The fact that her parents DIDNT want to let her go out by herself is scary. The moment they let her go on a vacation alone, she tragically dies. She promised that she would call the every night letting them know she was alive and well, I can't imagine how they felt to not receive a phone call that night.
@@Ritsukaberry because she was 21 so her parents trusted her as she was an adult but she promised to call them every night so her parents could check on her
@@EkaterinaIHeris A few months before this trip, she had taken another trip almost clear across the country. She lived in BC and took a trip, I believe alone, to Ontario. It stood out to me when I was reading her blogs, because she visited the city I live in. Apparently nothing remarkable happened, because she didn't post much about it. She mentioned she had stayed in hostels, which is why I don't believe her parents went with her.
Some elevators have a hold button that staff use when they're loading luggage into/out of an elevator and it'll take a while. This is usually a feature on freight and staff-only area elevators, but some smaller hotels (or at least, ones that see less guest traffic) have the feature on their public elevators rather than putting in separate elevators just for the purpose. She probably pressed the hold button. These can delay the elevator for set time intervals (usually 1-5 minutes) or as an on/off feature (but those are pretty rare these days for safety reasons, and might not even be legal in the US anymore). She probably hit a delay button as she was going down the list.
Yes. Very odd. No elevator I’ve ever been on has stayed open more than 5 or 10 seconds. This one stays open for more than a minute without someone in the doorway.
Либо она нажимает так много кнопок из-за того, что лифт не закрывается почему-то, и она пытается этим самым сделать так, чтобы он закрылся, либо же она, наоборот, не хочет, чтобы лифт закрывался, хочет, чтобы для чего-то он был открыт и, видимо, нажимая так на много кнопок в лифте, мешает ему закрыться, делает так, чтобы лифт был открыт по-прежнему, здесь либо лифт не закрывается из-за хаотичных ненормальных для лифта нажиманий по нему, либо даже, может, у этого лифта в этом отеле есть специальный какой-то код для того, чтобы лифт был открыт и не закрывался в течении минуты с чем-то - как я заметил в видео, первый раз после того, как она перестала нажимать на кнопки лифта, он так простоял открытым около минуты и пятнадцати секунд, пока она не начала снова на кнопки нажимать, а второй раз после того, как она перестала нажимать на кнопки лифта, он так простоял открытым около минуты и восьми секунд, пока не закрылся.
Poor young girl, I really feel sorry for her. I hope that after death there's something more beautiful, better and safer for all of us than life on earth. Rest in peace Elisa
Same, i first saw it in 2014 and refused to go in an elevator until I moved into a condo in 2019. But then, i was still terrified and this is the first time im watching the video again even after all the documentaries ive watched.
No. We know what happened. I don’t take medication for bipolar disorder and I’m not at risk of stopping taking my medication and having a full blown schizo episode. People like her who have the disorder and don’t take medicine are
@@Dikshant62 WAIT! I just found out that a guy went to the hotel to check the elevator and it turns out that under that row of buttons she pushed theres axtually a button to hold the elevator open and still for about 2 minutes. And that button doesnt light up, so she could have pushed it and we wouldnt be able to see it in this video
Yeah, she pressed multiple buttons starting from the top to bottom. As the door was about to close she pressed the "hold door" button which i assume made the door stay open
Y qué tal si estaba esperando a alguien? Por eso apretó el botón? Por eso se escondía como tratar de asustarl@ y después al no querer ir le hizo señas? Probablemente la persona era sordomuda y al final esa persona no quiso y Elisa solo fué tras esa persona.
No ones talking about why the elevator door closes that way? It looks like someone edited the video so there is obviously something they don’t want us knowing about.
Its not uncommon. The sensors get dirty and the relays malfunction. You honestly believe the paranormal need physical objects to freak people out? Come on.. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW
Don. Why would the LAPD blur out the timestamp on the video they released? So that tells us people are putting in the effort to mislead and thus we will never get the complete thruth about this.
What pisses me off is the hotel just had easy access to the water tanks with no key or locks. What the hell? What if someone poisoned the water? Dropped something important in?
This video was spliced a few places at least. The elevator closing for the first time. Also interestingly what indicates a minute passing takes ~80 seconds from 0:00 to 1:20 and then 1:20 to 2:41. Okay, strange but consistent. However it changes again after 7 seconds 2:41 to 2:48. There is a light shift at 2:29 the frame after Elisa's foot exits view completely. There is also a light shift in 2:34. Again at 2:50. Now the elevator close. Keep you on the bottom panel. The first frame of 2:58 has a blur that you will be able to see in the bottom panel, the floor tiles, and the reflection of the top and bottom sections of the elevator wall. The second frame the door magically partially closed. The third and subsequent frames we aren't blurred anymore. Now, The open and closes. I believe that the last open and everything we before the door close are the same place. The first open after the door close at 2:58 is different than what we saw previously. Look at the wood, the length is different. Anyway, my wrist is in a lot of pain, i'm stopping.
Ok im confused. I seen a video talking about demons on a channel that's no longer on you tube and it showed this video and what said parts of the video that haven't been seen. This was years ago and in the longer video she comes back into the elevator and is held against the left wall if i remember correctly and appears to be strangled by something invisible to the camera. Now i seen the video and it looked like it was part of the original video no altercations and this was before AI was really being used. Now i cant find that video ANYWHERE??? Does anyone else remember seeing another version of things or watching the video on that other channel??? The channel was lioness of yeshua i think?
In my opinion most probably Elisa suffered a psychotic break - this can happen even if she was taking her medication. She was afraid someone was after her, the small inconvenience that the elevator wasn’t working triggered her fear. Perhaps she tried to escape from the windows and reached the tab. My hypothesis is that the staff had accidentally left it open and then either closed the tab without paying attention that someone was inside or they were afraid of getting in trouble for leaving the tab open and decided to close it.
I don’t think there was anyone outside the elevator. When she initially walks into the elevator she doesn’t look in distress. I think she hides in the corner to see if there is someone holding the button. When she jumps out it sort of seems like a “got you” moment. When she realises there’s no one there I think the erratic hand movements is her trying to see if there was anything physically stopping the door from closing. She then looks frustrated , grabbing her hair and playing with her hands. The second time she gets into the elevator she presses heaps of buttons. She seems just as confused as to why the door isn’t closing as we are.
she already enters a behavior of despair this her theory does not make any sense, she was not wearing those shoes are very different, I believe there is someone else in the elevator
@@suellenandrade2815 if she enters in despair she wouldn’t have stood in the corner so still. I’m sure if you were scared you would be pacing back and forth. She didn’t start pacing till she realised the door wasn’t closing. And the shoe definitely looks like hers it doesn’t appear until she starts to exit the frame and it lifts the moment she’s walking away
Maybe it was the elevator game you guys should check the videos of tfil they recently went there n also opened a dybbuk box at the terrace don't know why though 🙄but still.
If you look closely to the reflectance on elevator door side to right that is reflecting the hallway to the left, then watch when she is inside, there is clear movement in left hallway and she keeps looking to the left and starts talking and indicating that the elevator does not close to them. There is definatelly someone in the hallway to the left with her.
@@zenkia8190 seriously??? Well in my Apartment's elevator there's a button for opening the elevator's door but it's not like it stays open upto 2 minutes ....
Joniqua Alvarez some people think she might of been playing the elevator game which is a ritual too get you into a ‘different world’ however to get to this world a woman will step into the elevator with you on the 5th floor and you shouldn’t look at her or speak to her cause she’s apparently not human
Perhaps the person posdibly a woman asking her to meet up on the top of building where the water tanks are, we might have seen the person if the cctv footage hadn't been erased
One thing I've always wondered about this video.. why I think someone set her up. Is how long the door stayed open. Like she was in the elevator for SO long and the door never once closed until she walked away... Like someone was holding it opening until she gave up using it.
Whoever was outside the elevator knew it had a camera. And didnt want to be spotted. So they stood there pressing the open button until she walked out of camera frame . They took her by the hair at 2:32
There probably isn't audio. I don't believe in ghosts. I do work in, and on top of elevators. Someone could have been on top of the elevator. The door operation can be controlled from the top, and you would be looking around wildly if someone was talking to you from the top as well.
