my neighbors who were here during the investigation said this was the craziest part of the whole thing

side note that last line took me 100 takes to say right😭

I'd imagine they were trying to get DNA samples to check and see if anyone in the local vicinity was responsible for the murder.

Watching a Horror movie: 😃 Based on a true story: 💀

The actual reason the maintenance guy checked the tank is because people living in the building where complaining the water tasted weird.

The reason why they initially checked the water tanks is because her rotting body was being mixed with the drinking water, so people begun to experience foul smells and black water, and that’s when they realized it was actually her decomposing body that had caused the water to go bad in the first place..

Imagine being a resident who drank the dead body water! 🤢🤮

I know I’m super late to respond, but the first time I saw the elevator footage (along with already knowing she had some type of manic/bipolar issues) it was almost clear as to what she was doing. Again, I could be completely wrong since I have not yet seen the autopsy report (only heard comments that her medication dosages were low when checked). My mother was in a manic state for almost 3 years. Bipolar/manic/depression etc all run in our family. She clearly had it and unfortunately did not have the finances to remain on any medication she was given for it. I have seen and heard almost the exact type of behavior, minus my mother being in an actual elevator. It almost seemed like Elisa was hallucinating, maybe thinking someone was following her, due to normal nature of hearing others walk around in the hotel and whatnot. My mother can take very reasonable and rational situations and pull things from them like never before. Like catching a few words of a distant convo and saying it was about her, or directed towards her etc. If Elisa thought she was being followed and needed an escape, but was hallucinating at the same time, she could have easily tried to push all the buttons thinking she was going to get to another floor and escape her “follower/stalker”. But may have accidentally hit a button in which keeps the elevator doors open until the button is pushed to close. My mom would have immediately thought someone was fckin with her on the other side of the doors, hence why Elisa steps out and looks. Her hand movements almost seem like she’s checking the “sensors” on the doors, and potentially freaking out thinking that the only explanation for the doors to remain open was that someone was messing with her. Maybe she believed (in a state of psychosis) that the roof would be safer. Saw the water tank. Thought to herself: good hiding spot. Didn’t realize how quickly it could turn into something dangerous since maybe she wasn’t thinking clearly. It could be that the media is hiding something, but idk what to believe anymore lol. Jus thought I’d share my thought process and maybe relate to others that deal with mental illness or are dismissed when they or their family are going through these episodes. Either way, I hope you are at peace, Elisa Lam. 💔

Imagine watching a netflix show based on a hotel beside your house. 😭 Gives me the chills 🥶

Just makes the whole situation scarier…

Elisa was a 21-year-old Canadian student who disappeared in 2013 at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles while she was travelling across the US.A video of Elisa, filmed in a hotel elevator before she vanished, went viral when it was released by LA police during their investigation. The elevator doors didn't close. She appeared to be speaking with someone unseen. Her movements were strange. She jumped in and out of the elevator. Then, she vanished. footage from the Cecil Hotel was used to try and trace Elisa's final moments.Elisa's body was found in a water tank on the hotel's roof 19 days after she was first reported missing. The reason why they checked the tanks we because it affected the drinking water and people said it smelled weird and was turning black. That’s because he body was decomposing in the water that had caused it to go bad.

Okay, I want a full diy on the cloud ceiling please.

The music fits the whole skit great!

Imagine u r drank infused human body water. RIP Elisa Lam

If anyone is curious abt Elisa Lam, I highly recommend reading autopsy. Check the meds/side effects. I know there's still unanswered questions but there's some medical research abt a person's strength when they're in a state of desperation.

As soon as he said girl in the water tank I knew the story. This was such a crazy story and the fact she was just decomposing in the water and they didn’t even want to check it was disgusting.

“The story keeps changing.” So very true!!

When my grandpa was younger his neighbors where murdered in their summer home at the bottom of the hill down the road “The Robison” murders or “good hart murders” basically they never caught who did it because DNA testing didn’t exist in the 60’s and the person who they thought it was didn’t have enough evidence against him…he ended up killing himself- but, my grandpa said they came back from a weekend vacation, and for a few days before they left the smell of something rotting kept getting worse and worse, and when they came back from the weekend vacation it was so unbearable and clearly someone was dead. Well some ladies having a tea party called the police complaining about the smell, they where found murdered and the bodies where 6 weeks old. It was a father, mother, 2 older sons, a younger son and a younger daughter. The bodies where so rotten and decomposed that the house they died in smelled so terrible they had to burn the house down because they couldn’t get the smell to go away.

It was intentionally done! After Lam died, a tuberculosis outbreak plagued Los Angeles, especially among the homeless community in Skid Row by the Cecil Hotel. The test for the tuberculosis was literally her name, but backwards: LAM-ELISA, which stood for Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA).

Can you imagine using that water then knowing there was a dead body in the water tanks!!??? I would start taking a shower with bleach and one of those wire scrub brushes for the rest of my life!! I feel so awful for Lisa and her family! That is one of the rabbit holes I find myself in all the time-trying to see if I can figure out what was going on with her! It breaks my heart that she was alone and clearly terrified

If you haven’t seen it, the documentary about the Cecil hotel is one of the most terrifying and interesting movies I’ve ever watched! You’ll have chills the whole time.

