The fact that people were drinking water that contained fragments of her body is just scary

Who paused netflix episode & came here to watch this video ? 🙋🏻‍♀️

The most creepy thing is "that elevator isn't closing" no matter how much minutes passed..

My mom died during a psychotic episode similar to this. She was afraid of being followed and went somewhere to be alone, but without food. We struggled to understand what happened for the same reasons - it’s so antithetical to what someone in their right mind would do. And yet the mind is a powerful thing. We see killers or the supernatural in these cases because we can’t understand what it’s like to be them. So we can’t imagine how they’d end up this way. If someone you know talks about hearing voices or is paranoid, take it seriously and get them some help. You can save someone’s life. I wish I had

the way she moves her hands is terrifying...

I feel like someone is watching me while i'm watching this video

The fact that her parents DIDNT want to let her go out by herself is scary. The moment they let her go on a vacation alone, she tragically dies. She promised that she would call the every night letting them know she was alive and well, I can't imagine how they felt to not receive a phone call that night.

I've been on hundreds of elevators in my 55 years of life and never ran across one where the doors stayed open that long.

POV: you came in the comment section to feel unlonely

I just still don't understand why the elevator is not moving

Poor young girl, I really feel sorry for her. I hope that after death there's something more beautiful, better and safer for all of us than life on earth. Rest in peace Elisa

No ones talking about why the elevator door closes that way? It looks like someone edited the video so there is obviously something they don’t want us knowing about.

This was the ONLY camera in the entire hotel??

something about this video triggers your primitive danger sensors

it’s been 10 years and it still makes me wonder…

If she had just waited another 25 seconds we may not be watching this video right now. So tragic.

the fact that it was released before her body was found is scary

I can’t imagine how scared she must have been during her final moments on earth. I hope she’s resting peacefully💔

:/ This case has scared me shitless for years.

That feeling you get when you know something terrible is about to happen. Rip

Whether it's a hallucination, ghost, etc.. she's definitely interacting with something... we just can't see it.

I wish there was audio so we could hear if she was talking to someone.

Anyone else get goosebumps every time you watch the video or every time you think of what could have happened

One thing I've always wondered about this video.. why I think someone set her up. Is how long the door stayed open. Like she was in the elevator for SO long and the door never once closed until she walked away... Like someone was holding it opening until she gave up using it.

I don’t think there was anyone outside the elevator. When she initially walks into the elevator she doesn’t look in distress. I think she hides in the corner to see if there is someone holding the button. When she jumps out it sort of seems like a “got you” moment. When she realises there’s no one there I think the erratic hand movements is her trying to see if there was anything physically stopping the door from closing. She then looks frustrated , grabbing her hair and playing with her hands. The second time she gets into the elevator she presses heaps of buttons. She seems just as confused as to why the door isn’t closing as we are.

What pisses me off is the hotel just had easy access to the water tanks with no key or locks. What the hell? What if someone poisoned the water? Dropped something important in?

In my opinion most probably Elisa suffered a psychotic break - this can happen even if she was taking her medication. She was afraid someone was after her, the small inconvenience that the elevator wasn’t working triggered her fear. Perhaps she tried to escape from the windows and reached the tab. My hypothesis is that the staff had accidentally left it open and then either closed the tab without paying attention that someone was inside or they were afraid of getting in trouble for leaving the tab open and decided to close it.

If you look closely to the reflectance on elevator door side to right that is reflecting the hallway to the left, then watch when she is inside, there is clear movement in left hallway and she keeps looking to the left and starts talking and indicating that the elevator does not close to them. There is definatelly someone in the hallway to the left with her.

Say what you want, but this scene creeps me out. Especially when she leaves the elevator and it starts working again.

Anybody here because of Netflix? 😂😂😂

0:12 did anyone else notice the door was about to close but then opened randomly? As if something was stopping it from closing

This video was spliced a few places at least. The elevator closing for the first time. Also interestingly what indicates a minute passing takes ~80 seconds from 0:00 to 1:20 and then 1:20 to 2:41. Okay, strange but consistent. However it changes again after 7 seconds 2:41 to 2:48. There is a light shift at 2:29 the frame after Elisa's foot exits view completely. There is also a light shift in 2:34. Again at 2:50. Now the elevator close. Keep you on the bottom panel. The first frame of 2:58 has a blur that you will be able to see in the bottom panel, the floor tiles, and the reflection of the top and bottom sections of the elevator wall. The second frame the door magically partially closed. The third and subsequent frames we aren't blurred anymore. Now, The open and closes. I believe that the last open and everything we before the door close are the same place. The first open after the door close at 2:58 is different than what we saw previously. Look at the wood, the length is different. Anyway, my wrist is in a lot of pain, i'm stopping.

Why didn't the frickin elevator close when she was in???....

So all that time she was there, the doors refused to close but when she left it had no problem closing. Mkay.

rest in peace to such a wonderful girl. we truly missed out on a really special person.

I know it is unbelievable that I think Elisa realized that there was a ghost on the sensor

I can’t understand how the guests noticed the water was black and continued showering and brushing teeth. Are you kidding me?

Is it me or it looks like she’s hiding from someone like she low key acts like someone is chasing or been chasing her

on behalf of everyone I am extremely sorry for watching this video without your permission and thank you for letting us know the backstory

I came to your channel after I saw you on Netflix, you did a good job 👍🏼♥️

The amount of youtube detectives on this video is astounding.

Not to be cheesy, but this still haunts me to this day. Whether she was killed or killed herself, she was found in the hotel water tank. Guests were complaining of the taste/appearance of the water... the DEAD BODY WATER...........

