Hotel Barclay First on the list of possible haunted Los Angeles hotels is the Hotel Barclay. Formerly called the Van Nuys Hotel, it claims to be the oldest, continuously operating hotel in Downtown LA. It currently offers 160 in which guests can stay. RoomSpook has five murders recorded that happened at the hotel. The creepiest might have happened on New Year's Eve, 1937. On this date a 71 year old woman was found dead in her room, sitting in a chair. Her skull had been fract