10 creepiest places

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10 creepiest

places in downtown

October is coming to an end which means one thing: Spooky Fiction Season.

Here’s a list of 10 Great Creepy places. Although you may find they don’t necessarily fall between our borders, they all have one thing in common; miles of hidden underground passageways that lie underneath their foundations. Passageways that not connect them to each other, but also connect them to the supernatural. Underground Tunnels of Los Angeles

Back in times of prohibition, the Los Angeles scene found a way to keep the liquor moving and the patrons satisfied. The use of underground pathways was efficient for transportation functioning to harbor much of the black market handling. However, these decrepit, old, eerie tunnels must have been built before prohibition seeing as most of the buildings they are under predate 1922; and if that’s the case, could they have been used for something far more sinister? Let’s just say, sacrifice and conjuring perhaps?

Ground Zero, The Los Angeles Public Library

The original Central Library opened in 1926 was designed by Bertram Goodhue. Goodhue was a known freemason at the time. Masons practiced mind control via ancient secret symbols that are believed to contain dangerous and powerful secrets of ancient wisdom. Take a look a the Central Library, conveniently located in the center of Downtown Los Angeles, and it’s plain to see. Lit candles, torches, the coiled serpent, the pyramid and sunburst and all-seeing eye; together with stars and the crescent moon, even the statue of St. John of the Apocalyptic Vision, a patron saint of the Masons, its all there, set up perfectly to bring in the New World Order.

The Cecil Hotel

This establishment was a well-known hotel from 1927 and has since gained a large following due to the mysterious and at times paranormal instances since its debut most of which occur when there is a cosmic happening such as a blood moon, a passing of a comet, or planarity alignment. The most notable instance involved Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia who was last reported at the bar of the hotel before she was discovered dismembered. The most recent case from 2013 pertains to Elisa Lam who was caught on footage in her last moments; this footage displays Lam’s strange behaviors before she was found dead in the water tank of the hotel. CONTINUED...

The Angry Mob: protest and Riots

#SurvivingDTLA has become Over the last decade, DTLA has

a raging hashtag, but for seen more than its fair share of protests, and while most those caught in the middle of a protest gone bad, it have been well plotted out, welcoming demonstrations, which bring thousands of dollars in can be the go to guide for escaping with your life, revenue to local businesses, some have cost thousands of dollars in damage.

freedom or at least your

business intact. The key to whether or not a protest turns into a riot depends on two factors. The rowIt’s not just the news of “officer-in- diness of the crowd and their volved shootings” that can whip a crowd ability to adhere to the demands of thousands into a frenzy. These days of the police. Celebrate the it can be sports fans who’ve taken to the game or protest injustice if you must, but into something called “Full Blown Tacstreets in celebration too. upsetting the police or attacking public or tical Alert”, complete with flashbangs, private property is a sure-fire way to give rubber bullets, tear gas and mass arrests. Seems with 2020, anything can spark a the police a reason to switch “crowd conviolent night of rioting and looting on trol”

the streets of DTLA. THE BAD APPLES: is Crime on the rise?

Seemed the beginning of the year saw local media obsessed with the rising crime rate in Downtown Los Angeles. Everywhere you looked were the new statistics followed by videos of random acts of violence. A man pushed in front of a moving truck, another man attacked with a scooter, a man pushed from his hotel room, a woman assaulted, robberies at gun point, the list went on and on. Then COVID struck and the media didn’t seem to focus on much else after that unless it of course was Trump-related. With Violent crimes in Downtown are 114% higher than the national average In Downtown you have a 1 in 29 chance of becoming a victim of crime. Still Downtown is safer than 27% of the cities in California and over the past year over year crime in Los Angeles has decreased by 1%. Let’s not forget those few months when hardly anyone was on the streets. The best advice is to read Chapter 2 (Crime and Punishment) of #SurvivingDTLA on the Downtown Weekly Website to learn ways to help keep yourself safe in the big city.

So without the media hype, the question remains... Has Downtown LA become more dangerous? Downtown crime rates are 38% higher than the national average.