Back in January a girl named Elisa Lam who was staying at the run down Cecil Hotel in downtown LA went missing. The only clue was this incredibly creepy video of her in the hotel’s elevator. A month later her body was found in a sealed water tower after hotel guests reported a rotting smell from their shower water. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning but no one knows how she got in the water tank. The mystery combined with the video and the hotel’s otherwise frighting history have caused her story to once again go viral. I have been seeing the video posted over and over again on Facebook and Twitter the last few days.

In April, just a few weeks after her body was found I was in LA visiting my brother for his 30th birthday. I slept on his couch most of the time I was there, but on one night I decided to stay at the Cecil. I felt like it would be the really creepy thing to do and I was inspired by one of my favorite blogs, Murder Motels.

I wasn’t going to spend $100 to stay in a shitty hotel if I didn’t have a girl to photograph so I texted a few friends and ended up reaching the amazing Sovereign Syre. She was just coming from a shoot and rushed through rush hour traffic to make it to the hotel right as the sun was creeping below the buildings. The room was dark but the window light was just enough to give us time to shoot. Sov has the best lips and eyes that exist so she is pretty fantastic to shoot no mater what the conditions. Her butt isn’t so bad either.

Thirty minutes later the light was gone and we had a super sexy kinda spooky photo shoot that I am posing just in time for Halloween. Boo!

Click here to see the NSFW photos of Sovereign Syre at the creepy Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.

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