Location: Los Angeles, California, USA (2013) 🌎 🇺🇸
The Story: Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian student, was staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA. She was reported missing after failing to check out. Hotel staff and police investigated, with the last clue being eerie elevator footage showing Elisa behaving strangely;peering out the elevator door, hiding in the corner, and making gestures as if talking to someone unseen. The elevator doors remained open the entire time. 🔍
The Twist: Weeks later, guests complained of low water pressure and a strange taste in the water. A maintenance worker investigated the water tanks on the roof and found Elisa's body inside one of them. The tank lid was closed, and it was positioned in a way that seemed nearly impossible for her to have accessed alone. The official cause of death was accidental drowning, with her bipolar disorder as a contributing factor, but how she got into the locked, heavy-lidded tank remains a deeply unsettling mystery. 🤐