She was on a manic episode that caused her to go into psychosis. 2 of my close friends suffer from bipolar disorder and we needed to involuntarily hospitalize them after they lost their minds in a prolonged manic state. Elisa must not have had the right medication. I think her doctor shouldn’t have let her travel in that state without the right meds.
she stopped taking her meds or wasn't taking them correctly according to the documentary, but I 100% agree with you...she also had a history of hallucinating being followed
i can follow that the thing im confused about is how and/or why she got in the water tank. it was probably possible if she went up the fire stairs and climbed up in the water tank closed it from the inside and took her clothes off. I find it unlikely that someone in a manic episode did all that.
@@-sammot- she didn't get into the tank and close the lid behind her. When she was found the lid was open. If you understand that she was having a mental breakdown, then the leap to believing that she jumped into a water tank and took off her clothes is a short one. You can't rationalize irrational behavior displayed during a psychosis.
@@punjabisoorme3289 mm no I think u gotta hold it not let go for it to stay open. And I'd definitely close after she step out and start waving her hands
Firstly, my condolences go out to the Lam family. But I also feel for the hotel maids and maintenance workers the world over who find suicide (or murder) victims in rooms. Sadly, it happens a lot and it is not in their job description. Emergency workers and law enforcement are also confronted with some really fucked up scenarios and I'm sure it disturbs them, but they're not walking into these situations blindly. This one was particularly ghastly in that hotel guests were ultimately the ones who made the discovery-however indirectly-in a most gruesome fashion. I never want to stay in a hotel again. I don't drink tap water anywhere-that's not so much the issue for me, but if you watch enough "BuzzFeed Unsolved" or "Forensic Files," or "Unsolved Mysteries" quarantine at home doesn't seem so bad.
It’s so obvious the poor girl was “just” having a psychotic/manic episode of sorts, or was misdiagnosed as bipolar when in reality she was schizophrenic/had some other mental illness/disorder that could lead to something like this
She was diagnosed with bipolar with psychotic episodes and was not ctually taking her pills. The police found that out during the investigation. The Netflix special covers it
No, she is bipolar. Those with severe bipolar disorder experience psychosis which includes hallucinations, confusion, and delusions during a manic episode. Her family has confirmed this as well as doctors, etc. She stopped taking her medication.
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
@@Sophie_Pea it is a tragic story, but it was probably just her mental illness, which made her paranoid. It has been proven that the lid was not actually closed when they found her. The building was not well maintained, and I think (not sure about this one) that there was anoter way up to the roof. It is tragic, but not as much of a mystery as it seems. Edit: Watch this video. It's where I got most of my information about this case, and I think it makes sense. ruclips.net/video/B_if47gEn0w/видео.html
As someone with bipolar, after hearing that Elisa Lam also had bipolar and suffered hallucinations and numerous manic episodes in the past.This story is sad but is nothing more than another victim of mental health issues, With bipolar type 1 , we have hallucinations, exactly like those with schizophrenia have. A woman with bipolar traveling another country alone is an incredibly massive danger to herself!
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
@@ThiccGirlFlexsomething did, don’t get me wrong the hand movements can be a result of distress in some situations but her body language with her walking and being able to climb up a water tank and lift that thing would take strength especially in that mental state, strength of a demon? Seems unnatural.. the reason I don’t think the hand movements is weird is because I can do this so.. idk.
No one going to mention how dodgey and grim that hotel is?? I would not drink that water ever. It looks like by the sink there’s mould. Someone get Gordon.
@@angeloquence something had to go wrong in her life. For her to do that. I doubt a demon would say. There’s water tanks upstairs go drown yourself in them, they wouldn’t know.
@@angeloquence it was her mental issues I believe in demons 100 percent and God. But demons aren’t smart. Angels and god are smart but demons aren’t. A demon wouldn’t say. Go up to the water tank and drown yourself. There are plenty of other ways to commit suicide. This girl was sad and mentally down about something. A water tank on a hotel room is a good way to hide your body. She didn’t want anyone finding her. Or she didn’t leave any notes. She smarter to fight voices telling her to kill herself She would have got a councilor. She went to the hotel on purpose and when the elevator opened it was because someone pressed the button o that door causing her to think that someone found out where she was going but that person went away. She can resist temptation like Jesus did. Can you picture another good way to hide your body if commuting suicide. I would have to find out her mental blood with her parents and if anything was disturbing her Thru out life. This wasn’t a demon. The hand movements was just hand fiddling. I do it too. She could have drowned her self at the hotel. But didn’t because she didn’t want anyone to find her body. I’m smart and I know that fhis wasn’t a demon. Rather something wrong with her life. She thought no one would find her body.
My apartment complex! Same weird shit and then some! In Lubbock TX they used to be the Honeycomb Apartments and now they are called The Square at South Overton. I just learned after staying in a constantly state of panic and being physically ill that a 10 year old was raped and murdered here in 1981
okay this is a weirdly connected story but the secondary school that was next to/joint with mine changed their name after a kid got killed with a cricket ball (accidentally), so that does happen tbh
Actually, it really does help. Outsiders like myself may not know the location of the Cecil and would only avoid that name while booking. One may not realize that they were actually staying in the Hotel Cecil.
It’s sad that she had an entire lifetime of things to be remembered by...she was a beautiful writer with a great sense of humor. She had friends and family and inside jokes and dreams for the future. But she will always be remembered for the way she died.
The whole demonic possession theory is one of many reasons that mental health is still being misunderstood. This girl was a victim of her mental health, which is as tragic and heartbreaking as any other case. Not everything HAS to be supernatural or a grand murder scheme.
i don’t think this is accidental. how would she even put herself in that water tank? wouldn’t you need tools to open/close it? how would she get inside and close it herself from the inside? it doesn’t make sense to me. i think someone is covering it up. someone knows EXACTLY what happened.
@@Monika-pp1dc another question can be, why would they tell the truth?? Who knows what happened, but I can say it was not suicide , bc if it was, she could’ve just jumped off the roof or overdosed. Also bc she had a manic scene due to bipolar disorder and not a depressed episode, it’s most likely one would not commit suicide.
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@@jordynreed8631 in this case I feel like she was hallucinating think someone was following her or talking to her..the ghost part I’m to scared to believe that 😂
it make kinda sense because of her leaving the elevator and the multiple floors but she played it wrong because she supposed to go up and down and she only went up yk what i mean
Hey guys, ive researched this all day. And the reason the elevator didnt close is because one of the buttons makes the elevator hold. I was able to debunk everything today exept the fact that she was naked. Everything else has good evidence behind it. Its still a strange case nontheless.
"Who wants to put on their business card 'Ghost Scientist'" words spoken by not only a professional ghost hunter, but one of the best ghost hunters, Ryan Bergara.
It kind of freaks me out how the doors never close even though she pushed buttons....did she push the 'open door' button and it glitched to just keep open the whole time? Creepy....
To those who have become obsessed with this case and are assuming farfetched theories, please remember mental health does exist and be kind to one another. Let Elisa rest in peace and let her family grieve.
Mental awareness has nothing to do with mis described cases...the damn documentary on Netflix states the hotel seen multiple cases from the 30s and up...okay for one the corruption in police back then with the case statements doesn't take a brain to understand the corruption in that area from the times...there's millions involved in this motel mental issues has nothing to do with this...ain't no woman jumping out a window to teach there hubby a lesson it was a story that was fabricated to create safety for the hotel striving for buisness because of how much fundings involved...this girl is an innocent case of pour police work and tampered evidence to protect the hotel from tourist convictions due to this person being a Canadian it would of been a serious diplomatic issue if the crime was solved...the camera evidence was tampered it's easy to see they Edited the whole video right down to the scenes being switched up...if you rearrange each frame rate you'd see she was talking to someone and acting out of fear for her life...
