Nicolás José, who was an early convert who had two social identities: “publicly participating in Catholic sacraments at the mission but privately committed to traditional dances, celebrations, and rituals.” He participated in a failed attempt to kill the mission’s priests in 1779 and organized eight foothill villages in a revolt in October 1785 with Toypurina, who further organized the villages, which “demonstrated a previously undocumented level of regional political unification both within and well beyond the mission.” However, divided loyalties among the natives contributed to the failure of the 1785 attempt as well as mission soldiers being alerted of the attempt by converts or neophytes.

Toypurina, José and two other leaders of the rebellion, Chief Tomasajaquichi of Juvit village and a man named Alijivit, from nearby village of Jajamovit, were put on trial for the 1785 rebellion. At his trial, José stated that he participated because the ban at the mission on dances and ceremony instituted by the missionaries, and enforced by the governor of California in 1782, was intolerable as they prevented their mourning ceremonies.

Felipe de Neve y Padilla (1724–1784) was a Spanish soldier who served as the 4th Governor of the Californias, from 1777 to 1782. Neve is considered one of the founders of Los Angeles and was instrumental in the foundation of San Jose and Santa Barbara.

Statue of Felipe de Neve, Spanish colonial Governor of Las Californias, in the Los Angeles Plaza. The inscription reads: “Felipe de Neve (1728-84). Governor of California 1775-82. In 1781, on orders from King Carlos III of Spain, Felipe de Neve selected a site near the River Porciuncula and laid out the town of El Pueblo de La Reina de Los Angeles, one of two pueblos he founded in Alta California.

In June 1788, nearly three years later, their sentences arrived from Mexico City, Nicolás José was banned from San Gabriel and sentenced to six years of hard labor in irons at the most distant penitentiary in the region. Toypurina was banished from Mission San Gabriel and sent to the most distant Spanish mission.

Resistance to Spanish rule demonstrated how the Spanish Crown’s claims to California were both insecure and contested. By the 1800s, San Gabriel was the richest in the entire colonial mission system, supplying cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, horses, mules, and other supplies for settlers and settlements throughout Alta California. The mission functioned as a slave plantation.

Felipe de Neve Library, Los Angeles

Some might wonder…..could there be a Tongva burial ground on the site of the Cecil Hotel? Could it be the ghosts of the earliest settlers of that land returning? A sense of despair that somehow seeps in while people are sleeping? Who can say? Do YOU believe in ghosts?

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  1. Morning All!
    wow! I wasn’t expecting tribal uprisings in part 2!
    I do agree sometimes there are places that give me a weird creepy feeling.

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  4. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  5. Entire Article @ TheLibertyDaily: “Well, that didn’t work.

    Uvalde, Texas, was part of a cutting-edge AI program designed to monitor social media and other aspects of students’ lives. The intention was to prevent the mass murders from being perpetrated by students like Salvador Ramos, but despite clear signs that he was dangerous and well-armed, the program failed to notice him.

    According to The Daily Mail:

    – Texas school officials had been monitoring students’ social media prior to the deadly shooting in Uvalde Tuesday – but failed to pick up on posts from gunman

    – As an 18th birthday present to himself earlier this month, now-deceased suspect Salvador Ramos bought two AR-style rifles and paraded them on social media

    – The ensuing massacre left 19 students aged under 11 and two adults dead

    – Before the rampage, Ramos reportedly also shot his 66-year-old grandmother

    – Uvalde School District officials say they had been monitoring its students’ social media pages using an advanced AI-based service called Social Sentinel

    – The software is designed to find signs of potential harm in digital conversations

    We can now say with a certainty Social Sentinel did not work as intended. It’s not like he was using coded messages or hiding his intentions on social media. He posted multiple images of his newly acquired firearms and showed aggression towards others, particularly girls and women. The district revealed this week it had been using the platform “to monitor all social media with a connection to Uvalde as a measure to identify any possible threats that might be made against students and or staff within the school district.”

    There are multiple challenges with this. First, using AI to monitor people is creepy. Second, if you’re going to be creepy, at least be creepy in a way that has benefits. Considering the utter failure of this program, the creepiness was wasted and possibly even prevented notice of Ramos’ posts through complacency. If an AI is doing the work, it’s assumed nobody was putting actual eyeballs on any of their students’ posts.

    But as one conspiracy theorist noted to me privately, maybe it did work. If this was a false flag attack, as some have claimed, then perhaps the AI was able to identify Ramos and allow the powers-that-be to trigger him. I’m not ready to embrace such a theory, but it’s out there and worth noting.”

    From teachers to police to parents to AI, the list of failures in Uvalde are mounting. 21 people, including 19 children, are dead because apparently nobody was doing their job.”

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  7. EXCERPT: “The Internal Revenue Service this week released more troubling data for New York, with the federal agency showing more high-earning taxpayers leaving the state.