I had to watch twice because I was in awe of Peet's gorgeous red hair first time around 😭

the craziest thing would be if 75% of crimes in this hotel happened from the maintenance/who has access to the security footage, they would literally be able to know how to get past ALL cameras, who has company who doesn't, if they live by themselves etc... it wouldn't be the first time someone would use this power/knowledge for evil, and if it's 2 people this wouldn't be the first time some psychos worked together. 🤷🏻‍♀️ so 😢

bruh the cloud ceiling is so pretty??? also i’m invested, i know the true story is probably out there on the internet but ur storytelling is awesome and i’d watch a show written by, directed by, and acted out by just you-

Story: Cecil hotel is the most dangerous hotel full of drug dealers, rapers, murderers it’s awful. Elisa lam fell victim to someone when she went in a elevator and waited and waited. The elevator arrived. She looked out. Went back in and the security footage they were watching cut out. Soon enough her body was found in the water tank. No clothes. Dead. It’s sick to think about

Hmm never knew about the whole TB thing with neighbors... God could you even imagine watching it all unfold from your window!!!

I am so happy to see someone else noticing the weird stuff the news does too.

The cloud ceiling and your hoodie drawstrings colours are fascinating 😍

That must have been so scary for everyone. Also I am early, I love your channel!! RIP Elisa Lam

make more of your haunted and investigatory videos pleaseee, we miss them :(

From experience working at hotels.... cheap hotels...this kind of stuff happens more than you think especially in downtown L.A. A lot of the time the killer is a rich person and pays off the hotel managers and directors. And that's how they get away. The directors erase CCTV footage and are in personal connections with law enforcement.

Was sad to find out the Cecil had its signage removed after being sold. Went to LA this summer and it was in my bucket list of places to see. Also, very shady area to visit at night.

I honestly want to get more into this story. This my first time hearing about this

Me: thats enough internet for today

That bedroom ceiling looks very flammable. 😬

People complained of funny tasting water. They started using water pressure after they realized even more legal issues with the fact of people drinking body waste.

I need to know more about that cloud ceiling! ☁️

Omggg love the room clouds wow

Thank you for sharing this! Can’t believe she survived those 14 hours, or any of it really. Every part of this story shocked me. Glad there was a happy ending against all odds

she also had some kinda of psychotic break before she went missing, but she also ended up in the water tank and the lid was closed which she would have never been able to close once in the tank as it was to high, meaning someone locked her in there

Peet! Aside from the creepy true story..... I love the way you've decorated your flat 😲 amazing.

Peet you did not have to scare me today 😭 I was scrolling to KZfaq shorts with my earphones and the news reporter sounds like the outside world when I have my earphones in, so I was scared because I thought there was an actual dead body found on the tv.

That's like having a name of someone on national news being a code for an operation

This is kinda similar to the case of Debanhi Escobar. Her body was found in the motel water tanks. They kept switch the story saying she drowned but there was no evidence in the body of drowning. Meaning she was first murdered then tossed away in there. Then they switched it saying she did have evidence of drowning but also evidence of being abused…. Rest in Peace 👼🏻🕊️🤍

This really creeped me out, especially the music. The music made this video scarier 😰

I have to say I wasn't too aware of the situation of Elisa Lam or the hotel until I had saw one of your prior videos where you tried to put the drone into the hotel. But since then, there there was a documentary that come out on Netflix that kind of explains the whole story and it was really sad, but very interesting. She seemed like a really nice person RIP Elisa Lam 🌺.

Elisa has bipolar disorder and you can see that in full display if you look at the footage of her in the elevator. She had an episode at the time of her death. The parent tried sue the hotel for negligence since they actually don’t have the water tank secured and it’s probable that someone like Elisa would be able to open it up and climb inside.

THANK YOU!! NEVER FORGET!!! SOMEONE HAPPENED

I want some storytimes from you about the scary instances and creepy shit you have seen at that hotel! Give us more creepy content!!!!!!

Can we get a tutorial on how you made the clouds on your ceiling?!?! Please 👏🏻👏🏻

Elisa Lam was a real person who was loved and a person who had hopes and dreams for her life. She isn't some creepy ghost story or a conspiracy theory and she definitely doesn't deserve to be treated as such. Rest in peace, Elisa

Her story and kaneka Jenkins story are insane

This is beautiful. You pulled this off so well. I love it!

I'm sorry I cant focus on the story anymore after seeing those clouds in the room I- I need those 💀

The video of her in the elevator creeped me tf out

Pete you’re so creative and talented!! I love your videos!

Your place looks so chill. I would be so afraid to live across from a haunted hotel though haha. You’re brave.

That case still gives me chills to this day

I am so sorry you went through this. How ironic on some of this. It definitely is weird.

Peet you should be an actor! You make my day!