And not to mention her tumblr and her efforts in life's success was just as it would be for anyone else to assume she had mental issues is slander...I know people with real mental issues and lesser mental issues and I can guarantee this girl wasn't suffering from that she suffered from a case of pour police work that was paid off
Why would certain people think theres a cover up theres no evidence of that, and why would anyone have a reason to cover it up, its ridiculous the video was slowed down for reasons so when it was put out to public for help we could see her fac, its clear the actions she was making, shows she was suffering with mental health issues of bipolar is the reason she died simple as that
@@emmalucas5379 they tried to put all their content behind a pay wall without asking or warning anybody. They've since back tracked on it but the damage is already done.
this particular case has always scared me for some reason. Like I like scary/paranormal stuff but every time I see that picture of her in the elevator, it sends shivers down my spine in a way no other case does
Same! I watched the elevator video at the time it just came out and had nightmares for days, have never dared to watch it again. Covered my screen whenever the clips were on lmao
+AwesomeOfAwesomest Have you ever seen an Anime Movie Series called Kara no Kyoukai!? This reminds me of the 5th episode of that series. The detectives need to watch that movie they will relate :|
The netflix series answers a lot of these questions. For instance, the janitor found the lid was off the tank, the elevator had a ‘hold’ button that stopped the elevator from closing, her body was in the water for more than 24 hours, and the alarmed exit door did not actually trigger an alarm.
I fee like her being bipolar doesn't explain her behavior in the elevator. Being bipolar means you have states of euphoria and depression, it doesn't mean that you talk to imaginary people and act bizarrely. That behavior is more consistent with a schizophrenic, who has problems perceiving and interpreting reality.
This is about the elevator, I may be completely wrong with this, but isn't there an elevator game where if you hit so many buttons, depending on what floor you land on, there will be a little girl and then if you did something to anger her, something would happen to you? I may be completely wrong but it was just a thought.
That surveillance footage was legitimately giving me the chills. It’s like she was talking to someone, or maybe... something. The way she even moves her hands in such an inhuman way too. I don’t believe in ghosts, but that’s just batshit freaky.
Her bipolar disorder is what makes the case unsolved because if she didn't have it there would be less possibilities to the case making it easier the fact that she was bipolar brings a wall between whether she was being chased did suicide was raped or any other paranormal theories
@@VaporeonEnjoyer1 She could have been just messing around too. The video is heavily edited with an entire minute cut out. Time stamps arent suppose to be that blurry either so thats suspicious. Zoomed in you can see the time stamps are moving too fast and if you slow down you can get the video at real speed. The video is actually sped up quite a bit. She also appears to be looking at someone out of the elevator, then a minute is cut out of the video, so its possible she was murdered and its a cover up, but no one really knows, many have investigated it but we still don't have full unedited footage yet :/ Why does her being bipolar mean the video needs to be sped up and have a minute cut out? Is that not suspicious? (EDIT: I meant slowed down sorry, heres a video ruclips.net/video/1YO4QbaNDjI/видео.html)
As someone who has experienced having a psychotic episode, I wonder if she found out the hotel's dark history when she was there while having that episode. that would cause a really terrifying delusion
@@ieatgrass_8360 well theres a theory/hoax that people have died in every single room in the hotel, and back in the mid 1900s (think 50's - 60's, i forgot when the hotel was built) they had lots of big stars stay there, that all died horribly (one being marilyn monroe, RIP), and also people think its very haunted and that theres lots of spirits. (unless of course im mistaken and this is a different hotel). so pair all that with being off your meds and havng severe bipolar (her family also said she saw people that werent there when off her medication) and you have a very tragic ending to a persons life. RIP
This makes a lot of sense to me too, psychotic delusions and hallucinations brought on after she found out about the scary history which scares us bad it probably scared her too. Off her meds and history of delusions. Staying away from her family and scared it just makes sense. Rest In Peace Elisa tragic story.
@@the.44magnumisamonster youre thinking of the right place. I stayed there a few times in 2010-2012 just before this happened and I didn't know all about the history then. I think it would have affected me a lot had I found out while sleeping there alone. It's also on one of the corner blocks of Skid Row. The energy there is incredibly dark.
As someone who also has Bipolar Disorder, her behavior in the camera footage isn't paranormal nor does it indicate her being chased. I myself have experienced a lot of similar episodes that have made me act like that and it's just because my brain naturally makes me act like that sometimes. She was experiencing a manic/paranoid episode, that's when your brain can make you do anything. Not only is that a reason enough, but she had also stopped taking her meds. Skipping meds as a Bipolar person very often results in a manic psychosis/manic episode.
It can if she was having bipolar psychosis, which could actually explain it very well. Hallucinations and delusions are both later symptoms of it, and considering her roommates were complaining of "odd behaviour" (early symptoms of BP include difficulty communicating, suspicion of others, anxiety, and less emotional behaviour/expression), it all connects fairly well.
Yeah, I really don’t understand why her being Bipolar matters. Bipolar is jut an emotional disorder, that wouldn’t cause her to act like she’s schizophrenic.
Her parents sued the hotel for diligence but lost the case. The janitor testified that access to the rooftop was secured. How she gained entry is still a mystery.
+Ellie Cruz I guess because this happened in real life, and the scenes we've watch is the actual footage.. Argghhhh, this is so giving me nightmares...
Oh my gosh but the way she moved her hands in the elevator camera footage freaked me out. It made me feel sick, anyone else? If not, watch again and only look at her hands during that part.
yeah I am a person who has watched every scary movie in this planet and documentaries but this movement of hands really shocked me ,i was like don't show that to me again that is a pure torture
Is nobody going to talk about how the surveillance footage of her in the elevator was obviously tampered with? However, there also wasn't any water in her lungs, so she was most likely killed then placed in the water tank. As if she had drowned in the water tank, she would've had water in her lungs.
Ecliptic Goddess that itself confirmed to me that she isn't really in our "world"... I've heard countless of happenings in asia like 2 guys went to the 14th floor at the hotel in Malaysia but the hotel only has 13th floor.. but in the elivator it had the 14 level button but next time when they checked to show to the hotel staff there were no 14 button. And in Malaysia 14 number is considered bad luck..
A Retarded Orange Ape In The White House Apparently only about a minute was cut from the video. It was stated due to the cut the time stamp was warped (unclear as you see in the video) and her mouth looked pixelated at one point. Police stated that sometimes videos are edited because a person might be on video who doesn’t pertain to the case so they “cut” them out. So what I’m thinking is that when she was waving her hands around outside the elevator, perhaps she was talking to someone..... either way I feel horrible because I think this girl was murdered and it got swept under the rug. Nothing adds up.
Her behavior looks like mental issues. She looks like she’s having a delusional episode. She’s diagnosed bipolar but more than likely she was also paranoid schizophrenic.
Schizophrenic can see stuff dark don’t become one she was clearly acting creepy also before coming to this place she was normal why Ina building which is clearly controversial on this topic did she behave like that
Vidhi Jain because she stopped taking her medication. She checked into a notorious “haunted” hotel and became delirious to the point that she believed she was being chased by the deceased in the hotel.
@@Windmillc Very good point. The more horrifying thought of that is that maybe during her mental episode, a staff member could've...done horrific things to her, against her will....if you get what I'm saying....which would explain the fact that she wasn't dressed.
Im in love with mysteries and ghost story but this one Im not sure. If its a ghost story maybe she got possessed. But nothing said that maybe she was being put inconscious by an employee and put in the tank because only staff can go there so...
There is actually proof that her phone wasn't with her at that time. She posted something online about her displacing her phone and she couldn't find it. I watched a video about this topic but I can't remember where she posted it tho..
@@fazzaah well that too. Just saying if it was suicide she wouldnt have removed her clothes. No way she accidentally fell in. All the more reason it was deliberate.