Not an expert on elevators, but I assume that it stayed open simply because it operates by detecting motion. They are built that way in an effort to keep them from shutting while someone is still in the process of stepping in or out. Elisa repeatedly darted in and out of the thing the entire time she was there. As far as the elevator is concerned, it wasn't going to shut until she was out of the way, which is, probably, why we saw it abruptly do so as soon as she disappeared from view.
I feel she was murdered and that it was one of the staff she was found dead on the roof you need a special key card to get into and I think the elevator was shut down
Michelle Cena Nah me either, you’re fine lol. I’m just confused bc when she first got on it, she was fine though, but the doors didn’t budge at all for a few long moments. The elevators at my job are crusty and dinky but the doors close a good five or so seconds after getting on them. But she waited awhile so I’m wondering wtf gave
What really creeps me out is that we can only see her but she was seeing something else. Something that was on the scene and on the spot, even if we can’t see
there was a cut in the middle of the video so they might have cut some parts out for some reason 2:58 even before that time stamp the number begin to glitch which is weird
Rest in peace. This tape is so unsettling to say the least. This is the last known footage of Elisa and that honestly scares me so much. Stay safe everyone please.
It couldn't have been a ghost, she had to have been murdered by a staff working at the hotel. You'd think that they would release camera footage from the roof, but they refused to release it. I'd also like to point out that you would need a special kind of keycard to gain access to the roof. So it was obviously a staff member. I think she was raped and then murdered by a staff and then was placed in a water tank to hide evidence. Overall, I think that the hotel staff are trying to hide this from us.
@@colorado_river5003 thats so fucking scary omg. What do you think about her interacting with someone/thing in the elevator? That cant really be explained unless the whole video is somehow edited
@@Dana-qt8xi I think she just had anxiety and kept looking down the halls to look for any people that could murder her. That's why I think she kept looking out of the elevator and stuff.
It's not frightened behavior, though. Anxious, maybe, but not frightened. Her body language throughout the video is 100% playful. She's in the corner waiting to surprise someone who never comes in, or even near. I think someone promised her an illicit nighttime swim in the water tank, and for whatever reason, she trusted them enough not to realize they were avoiding cameras on the way to the roof -- this one in particular. This is a four-minute argument about taking the stairs.
@@Avelcaine make sense tho. I am guessing that she is not trying to make the elevator close but to make it open (?) So the guys who are not detected would go in (?).
@@Avelcaine If she was playful, why did she try to go down when she walked inside the elevator? That doesn't seem like she was waiting for someone, I think that her manic episode got worse after she realized that the elevator was broken. She thought that her imaginary person did it to the elevator, so she went outside to talk to him.
Rest in Peace Elisa. 🕯️🕊️ What I also find sad is that nobody ever apologized to Pablo. Nobody, and that's just cowardice. Cyberbullying is just as cruel as murder. Those who accused him of murder go on living as before...he can no longer do it. He survived, but some of the cyberbullying victims did not. I wish Pablo a lot of strength and that he stays strong. 💪🏻🍀
Not to be cheesy, but this still haunts me to this day. Whether she was killed or killed herself, she was found in the hotel water tank. Guests were complaining of the taste/appearance of the water... the DEAD BODY WATER...........
@@rafaelvaldivia4698 she had bipolar, wasent taking her meds at the time of her death meaning she probably did have an episode and tripped the fuck out
@@jaydenkenworthy2454 but there are things that just don't add up with that, like how did she end up naked? how did she end up in the tank? why was there rectal bleeding and trauma but no where else? it just doesn't add up with psychotic episode
the video was cut after she walks out of frame. 1. The seconds in certain moments are stopped and then resume. 2. When the door finally closes it is already almost halfway, then when the lift goes to the other floors, the door closes starting from the beginning and not from the middle
It’s just so heartbreaking how terrified she must have been, believing someone was coming after her until the last second of her life. I hope she’s happy and well in Heaven.
@@jainorman3425 ah yes, christians believing that everything fucking revolves around them again, how nice :) And how fucking dare you to have the BLM sign as your icon when you're clearly not liberal..
As it says in the documentary, she had bipolar disorder and wasn't taking her pills. Her family mentioned she sometimes had hallucinations which leads to panic attacks, so there might've been nobody with her and she could've been having hallucinations that there was somebody coming to kill her which is why she was acting strange. She went to the rooftop, and saw the water tank as her hiding spot to protect herself. She got in, and took off her clothes to try and swim up because she probably thought the weight of her clothes were pushing her down. But I will respect everyone's theories, so don't feel pressured to follow the same theory as me.
i vibe with this theory a lot ! but there were some people she knew saying that her medication was going ok? and how did she get to the rooftop herself when there were the doors that always started alarming when they were opened? scary.
@@kerttukaroliina9343 She most likley went through out a window to get to the rooftop, and might've been lying to her non-relatives about the whole medication thing. But yes, the whole case is creepy and there isn't enough evidence to say if she was murdered or not. It's kind of weird.
Probably some employee took advantage of her inconvenience and took her to the terrace to abuse her upstairs, since there were no cameras there. She obviously tried to resist, but it was murderous. So, to stand as a witness, the clerk threw the body into the water tank (to get rid of fingerprints), his only mistake was closing the lid. In order for the hotel's image not to get ugly these days after everything that happened, the owner made an agreement with the police to stifle the case as much as possible, which is consistent with the edited videos and insufficient information, making it appear to be a suicide for bipolar disorder.
As everyone is saying that it’s horrifying to think that everyone was drinking water with her fragments, wanna tell you my dear fellows.. it’s a hotel guys! Nobody drinks water from Tap!!!
@@sophieanderson6263 especially how this was released like after days of her death..and the fact that they said they didn't have any 'cameras' other than the lifts ...
Anyone else feel so uncomfortable and weird watching this especially when she does her hand movements😳it just seems so unormal and unsettling, gives me the spooks
i belive with her hand movements she belived that she was swimming. and she was not taking her medicene an if she wasnt taking it she would see things that werent there and here voices that werent there. then i think that why she went up o try to swim thats why i belive she went up in the water tank
@@sophiar9823 no do some research maybe , the door to get on roof was locced , and theres a game u play here where u enter some different universe and if u break the rules u die , and i believe she also saw how she was dying thats why she was "swimming" but also idk , all ik is its some paranormal shit not cause of medicine not being took
@@lrecklessl did you watch the Netflix documentary? Have you done some research? The police dogs had her scent leading all the way up to a fire escape that led to the roof. Elisa had a history of not taking her meds, and in the autopsy report there was hardly any in her system. I believed for the longest time that she was murdered but it’s most respectful to think logically. She was having a bipolar manic episode. She believed somebody was chasing her. During maniac episodes people experience being delusional and hallucinations. In the documentary it alway states that her family says she’s had breakdowns before, some that often led to her being hospitalized. As much as I love the paranormal accepts we can get into this case, we have to think actual logic here and not folklore.
@@lrecklessl also I have an article that you can read sites.gsu./anesujunior/support-2/ it gives a further explanation to the whole medication thing just copy and paste.
I actually wish I was in that lobby. I don't know what I could have done. I would like to have thought I could have done something. I feel a guilt I my husband tells me I don't deserve because I was no where near the area (was in Kentucky). But still doesn't stop one from wishing they could have been there.
She is acting extremely cautiously, as if something scary is present, that's why she keeps stepping backwards and going back to see what's there , those hand gestures, she is definitely talking with someone
She clearly hallucinate ,check this second footage of her ua-cam.com/video/c_YtO7dna0k/v-deo.html
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It was the most impressive documentary I've ever watched. It has helped me gain new perspectives on many issues that touch different areas of life. I'm so sorry we lost such a sincere person.
Wasn't that good. Most of the people made baseless accusations and assumptions. Morbid just did crazy stuff for fans. The girl more than likely kill herself
It changed how I see the mystery of Elisa lam and how I first knew the story from another UA-camr but this documentary changed my POV towards this case , Elisa lam you will forever be missed 🙌 RIP I hope heaven is treating you right ❤️
Quomodo cecidisti de caelo, Lucifer , fili aurorae?! Deiectus es in terram, qui deiciebas gentes!, qui dicebas in corde tuo: ‘In caelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte conventus in lateribus aquilonis; ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo ...........................
