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The mysterious death of Elisa Lam

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Maybe she was on drugs? I've seen people at raves get E'd up and do that weird stuff with their hands. Perhaps she was "trippin' balls" as they say and somehow accidentally managed to get herself killed.

Although it is weird that the elevator just won't close for her, and she does seem a little paranoid poking her head out and looking around like that. That could also be drugs though (the paranoid part). Maybe she was too F'd up and didn't realize that she hit the emergency stop or service button.

Something just doesn't sit right though. If you're that messed up on something it seems like finding and gaining access to a water tower is a lot of work. The serial killer history certainly adds to the "X" factor.
 
Exactly ! it's not that much of a stretch to suggest that there is a certain mystique to the place that would naturally pull in a bad element especially given its location near skid row, but I thought in this video she looked merely spooked not especially paniced or threatened. being bi polar maybe at this point she was just going through a phase and the real threat has to come along. but having said tbat I dont know how somone with tnat affliction WOULD react to a tbreat, maybe her movements are normal, but being bipolar or on drugs does not give you spidey powers to scale walls and access rooftops .

Another thought probably the assailant would know there was a camera in the elevator and wouldn't act at that point and that same assisliant would have access to the rooftop door and who if anybody would have access to the elevator controls to prohibit them from working properly.hhhmmmm.
The obvious path would be to bring in all employees for questioning but likely the police have done that already. Perhaps though, the assailant had an assist or was enabled by an accommodating employee.

On the other hand.....:)
 
Man. What a sad and creepy story. If it didn't say this video had been officially released by the police, I would think the whole story is a japanese horror movie style kind of hoax.

IMO it's eerily reminiscent of the movie "Dark Water". I only watched the american remake, but originally I guess it was a japanese short story and movie. Although it's set in an apartment building rather than a hotel, there are a few similarities. Water contaminated by a corpse in a rooftop water tank, a young woman seemingly reacting to a presence which may be only in her imagination.

Maybe she was mentally fragile like the heroine of the movie, or she felt similarly abandoned and in a dead end, which could have led to a kind of identification and ultimately led to her to commit suicide. IMO the strange hand waving gestures that look like she's "feeling the air" might even mean that she was reacting to some imagined ghostly presence. In the movie, it turns out to be the very real ghost of a little girl who wants her to be her "ghost mommy". Maybe she was kind of obsessed by the story and in a similarly dire situation .

One would have to know about her personal background and personality of course, to arrive at any conclusion about that. Probably I'm totally wrong.
 
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