The human body is amazing. The fact that an entire area could drink that water and have no adverse effects from it is a testament.

Hey buddy you should keep doing stuff like this this is really cool I know about the case but it makes me wanna watch the case again and that tb test thing kinda tripped me out lol

First I've ever heard of this 😅 my goodness. Thanks for sharing Pete 😊

Amazing apartment but right across from that hotel HELL NO WAY

I have to ask, dude; how did you do that cloud ceiling thing? Is that a tarp hanging from the rafters?

I live in Vancouver where her parents owned a restaurant and we know the family it was a truly sad and very bizarre situation .

This is a whole Webtoon story 💀

There is so much going on in this case it's wild. The TB test name 'coincidence' gives me goosebumps every time. RIP Elisa.

POV: *No one talking about the clouds in his room.* Edit: Thank you sooo much for the likes!! Edit: omg can we pass 1k to beat my high score?! Anyways, tysmmmm for all the likes!!

It really is strange and I’m completely hooked on the story of this place too. Pls give us updates when you can! Also, that last part was a mouthful. I would’ve given up and shoved the paper in the camera and said, “read this” lmao

I watched the documentary on this that Netflix has and it genuinely had me so mad. From how it was handled to how long it took to find that poor girl to this one guy who was accused for causing her death because he stayed at the hotel a year before she did and a song he wrote.

love the cloud ceiling, just make sure to check for spiders and bugs…

She also went to University and worked in a team of other medical students studying that specific type of tuberculosis.

I'm so distracted by this amazing apartment

EVERYONE NEEDS THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS WORLD! I support this

Everyone talking about being scared: Me: Oh wow, I love his cloud themed ceiling!

Can you make a full big video telling this story?? Btw love all your content 🥰

It was the TASTE if the water, nit the oressure. Let that sink in.

Regardless of what happened, still one of the creepiest true stories ever!

This actually made me stop drinking tap water and my friend still refuses to get into any elevator alone

People thought she might be in the tank before the official report about it?! That’s so chilling

I don’t know much about tuberculosis or the person who died, but there are many different ELISA tests to test for presence or concentrations of different things. There is a specific ELISA for each thing you want to test for. I’m not sure if it is limited to protein, viruses, bacteria, or anything else but they are commonly used in science.

The movie Dark Water was based on this story, and it's STILL one of my FAVORITE movies!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻great Job luv the video also It’s crazy when you think about this whole thing something was wayyy off it just didn’t make any sense

Your acting is great man!

You should do true crime stories.I would enjoy that

Disappearing Syndrome by Hail the Sun is based off this situation and it's SUCH A GOOD SONG

If I found out I lived next to that hotel I would run as fast as I could out of there.

Oh, man! Such a crazy story! I've read so much on it and discovered the TB and medication link early on but not THIS early on 😮

Brandon Rodgers helped filmed a Water tank case. You can find it in the interview with Anthony Padilla in his "A day with..." series.

doesn't usually comment on these vids but i had a terrible experience where me and my friends went to rent in an apartment and one day when i'm about to take a shower and brush my teeth, i saw the water coming out of the faucet looking a lil rusty and the smell of it is just awful. i still brush my teeth though only to find out later that day that there was a dead rat stuck on the water tank where the water we used came from. really gets into my nerves everytime i remember this thing, luckily we didn't get any diseases after that. still traumatizing though 🥲

Im 14 and took a “Principal’s of Law” class last school year. We went over here Elisa Lam case for s while and here is my theory, please share your thoughts :) (it’s been a while so it may not make sense) Ok so Elisa had a past of severe bipolar disorder, she also had another family member who had died in a similar way to her; in a large container of water, who also had the same disorder as her. The night she was seen going around the halls and elevator she hadn’t taken her medication. In the elevator footage she was seen as somewhat erratic and almost as if she was scared. Elisa was also seen hiding in the elevator and talking to either herself or someone else outside the elevator. It appeared she was having some sort of episode. I honestly don’t believe her “episode” could lead her to take her clothing off, throw it in the gravel, then pick it up, plop into the water tank and somehow pull the lid over herself. I believe someone took advantage of the fact that she was having her “episode” which is what lead to her being found in the water tank. Im sorry if this offended anyone who does have bipolar disorder; not all symptoms are the same or as severe as others. If you would like to add, comment or correct me pls let me know in the comments :)

Wait, hold up! WHAT? Is that the hotel across from you? Do you LIVE opposite the Cecil? 😳 Edit: He's brave living there because I've heard it's in a bad neighbourhood. Then it occurred to me the danger involved in just attending school there and thought, it's just another day living in America. 😌

This was such a sad story. Poor girl. 😢

“ok. one more short b4 bed” the one more short:

I’d love to hear from Brandon Rodgers about the case and his thoughts

I love your industrial style apartment I love it.

When I was a kid I was obsessed with this story and I forgot about it for years but it's so cool to be reminded of it

It’s a mystery why her last moments of life were her acting so strange on the elevator but to be honest it is the weirdest and saddest death i have ever heard

Loved those clouds!