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The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel — Elisa Lam's Disappearance
It all started with a creepy elevator video
In 2013 on January 31, a Candian student died in a hotel in Los Angeles. Her name was Elisa Lam, and her mysterious death has held us for more than eight years now because we still don't know what happened.
The last thing we saw from her was filmed on surveillance cameras in the hotel — she stepped into an elevator and behaved weirdly. The video was shared many times, and people still can't figure out what she was doing.
You can watch that video over here.
But even stranger is the fact that she was found in a water tank on the hotel's roof on February 19.
A Bit of Background Information
On April 30, 1991, Elisa was born and lived in Vancouver, Canada. She was born a daughter of a migrant couple from Hong Kong, and she studied at the University of British Columbia.
Lam had been diagnosed with bipolar illness and depression at the time. She had been given four prescriptions to address her conditions — Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Seroquel, and Effexor — and she had taken them all.
