Now she's walking around on the roof and sees the ladder that leads to the landing just above the tanks. Perhaps she'll get some great photos up there? Perhaps the view is awesome? She's easily bypassed any alarm. Again, in an adventurous mood on her last night in LA, just after pressing several buttons to explore the Cecil, she decides to take a quick climb up. She heads back to the window to re-examine the fire escape to the roof, and realizes that the roof is just one floor above. Luckily she remembers the fire escape she had just seen while taking photos/exploring. Now she might be thinking she's trapped on the floor for a while. Elisa has no idea how long this button holds the door for. She's counting the time on her fingers as it passes. This time however she seems to examine the buttons more closely. Confused, she again presses the "Hold Door" button a second time. She jumps around the doorway of the elevator, waves her hands between the doors all in an attempt to hopefully trigger it to close. It's not until she seems to realize the door doesn't shut that she becomes concerned.įrom this point in the video all of her movements seem to focus around the doorway of the elevator, or to hide from it. She becomes confused when the elevator doors do not shut. Hotel staff say the button holds the door open for quite a while and is designed for people moving furniture/garbage so the door doesn't shut on them. She unknowingly pressed the "Hold Door" button on the Cecil Hotel elevator panel as it was in line with all the various floor buttons she had pressed down the center column. She didn't seem frantic, scared or manic, she actually seemed in a good mood, pressing all the buttons. Being young and feeling like she had lots of time to kill and adventurous, she pressed a bunch of floor buttons to check out the building or just to goof off. This explains why she was up there in the first place. I think she went to the top floor, took a few photos/had a look, then went back to the elevator. Elisa has made it obvious through her social media that she likes this point of view. If you look at her Instagram the last few photos she had posted were from various roof tops high places and her Tumblr seems to have several similar posts with that theme of city scapes. I think she went to the roof to take some pictures or just to have a look. This addresses many of the "impossible mysteries" surrounding the case. If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.This is the simplest version of events based on the evidence that exists. Source notes: (there are tons of theories of what happened in this case so you will included are a lot of links to theories / opinions and NOT actual - The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (this was used for supplemental research and not for the facts of the case)ĭISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full).
How did she get up there? Why was she in the water tanks? What about the elevator footage? Things just get stranger from here. There he found the body of Elisa Lam in one of the water tanks. They sent a maintenance man to go check on the water tanks on the roof that only staff had a key to - as it was a restricted access area and armed. Guests of the Cecil Hotel started complaining about water quality issues - their tap water was brown and had a strange taste to it…
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