    Tracking returns filed in 2019 and 2020 showed that 479,826 people left New York for another state or country in those years. Over the same timeframe, just 231,439 people moved to the state. That means the state suffered a net loss of 248,387 residents.

    And, of course, those people took their money with them. The IRS figures show the moves generated an economic exodus of more than $19.5 billion. New Jersey and Florida were the biggest beneficiaries. More than 84,500 people moved from New York to New Jersey and took $5.3 billion. By contrast, only 37,127 New Jersey residents moved to New York and brought $2.2 billion in income.

    The numbers were even starker between New York and Florida. Over the two years, 71,845 New Yorkers flocked to the Sunshine States and took $6.4 billion. Meanwhile, 26,902 former Floridians moved up north. Those individuals had a combined income of $1.2 billion.

    Wirepoints, in its analysis, noted New York suffered the worst net loss of income of any state, with the $19.5 billion representing a 2.5 percent decline in adjusted gross income. The independent nonprofit research firm said New York lost $1 trillion in income through population losses since the beginning of the century.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/new-york-loses-195-billion-population-exodus-irs-confirms

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    1. Those staying in NY can look forward to increasing taxes and fees. No way the bloated government will cut back on spending.

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    1. EXCERPT: “Q. I am concerned that my prescription pill bottle does not have a country of origin listed on the label. I have lived in Asia where I have seen drug factories. I will never take a generic manufactured there. How can I find out where my medicine is made?

      A. Ask the pharmacist the name of the manufacturer. Then you will have to do some homework to find out where the pills originate. About the only way we know of is to search online for the manufacturer to see if you can tell where the drug company is located.

      But here is a little-known complication. The raw ingredients (the actual chemical in the medicine, as well as the binders, fillers and colors) may all come from different countries. For example, the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) may come from a manufacturer in China. The coloring agent may come from a factory in India and the fillers (other inactive ingredients) may come from Thailand. The pills may be assembled and packaged in Brazil. What is the country of origin? Is it China where the API was made, or is it Brazil where the final dosage form is created and stamped?

      We agree that country of origin should be on the label, even though that can be confusing. Until the law is changed, however, you won’t be able to tell by looking on the label.

      It is amazing to us that you can determine at a glance the country where your shirt, pants or shoes are made. Buy fruit in the supermarket and if it comes from another country you will be informed. What’s more, if you buy juice, milk or any canned food you will find the identification code and an expiration date somewhere on the label. If the food is spoiled or contaminated, the USDA and the FDA can track it with the lot number on the label.

      Look at your generic pill bottle. Go ahead. Take a minute to retrieve any generic pill bottle you might have. Look it over closely. It rarely has a manufacturer listed. It rarely has a lot number, so it is impossible to tell when or where it was made or what batch it belonged to. The discard date is almost always one year from the day it was dispended. In other words, there is NO expiration date on the label. The discard date is computer generated and has no relationship with the actual expiration date of your pills.”

      https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/do-you-know-where-your-pills-were-made

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  13. EXCERPT: “The Texas cop under scrutiny for how he handled the response to the Uvalde school massacre stayed out of sight under police protection Saturday — while an angry neighbor slammed him as a “coward.”
    ———————-
    “Pete Arredondo is a coward. He didn’t do his job. He failed the children,” said neighbor Lydia Torres, 56. Torres spoke as local police spent the day guarding Arredondo’s home. The embattled chief repeatedly declined to comment Saturday.

    Torres was furious Arredondo, who heads the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police, had gone to ground since the state’s top cop revealed new details of the police response. At least 19 officers were in the hallway as Ramos shot at the door, but police didn’t advance until a tactical unit arrived and killed the gunman, authorities said.

    Local cops have kept guard outside Arredondo’s house around the clock. “I do not understand why the police from Uvalde, Texas, are guarding Pete Arredondo’s home,” Torres said. “He is hiding in his home, requesting the PD patrol the area and guard his home day and night. He should come out and speak up.”

    The emotional Uvalde woman said parents of kids killed by Ramos deserved an explanation from Arredondo about why he didn’t storm the classroom sooner.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/05/28/uvalde-school-police-chief-pete-arredondo-is-a-coward-neighbor/

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        1. Yes. We keep hearing how the rank and file are different from the higher ups, but go-along-to-get-along spoils that narrative. System wide failure with no one willing to buck the system to do what is right.

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  14. the left wants to continue to expand gov’t, it’s employees and their power. this has to stop!
    FTA
    The Democrat vision for America is for an ever-expanding federal government giving cradle-to-grave shepherding to the American people. This is the path America is on. We see their vision unfold in real time. Liberal factions believe there is no problem that can’t be solved by throwing money at it. The federal deficit has grown to $30 trillion. Democrats are disappointed they can’t grow it faster.