Maybe she was playing the elevator game I heard that rumour comes from Corea and the rules are that you have to be in a 10 floor building and go in it's elevator then you have to type a number with the elevator buttons like 4,7,1,9 for example and at your final destination a woman will get in with you no-one can see her and you can't speak to her or even look at her then she takes you to the top floor and that's how you enter the other demencion.....they say that if you don't wanna be there or disrespect the woman you will become crazy and you will commit suicide or the woman will make you give your soul to "them" also that woman had a diary that said spesificly that she was suffering from depression and mental illness
It's an unnatural hand movement. This is also why "almost" human things like robots or 3D models freak us out. It looks human, but enough is off to make it not completely human, but we're unsure what.
This is technically solved. It was an accidental death caused by Elisa’s own mental illness. This cause of death upset a lot of people at the time. According to family she had a history of hallucinations of someone ‘hunting’ her, often hiding and scared someone was after her. She had medications to help her with her mental illness and she was living a normal life. Her family didn’t like the idea of Elisa travelling to LA on her own but because she was 21, she didn’t need their permission. Once there she stopped taking her meds. Accused her roommates of being demons trying to kill her so the hotel just moved her to her own private room. Elisa somehow got to the roof and climbed into the water tank (FYI the water tank door WAS OPEN WHEN THEY FOUND HER BODY) due to hypothermia (look it up)she took off her clothes whilst in the water tank This is just a sad case of a woman who died due to her mental illness and was made into a bigger case because a police officer mistakenly reported that the maintenance man found the water tank lid closed. No it was found open. RIP Elisa ❤
yeah and not only was she found in an extremely hard to open water tank but she was also found facing up and to find someone who drowned facing up means that they were forced to drown. if you are drowning naturally then you go face down. there is no way it was accidental or suicidal
@Lauffles i understand what you are saying but she was found with an4l bleeding during the autopsy. if she was having an episode i think it makes more sense for someone to have taken advantage of her. it doesn't make sense in any other way
She was having a psychotic episode. As to how she was able to climb up the rooftop which was believed to be “locked,” the staff lied about it. Another RUclipsr went there and he was easily able to get to the rooftop. Nevertheless this cover was such a classic from the ghoul bois (yes Brett is also an og). I hope Ryan covers unsolved cases again on Watcher.
Sad that people are dismissed as crazy by those who don't even know them. Organised stalking and zersetzung programmes get covered up like this, with psychiatric smears. Typical NPD tactics.
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
Idk, but I'm surprised they didn't show the rest of the footage where she gives up and leave the elevator and never seen again, and when she does mysteriously the elevator door closes behind her, scary she spent 5mins. trying to close it, and it did only when she left
@@carljohnson2194 Why would pressing several buttons keep the elevator from functioning? I've been in elevators in large establishments where multiple people with varying destinations would push a number of different floors... and the elevators responded just the same...
looks like hotels dont want us to solve murders by reducing cameras on some angles of hotel. how about they make a hotel transparent that way we could see everything!
Its Sharlele even if they did many places hate doing their job. They would probably manipulate the footage so they won't have to take responsibility. Look up Kendrick Johnson and even more recently Kenneka Jenkins.
I get the bipolar part and that she might have missed her meds which causes hallucinations but what disturbing is the elevator door not closing for so long plus how would she leave to the roof, climb the ladder and lift the heavy lid, go in the tank, and take off her clothes?
can someone explain why the elevator suddenly stops functioning when Elisa tries to go down to the hotel's lobby by pressing the buttoms?...the doors just stay wide open as if someone was pressing the buttoms from outside the hall making it impossible for the elevator to shut down its doors... Elisa even waits patiently for the elevator to take her down but it doesn't do anything... so she gets out .... and after Elisa leaves the elevator... the doors close and miracously the elevator starts functioning
She pressed the bottom button, which has been proven to be a 'pause' button, so the elevator would stay open at least 2 minutes, for when someone moving in or out can transport furniture etc... immediately after she presses this button, you can see the door start to slide slightly as if to close, then it moves back...
I watch so many forensic shows and documentaries on murderers and I have no problem with them. But this story always seems to give me the chills and idk why
It’s unfortunate what happened to Elisa but I concur with the ruling of accidental death. No foul play was noted at any point and the toxicology report was negative for drugs or alcohol but it did report low levels of her bipolar meds which would make sense that she was probably going through hallucinations in the elevator (plus she had history of this). The doors didn’t close possibly due to pushing the hold button without realizing it and caused her to become even more paranoid so she walks away from the elevator to look for another way out. She probably then sees the window down the hall, climbs out and uses the fire escape stairs to go up to the roof which is why the alarm never sounded on the roof door. The documentary also mentions that the canines lost her scent at the window. She somehow makes it to the water tank, possibly confusing this is a “safe hiding spot” to try and get away from whatever her mind was telling her. The maintenance guy also said he found the lid open and not closed. Since he spoke Spanish, this was probably lost in translation at the time.
Still don't explain why the elevator footage was edited before police got it . Here's what happened . Who ever was by the elevator killed her and stashed her body on the fire escape . Then when they could safely move it they put it in the water tank where they know the police already looked . Just my theory
Also the whole deal is based on a guy who worked at the hotel saying the lid was open . Most likely he is the one who put her there . Think about it who found her ?? Who has a key to the roof ? Who has access to the cameras ?? The cops would of noticed an open water tank .
Just seen this case on Netflix and I noticed the maintenance man said he seen her float to the top white like a ghost , so I Googled how long it takes body to float and it says 3 to 4 days .. that a big time difference and he just happened to be there when her body floated to top of water ??????
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imagine how all the people who drank that water felt..
Their thirst was quenched?
*drank
i would never be the same
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@@tritonlandscaping1505 yeah...
The way she waved her hands around scare me. It's so disturbing for me.
2:32 I hate how claw-like her hands look
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Almost looks like she was having gran mal seizure from epilepsy mini stroke
Same
it looked like she was checking for detectors or something to me
She was on a manic episode that caused her to go into psychosis. 2 of my close friends suffer from bipolar disorder and we needed to involuntarily hospitalize them after they lost their minds in a prolonged manic state. Elisa must not have had the right medication. I think her doctor shouldn’t have let her travel in that state without the right meds.
she stopped taking her meds or wasn't taking them correctly according to the documentary, but I 100% agree with you...she also had a history of hallucinating being followed
Ok she had mental issues the hotel camera looks tampered with idk why the manager knows something we don’t
This is true I’ve witnessed someone in a prolonged state mental decay. It’s sad.
i can follow that the thing im confused about is how and/or why she got in the water tank. it was probably possible if she went up the fire stairs and climbed up in the water tank closed it from the inside and took her clothes off. I find it unlikely that someone in a manic episode did all that.
@@-sammot- she didn't get into the tank and close the lid behind her. When she was found the lid was open. If you understand that she was having a mental breakdown, then the leap to believing that she jumped into a water tank and took off her clothes is a short one. You can't rationalize irrational behavior displayed during a psychosis.
The fact that the elevator door never closed kind of bothered me.
It's called a button and if u press it the door stays open for sometime m sure
Elevator game
@@punjabisoorme3289 mm no I think u gotta hold it not let go for it to stay open. And I'd definitely close after she step out and start waving her hands
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DârkØceanGachä eek I know. Especially since she was talking to someone we couldn’t see. Probably the woman
I feel sorry for the plumbers who would have been called thinking it was just some cloggage or something, instead to find a rotting human body.
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Firstly, my condolences go out to the Lam family. But I also feel for the hotel maids and maintenance workers the world over who find suicide (or murder) victims in rooms. Sadly, it happens a lot and it is not in their job description. Emergency workers and law enforcement are also confronted with some really fucked up scenarios and I'm sure it disturbs them, but they're not walking into these situations blindly. This one was particularly ghastly in that hotel guests were ultimately the ones who made the discovery-however indirectly-in a most gruesome fashion. I never want to stay in a hotel again. I don't drink tap water anywhere-that's not so much the issue for me, but if you watch enough "BuzzFeed Unsolved" or "Forensic Files," or "Unsolved Mysteries" quarantine at home doesn't seem so bad.
