Elisa Lam is an interesting story to me because it deals
with psychiatric disorders. In case you didn’t read my earlier blog on the
Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, she was the woman who was videotaped acting strange
on the elevator and was eventually found in the hotel’s water tower deceased, two
weeks later. It’s a weird and creepy story that had people going crazy trying
to come up with explanations and pulling the typical piece by piece analysis to
try and prove whatever theory they had without looking at the entire thing.
Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who was
staying in the hotel. People who spoke with her prior to her disappearance
thought she was acting strangely. She is then captured in the elevator footage
acting as if she is playing hide-and-seek and communicating with someone who is
not there. Two weeks later, after guests complained about the water, a
maintenance man discovered her in one of the water towers on top of the hotel. The
police investigated and ruled her death accidental. Internet detectives were
quickly on the scene.
Why was she acting strangely on the video?
Because the police confirmed she either had, or probably
had, bi-polar disorder and was obviously experiencing psychosis; she was not on
drugs. End of that piece of evidence. No, she wasn’t possessed, and no she wasn’t
talking to ghosts, demons, or any other evil spirits, she was hallucinating and
delusional.
Why did the elevator stay open for three minutes?
Well, she pressed a bunch of buttons and maybe the elevator
had a sensor on it, triggered by her constantly moving back and forth inside
and outside of it. Her hand constantly waves between the doors at one point, so
that makes sense. Also, the color of the walls doesn’t change when the elevator
doors open. Well, they do, but it’s on a different floor, with different color
walls. Some people also suggest that the time on the camera changes by a few
seconds here and there, but maybe it’s motion activated? Also, I would think an
otherworldly entity with the ability to stop a camera for one second would go
ahead and make it not work at all.
How did she get on the roof?
This one is simple. The fire escape. She walked up it to the
roof. There were only two ways to get there, and that was one of them. I keep
reading about how there was an alarm on the entrance that should have sounded
and that’s true. It was an alarm on the door leading from the stairs, which she
did not take. The fire escape could obviously be accessed with ease, like
pretty much every fire escape.
Why was she naked and what happened to her clothes?
I think only internet sleuths were concerned with her
clothes. She was obviously psychotic before her death and probably took her
clothes off before going swimming. The roof is windy, because it’s a roof and
high in the air. Her clothes could have blown away, she could have thrown them
off the roof and the homeless picked them up, or one of the maintenance men
could have found them, assumed it was nothing, and got rid of them.
How did she get in the water tower?
She climbed the obviously visible ladder in the pictures and
jumped into it. The water towers were never said to be locked, only the
entrance to the roof. Some people also claim that it is impossible for her to
get inside one, because apparently there is no entrance to them, but they got
her out, so I would assume there is. Maybe she climbed up, sat on the edge,
took her clothes off and tossed them into the air where they went over the
side, and then she dove into it. Also, people want to know how the lid closed
by itself, because now there is one, but no one said it stayed open, so it
probably closed on top of her.
What about the serial killers, suicides, murders, etc.?
What about them? It’s Los Angeles, one of the most populated
cities in the world, and the hotel has anywhere from 300-600 rooms and over
time started catering to the criminal element. The entire area around it is a
slum with a large homeless population.
Why are the police secretive about the investigation?
They’re not. It wasn’t a member of your family, so it’s none
of your business. Additionally, they answered all of the questions post people have
put forth, but that wasn’t good enough, apparently.