@@Dzoni_u_kupaoni Its good. But what happened to her was highly predictable half way into the second last episode. Still worth it. Very interesting case.
@@Dzoni_u_kupaoni Its not bad if you can tolerate the crazy conspiracy theorists and the fact that it's a little dragged out. It could be done in 2 episodes, but they stretch it out for 4.
@@carolmullins Exactly!! Once i found out you know what like halfway into the second. I was like. Um yea. That is a HUGE thing about her they never brought up till then. lol
her blogspot is called etherfields. she had written so much before july of 2012. her twitter and tumblr are still up. reading her posts really just makes you familiarize with her. she talks about her mental health journey, how her high school life was like, and talks about her interests. it’s like reading anne frank’s diary; you know what happened to her in the end even though you hope the stars it doesn’t. i’m glad she left this part behind; may she rest in peacefully :( 🌹🕊️
At first... it looks like she’s confused at why the doors won’t close so that kinda explains the weird jumping in & out.. maybe trying to see if they would close? And then she presses all the buttons, again maybe trying to get the doors to close? But then her looking like she’s talking to someone- it doesn’t make sense. I want to convince myself that she’s conversing with someone down the hall & explaining the issue with the elevator doors but something just seems weird/odd. Off. And then the doors close. I don’t get it. Strange 😳
My mom died during a psychotic episode similar to this. She was afraid of being followed and went somewhere to be alone, but without food. We struggled to understand what happened for the same reasons - it’s so antithetical to what someone in their right mind would do. And yet the mind is a powerful thing. We see killers or the supernatural in these cases because we can’t understand what it’s like to be them. So we can’t imagine how they’d end up this way. If someone you know talks about hearing voices or is paranoid, take it seriously and get them some help. You can save someone’s life. I wish I had
I am very sorry about your mom. I practically disagree with this theory alot, she was talking to someone or she was trying to do something. She looks like she is describing something. If she went into that water tank, how would she close it? There would have been bruises on how her fingers. Now, hiding a body in a water tank is a way to get rid of fingerprints. I think she was about to be sex****** assaulted. Assuming her state when found she wasn't though. Plus, if she had an epsiode you need to be specific. Did her family ever say she had such epsiodes for the 22 years of living? She was killed and we refuse to except this, it was a horrible death. If she went up the fire escape she was running obviously. It was most likely a former hotel staff from when she was staying. The police might already know but haven't revealed the info. If this had happened it was maybe two men. Relating to your theory if she had done so, the person who Left her body closed the tank and just left her there, or the tank top just fell magically. I am so sorry for your mom. No one deserves the pain of their mom dying please take care of yourself :)
I'm sorry about your mom....this is a heart breaking story....I've seen to many Cecil hotel videos but i can't get over them to know the misery of elisa lams death
it was just backed up and going through all the shit she asked it to beforhand , like when your pc runs slow cos youve clicked on shit befor other shits loaded ya know?
There is some people that have been in the hotel to investigate and there is a button to hold the door, apparently if you press it the door will be open for 2 entire minutes until it closes. And also in the video it seems that there is a cut of almost 60 seconds (people on the internet have analyzed the video and the blurry date and time), so tbh the door didn’t closed immediately when she left. Anyways it is some strange behavior for an elevator
explination of the doors not closing: many times in the video you can see her spam pressing almost all of the elevator doors. a button elevators usually have is a button to keep the doors open for 30 seconds or even 2 minutes. you might have seen these buttons yourself. they typically show elevator doors and arrows point forward (door close button) or arrows pointing away from eachother (doors open button). because the doors stay open for quite a while, it was most likely closer to a 2 minute timer.
Me too! Watching the doc right now, just got to episode 2. It looks as if she’s just playing around with the buttons and the elevator. Like a little kid who’s parents aren’t watching while they run in and out of the elevator.
Here's my theory: She is being followed by at least one person and another person is operating the elevator (this is the only way to explain the doors not working at first and then opening and closing several times at the end with seemingly no cause). She gets in the elevator to get away from her pursuer and pushes all the buttons so that she'll be able to find a floor where she has no adversary. However, the elevator operator keeps the doors from closing so that she can't get away. She either picks up on this or gets another idea: "the guy chasing me will expect me to go to another floor so I'll send the empty elevator to throw him off. However after trying this and changing her mind once or twice, her adversary does show up and she pleads for her life (the part where she seems to be talking to someone). She then runs down the hall to get away and to the roof (where her body was later found) where her attacker met her and drowned her. The elevator operator, meanwhile, kept opening the doors so that he could see what was going on on that floor, but both Elisa and the pursuer had already left.
Appeal of the unknown. People want to find out the events that led to her tragic end, myself included. She's clearly mentally ill, but that doesn't explain turning up naked in a water tank...
HKMH Dariani one lead would be how did she get into the water tank ? There would have to been at least another person to help her but other than that she can’t do it by herself
she doesn't deserve to be forgotten, I'm glad they are at least not forgotten untill the mystery is solved I wish Kudou Shinichi was real so I could hire him...
The fact that she got all those hallucinations is because she did not know the existence of that "hold open" button... Seriously, what is the purpose of that btn???
2:53 there are about 3 cuts before the door closes which could possibly mean that the tape was tampered with or maybe its just cause its really old. The door opening and closing could be because of how old the elevator is, all the buttons she pressed, or maybe there was a struggle or something outside that caused the up/down elevator buttons to be pressed and therefore opening the elevator
@@popcorngirl1018 yes right, but what explains why the elavator doors wouldn’t close even when the time given was a appropriate time to close maybe a little idk, this case is very creepy and mysterious we will never have full answers of what happens to Elisa.😔
@@rampageytt5824 I mean, the hotel is around 90 years old. I can see how pressing the buttons like that could cause a malfunction, especially with old tech. Even if they did update it.
@@Plazmasoldier I can confirm elevators in old buildings in Downtown LA are horrendous. I was running a big delivery a few weeks ago and was sliding big boxes into an elevator when the door started closing on me and legitimately would not stop, even with me moving my arms for the sensors. I tried to hold the doors apart but they kept closing on my upper body, so obviously I got out of the way to prevent any Final Destination stuff from happening. My boxes got trapped in there and one of the boxes fell against the door which wouldn't allow the doors to open. The elevator was stuck for 30 minutes, then started hopping to random floors.
@@yolotoko2393 sometimes the brain just isnt working properly and that makes u feel depressed thats why they give meds to some people because it can be a medical issue due to brain chemicals (im not a doctor so i cant explain how it works)
I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things & live our lives the best we know how. Knowing we all live our different lives in unique ways, the video’s creepiness wears off. In this scenario, in my opinion, Elisa was a young college student, traveling, who had a lack of understanding of the elevator, was trying to get the elevator to work, but the scanner of this elevator had been used for many years, so it didn’t work as well as it did years ago. Finally when she decides to get off the elevator & walk away the door shuts & starts moving again, probably cause no one was in the path of the elevator scanner, like how any elevator scanner works. I can’t completely understand why she would press all the buttons, maybe she wanted to travel to every floor, maybe she was bored & going up & down in an elevator was a fun idea, but in the end, she encountered this crappy elevator & this creepy footage was created. 1:30 Notice how when she walks back into the elevator, she has big smile on her face, I think she had gotten frustrated & the only thing she could do was just smile it off. I think we’ve all been in situations like that. 2:27 - 2:28 Elisa turns left, LIFTING HER RIGHT FOOT TO AVOID HITTING SOMETHING, MAYBE A DOG. She wasn’t alone in that hallway, Elisa felt comfortable enough to talk to someone about the elevator, someone else was there. The Cecil employees or the investigators are not giving us the full story, something “human influenced” happened there. Someone is lying.
@@noorfonteyn6291Because the employee controlling the elevator was preventing it from moving, either remotely or by holding the button down outta view…
this is terrifying, the fact people were drinking the water with fragments of her BODY in it is so scary, i’m sending prayers to her family, she seemed like such a sweet person:(
the way she moves her hands is terrifying...
I move my hands like that all the time XD
Why, lots of people use their hands when talking
@@patriciaannewestgate2229 Not in that kinda way tho
@@patriciaannewestgate2229 yeah indeed but the way she does it is unsettling. It looks so forced and unnatural.