Going full screen. Wish me luck soldier
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I got trauma now
Nobody lmao
Nobody stay strong
Thanks mate
It’s so obvious the poor girl was “just” having a psychotic/manic episode of sorts, or was misdiagnosed as bipolar when in reality she was schizophrenic/had some other mental illness/disorder that could lead to something like this
I worked in a mental group home and the schizophrenic patients did stuff like this
She was diagnosed with bipolar with psychotic episodes and was not ctually taking her pills. The police found that out during the investigation. The Netflix special covers it
No, she is bipolar. Those with severe bipolar disorder experience psychosis which includes hallucinations, confusion, and delusions during a manic episode. Her family has confirmed this as well as doctors, etc. She stopped taking her medication.
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
@@ThiccGirlFlexwtf? Two ton lid? The lid weighed 20 pounds. The roof was easily accessible. Also the lid was open when she was found not closed.
to this date i think this is the CREEPIEST murder story EVER bc there's so many plotholes and oddities
dude fr, there’s absolutely nothing to go off, it’s just some weird behaviour and then she’s in a water tank and supposedly no one else is involved 🥴
@@Sophie_Pea it is a tragic story, but it was probably just her mental illness, which made her paranoid.
It has been proven that the lid was not actually closed when they found her.
The building was not well maintained, and I think (not sure about this one) that there was anoter way up to the roof.
It is tragic, but not as much of a mystery as it seems.
Edit: Watch this video. It's where I got most of my information about this case, and I think it makes sense.
ruclips.net/video/B_if47gEn0w/видео.html
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Can you imagine having a shower in that water? That would be disgusting.
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Especially for those weirdos who drink the shower water
Ew imagine drinking it- that’s just so nasty
why do i watch these if i get spooked really easily...why do i punish myself like this...
Ash InSpring hhhhh 😂😂😂 me too. I watch creepy stuffs before going to bed even if it scares me to death.
+Hania Noreen same
Cookies MintyIceCream hey me too i'm like oh no thats so creepy but at the same time uh thats intresting😣
Ash InSpring because you kinky lol
I've been doing this for 3 nights in a row. I decided to watch the others during the day 'cause I don't want to stop. A sucker for punishment
As someone with bipolar, after hearing that Elisa Lam also had bipolar and suffered hallucinations and numerous manic episodes in the past.This story is sad but is nothing more than another victim of mental health issues, With bipolar type 1 , we have hallucinations, exactly like those with schizophrenia have. A woman with bipolar traveling another country alone is an incredibly massive danger to herself!
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
@@ThiccGirlFlexsomething did, don’t get me wrong the hand movements can be a result of distress in some situations but her body language with her walking and being able to climb up a water tank and lift that thing would take strength especially in that mental state, strength of a demon? Seems unnatural.. the reason I don’t think the hand movements is weird is because I can do this so.. idk.
_oh, this was back when shane hasn't manifested into his human form yet._
Hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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He was the water that they drank. Then he purified and protected ryan
How do u type like that?
@half & half i know the bold one and also _thanks_
No one going to mention how dodgey and grim that hotel is?? I would not drink that water ever. It looks like by the sink there’s mould. Someone get Gordon.
Lol
First get the lamb sauce
Jim Milton oh yeah richard rameriez was there for a bit right?
Did you mean WATERever?
Me too I would never drink that water ! 🤢🤮
how is this hotel still open after everything-
its quite a famus hotel. it has had may serial killers and victims of murders stay there
@@lucienlachance6696 oh.
this was recorded 4 years ago
666 likes
IKR
It’s not demon possession, she was seeing if anyone was going into the elevator, because it made a stop to that floor.
You will never know will you? I mean good theory but don't be so sure because it could have been anything.
@@angeloquence something had to go wrong in her life. For her to do that. I doubt a demon would say. There’s water tanks upstairs go drown yourself in them, they wouldn’t know.
@@angeloquence it was her mental issues I believe in demons 100 percent and God. But demons aren’t smart. Angels and god are smart but demons aren’t. A demon wouldn’t say. Go up to the water tank and drown yourself. There are plenty of other ways to commit suicide. This girl was sad and mentally down about something. A water tank on a hotel room is a good way to hide your body. She didn’t want anyone finding her. Or she didn’t leave any notes. She smarter to fight voices telling her to kill herself She would have got a councilor. She went to the hotel on purpose and when the elevator opened it was because someone pressed the button o that door causing her to think that someone found out where she was going but that person went away. She can resist temptation like Jesus did. Can you picture another good way to hide your body if commuting suicide. I would have to find out her mental blood with her parents and if anything was disturbing her Thru out life. This wasn’t a demon. The hand movements was just hand fiddling. I do it too. She could have drowned her self at the hotel. But didn’t because she didn’t want anyone to find her body. I’m smart and I know that fhis wasn’t a demon. Rather something wrong with her life. She thought no one would find her body.
But the elevator doesn’t stop for a whole 10 minutes. I think that the elevator was just broken.
@@catvcc because she pressed the stay door button so the elevator will stay open for 2 minutes.
There had to be other footages. Those hotels have cameras everywhere. Someone covered this up. Wtf.
fr tho
Yep, like such a big hotel and just a 1 camera that captured her?
Sounds sus ngl
😒🤨
For real it just doesn’t add up how they found her body in the water tank. The tank had to opened by the hotel itself, but i don’t know.
theres definitely something the hotels hiding.
Evidence must’ve been tampered
Can we just talk about how gross and dirty the hotel is now..
Yes
I doubt people come to stay there lol
You mean it's gotten worse?
@@theia1653 same thing
I'm ur 1k like
Hotel Staff: People died here!
Owner: Oh let's just change the name, everything should be fine.
My apartment complex! Same weird shit and then some! In Lubbock TX they used to be the Honeycomb Apartments and now they are called The Square at South Overton. I just learned after staying in a constantly state of panic and being physically ill that a 10 year old was raped and murdered here in 1981
okay this is a weirdly connected story but the secondary school that was next to/joint with mine changed their name after a kid got killed with a cricket ball (accidentally), so that does happen tbh
GAMING LIFE Given enough time it usually does
Sounds like Fazbear entertainment's strategy
Actually, it really does help. Outsiders like myself may not know the location of the Cecil and would only avoid that name while booking. One may not realize that they were actually staying in the Hotel Cecil.
If Ramirez is going to haunt a building, it'd be the prison he was executed in, not a hotel he once stayed at.
He wasn‘t executed but died of cancer
Hauntings of people occurs where they are strong in their place
I came to the comment section because it makes me feel safe. Anyone else ?
SAME
I usually do when it is late at night
Same😂
too bad im on mobile
Meeeee!
It’s sad that she had an entire lifetime of things to be remembered by...she was a beautiful writer with a great sense of humor. She had friends and family and inside jokes and dreams for the future. But she will always be remembered for the way she died.
Most aren't remembered at all.
@@NukeCaulfield What do you mean?
@@jadeyunetdicaprio5754 There are 7 billion people on the planet. How many will be remembered? In time....none.
@@EchoBravo370 pretty sure it’s 8 billion now or something
@@yourstepsister2018 damn thats a lotta dum dums in a lil planet
That elevator scene was so disturbing wtf
Bts is trash
@@kennyjohnson4515 haters gonna hate
@@kennyjohnson4515 OK.. This isn't about bts
@@kennyjohnson4515 that was random lol
@@kennyjohnson4515 stream daechwita
The way she moves her hands is terrifying.
2:02 she starts pressing all of the elevator buttons which is a well known technique to confuse anyone following you
She was playing the elevator game. ruclips.net/video/okslavo9mVQ/видео.html
Sips facts not tea. She didn’t have her glasses on and couldn’t see the numbers, so she pressed a bunch
I think somebody murdered her... An inside job maybe.. A mechanic or hotel staff who knows the area well
But wouldn't that make the elevator stop on all the floors? Won't it make it easier to catch her?
