He immediately noticed that the hatch on one of these tanks was unlocked. He climbed the ladder and he looked in the hatch. That's where I found Elisa Lam or her remains, at least floating face-up in the water. Investigators say that although the corpse was nude, there was no evidence of sexual assault.
Ordinarily, this would be a tragic but not incredibly uncommon occurrence
someone accidentally dies while they are exploring a place that they're not supposed to be exploring. However, the circumstances surrounding this case made it anything but ordinary. After thorough investigation, local law enforcement became desperate for any sort of lead, so they released information to the public specifically, video footage from the elevator in the Cecil Hotel on the night of Elisa Lam's disappearance. In the video, Miss Lam appears to be hiding or attempting to hide from an unknown entity.
She moved sporadically, in and out across the threshold. Her movements are erratic, and body language experts, who in the years since her disappearance, have attempted to discern her motive from her physicality, can only say that she appears to be exhibiting fleeting at times contradictory emotions. She returns to the elevator, numerously pushing different buttons and waiting for the door to close. It doesn't.
Eventually, she leaves the elevator. After a pause, seemingly of its own accord, the elevator closes. In the days, months and years following her demise, numerous people have attempted to construct theories explaining how this tragedy occurred. Number one: accidental death.
What if Elisa Lam, in the grip of a bipolar episode, disrobed, transported herself up the elevator, through the ladder, gained roof access, and then went into one of the water tanks and was unable to escape? The four tanks are 4x8 feet, and the hatch atop each tank is 16 inches square. As far as we know, no one has attempted to recreate this theory meaning no one has climbed up to the tank, attempted to open or unlock it, and then climbed in and attempted to climb out. The hatches are designed to be opened from the outside, and it seems that it would be very difficult to open a hatch if it were closed from the inside. Elisa Lam was a diminutive person but, to be fair, without someone specifically testing this under these conditions, we cannot rule this possibility out.
Two: What if Elisa Lam was murdered? In the video footage, she appears to be convinced that someone or something is following her. Additionally, in her blog post earlier before her disappearance, she noted the presence of creepers who she felt were following her on the street, or being aggressive, or you know creepy toward her. Third is an interesting one: Her blog posts continue after her death. The most plausible argument for this is that she simply scheduled these to publish before she passed away.
So if she was murdered, who would be a suspect? Well, this leads us to an interesting twist. In order to gain roof access at the Cecil Hotel, one needs to have an employee badge. So who could gain the access? This is one of the first questions investigators asked, and the hotel staff claims that they received no notice of unauthorized entry or attempts at opening emergency exits and fire doors and things of that nature. And the third possibility would be that Elisa Lam took her own life.
This would still have some of the pros and cons of the first two theories. Let's explore the stranger theories. Demonic possession and/or ghosts. To people who believe in the paranormal, it is quite possible for a place or an environment to have its own malevolence.
Similar, of course to the famous, or infamous, Overlook in Stephen King's novel "The Shining." And make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, the Cecil Hotel has quite a history. The Black Dahlia stayed there in 1947. Goldie Osgood, known as the pigeon lady of Pershing Square, was raped and murdered in the hotel in 1964. Both Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker, and Unterweger, his copycat killer, stayed at the hotel while they were committing these crimes.
The Cecil Hotel has also been home to numerous suicides over the course of its existence. So given these fact, these tragic occurrences, one could see how a person with a belief in the paranormal might say this is a bad place where bad things happen. So what do you think? Is this another tragic story of a bizarre but mundane accident? Or is there something more to the story? A cover-up by the hotel? A cover up by law enforcement? Let us know in the comments. And while you're there, let us know what you would like to see in an upcoming audio or video episode.
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