You shouldn't be, because she's just checking why elevator door(sensor) not closing by doing those hand moves.
The fact that people were drinking water that contained fragments of her body is just scary
W h a t ?
@@user-mb4ni4cl5e she was found in the water tank floating and her body was decomposing and people were drinking with it, showering with it, etc.
@@devonburke601 I - Didn't know that- o-o
That's disturbing..
that would give you the dry boak
I know!
The fact that her parents DIDNT want to let her go out by herself is scary. The moment they let her go on a vacation alone, she tragically dies. She promised that she would call the every night letting them know she was alive and well, I can't imagine how they felt to not receive a phone call that night.
Why would they let go her by herself? So sad, R.I.P. Elisa Lam.
@@Ritsukaberry because she was 21 so her parents trusted her as she was an adult but she promised to call them every night so her parents could check on her
@@Heyy610An adult with the worst case of a bipolar disorder ... not safe for her to travel alone
@@EkaterinaIHeris A few months before this trip, she had taken another trip almost clear across the country. She lived in BC and took a trip, I believe alone, to Ontario. It stood out to me when I was reading her blogs, because she visited the city I live in. Apparently nothing remarkable happened, because she didn't post much about it. She mentioned she had stayed in hostels, which is why I don't believe her parents went with her.
@@EkaterinaIHerisThey should get her to therapy
I've been on hundreds of elevators in my 55 years of life and never ran across one where the doors stayed open that long.
Absolutely
Some elevators have a fence plus the door, the door wont close until you close the fence
Some elevators have a hold button that staff use when they're loading luggage into/out of an elevator and it'll take a while.
This is usually a feature on freight and staff-only area elevators, but some smaller hotels (or at least, ones that see less guest traffic) have the feature on their public elevators rather than putting in separate elevators just for the purpose.
She probably pressed the hold button.
These can delay the elevator for set time intervals (usually 1-5 minutes) or as an on/off feature (but those are pretty rare these days for safety reasons, and might not even be legal in the US anymore).
She probably hit a delay button as she was going down the list.
It looked like she pressed a ton of buttons so she may have messed it up somehow that way
55? and you know how to type a comment on youtube? wow
I feel like someone is watching me while i'm watching this video
That was me
Lol
same lmao i keep looking behind me
It is the NSA.
Same
the fact that it was released before her body was found is scary
damn- 8 days before over a week
6 days sorry 😆
Yeah but they had been looking for her for a couple weeks
The fact that is was released before her body was found is scary
@@walidkaddouri8360 whattt
The most creepy thing is "that elevator isn't closing" no matter how much minutes passed..
Yes. Very odd. No elevator I’ve ever been on has stayed open more than 5 or 10 seconds. This one stays open for more than a minute without someone in the doorway.
She pressed almost all buttons(later again), one of them holds the door for a couple of times. Its used in hotels for heavy belongings etc.
It's enough to drive anyone insane
The second she walks away it closes… sus.
Либо она нажимает так много кнопок из-за того, что лифт не закрывается почему-то, и она пытается этим самым сделать так, чтобы он закрылся, либо же она, наоборот, не хочет, чтобы лифт закрывался, хочет, чтобы для чего-то он был открыт и, видимо, нажимая так на много кнопок в лифте, мешает ему закрыться, делает так, чтобы лифт был открыт по-прежнему, здесь либо лифт не закрывается из-за хаотичных ненормальных для лифта нажиманий по нему, либо даже, может, у этого лифта в этом отеле есть специальный какой-то код для того, чтобы лифт был открыт и не закрывался в течении минуты с чем-то - как я заметил в видео, первый раз после того, как она перестала нажимать на кнопки лифта, он так простоял открытым около минуты и пятнадцати секунд, пока она не начала снова на кнопки нажимать, а второй раз после того, как она перестала нажимать на кнопки лифта, он так простоял открытым около минуты и восьми секунд, пока не закрылся.
it’s been 10 years and it still makes me wonder…
Fr😢😢
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yep
This was the ONLY camera in the entire hotel??
Good question
Michelle Sanchez yeah
I read there was also one in the lobby and that it was a video that showed her with two men, but they have never released it.
Maybe the only one who spotted her
honestly good point
I can’t understand how the guests noticed the water was black and continued showering and brushing teeth. Are you kidding me?
Psssssh.... are u ready for THIS???? Some ppl “dont brush their teeth at all” 😲
i’d never use that water considering the colour of it
sometimes water goes dirty like even at my house there is like mud in ghe water
The idea of it makes me sick to my stomach. Imagine you realise you've showered in a dead person's extract.
@@arrever1817 yeah but even worse, drink it 🤮
Poor young girl, I really feel sorry for her. I hope that after death there's something more beautiful, better and safer for all of us than life on earth. Rest in peace Elisa
She was only 21😰😫 man what the hell so young!!!
Simp
هناك شيء جميل جدا للمؤمنين وهناك شيء فظيع جدا للكافرين
@@abolisher :(..
Hey bung ,dunia itu tidak ada apa-apa, dunia itu kosong, tidak ada surga dan neraka
:/ This case has scared me shitless for years.
Same, i first saw it in 2014 and refused to go in an elevator until I moved into a condo in 2019. But then, i was still terrified and this is the first time im watching the video again even after all the documentaries ive watched.
POV: you came in the comment section to feel unlonely
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Bruyum Garcia trueeee
@@BrianGarcia-lr1ww ye
What's :v?
@@BrianGarcia-lr1ww Creepy things to look up at night #24? I came from insta
something about this video triggers your primitive danger sensors
You turn me on~~~
Ur profile picture triggers me
That one dude OoP
That one dude
what the actual fuck?
@@thatonedude9269 Dude r u ok?
Anyone else get goosebumps every time you watch the video or every time you think of what could have happened
No. We know what happened. I don’t take medication for bipolar disorder and I’m not at risk of stopping taking my medication and having a full blown schizo episode. People like her who have the disorder and don’t take medicine are
Nothing scary about it at all she killed Hershel.
Herself**
@@HvacHeathendon’t talk as if u know for sure
@@n0m3ss stop trying to make everything supernatural
If she had just waited another 25 seconds we may not be watching this video right now. So tragic.
How so?
@@mangomerkel2005 i'm guessing because the elevator door shuts around 2.57
how the fuck did she even get in the tank
@@LittleLunaXDshe went to the rooftops
I just still don't understand why the elevator is not moving
Same!!
yeah the doors should have closed many times. Unless it was broken or she pushed something that locked the doors open, but its just weird
@@satsujin4027 Ya its still a mystery to everyone😟😟😟
@@Dikshant62 WAIT! I just found out that a guy went to the hotel to check the elevator and it turns out that under that row of buttons she pushed theres axtually a button to hold the elevator open and still for about 2 minutes. And that button doesnt light up, so she could have pushed it and we wouldnt be able to see it in this video
@@satsujin4027 useless button 🙁
Who paused netflix episode & came here to watch this video ? 🙋🏻♀️
mee, im at episode 2 😬🙈
@@iLightningChan same. Episode 2. I'm in los angeles, hey yall ☺
Same here. Paused half way through ep 2 and came here to watch again
Mee 🤔
Me! Haha
0:12 did anyone else notice the door was about to close but then opened randomly? As if something was stopping it from closing
Yeah, she pressed multiple buttons starting from the top to bottom. As the door was about to close she pressed the "hold door" button which i assume made the door stay open
Y qué tal si estaba esperando a alguien? Por eso apretó el botón? Por eso se escondía como tratar de asustarl@ y después al no querer ir le hizo señas? Probablemente la persona era sordomuda y al final esa persona no quiso y Elisa solo fué tras esa persona.
No ones talking about why the elevator door closes that way? It looks like someone edited the video so there is obviously something they don’t want us knowing about.
nuh uh
I can’t imagine how scared she must have been during her final moments on earth. I hope she’s resting peacefully💔
I hope she is ok after all
She haunts the hotel
It has to be the elevator game!!😰
lmfao
Hoped her soul will be OK in another dimention
Say what you want, but this scene creeps me out. Especially when she leaves the elevator and it starts working again.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW it’s hella creepy
It's definitely creepy but she did press a bunch of buttons so it would keep going through the stages...