Priya Naik it would also confuse them as they would not know which floor she was heading too but good point
The whole demonic possession theory is one of many reasons that mental health is still being misunderstood. This girl was a victim of her mental health, which is as tragic and heartbreaking as any other case. Not everything HAS to be supernatural or a grand murder scheme.
So how did she get that lid off and climb in
Maybee the lid was already off
Demons are very real
@@jayden_2954 20 pounds isn't that heavy and if she was feeling paranoid that she was being chased it could have driven her to open it.
then how come they found the lid closed? the tank was 10 ft tall and there wasnt a ladder inside so how come? unless the hotel is hiding something
Crazy how Ryan can cover something better in 7 minutes than Netflix can in 4 long episodes
How f*ING true
I learned a lot from the Netflix but the organization of it was weird
@@jaeb4505 Netflix serie was made to make it longer, they could have compacted it in 30 minutes, but why would they
Except he was wrong about the lid being shut
I was just thinking this hahaha
the fact that there were so many incidents there make me believe that the hotel isn’t haunted but cursed with dark energy
There's no difference, dark energy =demons.
@@plo8450 um not at all
@@trpp9586 so what is 'dark energy' in your eyes then?
@@plo8450 definitely not demons lol
@@trpp9586 you're laughing but you are actually the clueless one.
i don’t think this is accidental. how would she even put herself in that water tank? wouldn’t you need tools to open/close it? how would she get inside and close it herself from the inside? it doesn’t make sense to me. i think someone is covering it up. someone knows EXACTLY what happened.
she was drugged which explains her odd behaviour for the past few days before her death its so obvious she knew something we don't
@@paige4443 thats just a lie from the authorities and its obvious
How would she get up to the tank if there was no ladder? Or did she have to jump from the roof of the nearby building? Nobody answers these questions,
@@h8hello136 i’m sorry but why would they lie?
@@Monika-pp1dc another question can be, why would they tell the truth?? Who knows what happened, but I can say it was not suicide , bc if it was, she could’ve just jumped off the roof or overdosed. Also bc she had a manic scene due to bipolar disorder and not a depressed episode, it’s most likely one would not commit suicide.
I'm still wondering how that elevator door didn't close itself when she stepped outside
I think it was the buttons she pressed, she hit several and on some elevators it stalls the unit
Also it could have been sensors that stop the doors from closing
Some elevators have a "pull to hold" feature for when workers are loading stuff on or something like that.
It's broke?
If you look at the full footage, they start to close in the beginning but then they stop and get pushed back in
Buzzfeed unsolved: BEFORE SHANE
i miss the shane-nanigans in this episode
sophia clonts I guess we are all shaneiacs
sophia clonts I know right!?
i need shane tho :C
sophia clonts instead of BC it's BS
“No one says ‘oh, well, I’m gonna be a ghost scientist!’”
*proceeds to spend the following years researching and visiting the sites of unsolved mysteries, many of which involve ghosts*
These are the perfect videos to watch before going to sleep.
Lmao pulled an all nighter watching this stuff.
@hello there 11:34 rn here
They really are
Stop it's 12:54 at night😭😭
Its legit 12:26 right here.
why isn’t anyone talking about her hands. they’re so creepy
Probs cuz she’s ded
Fr.. nothing adds up and why tf did the door not close her hands weren’t even in the way..
@@corcor2366 so many things is wrong with that hotel anything could be possible
@@kristiandotson998 there are so many spirts in the hotel it's kind of creepy
@@jordynreed8631 in this case I feel like she was hallucinating think someone was following her or talking to her..the ghost part I’m to scared to believe that 😂
People made a theory saying she was playing the elevator game
Dont belive everything persons said bro
That doesn’t really seem like a plausible theory
Ima look that up when it’s not dark
it make kinda sense because of her leaving the elevator and the multiple floors but she played it wrong because she supposed to go up and down and she only went up yk what i mean
Legends say she was killed by the M.i.B (Men in black)
It’s crazy people think she died because of some “ghost” in an elevator
who else is having a quarantine binge watch?
yup
Me
Great show for a binge.
Hiii 🙋🏽♀️ do you have any suggestions what to watchhh? Thank you!
i want to binge watching this but ive watched it all throughout the year
She seems to be petting something and the fact that the doors didn't close like there's something actually there.
It could be the staff looking her from there then they stop the elevator from closing
she pressed hella buttons
Someone definitely shut off the power or cut a wire to get it to stop workinv
i think she played the elevator game
Hey guys, ive researched this all day. And the reason the elevator didnt close is because one of the buttons makes the elevator hold. I was able to debunk everything today exept the fact that she was naked. Everything else has good evidence behind it. Its still a strange case nontheless.
Lol guests saw that the water was black then tasted it like "oh look the water looks different I GuEsS wE'lL tAsTe It"
Pixie 123 so true
😂😂😂
*cough cough* billie eilish
I think they rinsed their mouth and felt the bad taste
Black water? Weird smell? Time for a taste test!
"Who wants to put on their business card 'Ghost Scientist'" words spoken by not only a professional ghost hunter, but one of the best ghost hunters, Ryan Bergara.
KEEP TAKING THOSE PILLS GIRL
lmao such good foreshadowing!
I love how buzz feed unsolved is more popular than buzz feed itself😂
It has better content !
@@haefishyhyukanchovy3527 agreed
Yup
@@haefishyhyukanchovy3527 definitely agreeing with you, buzzfeed could never reach the same amount of love that Unsolved gets
Well this is a great series, and buzzfeed sucks so
It kind of freaks me out how the doors never close even though she pushed buttons....did she push the 'open door' button and it glitched to just keep open the whole time? Creepy....
Anytime you watch a video where its hours or mins before there death.. Is always creepy..
Yeah, that's weird. I'm not really into paranormal explanations...but those doors don't make sense.
Its the evelater game
CraigTheDefault 69 what’s the elevator game?
@@araceli9567 I have no ideal cuz I've never watched the video but I Know that it's a ritual
To those who have become obsessed with this case and are assuming farfetched theories, please remember mental health does exist and be kind to one another. Let Elisa rest in peace and let her family grieve.
The people that obsess with cases like this and it’s not their job to solve have mental issues
@@call_me_day sorry what do you mean? Do we lack awareness as human beings to understand Elisa was not well?
Mental awareness has nothing to do with mis described cases...the damn documentary on Netflix states the hotel seen multiple cases from the 30s and up...okay for one the corruption in police back then with the case statements doesn't take a brain to understand the corruption in that area from the times...there's millions involved in this motel mental issues has nothing to do with this...ain't no woman jumping out a window to teach there hubby a lesson it was a story that was fabricated to create safety for the hotel striving for buisness because of how much fundings involved...this girl is an innocent case of pour police work and tampered evidence to protect the hotel from tourist convictions due to this person being a Canadian it would of been a serious diplomatic issue if the crime was solved...the camera evidence was tampered it's easy to see they Edited the whole video right down to the scenes being switched up...if you rearrange each frame rate you'd see she was talking to someone and acting out of fear for her life...
And not to mention her tumblr and her efforts in life's success was just as it would be for anyone else to assume she had mental issues is slander...I know people with real mental issues and lesser mental issues and I can guarantee this girl wasn't suffering from that she suffered from a case of pour police work that was paid off
Why would certain people think theres a cover up theres no evidence of that, and why would anyone have a reason to cover it up, its ridiculous the video was slowed down for reasons so when it was put out to public for help we could see her fac, its clear the actions she was making, shows she was suffering with mental health issues of bipolar is the reason she died simple as that
Anyone else coming back to binge the whole series after that stab in the back over at Watcher?
YESS!!
“You were supposed to bring balance to the force, not lead it to darkness!”
What happened with Watcher?
