twenty-one-year-old
ELISA Lam ELISA Lam was said to be
traveling to Santa Cruz Canadian tourist
was traveling alone on January 20
versafine very perplexing mystery here
what more do we know about this case it
should have been a dream trip traveling
the west coast to LA and then to Santa
Cruz would be viewed as a blessing for
practically anyone and that's exactly
how 21 year old ELISA Lam felt when her
parents gave her permission to go it
wasn't easy to convince her strict
parents to allow her to go on such a
trip alone but she gained their approval
with one condition that she would call
home every night to assure her parents
that she was okay so that's what ELISA
did day one she called home after
reaching the seaso hotel and she called
home the second and third days as well
the Lambs phone call home on the fourth
day of her trip would be the last time
that her parents would ever hear from
her it was a start of February 2013 now
and days had gone by without anyone
hearing from ELISA to make things
stranger ELISA was supposed to have left
LA at this point and should have been in
Santa Cruz for the last leg of her trip
but strangely ELISA hadn't checked out
of her room at the Cecil Hotel due to
this police were notified in an official
investigation was soon under way
upon searching her room police found
most of lambs belongings and there was
no sign of a struggle they searched all
the hotel rooms that they legally could
as well as the surrounding area of the
hotel and the roof but they found
nothing
ELISA Lam had vanished after doing some
initial investigation police discovered
something strange
when ELISA had booked her room at the
Cecil Hotel she actually booked a shared
room
the shared room was a way for her and a
randomly selected roommates to save
money
however this arrangement didn't last
long
Elise's roommates quickly became
concerned by her quote certain odd
behavior and they wanted her out the
hotel obliged and ended up giving ELISA
her own hotel room now this is as
specific as this detail gets but as his
case progresses this detail would become
more and more important with no leads
and the hotel being thoroughly combed
over nearly two weeks would go by with
no forward movement on the case and her
parents began to grow more and more
concerned that she may never be found
but a massive break in the case was
coming On February 14th the LAPD
released surveillance video of ELISA and
side of an elevator at the hotel Cecil
in this video she is seen getting into
the elevator and strangely hitting every
single button to every floor
she then steps back in the corner and
waits she appears calm but this doesn't
last long
it seems as though ELISA is scared and
hiding from something
as she steps out of the elevator she
appears to shoveled and is clearly on
edge she then tries pressing all of the
buttons on the elevator again and the
strange behavior continues from there
the elevator door opens and shuts a few
times randomly but ELISA is not captured
on camera at any other point after this
this footage is dark and obviously very
strange in many of our theories as to
what was actually going on with ELISA at
this time but before we go over those it
is important to know the rest of ELISA
story
this footage proved to be a big break
for investigators as occlude them into
the fact that ELISA mentally was not
right at the time of her disappearance
but strangely this supposedly was the
only camera that had captured ELISA that
night which is that alone is shocking
considering how big this hotel was but
because of this police still had no idea
where ELISA had gone to them
ELISA could still be in the hotel or she
could be a thousand miles away by now as
the investigation slowed yet again
operation at the Cecil Hotel carried on
as normal but guests were beginning to
complain about a seemingly ongoing and
growing issue the water pressure in
people showers seemed to be extremely
low and for some guests the water was
coming out discolored and in some cases
even black also those who drank the tap
water and used it to brush their teeth
complained about a strange taste in the
water it was clear that the hotel was
having a malfunction with their water
tanks in a repairman was sent up to
address the issue santiago lopez was the
man tasked with his duty and he figured
the problem would be an easy fix but as
he reached the roof and opened the latch
of one of the water tanks lopez was
shocked by what he saw
floating inside of the giant water tank
was ELISA Lam's lifeless decaying body
over the past 19 days residents at the
hotel had been showering in water that
ELISA Lam's body had been floating in
many had drank the water - which
explains why guests complained of poor
tastes and why the water was coming out
discolored this disturbing no decide
what was even more disturbing was the
notion of how Lam could have even ended
up in the water tank in the first place
because of the state that Elise's body
was found in and the fact that it had
started to severely decomposed in the
water investigators were not able to do
a complete and full autopsy but despite
this they came to the conclusion that
ELISA had entered the tank by herself
and accidentally drowned which yes this
is another accidental drowning which is
just a weird coincidence after my last
video and with the conclusion of
accidental drowning ELISA Lam's case was
officially closed but so many questions
still remain what was happening during
the footage taken of ELISA in the
elevator and how could she have ended up
not only on the hotel's roof but inside
of its giant water tank the idea that
ELISA Lam was murdered is a very
interesting one for starters in the
surveillance footage
it appears that Lam was hiding from
someone in trying to escape perhaps
