Show creator Ryan Murphy confirmed the real life inspiration behind American Horror Story: Hotel in an interview with EW: "There was a surveillance video that went around two years ago that showed a girl getting into an elevator in a hotel that was said to be haunted … and she was never seen again."
Whoa... creepy. But what's great is that a bunch of fans have just punched the air after being proved right about their AHS: Cecil Hotel theories (including me, I'm stoked!)
Even before Lam's death, the Cecil Hotel was cursed...