    Liberal factions will wrest control of the economy from free markets, redistributing resources to ensure social justice and equity. President Biden issued an executive order his first day in office incorporating equity into every aspect of the federal government and eventually every American life.

    Equality is the promise of America — born during the Revolution, forged in the fire of the Civil War, and quenched in the blood of the struggle for civil rights. Equity is a guise for class war and redistribution.
    snip
    he Green New Deal (GND) would be the crowning achievement of today’s Democrat party. They contend that it is the “duty of the federal government” to create millions of high-wage jobs, provide unprecedented prosperity, counteract systemic injustice, invest in infrastructure and industry, secure healthy food and access to nature, etc. The crisis the GND supposedly combats is climate change, yet none of the objectives mentioned above has any relation to climate change. This will be the greatest expansion of government in American history.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/biggers_not_better.html

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    1. Atlas Shrugged is the solution to this. If enough producers quit participating in their system all they will have left are the takers who don’t produce. I try to buy local as much as we can.

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  15. Aw, jeez! Even more proof this guy was a bomb waiting on the fuse!!!!

    EXCERPT: “Keanna Baxter didn’t know Salvador Ramos, her schoolmate at Uvalde High School, well. She knew just enough, however, to feel uneasy about him. “He dated my ex-friend. And then they broke up,” Baxter, 17, said Friday. “And then he tried to date me after that, but I told him no. Because he always had this kind of eerie sense about him.” Her former friend who dated Ramos was frightened of him — Ramos, 18, was prone to unpredictable behavior.

    “She told me that he was scary,” Baxter said. “Like he would get super violent. And when he would lose his temper, she would literally be scared for her life, basically. “He would send her these really nasty messages, where he’d go from super sweet to screaming at her back to super sweet.”
    ——————
    “The first day (the shootings) happened, you could literally feel the sadness and the sinister (feeling) in the air,” Baxter said. “It’s still silent. Everywhere you go, it’s silent. There will be people there, but no one’s talking. (They’re) walking very quietly.”

    Baxter, who is about to start her senior year at Uvalde High School, described other bizarre behavior by Ramos. “There is a video going around right now of him holding up a dead cat in the passenger seat of a car,” Baxter said. “He was overall just aggressive, like violent. He would try and fight women. He would try and fight anyone who told him no — if he didn’t get his way, he’d go crazy. He was especially violent towards women.”

    Baxter said she didn’t know what drove Ramos’ anger or emotional turmoil, but she had heard reports that he wasn’t able to graduate from high school and that his grandmother was “getting on to him” about it.”
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    Crystal Foutz, 17, also attended Uvalde High School with Ramos. She said she received threatening remarks from him on Instagram after he got into a fight on social media with her ex-boyfriend. In those remarks, Ramos expressed animosity toward Foutz and threatened her with physical harm. She said he made her uncomfortable.
    ——————
    “The people that did try and give him a chance to be friends with, he scared them away. … He was a bully, really. If you didn’t give him what he wanted, he was a bully to you,” Foutz said.

    Ramos first asked his sister to help him buy a gun in September, according to Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. She refused. On Feb. 28, Ramos talked about school shootings in a group chat on Instagram, and he discussed buying a gun the next day, McCraw said Friday. But there’s no record of Ramos obtaining a gun until May 17, when he purchased an AR-15-style rifle from an online retailer for more than $2,000 the day after he turned 18. On May 20, he bought a second rifle.
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    While there have been reports that Ramos quit high school, Baxter said she remembers seeing him in the school hallway as recently as last month and the month before. “To be honest, I didn’t think twice about this kid. … I barely knew this kid for like a year. He kind of popped out of nowhere,” Baxter said. “Honestly, it’s crazy to think something so sinister was growing in our own town — that he had been plotting this or working for the money to buy these weapons.”

    Baxter said she personally thinks schoolteachers should be armed with guns. “Because that could have prevented a lot of tragedies,” she said. No one in Uvalde thought anyone was capable of waging such horrific violence against children, Baxter said. They assumed the high school would be a more likely target.”

    https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/If-he-didn-t-get-his-way-he-d-go-17204398.php

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    1. EXCERPT: “Hannah, 18, from Ontario, Canada said she reported Ramos in April after he threatened to shoot up her school and rape and kill her and her mother during a livestream. She told CNN that Ramos returned to the platform after a temporary ban. She added that Ramos at one point angled his webcam to show a firearm on his bed.”

      https://www.independentsentinel.com/uvalde-killer-threatened-to-rape-and-kill-his-ex-girlfriend-was-scared-for-her-life/

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  16. EXCERPT: “From an outsider looking into the situation surrounding the Texas school shooting, there is much confusion and many curious facts.

