Conspiracy Theories

Elisa Lams Death

I have seen this one several times, but I never wanted to actually check it out but I just did. This one just freaked me out, especially the video. Not only that but when I was copying and pasting the information, everything just kept restarting, and it really creeped me out.

I have copied and pasted a lot of this from a website, and I give credit to them, but I have reworded bits of it.

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. 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. Here's the video.

(This video gives me so much goosebumps, it's not even funny anymore)

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.

Dark Water

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 in 1947 – one that appeared to be particularly ritualistic. 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 BLACK DAHLIA, ELIZABETH SHORT, IS ALLEGED IN AT LEAST ONE BOOK TO HAVE HUNG OUT AT THE CECIL AND DRANK AT THE BAR NEXT DOOR BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED IN 1947, THOUGH CULTURAL HISTORIANS KIM COOPER AND RICHARD SCHAVE OF ESOTOURIC SAY THAT'S JUST RUMOR."

– LA Observed, Serial Killer Central

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

Not only that, but shortly after her death, a outbreak of Tuberculosis happened near the Hotel. And guess what the name of the test kit is- LAM ELISA.

So what did you all think? Like it? Hate it? Have a opinion on this? All comments are welcome below.