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Reported phenomena, as catalogued
18th-Floor Apparition Lore at a 1972 LAX Tower Hotel
5855 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Hotel room rates vary; check marriott.com for current pricing. Open to the public for dining and bar visits.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved, elevator-accessed hotel building
Equipment
Photos OK
The Los Angeles Airport Marriott is an 18-story convention-oriented hotel situated two blocks east of Los Angeles International Airport on West Century Boulevard. The property opened in 1972 and has operated under Marriott management since, serving the airport business traveler and convention market.
With 1,004 guest rooms, the hotel is among the larger airport properties in the region. On-site amenities include Hangar 18 Bar + Kitchen, JW Steakhouse, Social Market and Eatery, a Starbucks, and an outdoor pool. The hotel's paranormal reputation circulates in online paranormal aggregator sources and is not supported by documented news, police, or coroner records.
Sources
The paranormal reports associated with the Los Angeles Airport Marriott concentrate on two locations: the lounge area of the 18th floor and the parking garage below.
Accounts collected on paranormal aggregator sites describe apparitions of unidentified figures in the 18th-floor lounge accompanied by sensations of unease, unexplained smells, and sounds without an identifiable source. The parking garage figures in similar accounts, with reports of figures seen briefly and a persistent feeling of being observed.
The specific framing narrative circulating online — that the phenomena trace to a series of front-office employee suicides — could not be corroborated in any newspaper archive, LAPD record, or coroner filing available through web search. It should be treated as aggregator-site folklore rather than documented history.
The 18th floor is the highest public level of the 18-story tower. Paranormal accounts consistently return to this level, though the reason for its prominence in the lore — whether from specific reported phenomena or from narrative logic around the building's highest floor — is not clear from available sources.
Book a room at this 18-story airport hotel two blocks from LAX. Paranormal reports center on the lounge area of the 18th floor and the parking garage. The hotel offers 1,004 rooms, an outdoor pool, and on-site dining.
Dine at Hangar 18 Bar + Kitchen, the hotel's main restaurant and bar. The 18th floor lounge is the floor most associated with apparition reports from hotel staff.
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