Horror stories from multiple websites.

2 True stories.

Calls from the dead. 

On September 12, 2008, two trains collided in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, killing 25 people in the crash. One of the passengers onboard was Charles E. Peck, who was travelling from Salt Lake City for a job interview in L.A. His hopes were high on landing the job as his fiancée, Andrea Katz, lived in California and he planned to marry her if he was hired.

During the next eleven hours, Peck's mobile phone sent numerous calls to his fiancée, son, brother, stepmother and sister. Overall, his loved ones received a total of 35 calls, however each time they answered they only heard static. When they called back, the calls went straight to voicemail. They family could only be optimistic and assume Charles was alive in the wreckage and calling for help.

When the search team finally traced Peck's phone signal and discovered his body in a lead passenger car, where most major injuries and deaths occurred, they reported that Charles had died on impact, and that he couldn't have possibly made the calls.

What's even stranger, is that they never found the phone.

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Elisa Lam. 

A recent, and pretty frightening mystery. In February 2013, a 21-year-old student named Elisa Lam was found floating in a water supply tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. She had previously been reported missing. Her body was discovered by a maintenance worker after guests had complained that the water "tasted funny"; a grim thought indeed. However, there were no signs of visible trauma on the body and drug tests came back clear; ruling the death as accidental drowning.

What makes this case so eerily disturbing is the surveillance tap police put online, possibly showing some of Lam's final moments. Is her behaviour erratic that of a schizophrenic? She did have a history of bipolar disorder. Maybe someone outside the elevator?

Then there's the fact access to the roof was barricaded completely, protected by an alarm. The water tank lids are so heavy to access that workers had to cut them open to remove her body; so how then, exactly, did Lam get in the tank and replace the lid behind her? Bear in mind, no drugs or alcohol were found in her system and the hotel she stayed at is supposedly haunted by numerous ghosts and is the site of murders and suicides. 

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