So many aspects of this story sound like urban legend, but it's all true. In 2013, guests staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles reported their water was a dark color. The hotel sent a maintenance man to fix it. It turns out the problem was a human corpse in the water tank, which had been decomposing for at least two weeks. The body belonged to Elisa Lam, and police never figured out who killed her (or whether she killed herself).
But wait, it gets creepier. When police looked at security tapes of the elevator on the suspected day of Lam's death, they saw the victim acting... strangely. She got in the elevator, pressed a bunch buttons, and peered out when the door opened, as if looking for someone. She looked terrified the entire time. When she finally left, the doors of the elevator opened and closed a second time, as if someone else was there, but unseen. Was she being followed? Or was Lam, diagnosed as bipolar and depressive, having an episode? We may never know.
Want to hear something else creepy? Her blog continued to update after she died. It's possible she had posts in her queue scheduled to publish, but still. Some suggest Lam had tuberculosis, and point out that the test used to determine whether someone has TB is called LAM-ELISA.
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FantastiqueGhost stories ranging from weird to understandably frightening. Some are my experiences. If the stories on the page are (presumably) true, the word 'true' will be written at the bottom of the page in bold lettering.
