THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ELISA LAM: THE LAST FOUND FOOTAGE MOMENTS BEFORE HER CREEPY HORRIFIC DEATH
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There are mysteries that are so eerie and strange that they boggle the mind for days on end. The case of Elisa Lam is one of them. In February 2013, this 21-year-old student from Vancouver, Canada, was found dead inside the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank in Los Angeles. The L.A. County Department of Coroner ruled the death “accidental due to drowning” and said no traces of drugs or alcohol were found during the autopsy. However, there is much more to the story than what is implied by police reports.
This bizarre footage of Elisa Lam inside of an elevator, in the Cecil Hotel. Filmed only a few minutes before her death, which is still an unsolved mystery.
Completely flabbergasted by the footage I watched of Elisa Lam’s unusual behaviour in the elevator. The heightened ‘fight or flight’ response in her demeanour. I began digging for information about Elisa Lam and her death. I ended up discovering all kinds of bizarre facts and “coincidences”. For instance, the Cecil Hotel, where the events took place had a morbid history of suicides and murders and there is plenty more.
Footage Of Elisa Lam Moments Before Death
The first piece of evidence that needs to be considered is an elevator surveillance tape that recorded Elisa’s behavior only a few moments before she lost her life. The four-minute video posted on YouTube shows Elisa pressing all of the elevator buttons and waiting for it to move. Seeing that the elevator doors are not closing, starts behaving extremely bizarrely. At first, Elisa enters the elevator and apparently presses all of its buttons. She then waits for something to happen but, for some reason, the elevator door doesn’t shut. She starts to look around as if she is expecting (or hiding from) someone. At 1:57, her arms and hands start moving in a very strange matter (almost not human) as she appears to be talking to someone, something … or nothing at all. She then walks away. The elevator door then shuts and appears to start working again. Right after the events of the video, Elisa apparently gained access to the rooftop of the hotel, climbed to its water tank and, somehow, ended up drowning in it. Her body was found two weeks after her death after hotel guests complained about the water’s taste and color. Incredible. Seeing the surveillance footage, most people would conclude that she was under the influence of drugs. However, Elisa did not have a history of drug use and her autopsy concluded that no drugs were involved. When one looks at the context and the circumstances of this death, things become even more mysterious.
Cecil Hotel’s Dark History
Built in the 1920s to cater to “businessmen to come into town and spend a night or two”, Cecil Hotel was quickly upstaged by more glamorous hotels. Located near the infamous Skid Row area, the hotel began renting rooms on a long-term basis for cheap prices, a policy that attracted a shiftier crowd. The hotel’s reputation quickly went from “shifty” to “morbid” when it became notorious for numerous suicides and murders, as well as lodging famous serial killers.
Part of Cecil Hotels sordid history, involves serial killer Richard Ramirez. Now on death row, Ramirez, labeled “the Nightstalker” he killed 13 female victims. Living at the Cecil Hotel in 1985, a building at the time full of shady characters he remained unnoticed being charged 14 dollars a night while he stalked and killed his victims.
Cecil Hotel A Nexus For Crime
Cecil Hotel has attracted the likes of the shadiest characters and many criminals. One has to question the attraction that draw these people to the Cecil Hotel. Another serial killer, Jack Unterweger, was a journalist covering crime in Los Angeles for an Austrian magazine. While being a guest at the Cecil Hotel in 1991. The journalist was blamed for killing three prostitutes. In the 50’s and 60’s the Cecil Hotel was known as a place that people would go to jump out of one of the hotel’s windows to commit suicide. A notable suicide in the hotels sordid history was of. Pauline Otton, a 27 year old woman who jumped from a ninth floor window after an argument with her estranged husband, on October 12, 1962. Otton landed on George Gianinni, a 65 year old man, who was walking on the side walk, 90 feet below. Both were killed instantly. There was also a murder of one of the residents of the Cecil Hotel . “Pigeon Goldie” Osgood, a retired telephone operator, known for protecting and feeding pigeons in a nearby park, was found dead in his ransacked room on June 4, 1964. He had been stabbed, strangled, and raped. The crime still remains unsolved.
Shortly after the discovery of Elisa Lam’s body, a deadly outbreak of tuberculous occurred in Skid Row, near Cecil Hotel. You probably won’t believe the name of the test kit used in these kinds of situations: LAM-ELISA. That is hardcore synchronicity.
Elizabeth Short given the nickname Black Dahlia woman who was the victim of a gruesome murder in 1947 – one that appeared to be particularly ritualistic. Elizabeth Short aka Black Dahlia was a 21 year old woman who moved to California in the late 40s. With big dreams of making it in Hollywood. She wanted to be famous, I guess she did achieve her dreams. She became famous, but in death. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime, which included her corpse having been mutilated and bisected. The case was never solved. According to LA Observed, it is rumored that Black Dahlia was at Cecil Hotel right before she lost her life.
The story of Elisa Lam is eerily similar to the 2005 horror movie Dark Water. Dahlia, the main protagonist of the movie moves into an apartment building with her young daughter Cecilia. Both of these names are relevant. Black Dahlia is the nickname given to Elizabeth Short, a woman who was the victim of a gruesome murder a case that was highly publicised at the time and still one of America’s most infamous unsolved murder cases. Black Dahlia was at Cecil Hotel right before she lost her life. In the movie, the daughter’s name, Cecilia, is, obviously, quite similar to the name Cecil Hotel. After moving into her apartment, Dahlia notices dark water leaking from the ceiling in her bathroom. She ultimately discovers that a young girl named Natasha Rimsky drowned in the building’s rooftop water tank, which caused the water to turn black. The owner of the apartment building knew about this fact but refused to take action. Elisa Lam’s body was in the water tank for over two weeks, causing hotel guests to complain about foul-tasting “black water”. The ending of the movie is also eerily relevant: The apartment buildings elevator malfunctions and the ghost of Cecilia’s mother braids her hair. Is Elisa Lam’s death one of those ritualistic murders that are synchronistically mirrored in a Hollywood movie?
LA authorities ruled in June 2013 that Elisa Lam’s death was accidental and that no foul play involved. The inquiry suggested she was “probably bi-polar”. That being said, some questions remain unanswered. How did Elisa, who was obviously not in her right mind, end up in the hotel’s water tank, an area that is difficult to access? The rooftop area is protected by an alarm system and the water tank is difficult to reach. How did Elisa reach that area? Also, how did she close the water tank lid?
Strange Coincidences or Foul Play?
The authorities have been incredibly secretive and non-transparent during this investigation. Elisa Lam’s death was ruled as an accidental death, but the dark history surrounding the Cecil Hotel suggest stranger forces at play. What truly happened here? Why are there so many strange coincidences? Why was Elisa Lam acting so strange in the elevator? Was there a ritualistic aspect to this death? Why is the Cecil Hotel a hotbed for these kinds of stories? Is there something paranormal going on involving dark entities? The mystery appears to spawn infinite questions which we can’t seem to get the authorities to fill In further gaps, no much how much we probe. Maybe I should cite here the slogan that appears on Dark Water movie poster: “Some mysteries are not meant to be solved”.