@@emmalucas5379 they tried to put all their content behind a pay wall without asking or warning anybody. They've since back tracked on it but the damage is already done.
you guys are dramatic
this particular case has always scared me for some reason. Like I like scary/paranormal stuff but every time I see that picture of her in the elevator, it sends shivers down my spine in a way no other case does
Suggest me some movies you liked.
Same! I watched the elevator video at the time it just came out and had nightmares for days, have never dared to watch it again. Covered my screen whenever the clips were on lmao
My cousin showed me the video back then when I was young. It scared me so bad lol
Weird this story was normal to me
@@ZayO0 in what universe is that normal
Top Ten Reasons Why Not to go to the Cecil Hotel
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Top ten reasons to go to the Cecil hotel
+AwesomeOfAwesomest Rip their business...
+AwesomeOfAwesomest Have you ever seen an Anime Movie Series called Kara no Kyoukai!? This reminds me of the 5th episode of that series. The detectives need to watch that movie they will relate :|
+Chris Flores lol doed
Bruh the way she was moving her hands were scary asf to me, like that's so creepy Ima have nightmares bye
Same
+Mimmi Torres uncanny valley type of unnatural/unhuman movement haha it freaked me out too
She's the fucking grudge confirmed bish bye
Ikr it was so fuckin creepy
Forrealz its creepy especially when watching it at night 😝
The netflix series answers a lot of these questions. For instance, the janitor found the lid was off the tank, the elevator had a ‘hold’ button that stopped the elevator from closing, her body was in the water for more than 24 hours, and the alarmed exit door did not actually trigger an alarm.
Which series?
I fee like her being bipolar doesn't explain her behavior in the elevator. Being bipolar means you have states of euphoria and depression, it doesn't mean that you talk to imaginary people and act bizarrely. That behavior is more consistent with a schizophrenic, who has problems perceiving and interpreting reality.
Actually people with Bipolar D/O can have psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations.
Greystorm1619 yeah but maybe she took too many medications for her disorder?
This is about the elevator, I may be completely wrong with this, but isn't there an elevator game where if you hit so many buttons, depending on what floor you land on, there will be a little girl and then if you did something to anger her, something would happen to you? I may be completely wrong but it was just a thought.
Yes, but it isn’t a little girl, it’s a woman’s spectre. You shouldn’t talk to her otherwise you’ll die
It’s means a person have two personalities or act like 2 people in 1
When my grandfather died, we scattered his remains by the sea. Everyone at the beach freaked out because we did not cremate our grandfather's remains.
omg lmao
+cindy sarmiento lol
+cindy sarmiento Nice lol.
Lol
Are you related to Gavin ?
That surveillance footage was legitimately giving me the chills. It’s like she was talking to someone, or maybe... something. The way she even moves her hands in such an inhuman way too. I don’t believe in ghosts, but that’s just batshit freaky.
She had bipolar disorder, bipolar psychotic episodes aren't common for people with this disorder, but not exactly rare either.
Ryan Stewart
I know. I actually read about it. Poor woman.
I was thinking she might have been
Schizophrenic but idk
Her bipolar disorder is what makes the case unsolved because if she didn't have it there would be less possibilities to the case making it easier the fact that she was bipolar brings a wall between whether she was being chased did suicide was raped or any other paranormal theories
@@VaporeonEnjoyer1 She could have been just messing around too. The video is heavily edited with an entire minute cut out. Time stamps arent suppose to be that blurry either so thats suspicious. Zoomed in you can see the time stamps are moving too fast and if you slow down you can get the video at real speed. The video is actually sped up quite a bit. She also appears to be looking at someone out of the elevator, then a minute is cut out of the video, so its possible she was murdered and its a cover up, but no one really knows, many have investigated it but we still don't have full unedited footage yet :/ Why does her being bipolar mean the video needs to be sped up and have a minute cut out? Is that not suspicious? (EDIT: I meant slowed down sorry, heres a video ruclips.net/video/1YO4QbaNDjI/видео.html)
Sad thing is only she and God knows what truly happened......
yea
@@bellathebunny1277 hi Bella
Back here after seeing Ryan in the Elisa lam documentary on Netflix
Same!
Same herw
same😂
Watching now
@@KrishnaSharma-qh7nz whats it called
It honestly looks like she’s playing the elevator game.
Yeah
@@yuepingchu7094 whats the elevator game?
@@ronymanso4208 you enter each floor in a certain order
Once you reach floor 10 you reach another world
Lonely and no one else knows
She might be the problem is what dragged her there
Chicken Crackers I think too because the rules
Same press like a bunch of different buttons
As someone who has experienced having a psychotic episode, I wonder if she found out the hotel's dark history when she was there while having that episode. that would cause a really terrifying delusion
I think the whole area would be enough to cause one
whats the hotels secret?
@@ieatgrass_8360 well theres a theory/hoax that people have died in every single room in the hotel, and back in the mid 1900s (think 50's - 60's, i forgot when the hotel was built) they had lots of big stars stay there, that all died horribly (one being marilyn monroe, RIP), and also people think its very haunted and that theres lots of spirits. (unless of course im mistaken and this is a different hotel). so pair all that with being off your meds and havng severe bipolar (her family also said she saw people that werent there when off her medication) and you have a very tragic ending to a persons life. RIP
This makes a lot of sense to me too, psychotic delusions and hallucinations brought on after she found out about the scary history which scares us bad it probably scared her too. Off her meds and history of delusions. Staying away from her family and scared it just makes sense. Rest In Peace Elisa tragic story.
@@the.44magnumisamonster youre thinking of the right place. I stayed there a few times in 2010-2012 just before this happened and I didn't know all about the history then. I think it would have affected me a lot had I found out while sleeping there alone. It's also on one of the corner blocks of Skid Row. The energy there is incredibly dark.
As someone who also has Bipolar Disorder, her behavior in the camera footage isn't paranormal nor does it indicate her being chased. I myself have experienced a lot of similar episodes that have made me act like that and it's just because my brain naturally makes me act like that sometimes. She was experiencing a manic/paranoid episode, that's when your brain can make you do anything. Not only is that a reason enough, but she had also stopped taking her meds. Skipping meds as a Bipolar person very often results in a manic psychosis/manic episode.
Long time ago I read, Asians were saying her hand gestures are the result of singing!
So she was not talking to someone, but singing!
Did anyone make a disgusted face of disapproval when they talked about the black/ bad tasting water?
+AtmosphericColor
It actually gave me a little nausea.
Yes
nah
Right. I was like OMG.
Yes. like it's hard for me to look at tap water the same way.
Just FYI... Bipolarity doesn't explain the weird movements.
It can if she was having bipolar psychosis, which could actually explain it very well. Hallucinations and delusions are both later symptoms of it, and considering her roommates were complaining of "odd behaviour" (early symptoms of BP include difficulty communicating, suspicion of others, anxiety, and less emotional behaviour/expression), it all connects fairly well.
I swear 💯💯
Psychotic episode can
There are some cases of Bipolar Disorder that include symptoms of psychosis, which can definitely explain that.
Yeah, I really don’t understand why her being Bipolar matters. Bipolar is jut an emotional disorder, that wouldn’t cause her to act like she’s schizophrenic.
This doesn’t feel right...
without the iconic Shane...
Brent feels like a knock off Shane, he's kinda funny but not as enthusiastic or funny as Shane
How could be be a knock off when he was there before shane?
Yeah
Yeah, Brent is not a knock off, coz he was there before Shane
Finally someone pointed it out
Her parents sued the hotel for diligence but lost the case. The janitor testified that access to the rooftop was secured. How she gained entry is still a mystery.
I wish they would make jokes more so I wouldn't be so scared.
Same
I wish they would make less jokes. I'm not scared enough.
oh god. I'm actually terrified
-Brittneyskar
Same. When Daysha goes with them she laughs a lot so it's less creepy
Omg yesssss
It's crazy how this scares me more than most scary movies that are being made
same
+Ellie Cruz well scary movies are fake this is real
lol me too
+Ellie Cruz I guess because this happened in real life, and the scenes we've watch is the actual footage.. Argghhhh, this is so giving me nightmares...