someone was inside of the hotel and was
hunting her down in this particular
theory it would make the most sense if
her murderer was an employee of the
hotel think about it this would explain
why no other security footage captured
her in the hotel prior to her death an
LA Hotel in that area would almost have
to be covered with cameras but maybe the
employee erased the tapes or he knew a
route that he could take without her
being picked up by cameras also this
would explain how she got access to the
roof and how she got into such a giant
water tank another indication of this
was also found
during the investigation police dogs
were brought into the scene to see if
they could locate Lisa before her body
was found they sniffed the entire hotel
and the majority of the roof but had
never caught a trace of her perhaps this
is an indication that someone covered
their tracks and clean their trail up
and this wouldn't have looked suspicious
because they would literally be an
employee and there's another thing that
people frequently point to when
discussing the murder theory and that
has to do with the elevator itself
something very clearly isn't right with
this elevator and it's easy to miss at
first the entire time that ELISA is in
and out of the elevator pressing all of
its buttons the door doesn't close once
it remains open for three straight
minutes which is not something that
normally happens on an elevator
especially once a button has been
pressed and at one point the elevator
starts to close slightly and then
immediately opens up despite the fact
that she wasn't in the doorway to
trigger the sensor this makes a very
little sense but could be an indication
that an employee of the hotel was
manipulating the elevator and toying
with her before they eventually killed
her if this is true then it would appear
that this would have been a sick game
that this murderer was playing with
ELISA which is an absolutely horrifying
thought while watching this footage in
doing more research it also appears that
the video skips forward at some points
and some claim that a full minute of
recording was removed from the footage
also it seems that ELISA does in fact
speak at certain points of the recording
but people claim that her mouth appears
extra pixelated when she does so so that
you can't decipher the words that she
was saying again this could be a sign of
editing and who better to do this than
an employee of the hotel who would have
had access to the tapes along with more
than enough time to make the edits
despite this being a strong theory it is
worth noting that the murder would not
necessarily have to be an employee
it just helps the case the Cecil Hotel
was centered in a pretty seedy part of
town and the day before ELISA had passed
she made a blogpost stating that I'm
going out tonight
I really hope no creeper comes near me
seriously though those Italian and
Mexican guys go after you strong show
the slightest inclination and they hound
you which yolks but this post could have
been an indication that someone was
coming on to her and creeping on her
maybe they eventually murdered her an
indication of this could be the fact
that Elise's phone was never found it
wasn't in a hotel room and it wasn't
with her in the water tank where she was
discovered this detail becomes even more
strange when multiple posts were shared
on her blog after lamb had already
perished this could point to the idea
that lamb was not only murdered but
robbed of some of her belongings that
she had honor at the time but with all
this being said it's worth noting that
lamb may have just time these posts to
go live at a certain time before she
died and also when it came to the
condition of her body there was no signs
of physical trauma which does cast some
doubt on this theory our next theory and
undoubtedly the creepiest deals with a
paranormal the Cecil Hotel has one of
the darkest histories of any Hotel that
I've ever heard of much to my surprise
this is actually the same hotel in which
the Black Dahlia had vanished from
decades ago also serial killers Richard
Ramirez and Jack Unterweger both called
this hotel their home at certain points
along with this a violent murder was
committed there in 1964 and there have
been 15 confirmed suicides at the hotel
since its opening because of this many
believers in the paranormal state that
the Cecil Hotel is incredibly haunted
but what does this have to do with
Elise's death well when the footage of
lamb in the elevator was first published
many noticed that it almost looked as if
she was playing the elevator game for
those who don't know the elevator game
is a ritualistic game that supposedly
takes you to another dimension to play
this game you need an elevator that goes
up at least ten floors you then follow a
comp
set of rules until eventually a woman
walks into the elevator she will ask you
where you're going but you must not look
at her or speak to her the elevator will
then go down to the first floor and you
will be transported to another world one
where you were the only one present now
this game has always creeped me out even
if I don't necessarily believe it and
the scariest part is the fact that
apparently one small mistake in this
ritual can lead to serious consequences
and perhaps this is what happened to
ELISA Lam maybe she had been playing the
elevator game and things went horribly
wrong as she made an error while
performing the ritual this would explain
why it looked as if she was running and
hiding from something that we couldn't
see perhaps this was some sort of
paranormal entity that only she could
see at the time this could explain why
the elevator began to close and then
quickly opened again as if someone was
standing there because maybe something
