Numerous violent incidents, some resulting in death, have occurred at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the hotel.
In 2011, the hotel's name was changed to Stay on Main in an effort to distance the establishment from its past.