@@ihateuifulikebts3548 cool name 👌
Its not uncommon. The sensors get dirty and the relays malfunction. You honestly believe the paranormal need physical objects to freak people out? Come on..
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Your name is literally going through my recomended videos, it's so trippy.
That feeling you get when you know something terrible is about to happen. Rip
I know it is unbelievable that I think Elisa realized that there was a ghost on the sensor
The amount of youtube detectives on this video is astounding.
Everybody loves a good mystery. And this one has video, which makes it more intriguing.
Do you think it's pissible because her death is a murder that needs solving
And people asking "is it just me or...?"
S Darby But this is not a mystery. It is attack of psychosis.
Don. Why would the LAPD blur out the timestamp on the video they released? So that tells us people are putting in the effort to mislead and thus we will never get the complete thruth about this.
What pisses me off is the hotel just had easy access to the water tanks with no key or locks. What the hell? What if someone poisoned the water? Dropped something important in?
Didn’t the staff have key cards to get to the roof?
I don’t think it would be that easy
@@Emily-pt8ce Yeah they had keys to the roof but there was also an entrance to the roof from the fire exit
@@xdgames8328 Thought so, and yeah 😬
@@Omar_05 This chick made it to the roof and drowned because it WAS that easy.
This video was spliced a few places at least. The elevator closing for the first time. Also interestingly what indicates a minute passing takes ~80 seconds from 0:00 to 1:20 and then 1:20 to 2:41. Okay, strange but consistent. However it changes again after 7 seconds 2:41 to 2:48. There is a light shift at 2:29 the frame after Elisa's foot exits view completely. There is also a light shift in 2:34. Again at 2:50. Now the elevator close. Keep you on the bottom panel. The first frame of 2:58 has a blur that you will be able to see in the bottom panel, the floor tiles, and the reflection of the top and bottom sections of the elevator wall. The second frame the door magically partially closed. The third and subsequent frames we aren't blurred anymore. Now, The open and closes. I believe that the last open and everything we before the door close are the same place. The first open after the door close at 2:58 is different than what we saw previously. Look at the wood, the length is different.
Anyway, my wrist is in a lot of pain, i'm stopping.
oh my goodness, yes you are right
Glad someone noticed it too
3:14 a fraction of a second, there is a movement a black dot, something is moving, in the left.
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Ok im confused. I seen a video talking about demons on a channel that's no longer on you tube and it showed this video and what said parts of the video that haven't been seen. This was years ago and in the longer video she comes back into the elevator and is held against the left wall if i remember correctly and appears to be strangled by something invisible to the camera. Now i seen the video and it looked like it was part of the original video no altercations and this was before AI was really being used. Now i cant find that video ANYWHERE??? Does anyone else remember seeing another version of things or watching the video on that other channel??? The channel was lioness of yeshua i think?
In my opinion most probably Elisa suffered a psychotic break - this can happen even if she was taking her medication. She was afraid someone was after her, the small inconvenience that the elevator wasn’t working triggered her fear. Perhaps she tried to escape from the windows and reached the tab. My hypothesis is that the staff had accidentally left it open and then either closed the tab without paying attention that someone was inside or they were afraid of getting in trouble for leaving the tab open and decided to close it.
I'm pretty sure she didn't take the stabilisers, which probably led to this.
The behavior indicates a psychotic break or possible drug use to me. Your theory seems most probable.
Thank you "Doctor."
Its not opinion, its a fact now. Her sister confirmed she was on medication for extreme bipolar disorder
I don’t think there was anyone outside the elevator. When she initially walks into the elevator she doesn’t look in distress. I think she hides in the corner to see if there is someone holding the button. When she jumps out it sort of seems like a “got you” moment. When she realises there’s no one there I think the erratic hand movements is her trying to see if there was anything physically stopping the door from closing. She then looks frustrated , grabbing her hair and playing with her hands. The second time she gets into the elevator she presses heaps of buttons. She seems just as confused as to why the door isn’t closing as we are.
She went in pressing a lot of buttons
she already enters a behavior of despair this her theory does not make any sense, she was not wearing those shoes are very different, I believe there is someone else in the elevator
@@christianmorales4526 yeh but she didn’t press them the first time as nervously as she did the second time
@@suellenandrade2815 if she enters in despair she wouldn’t have stood in the corner so still. I’m sure if you were scared you would be pacing back and forth. She didn’t start pacing till she realised the door wasn’t closing. And the shoe definitely looks like hers it doesn’t appear until she starts to exit the frame and it lifts the moment she’s walking away
@@chelseamae192 agreed! It was definitely her shoe.
Not even going to lie, at the start it looks like shes playing hide and seek with someone, but after a few seconds it gets eerily weird.
Looks like she was playing to elevator game at the begfining
Watch the right wall in the elevator, a ghost "face" appears on and off throughout the video. A psychic medium pointed that out.
Maybe it was the elevator game you guys should check the videos of tfil they recently went there n also opened a dybbuk box at the terrace don't know why though 🙄but still.
If you look closely to the reflectance on elevator door side to right that is reflecting the hallway to the left, then watch when she is inside, there is clear movement in left hallway and she keeps looking to the left and starts talking and indicating that the elevator does not close to them. There is definatelly someone in the hallway to the left with her.
What??????
@@beautifulclouds8888can you see that? I couldn't find it
@@SatoriKiyoshi no me either.
I have no idea what they’re talking about
Yah.. it's scary😨
No there isn't.
I came to your channel after I saw you on Netflix, you did a good job 👍🏼♥️
Why didn't the frickin elevator close when she was in???....
This elevator has a thing where if u press and hold the elevator button it won't shut the door for at least 2 Minutes
@@zenkia8190 seriously??? Well in my Apartment's elevator there's a button for opening the elevator's door but it's not like it stays open upto 2 minutes ....
Maybe there were people (ghost) coming in
@@luckyyou6633 well I don't know whether elevators deduct ghosts....
The hotel (Cecil) was a dump and it's likely that the elevator doors were malfunctioning.
Is it me or it looks like she’s hiding from someone like she low key acts like someone is chasing or been chasing her
@@sooviiee8745 you dumbass
@@JarvoD lts my opinion....why people always so rude..tf...
Joniqua Alvarez some people think she might of been playing the elevator game which is a ritual too get you into a ‘different world’ however to get to this world a woman will step into the elevator with you on the 5th floor and you shouldn’t look at her or speak to her cause she’s apparently not human
Perhaps the person posdibly a woman asking her to meet up on the top of building where the water tanks are, we might have seen the person if the cctv footage hadn't been erased
@@sooviiee8745 people are not rude. only some idiots like the guy above who have ego problems haha
1:25 she put her hands up like when somebody point at you with a gun.
One thing I've always wondered about this video.. why I think someone set her up. Is how long the door stayed open. Like she was in the elevator for SO long and the door never once closed until she walked away... Like someone was holding it opening until she gave up using it.
Right what elevator door stays open that long like fr tho. It wouldve gone back to the lobby or to the next call pressed needing a ride.
It was because she had pressed the hold button in the elevator
She pressed a heavy cargo button which can last 2 minutes
Whoever was outside the elevator knew it had a camera. And didnt want to be spotted. So they stood there pressing the open button until she walked out of camera frame . They took her by the hair at 2:32
I wish there was audio so we could hear if she was talking to someone.
@@OreganoParsley That’s why I said “I wish” ok? 🙄 you’re rude
True because we couldn’t hear what excately she was saying !and was she talking to herself or with someone in the lobby!
There is audio, (maybe). But i think no one actually got a hold of it rather than the LAPD
All that we have is the cause of her death and why.
There probably isn't audio. I don't believe in ghosts. I do work in, and on top of elevators. Someone could have been on top of the elevator. The door operation can be controlled from the top, and you would be looking around wildly if someone was talking to you from the top as well.
@@chrislawrence6288 Thanks for that info, now i know. :p
Imagine being one of the people who had to complain because their water tasted bad and finding out what it was lol
apparently it tasted really sour
"lol" that isn't really funny
@@reaganb6013 shutup
@@marmooki you shut up
Did they get sick or something?
What if people with schizophrenia are those who see the real ghosts and we don't even know that they do.
Happy Birthday Elisa Lam 😢🎉
So all that time she was there, the doors refused to close but when she left it had no problem closing. Mkay.