was standing there all in all this
theory is certainly out there but it
would explain why this case is so
unexplainable I mean maybe this really
was a case of the elevator game gone
wrong now there is one more thing that I
want to add to this before I give the
final theory and my personal opinion on
what happened but I don't really know
what it means or how it fits in with
anything and at the end of the day this
is basically just a weird fact about
this case and the time that ELISA Lam
had perished at the Cecil Hotel a deadly
outbreak of tuberculosis was ravaging
the surrounding area now you may be
wondering okay what is so significant
about that well those who showed
symptoms were then administered a test
to see if they truly had tuberculosis or
not this test had been around since 2009
so four years before this event but
guess what the name of this test was Lam
ELISA like what I mean like I said I
don't know what this means and it
probably no it definitely means nothing
but that is such a strange and crazy
coincidence right okay sorry I just had
to throw that in there now let's get on
with the final theory
our final theory is that officials in
this case actually got it right was the
first time I said that on this channel
ELISA very clearly had a history with
mental illness and had been diagnosed
with both depression and bipolar
disorder to cope with this Lisa took
four separate prescriptions to manage
her symptoms though a full autopsy was
not able to be done it was discovered by
testing her blood that she had not been
taking her medication properly at the
time that she had died perhaps his
caused her to hallucinate and act
strange thus explaining her actions in
the elevator and why she was placed into
another room without roommates and based
off of her toxicology report
it seemed that Lam may have been
suffering from a mental breakdown whilst
she was in the elevator so though this
elevator footage seemed extremely
unnatural the truth is that she was
likely just having a breakdown I mean
the misuse of her medication coupled
with her mental disorders could have
caused her to imagine that someone was
chasing her or that something was out
there and with bipolar disorder
specifically this would explain why she
frantically goes from calm to panicked
in the four-minute span but this theory
comes with one glaring issue how did she
end up in the water tank well in order
to access the roof she would have needed
to go through a locked door that only
employees had the passcode to if she
even tried to force the door open then
an alarm would have been set off and she
would have been caught so getting up
there alone through this door seems
extremely unlikely but then there's the
issue of getting into the water tank
employees used ladders to look into the
tank and to work on the tanks and it was
confirmed that none had ladders propped
up against them
meaning that ELISA did not use one to
get inside also the hatch on the tank
was closed when santiago lopez
discovered Elise's body so how could she
have closed it after she had fallen in
her even making it into the tank would
have been difficult enough but once she
had fallen in she would have had no way
to shut that hatch now these facts alone
seem to completely discredit this theory
upon doing some research I found this
video which shows someone getting onto
the roof of the Cecil Hotel without
triggering any alarms and they were able
to do so by going out the fire escape
and climbing a ladder to the roof this
video proves that lamb could have gotten
to the roof undetected that night and it
also shows us that the hatches on the
water tanks were sometimes left opened
meaning that lamb could have jumped onto
the tank and either purposefully or
accidentally fallen in I'm still unsure
of how she was able to close the door
behind her but at this point I would not
be surprised if maybe this was just a
mistake on the initial report and as for
her missing phone she actually posted a
blog post days before her death telling
her followers that she had misplaced it
there is no evidence to suggest that she
found it after that so presumably she
would not have had a phone on her at the
time of her death now personally here's
what I think happened I think she used
the fire escape to get onto the roof of
the hotel that night I mean she
frequently took pictures from rooftops
of other hotels so getting up there
would have been entirely possible for
her know along with this I believe that
her misuse of medication was causing her
to hallucinate and I believe that she
genuinely thought that someone was
chasing her
now once up there then maybe she climbed
onto the taller roof and from there
jumped on top of the water tank and then
in an attempt to hide from her
non-existent threat she jumped inside
the water tank and drowned when her body
was discovered
perhaps the employee had simply just
stated that the hatch was closed behind
her in order to avoid the fact that they
were frequently left open doing this
would absolve a hotel of some liability
and I actually think that the hotel
pushed the narrative that it would have
been practically impossible for her to
get onto the roof in order for them to
avoid even more liability because in
reality anyone could have accessed the
roof that day
I mean sure there are cracks and there
are plenty of unanswered questions and I
still have my suspicions of a possible
murder but with the evidence provided
I'm content with the king
inclusion that this case may not have
been as dark as many of us originally
thought but regardless of what happened
that night the case of ELISA Lam is one
that has kept many of us up at night and
it is one that has left a lasting impact
on our world's imagination
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