Julie Diana The point is, scary movies are made to scare. But thanks for clarifying i didn't know this was real.... 😐
Oh my gosh but the way she moved her hands in the elevator camera footage freaked me out. It made me feel sick, anyone else? If not, watch again and only look at her hands during that part.
yea ..it makes me feel sick and start crying
gamergirl517 ikr
gamergirl517 she looked like she had autism
it kinda looks like she's trying to swim?
yeah I am a person who has watched every scary movie in this planet and documentaries but this movement of hands really shocked me ,i was like don't show that to me again that is a pure torture
Is nobody going to talk about how the surveillance footage of her in the elevator was obviously tampered with? However, there also wasn't any water in her lungs, so she was most likely killed then placed in the water tank. As if she had drowned in the water tank, she would've had water in her lungs.
who knows.
thats why its one of the top unsolved cases. only god knows.
@yourcatstail YES!
That hand movements freak the hell out of me
I slammed my phone down while freaking out lol
Ecliptic Goddess that itself confirmed to me that she isn't really in our "world"... I've heard countless of happenings in asia like 2 guys went to the 14th floor at the hotel in Malaysia but the hotel only has 13th floor.. but in the elivator it had the 14 level button but next time when they checked to show to the hotel staff there were no 14 button. And in Malaysia 14 number is considered bad luck..
Ecliptic Goddess Maybe it's a ritual or something?
Ecliptic Goddess Same
Ecliptic Goddess it's like she's a Sim omg
You guys didn’t mention the MOST puzzling piece of evidence...the surveillance video was cut...it was missing several minutes.
So, Where Can I Get The Full Footage?
@@aachaitu It was never released. Portions of the video were either cut by the police or the hotel staff (whoever controls the cameras).
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
A Retarded Orange Ape In The White House Apparently only about a minute was cut from the video. It was stated due to the cut the time stamp was warped (unclear as you see in the video) and her mouth looked pixelated at one point. Police stated that sometimes videos are edited because a person might be on video who doesn’t pertain to the case so they “cut” them out.
So what I’m thinking is that when she was waving her hands around outside the elevator, perhaps she was talking to someone..... either way I feel horrible because I think this girl was murdered and it got swept under the rug. Nothing adds up.
My thoughts exactly...
for all the people scared rn here are some good vibes to refresh you :)
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thank you friend :)
Yeahh that didn't help but thanks
Thank you, could I include a frog but any chance?
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lemme make a part two no one asked for
🤡🐥🤩🙉🏳️🌈🍦🍋
Lol-you are sweet. I'm not scared, but I am creeped out. I've seen this several times before and it is no less disturbing.
Elisa lamb was bipolar and was most likely going through a manic episode and was probably having hollucillqtions
Her behavior looks like mental issues. She looks like she’s having a delusional episode. She’s diagnosed bipolar but more than likely she was also paranoid schizophrenic.
Schizophrenic can see stuff dark don’t become one she was clearly acting creepy also before coming to this place she was normal why Ina building which is clearly controversial on this topic did she behave like that
Vidhi Jain because she stopped taking her medication. She checked into a notorious “haunted” hotel and became delirious to the point that she believed she was being chased by the deceased in the hotel.
Pabz I really don’t believe she was murdered.
@@GiDD504 then how did she get to roof without staff access??
@@Windmillc Very good point. The more horrifying thought of that is that maybe during her mental episode, a staff member could've...done horrific things to her, against her will....if you get what I'm saying....which would explain the fact that she wasn't dressed.
buzzfeed needs to make more of these
fr
yes
I like that picture of yours
+starstrukk723 lel right?
Im in love with mysteries and ghost story but this one Im not sure. If its a ghost story maybe she got possessed. But nothing said that maybe she was being put inconscious by an employee and put in the tank because only staff can go there so...
This guy needs his own Buzzfeed account... Or at least a playlist...
k
+Mujaheed Sayed Savage
+Robert Strickland He now does have a playlist :)
BuzzfeedRyan
+Nic Person YESSS
Richard Ramirez died AFTER Lam’s death. So if it was his ghost that’s some impressive live streaming ghosting abilities
her phone has never been found....leads one to believe she was murdered....
even I'm think this, its a well planned murder
Her phone was on her in the water tank.
@@RustyIsScared She was completely naked... She wouldn't have her phone on her when she was stripped of her clothing.
@@naomimadriz her clothes was right next to her inside the water tank aswell as her phone.. lol
There is actually proof that her phone wasn't with her at that time.
She posted something online about her displacing her phone and she couldn't find it.
I watched a video about this topic but I can't remember where she posted it tho..
The real ones watched this years ago and came back for a recap after the netflix trailer came out
💯
Facts!
Hahahaha how did you know man 😅
legit
Guilty 😅
Videos like these make me so afraid but I'm so interested in them why must I hurt myself so
Right
Same here💛
Oh my god me too 😂
Same, I hate it but I love it
IKR!?,
“Well it’s been three years.” ….made me realize how long they’ve been doing this lol
HOW IS THIS HOTEL STILL OPEN
Exactly like tf
IKR
crazy tourists 😭
Because apparently the hotel had nothing to do with it. but I can tell they were
it's a budget hotel, half the residents are too broke to care the other half are probably there because of all the publicity
Taking the clothes off in the tank could have been her trying to survive. Clothes are heavy wet
Hey bruh I ain't into all that you feel me.
She also could have taken her clothes off because she was hypothermic.
@@SuzanneEvans99 exactly
She went to the unreachable roof and lifted a heavy tank lid, jumped into it through a small hole and removed her clothes?
@@fazzaah well that too. Just saying if it was suicide she wouldnt have removed her clothes. No way she accidentally fell in. All the more reason it was deliberate.
What's extremely disturbing is the fact the lids to these water tanks aren't locked. What's to stop someone from poisoning the water?
Maybe she was playing the elevator game
I heard that rumour comes from Corea and the rules are that you have to be in a 10 floor building and go in it's elevator then you have to type a number with the elevator buttons like 4,7,1,9 for example and at your final destination a woman will get in with you no-one can see her and you can't speak to her or even look at her then she takes you to the top floor and that's how you enter the other demencion.....they say that if you don't wanna be there or disrespect the woman you will become crazy and you will commit suicide or the woman will make you give your soul to "them" also that woman had a diary that said spesificly that she was suffering from depression and mental illness
bullshit.
But, where was the woman?
vivi giapoutzi Korea... you stupid
Campt Er nobody can see her other than the person playing.
I didn't knew Richard Ramirez lived there! Thanks, I'm surely gonna visit this place.
Idk why I got scared when she was moving her hands around crazy 😂
Same
Same...
It's an unnatural hand movement. This is also why "almost" human things like robots or 3D models freak us out. It looks human, but enough is off to make it not completely human, but we're unsure what.
+LifeofPrecious It freaked me out too (that's why I'm in the comment section xD)...it was like she was possessed...
if you look closely, the hand movements are swimming motions
next mystery. Find where all my missing socks are.
same
Bruhhhhhhh, on the real though
Fo real
Oh I forgot that one episode of South park where those little creatures stole socks, it's them I think around season 3 : p
SOCK GOBLINS!
why don’t they check the security cameras like outside of the elevator? see who or what she’s talking to
yeah i wonder too
ITS THE ELEVATOR GAME JEEZ
It doesn't matter, police release only the elevator video, so maybe they know more, and in the video she looks clearly insane
She was medication for bipolar disorder and other severe depression. She had a manic episode unfortunately
@@mentalhealingwithelaine easier to target ppl 🤷🏻♂️
This is technically solved.
It was an accidental death caused by Elisa’s own mental illness. This cause of death upset a lot of people at the time.
According to family she had a history of hallucinations of someone ‘hunting’ her, often hiding and scared someone was after her. She had medications to help her with her mental illness and she was living a normal life.