    We know the World Economic Forum and the Chinese Communist Party are pushing for tyrannical control of humanity. Just this week the WEF was looking to pass ‘health amendments’ to give the WHO sovereignty over America, enabled by the OBiden regime.

    The only thing standing in the way of this in North America is your personal weapons. The Second Amendment was not just for self-defense, it was designed mainly as a bulwark against a tyrannical government, that our Founders gave us.

    Hence my question about the criminal acts in Uvalde…The school shootings largely went away under Trump. Now they are back with a vengeance. Why is that? Now let’s talk about Uvalde itself. Gab.com CEO Andrew Torba said this on the incident as the facts trickle out.”

    “It is also reported that Federal Marshalls were the law enforcement personnel that were ‘handcuffing and tasing’ parents who were desperate to go into the Udalve school to save their children as cops waiting outside for an hour. How does this make sense? At the very least, the American people deserve an investigation and answers.”

    https://creativedestructionmedia.com/opinion/2022/05/28/facts-beg-the-question-was-uvalde-school-shooting-manufactured-to-take-your-guns/

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  17. EXCERPT: “A police officer on the scene of the school shooting in Texas came forward to reveal his frustration about being told to stand down on May 24 as children were being massacred inside Robb Elementary School.

    The unnamed officer, who has served for a decade, described what he and his fellow officers felt when they were given orders to wait outside of the school rather than storm in to take down the gunman, People reported. “There was almost a mutiny,” the officer said. “We were like, ‘There’s a f*cking gunman in the school, we hear gunshots, and we’re just going to stand here with our thumbs up our asses?’ We wanted to go in and save lives. It was the most frustrating situation of my entire career,” the officer said, according to People. “We felt like cowards.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/28/cowards-police-officer-reflects-delayed-officer-response-texas-uvalde-school-shooting/

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  18. Good morning y’all! No mulching yesterday, it won’t be delivered until Tuesday. Did a lot of clean up around the patio and helped the DW in the garden for a bit before it got too hot outside. Gotta go grocery shopping later this morning.

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    1. Did you see the pic I posted yesterday of my now almost-completely pruned Trumpet vines? Yeah, buddy! I kicked those suckers’ ass! LOL – but I’ve got to get hardware to fix the arbor, which was falling apart!

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      1. Wow! You did have a lot of trimming to do. They will look great when they start producing again. I like the colors on your house too. The gray with white looks good. We have a darker shade of blue for the masonite siding and our lower level cinder block is all white.

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        1. Those fricking vines were 4′ higher than the top of the arbor!!! The heavy, thick vines/roots pulled the arbor to pieces! But I’m only missing one piece so I can make it work! LOL – just can’t find that one missing cross-piece!

          I was lucky – the house was that color when I bought it. It does need a paint job but I liked the color and painted my fence gates and shed to match. I had all new gutters and windows put in, as well as a new roof. Now I wish I hadn’t gone with black shingles!!!

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          1. I had gray metal roofing put on mine, with matching gutters when I first bought mine. the house used to be that horrible green color from the 60’s and 70’s. My old house had that inside when I bought it too.

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            1. Do you have attic space? The noise from a metal roof on a modular would be horrendous, if the roof of my patio is anything to go by! I only have a small crawl space both above and below.

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              1. We have a small attic/crawlspace. I love it though, just like having the railroad at the southern end of our property. White noise helps me relax.

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        1. When I post from the internet, I post the URL (right click + copy image address) and delete everything after the jpg, jpeg, or png – sometimes even that doesn’t work so I copy it, then do CTRL + V to drag it into my Imgur account. From my camera, I have to download to my laptop, then upload to Imgur to post them on the net.

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            1. You can use it without an account but I signed up and have various folders set up. Something has changed recently when copying pics from the net and I can’t save the jpg’s to my HD any more for the most part, so I have to use Imgur more.

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  20. Here you go, Pat – a yummy sounding drink made with Rum Chata: Pumpkin Pie Martini

    Pumpkin pie starts with the crust: Dip the rim of the glass in honey, followed by Graham cracker crumbs
    Now for the filling: shaker filled with ice, add 3 oz’s of vanilla vodka; add 1.5 oz’s of Rum Chata; and 1.5 oz’s of Pumpkin Spice creamer

    Shake it up! Pour, garnish with whipped cream, finish with a light dusting of cinnamon! Amazing what you can learn on Josh Gates “Tonight!”

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  21. Going out to clean up some of the trumpet vines before it rains….BBS…..ok, that took longer than I’d planned but, then, things often do. I’ve got one side almost completely to the ground – had to get the tree saw out for that big bastid!!! All of the clippings, branches, etc. in the back of my truck.

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  22. We did our grocery run earlier and ended up washing both our vehicles. Still have other outside cleanup duties, but pretty much gonna be a relaxing weekend from here on out. One of the rare occasions we get ahead of the work!

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