Not an expert on elevators, but I assume that it stayed open simply because it operates by detecting motion. They are built that way in an effort to keep them from shutting while someone is still in the process of stepping in or out. Elisa repeatedly darted in and out of the thing the entire time she was there. As far as the elevator is concerned, it wasn't going to shut until she was out of the way, which is, probably, why we saw it abruptly do so as soon as she disappeared from view.
She is away from the sensors for a long time though isn’t she. And they don’t seem to close for a weirdly long time - Surprising
I feel she was murdered and that it was one of the staff she was found dead on the roof you need a special key card to get into and I think the elevator was shut down
Michelle Cena Nah me either, you’re fine lol. I’m just confused bc when she first got on it, she was fine though, but the doors didn’t budge at all for a few long moments. The elevators at my job are crusty and dinky but the doors close a good five or so seconds after getting on them. But she waited awhile so I’m wondering wtf gave
And at the end it opened n shut again n again.
What really creeps me out is that we can only see her but she was seeing something else. Something that was on the scene and on the spot, even if we can’t see
Or she was hallucinating.
@@mygirldarby i think shes hallucinating
Helena Ricardo pls never play the game guys 😰
She was on drugs
The hallucinating killed her? How stupid is that answer
there was a cut in the middle of the video so they might have cut some parts out for some reason 2:58 even before that time stamp the number begin to glitch which is weird
Omg yess I just realised too
This shit just triggered my anxiety . This is by far the creepiest surveillance video I ever seen.
Imagine the parents seeing this last sad and disturbing video of their daughter. Breaks my heart.😢😢
I imagine
hi I am youcef from algeria
Agreed
Hi, I'm from to Spain, any speak Spanish???
@Martin Lopez Oh Martin how I hate u r so sad and that being a father will happen for u so very soon.👍❤
Rest in peace.
This tape is so unsettling to say the least. This is the last known footage of Elisa and that honestly scares me so much. Stay safe everyone please.
thank u
Thanks
Thanks man be safe too
Thank you sniper mask
Thanks you too
It really looks like part of the video was cut bc at one point it’s still open then the next second it’s almost half way closed
Yes, i think they cut the video
2023 year. who's there?
2025
Whether it's a hallucination, ghost, etc.. she's definitely interacting with something... we just can't see it.
we shouldve been able to see it; ghosts make common occurrence on cameras but we cant see them with our own eyes
It couldn't have been a ghost, she had to have been murdered by a staff working at the hotel. You'd think that they would release camera footage from the roof, but they refused to release it. I'd also like to point out that you would need a special kind of keycard to gain access to the roof. So it was obviously a staff member. I think she was raped and then murdered by a staff and then was placed in a water tank to hide evidence. Overall, I think that the hotel staff are trying to hide this from us.
@@colorado_river5003 thats so fucking scary omg. What do you think about her interacting with someone/thing in the elevator? That cant really be explained unless the whole video is somehow edited
@@Dana-qt8xi she could be hallucinating
@@Dana-qt8xi I think she just had anxiety and kept looking down the halls to look for any people that could murder her. That's why I think she kept looking out of the elevator and stuff.
the way she hides in the corner is terrifying me
It's not frightened behavior, though. Anxious, maybe, but not frightened. Her body language throughout the video is 100% playful. She's in the corner waiting to surprise someone who never comes in, or even near. I think someone promised her an illicit nighttime swim in the water tank, and for whatever reason, she trusted them enough not to realize they were avoiding cameras on the way to the roof -- this one in particular. This is a four-minute argument about taking the stairs.
@@Avelcaine make sense tho. I am guessing that she is not trying to make the elevator close but to make it open (?) So the guys who are not detected would go in (?).
She had mental illness that caused manic episodes
@@Avelcaine If she was playful, why did she try to go down when she walked inside the elevator? That doesn't seem like she was waiting for someone, I think that her manic episode got worse after she realized that the elevator was broken. She thought that her imaginary person did it to the elevator, so she went outside to talk to him.
But what does she do with her hands at 1:57
Rest in Peace Elisa. 🕯️🕊️
What I also find sad is that nobody ever apologized to Pablo. Nobody, and that's just cowardice. Cyberbullying is just as cruel as murder. Those who accused him of murder go on living as before...he can no longer do it. He survived, but some of the cyberbullying victims did not.
I wish Pablo a lot of strength and that he stays strong. 💪🏻🍀
Who's Pablo? Sorry I'm fairly new to her case.
After Nine years of thinking, still no one can solve this mystery..... RIP Elisa lam
Not to be cheesy, but this still haunts me to this day. Whether she was killed or killed herself, she was found in the hotel water tank. Guests were complaining of the taste/appearance of the water... the DEAD BODY WATER...........
Vivian Cheung wait she was found in the water tank
According to the news, yeah..
Yes but how did she get in there?
Never Alone
loca 1337 no way she wasn’t murdered
The Cap of water tank is very heavy, so i think any other person is with her
---Sorry for bad English--
When she just enters to the elevator she doesn't seem like she's hidding
she kinda looks playful she might be having a psychotic episode
True
in wikipedia says that experts in the study of body expression think that she was flirting with someone.
@@rafaelvaldivia4698 Interesting...
@@rafaelvaldivia4698 she had bipolar, wasent taking her meds at the time of her death meaning she probably did have an episode and tripped the fuck out
@@jaydenkenworthy2454 but there are things that just don't add up with that, like how did she end up naked? how did she end up in the tank? why was there rectal bleeding and trauma but no where else? it just doesn't add up with psychotic episode
RIP Elisa Lam! Sorry this happened to you in city of Angels 😔 😢
the video was cut after she walks out of frame.
1. The seconds in certain moments are stopped and then resume.
2. When the door finally closes it is already almost halfway, then when the lift goes to the other floors, the door closes starting from the beginning and not from the middle
It’s just so heartbreaking how terrified she must have been, believing someone was coming after her until the last second of her life. I hope she’s happy and well in Heaven.
People with demons don't go heaven read your bible if you have one.
@@jainorman3425 she didn’t have any demons-
@@jainorman3425 ah yes, christians believing that everything fucking revolves around them again, how nice :)
And how fucking dare you to have the BLM sign as your icon when you're clearly not liberal..
So according to you it just happened casually, it was meant to be lol 🤦♀️
@@anastasijadora2895 literally how did you come to that conclusion
As it says in the documentary, she had bipolar disorder and wasn't taking her pills. Her family mentioned she sometimes had hallucinations which leads to panic attacks, so there might've been nobody with her and she could've been having hallucinations that there was somebody coming to kill her which is why she was acting strange. She went to the rooftop, and saw the water tank as her hiding spot to protect herself. She got in, and took off her clothes to try and swim up because she probably thought the weight of her clothes were pushing her down. But I will respect everyone's theories, so don't feel pressured to follow the same theory as me.
i vibe with this theory a lot ! but there were some people she knew saying that her medication was going ok? and how did she get to the rooftop herself when there were the doors that always started alarming when they were opened? scary.
@@kerttukaroliina9343 She most likley went through out a window to get to the rooftop, and might've been lying to her non-relatives about the whole medication thing. But yes, the whole case is creepy and there isn't enough evidence to say if she was murdered or not. It's kind of weird.
@@stxr_cat yeah, great points!
Probably some employee took advantage of her inconvenience and took her to the terrace to abuse her upstairs, since there were no cameras there. She obviously tried to resist, but it was murderous. So, to stand as a witness, the clerk threw the body into the water tank (to get rid of fingerprints), his only mistake was closing the lid. In order for the hotel's image not to get ugly these days after everything that happened, the owner made an agreement with the police to stifle the case as much as possible, which is consistent with the edited videos and insufficient information, making it appear to be a suicide for bipolar disorder.
Acc to me its a rape and murder case and some staffs were involved in this case. They all took the advantage of her . weakness .
As everyone is saying that it’s horrifying to think that everyone was drinking water with her fragments, wanna tell you my dear fellows.. it’s a hotel guys! Nobody drinks water from Tap!!!
What? Some people do lol 😂
Also you don’t need to drink the water. You cook with water, you shower with it, brush your freaking teeth 😂
People also bathe 😂
The fact that this has no audio. It wouldve greatly helped the case. You sure this is the only tape offered by the hotel?