Her family didn’t like the idea of Elisa travelling to LA on her own but because she was 21, she didn’t need their permission. Once there she stopped taking her meds. Accused her roommates of being demons trying to kill her so the hotel just moved her to her own private room.
Elisa somehow got to the roof and climbed into the water tank (FYI the water tank door WAS OPEN WHEN THEY FOUND HER BODY)
due to hypothermia (look it up)she took off her clothes whilst in the water tank
This is just a sad case of a woman who died due to her mental illness and was made into a bigger case because a police officer mistakenly reported that the maintenance man found the water tank lid closed. No it was found open.
RIP Elisa ❤
POV: Your screen isn’t full screen because you don’t want to be alone
XD
watchu doin in here Erwin? how do you have phones in heaven-
*wait..*
Stooooop I don't like being called out like that😂
Accurate!
You are correct
why isn’t anyone saying it’s a murder- it looks like a murder for sure
it is a murder.
it either a murder or something caused by the elevator game.
ivsell yeah definitely
Yea but their is so many wholes it points to no one
I read she was playing the elevator game where you press all the buttons then leave who comes in
there is no way this is accidental. her body was literally in a water tank???
Exactly
yeah and not only was she found in an extremely hard to open water tank but she was also found facing up and to find someone who drowned facing up means that they were forced to drown. if you are drowning naturally then you go face down. there is no way it was accidental or suicidal
yeah and she was NAKED
@@idiba9654 the water tank wasn’t actually closed, it’s a twist of the actual facts
@Lauffles i understand what you are saying but she was found with an4l bleeding during the autopsy. if she was having an episode i think it makes more sense for someone to have taken advantage of her. it doesn't make sense in any other way
She was having a psychotic episode. As to how she was able to climb up the rooftop which was believed to be “locked,” the staff lied about it. Another RUclipsr went there and he was easily able to get to the rooftop. Nevertheless this cover was such a classic from the ghoul bois (yes Brett is also an og). I hope Ryan covers unsolved cases again on Watcher.
Sad that people are dismissed as crazy by those who don't even know them. Organised stalking and zersetzung programmes get covered up like this, with psychiatric smears. Typical NPD tactics.
the fact she wasnt in any mental state to climb to the roof or lift a 2 ton metal lid and climb in and close it on herself makes me believe someone took advantage of her mental state.
The main mystery here is what was keeping the elevator door open , was someone outside of it or was it a ghost.
I read that in some hotels if you push all the buttons they stay open for a longer period of time for staff
Idk, but I'm surprised they didn't show the rest of the footage where she gives up and leave the elevator and never seen again, and when she does mysteriously the elevator door closes behind her, scary she spent 5mins. trying to close it, and it did only when she left
Jim Shoes what , she was inside the elevator and it would not close .
Han Solo it’s just a coincidence. The door didn’t close cause she pressed too many buttons trying to confuse her stalker
@@carljohnson2194 Why would pressing several buttons keep the elevator from functioning? I've been in elevators in large establishments where multiple people with varying destinations would push a number of different floors... and the elevators responded just the same...
Do they not have cameras in the hallways ???
and Cameras of her actually getting to the very top floor.
SuMtOnE right they only got cams in the elevator :/
looks like hotels dont want us to solve murders by reducing cameras on some angles of hotel. how about they make a hotel transparent that way we could see everything!
That's crazy and creepy
Its Sharlele even if they did many places hate doing their job. They would probably manipulate the footage so they won't have to take responsibility. Look up Kendrick Johnson and even more recently Kenneka Jenkins.
Everyone: scared of the hand movements
*me: scared of the background music*
PLEASEE ME TOO 👋🏻😭
Me, scared of her completely black eyes. And hands tbh. That was tooo creepy.
@@vivianacastro8358 Are you here from that one TikTok?? 😂
@@Vicky-ik2vj Are you here from that one TikTok?? 😂
@@vivianacastro8358 uh huh but the music over here makin me not sleep
I get the bipolar part and that she might have missed her meds which causes hallucinations but what disturbing is the elevator door not closing for so long plus how would she leave to the roof, climb the ladder and lift the heavy lid, go in the tank, and take off her clothes?
So I know where I'm definitely not going...
BanaMUA lol exactly
BanaMUA lol
BanaMUA same tho
BanaMUA qaq
didn't they shut down the hotel?
*video starts
Literally Everybody: WHERE IS SHANE!!!!!!!
Yas
Lmfaooo cuz frrr😭🤣🤣
Whos shane?
@@evilpatrick5641 ask the devil about the guy who burned him.....you'll find the answer
@@vedanshkhanduri352 ight
Why am I watching this at 2 AM when I'm home alone and there are weird noises coming from the water pipes?..
because you can take Xanax if you want
You like to live on the edge.. and I support that
Because you can
You should put on the movie "Dark Water", that'll calm ya right down!
Lo mismo acá 😂😂
5:11 “there is no recorded history of a spaghetti monster”
I do think our friends spaghetti and apple tater will disagree
can someone explain why the elevator suddenly stops functioning when Elisa tries to go down to the hotel's lobby by pressing the buttoms?...the doors just stay wide open as if someone was pressing the buttoms from outside the hall making it impossible for the elevator to shut down its doors... Elisa even waits patiently for the elevator to take her down but it doesn't do anything... so she gets out .... and after Elisa leaves the elevator... the doors close and miracously the elevator starts functioning
Plenty O'Tool Theres something going on clearly
I was thinking the same , like levator doors don't stay open that long
Plenty O'Tool why ghost? Why not aliens?
Theorists suggest she played the "Elevator to the other dimension"
She pressed the bottom button, which has been proven to be a 'pause' button, so the elevator would stay open at least 2 minutes, for when someone moving in or out can transport furniture etc... immediately after she presses this button, you can see the door start to slide slightly as if to close, then it moves back...
I watch so many forensic shows and documentaries on murderers and I have no problem with them. But this story always seems to give me the chills and idk why
Same!
legit same
+Pooja Girwarr damn daniel
I am the same way. I think it's because you think that could be me or what if I go to a hotel and drink water and someone could be in it
True!
It’s unfortunate what happened to Elisa but I concur with the ruling of accidental death. No foul play was noted at any point and the toxicology report was negative for drugs or alcohol but it did report low levels of her bipolar meds which would make sense that she was probably going through hallucinations in the elevator (plus she had history of this). The doors didn’t close possibly due to pushing the hold button without realizing it and caused her to become even more paranoid so she walks away from the elevator to look for another way out. She probably then sees the window down the hall, climbs out and uses the fire escape stairs to go up to the roof which is why the alarm never sounded on the roof door. The documentary also mentions that the canines lost her scent at the window. She somehow makes it to the water tank, possibly confusing this is a “safe hiding spot” to try and get away from whatever her mind was telling her. The maintenance guy also said he found the lid open and not closed. Since he spoke Spanish, this was probably lost in translation at the time.
Great explanation....
Except for one thing, she was found naked in the tank, how is that possible?
@@lilsweetcherry5002 oh thank you very much for the info
Still don't explain why the elevator footage was edited before police got it . Here's what happened . Who ever was by the elevator killed her and stashed her body on the fire escape . Then when they could safely move it they put it in the water tank where they know the police already looked . Just my theory
Did they find her clothes in the tank with her ?? Could be he stripped her naked to wash the evidence off her clothes .
Also the whole deal is based on a guy who worked at the hotel saying the lid was open . Most likely he is the one who put her there . Think about it who found her ?? Who has a key to the roof ? Who has access to the cameras ?? The cops would of noticed an open water tank .
Just seen this case on Netflix and I noticed the maintenance man said he seen her float to the top white like a ghost , so I Googled how long it takes body to float and it says 3 to 4 days .. that a big time difference and he just happened to be there when her body floated to top of water ??????
Wow never heard about it
it was already floating