The way she’s moving her hands looks so unnatural...
It almost looks like sign language. Like paybe she is trying to talk to someone just off camera
it almost looks like the fingers are edited
@@sophieanderson6263 especially how this was released like after days of her death..and the fact that they said they didn't have any 'cameras' other than the lifts ...
Yea the way she was moving seemed like she was going crazy, and that little hop at 0:53 was more playful looking than anything
It kind of looks like she is talking to someone outside of the elevator. Like she is using her hands while she’s talking...
Anyone else feel so uncomfortable and weird watching this especially when she does her hand movements😳it just seems so unormal and unsettling, gives me the spooks
i belive with her hand movements she belived that she was swimming. and she was not taking her medicene an if she wasnt taking it she would see things that werent there and here voices that werent there. then i think that why she went up o try to swim thats why i belive she went up in the water tank
@@sophiar9823 no do some research maybe , the door to get on roof was locced , and theres a game u play here where u enter some different universe and if u break the rules u die , and i believe she also saw how she was dying thats why she was "swimming" but also idk , all ik is its some paranormal shit not cause of medicine not being took
@@lrecklessl did you watch the Netflix documentary? Have you done some research? The police dogs had her scent leading all the way up to a fire escape that led to the roof. Elisa had a history of not taking her meds, and in the autopsy report there was hardly any in her system. I believed for the longest time that she was murdered but it’s most respectful to think logically. She was having a bipolar manic episode. She believed somebody was chasing her. During maniac episodes people experience being delusional and hallucinations. In the documentary it alway states that her family says she’s had breakdowns before, some that often led to her being hospitalized. As much as I love the paranormal accepts we can get into this case, we have to think actual logic here and not folklore.
@@lrecklessl also I have an article that you can read sites.gsu./anesujunior/support-2/ it gives a further explanation to the whole medication thing just copy and paste.
I actually wish I was in that lobby. I don't know what I could have done. I would like to have thought I could have done something. I feel a guilt I my husband tells me I don't deserve because I was no where near the area (was in Kentucky). But still doesn't stop one from wishing they could have been there.
I remember this news when it was new, cannot imagine that it has been 10 years.
Looks like she wasn't alone😢
She is acting extremely cautiously, as if something scary is present, that's why she keeps stepping backwards and going back to see what's there , those hand gestures, she is definitely talking with someone
@@paintflaw you know that doesn't make people talk to themselves right?
Maybe there is someone else that doesn't wanna appear to the camera
It’s called psychosis and hallucinations
herewego034 actually she had bipolar, and sometimes if u are off ur bipolar meds, u can’t hallucinate.
She clearly hallucinate ,check this second footage of her ua-cam.com/video/c_YtO7dna0k/v-deo.html
It was the most impressive documentary I've ever watched. It has helped me gain new perspectives on many issues that touch different areas of life. I'm so sorry we lost such a sincere person.
Wasn't that good. Most of the people made baseless accusations and assumptions. Morbid just did crazy stuff for fans. The girl more than likely kill herself
It changed how I see the mystery of Elisa lam and how I first knew the story from another UA-camr but this documentary changed my POV towards this case , Elisa lam you will forever be missed 🙌 RIP I hope heaven is treating you right ❤️
Except for that Kiwi Kimii girl. That was pathetic
Quomodo cecidisti de caelo, Lucifer , fili aurorae?! Deiectus es in terram, qui deiciebas gentes!, qui dicebas in corde tuo: ‘In caelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte conventus in lateribus aquilonis; ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo ...........................
yo bro i used ur second sentence for my essay tysm
I just finished the documentary on netflix. i hope she's at peace now. poor girl, rip elisa lam.
I think it was that she was scared the elevator door wasn't closing even though there were no one there.
The way she moves her hands is very unsettling. Someone knows exactly how she got into that water tank.
Hopelessly Arts her hands look disproportionately large too.
Look at this... ua-cam.com/video/c_YtO7dna0k/v-deo.html it’s like she got possessed or sum
Sign language maybe?
Better talk to the cops and show them your evidence
Guys, chill, shes doing a tik tok dance B)
I do not claim any negative spirits or things from this video.. rest peacefully Elisa❤️
sasha i found your comment hahaha! how weird lmao
hello fellow sibling
stop making this so self centered..
@@heaven8797 wha- how
agreed 💕🥺
Cant believe this was 10 years ago, i remember got scared watching this
Its sad to see her final days on earth to be like this 😢
Same case like teleka Patrick. Paranoia killed them. Elisa most likely got into that tank herself to get away from “someone” then ended up drowning.
This is popular again bc of netflix' show trending right now, but I remember when this first happened, by god this video freaked me out back then
i mean i was 7 when it happened but i do remember seeing stuff about it ok tv and it freaked me out
I just saw the show on netflix and wanted to see the video. I don't remember this at all. Strange video. Is netflix series any good?
@@Dzoni_u_kupaoni Its good. But what happened to her was highly predictable half way into the second last episode. Still worth it. Very interesting case.
@@Dzoni_u_kupaoni Its not bad if you can tolerate the crazy conspiracy theorists and the fact that it's a little dragged out. It could be done in 2 episodes, but they stretch it out for 4.
@@carolmullins Exactly!! Once i found out you know what like halfway into the second. I was like. Um yea. That is a HUGE thing about her they never brought up till then. lol
I think it's stupid how they didn't put cameras in the hall way if they did we could see everything
There were more cameras in the hallway. That footage has not been released due to "People walking past" and not wanting to be seen.
@@tarisacowgill3183 that makes no sense
look in the reflections of the elevator
@@ktheone6000 no? the police could still watch it, they just couldn’t release the footage on the internet
@@tarisacowgill3183 Couldn't they blur their faces?
her blogspot is called etherfields. she had written so much before july of 2012. her twitter and tumblr are still up. reading her posts really just makes you familiarize with her. she talks about her mental health journey, how her high school life was like, and talks about her interests. it’s like reading anne frank’s diary; you know what happened to her in the end even though you hope the stars it doesn’t. i’m glad she left this part behind; may she rest in peacefully :( 🌹🕊️
Rest easy, Elisa Lam ❤
At first... it looks like she’s confused at why the doors won’t close so that kinda explains the weird jumping in & out.. maybe trying to see if they would close? And then she presses all the buttons, again maybe trying to get the doors to close? But then her looking like she’s talking to someone- it doesn’t make sense. I want to convince myself that she’s conversing with someone down the hall & explaining the issue with the elevator doors but something just seems weird/odd. Off. And then the doors close. I don’t get it. Strange 😳
she looks both directions n then hides? i reckon she heard something
She's schizophrenic and seeing things
Maybe the person was holding a knife so she was trying to run away
Also waves her hands to check y it isn't closing. Well def hotel got elevator issues.
yeah and her dead body was found in a water tower that took multiple firemen to open
My mom died during a psychotic episode similar to this. She was afraid of being followed and went somewhere to be alone, but without food. We struggled to understand what happened for the same reasons - it’s so antithetical to what someone in their right mind would do. And yet the mind is a powerful thing.
We see killers or the supernatural in these cases because we can’t understand what it’s like to be them. So we can’t imagine how they’d end up this way.
If someone you know talks about hearing voices or is paranoid, take it seriously and get them some help. You can save someone’s life. I wish I had
Sorry about your mom.
gosh...
I am very sorry about your mom.
I practically disagree with this theory alot, she was talking to someone or she was trying to do something. She looks like she is describing something. If she went into that water tank, how would she close it? There would have been bruises on how her fingers. Now, hiding a body in a water tank is a way to get rid of fingerprints. I think she was about to be sex****** assaulted. Assuming her state when found she wasn't though. Plus, if she had an epsiode you need to be specific. Did her family ever say she had such epsiodes for the 22 years of living?
She was killed and we refuse to except this, it was a horrible death.
If she went up the fire escape she was running obviously.
It was most likely a former hotel staff from when she was staying. The police might already know but haven't revealed the info.
If this had happened it was maybe two men.
Relating to your theory if she had done so, the person who Left her body closed the tank and just left her there, or the tank top just fell magically.
I am so sorry for your mom.
No one deserves the pain of their mom dying please take care of yourself :)
I'm sorry about your mom....this is a heart breaking story....I've seen to many Cecil hotel videos but i can't get over them to know the misery of elisa lams death
Im so sorry to hear that
The fact that they cutted the 53 seconds of the footage:(
on behalf of everyone I am extremely sorry for watching this video without your permission and thank you for letting us know the backstory
This is actually really serious, but some people are like: "wHo'S wAtChInG iN 2019?"
Eu ainda assisto em 2019
Well then they found this girl dead in the water tank of building Cecil hotel
Yo hablo en español :v
Y si yo estoy viendo esto en 2019
@@anyiynn sorry I don't speak Spanish :/
@@uglyasmflol but I understand English :3
the fact that the elevator started moving *after* she left scares me
it was just backed up and going through all the shit she asked it to beforhand , like when your pc runs slow cos youve clicked on shit befor other shits loaded ya know?
There is some people that have been in the hotel to investigate and there is a button to hold the door, apparently if you press it the door will be open for 2 entire minutes until it closes. And also in the video it seems that there is a cut of almost 60 seconds (people on the internet have analyzed the video and the blurry date and time), so tbh the door didn’t closed immediately when she left. Anyways it is some strange behavior for an elevator
@@CreepyCooperMc thank you for some clarification !!
It's because she hit all the floor buttons.
@@Mizu-AM And also if you look at the elevator on 0:14 you can see little movement of the elevator closing then opening again.
That's sad that people don't realize there was a hacker to save the 'killer' to not get caught.
explination of the doors not closing: many times in the video you can see her spam pressing almost all of the elevator doors. a button elevators usually have is a button to keep the doors open for 30 seconds or even 2 minutes. you might have seen these buttons yourself. they typically show elevator doors and arrows point forward (door close button) or arrows pointing away from eachother (doors open button). because the doors stay open for quite a while, it was most likely closer to a 2 minute timer.
I got goosebumps when she did movements w her hands
Same
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Same
same
She was talking to someone
The most creepy part is when she waving her hands
Yeah it got the poop out me
It looks like she could be on drugs, I don’t know how no one is saying this could be a possibility
Nevermind I was only on episode 2 on Netflix lol
I’m watching the documentary about this on Netflix right now💀
Me too! Watching the doc right now, just got to episode 2. It looks as if she’s just playing around with the buttons and the elevator. Like a little kid who’s parents aren’t watching while they run in and out of the elevator.
Here's my theory: She is being followed by at least one person and another person is operating the elevator (this is the only way to explain the doors not working at first and then opening and closing several times at the end with seemingly no cause). She gets in the elevator to get away from her pursuer and pushes all the buttons so that she'll be able to find a floor where she has no adversary. However, the elevator operator keeps the doors from closing so that she can't get away. She either picks up on this or gets another idea: "the guy chasing me will expect me to go to another floor so I'll send the empty elevator to throw him off. However after trying this and changing her mind once or twice, her adversary does show up and she pleads for her life (the part where she seems to be talking to someone). She then runs down the hall to get away and to the roof (where her body was later found) where her attacker met her and drowned her. The elevator operator, meanwhile, kept opening the doors so that he could see what was going on on that floor, but both Elisa and the pursuer had already left.
This is something you won’t have noticed but when she gets in the door starts to close them opens again so she gets scared and looks out the doors
Anybody here because of Netflix? 😂😂😂
Haaaaaaay hahahaha
Yasss
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Yes yes! Premiere on Feb. 10
Yes
Even after 6 years people still come to watch this
Appeal of the unknown. People want to find out the events that led to her tragic end, myself included.
She's clearly mentally ill, but that doesn't explain turning up naked in a water tank...
@@UncleButterworth this video was editted by the police, there is something that they didn't want us to know.
陈子深 it’s possible, I mean there has to be more than just this, there’s too many open holes in this mystery that have to be found out.
HKMH Dariani one lead would be how did she get into the water tank ? There would have to been at least another person to help her but other than that she can’t do it by herself
she doesn't deserve to be forgotten, I'm glad they are
at least not forgotten untill the mystery is solved
I wish Kudou Shinichi was real so I could hire him...
The fact that she got all those hallucinations is because she did not know the existence of that "hold open" button... Seriously, what is the purpose of that btn???
2:53 there are about 3 cuts before the door closes which could possibly mean that the tape was tampered with or maybe its just cause its really old.
The door opening and closing could be because of how old the elevator is, all the buttons she pressed, or maybe there was a struggle or something outside that caused the up/down elevator buttons to be pressed and therefore opening the elevator
Idk but those hand movements she makes outside of the elevator just creeps me out completely...
She was probably seeing things and she wanted to make sure it was real
for the elevator censor
@@popcorngirl1018 yes right, but what explains why the elavator doors wouldn’t close even when the time given was a appropriate time to close maybe a little idk, this case is very creepy and mysterious we will never have full answers of what happens to Elisa.😔
@@rampageytt5824 I mean, the hotel is around 90 years old. I can see how pressing the buttons like that could cause a malfunction, especially with old tech. Even if they did update it.
@@Plazmasoldier I can confirm elevators in old buildings in Downtown LA are horrendous. I was running a big delivery a few weeks ago and was sliding big boxes into an elevator when the door started closing on me and legitimately would not stop, even with me moving my arms for the sensors. I tried to hold the doors apart but they kept closing on my upper body, so obviously I got out of the way to prevent any Final Destination stuff from happening.
My boxes got trapped in there and one of the boxes fell against the door which wouldn't allow the doors to open. The elevator was stuck for 30 minutes, then started hopping to random floors.
'If someone has depression don't ask why, there is no why.' - Elisa Lam :(
there is a why depressed people just dont like to share.
@@yolotoko2393 sometimes the brain just isnt working properly and that makes u feel depressed thats why they give meds to some people because it can be a medical issue due to brain chemicals (im not a doctor so i cant explain how it works)
@@makemecry6604 some countries depressed people are not blessed to get meds. they just deal with it in silence until it's too late.....
@@yolotoko2393 not always,I have depression and idk why ,its the most frustrating thing in the world
@@nadiasrec are u an introvert?
It’s scary with the fact that this was the last video of Elisa Lam.
I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things
I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things & live our lives the best we know how.
Knowing we all live our different lives in unique ways, the video’s creepiness wears off. In this scenario, in my opinion, Elisa was a young college student, traveling, who had a lack of understanding of the elevator, was trying to get the elevator to work, but the scanner of this elevator had been used for many years, so it didn’t work as well as it did years ago. Finally when she decides to get off the elevator & walk away the door shuts & starts moving again, probably cause no one was in the path of the elevator scanner, like how any elevator scanner works.
I can’t completely understand why she would press all the buttons, maybe she wanted to travel to every floor, maybe she was bored & going up & down in an elevator was a fun idea, but in the end, she encountered this crappy elevator & this creepy footage was created.
1:30 Notice how when she walks back into the elevator, she has big smile on her face, I think she had gotten frustrated & the only thing she could do was just smile it off. I think we’ve all been in situations like that.
2:27 - 2:28 Elisa turns left, LIFTING HER RIGHT FOOT TO AVOID HITTING SOMETHING, MAYBE A DOG.
She wasn’t alone in that hallway, Elisa felt comfortable enough to talk to someone about the elevator, someone else was there. The Cecil employees or the investigators are not giving us the full story, something “human influenced” happened there. Someone is lying.
This could make sense, but explain to me how the door is closing and quickly goes back into place even tho she was not infront of the scanner 0:10
@@noorfonteyn6291Because the employee controlling the elevator was preventing it from moving, either remotely or by holding the button down outta view…
this is terrifying, the fact people were drinking the water with fragments of her BODY in it is so scary, i’m sending prayers to her family, she seemed like such a sweet person:(
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End of the chain
@@praesidium4278 wasn't planning one
The mystery shoe looks like her own. She must’ve taken a weird step which isn’t a surprise since we see her do that throughout the video.
Exactly!
I said the same thing
Minute??
@@brichumlb 2:27
Yes it’s the heal of her shoe. It moves with her. It also is standing on the spot she was just standing in.
Truly one of the most mysterious cases I've ever heard of..I hope her case once will be solved.. it's been 10 years..poor girl
At 2:01 the fact that she acted to talk to someone scares me to death.