Happy Birthday Elisa Lam 😢🎉

Truly one of the most mysterious cases I've ever heard of..I hope her case once will be solved.. it's been 10 years..poor girl

Not even going to lie, at the start it looks like shes playing hide and seek with someone, but after a few seconds it gets eerily weird.

What really creeps me out is that we can only see her but she was seeing something else. Something that was on the scene and on the spot, even if we can’t see

I don’t understand.. there’s elevator cameras, but no hallway?

2023 year. who's there?

Imagine the parents seeing this last sad and disturbing video of their daughter. Breaks my heart.😢😢

It’s just so heartbreaking how terrified she must have been, believing someone was coming after her until the last second of her life. I hope she’s happy and well in Heaven.

the video was cut after she walks out of frame. 1. The seconds in certain moments are stopped and then resume. 2. When the door finally closes it is already almost halfway, then when the lift goes to the other floors, the door closes starting from the beginning and not from the middle

there was a cut in the middle of the video so they might have cut some parts out for some reason 2:58 even before that time stamp the number begin to glitch which is weird

As it says in the documentary, she had bipolar disorder and wasn't taking her pills. Her family mentioned she sometimes had hallucinations which leads to panic attacks, so there might've been nobody with her and she could've been having hallucinations that there was somebody coming to kill her which is why she was acting strange. She went to the rooftop, and saw the water tank as her hiding spot to protect herself. She got in, and took off her clothes to try and swim up because she probably thought the weight of her clothes were pushing her down. But I will respect everyone's theories, so don't feel pressured to follow the same theory as me.

Rest in peace. This tape is so unsettling to say the least. This is the last known footage of Elisa and that honestly scares me so much. Stay safe everyone please.

What if people with schizophrenia are those who see the real ghosts and we don't even know that they do.

RIP Elisa Lam! Sorry this happened to you in city of Angels 😔 😢

the way she hides in the corner is terrifying me

Imagine being one of the people who had to complain because their water tasted bad and finding out what it was lol

her blogspot is called etherfields. she had written so much before july of 2012. her twitter and tumblr are still up. reading her posts really just makes you familiarize with her. she talks about her mental health journey, how her high school life was like, and talks about her interests. it’s like reading anne frank’s diary; you know what happened to her in the end even though you hope the stars it doesn’t. i’m glad she left this part behind; may she rest in peacefully :( 🌹🕊️

I remember this news when it was new, cannot imagine that it has been 10 years.

I do not claim any negative spirits or things from this video.. rest peacefully Elisa❤️

Anyone else feel so uncomfortable and weird watching this especially when she does her hand movements😳it just seems so unormal and unsettling, gives me the spooks

After Nine years of thinking, still no one can solve this mystery..... RIP Elisa lam

I just finished the documentary on netflix. i hope she's at peace now. poor girl, rip elisa lam.

This is actually really serious, but some people are like: "wHo'S wAtChInG iN 2019?"

When she just enters to the elevator she doesn't seem like she's hidding she kinda looks playful she might be having a psychotic episode

Rest in Peace Elisa. 🕯️🕊️ What I also find sad is that nobody ever apologized to Pablo. Nobody, and that's just cowardice. Cyberbullying is just as cruel as murder. Those who accused him of murder go on living as before...he can no longer do it. He survived, but some of the cyberbullying victims did not. I wish Pablo a lot of strength and that he stays strong. 💪🏻🍀

As everyone is saying that it’s horrifying to think that everyone was drinking water with her fragments, wanna tell you my dear fellows.. it’s a hotel guys! Nobody drinks water from Tap!!!

The way she’s moving her hands looks so unnatural...

I think it's stupid how they didn't put cameras in the hall way if they did we could see everything

The fact that this has no audio. It wouldve greatly helped the case. You sure this is the only tape offered by the hotel?

I think it was that she was scared the elevator door wasn't closing even though there were no one there.

The way she moves her hands is very unsettling. Someone knows exactly how she got into that water tank.

At first... it looks like she’s confused at why the doors won’t close so that kinda explains the weird jumping in & out.. maybe trying to see if they would close? And then she presses all the buttons, again maybe trying to get the doors to close? But then her looking like she’s talking to someone- it doesn’t make sense. I want to convince myself that she’s conversing with someone down the hall & explaining the issue with the elevator doors but something just seems weird/odd. Off. And then the doors close. I don’t get it. Strange 😳

explination of the doors not closing: many times in the video you can see her spam pressing almost all of the elevator doors. a button elevators usually have is a button to keep the doors open for 30 seconds or even 2 minutes. you might have seen these buttons yourself. they typically show elevator doors and arrows point forward (door close button) or arrows pointing away from eachother (doors open button). because the doors stay open for quite a while, it was most likely closer to a 2 minute timer.

This is popular again bc of netflix' show trending right now, but I remember when this first happened, by god this video freaked me out back then

She is acting extremely cautiously, as if something scary is present, that's why she keeps stepping backwards and going back to see what's there , those hand gestures, she is definitely talking with someone

The fact that she got all those hallucinations is because she did not know the existence of that "hold open" button... Seriously, what is the purpose of that btn???

Cant believe this was 10 years ago, i remember got scared watching this Its sad to see her final days on earth to be like this 😢

The scariest thing about this whole case is the people drank the water from the tank she was in. It's still sad though. I'm pretty sure this hotel is closed though.A lot of suicide and murder there.

It was the most impressive documentary I've ever watched. It has helped me gain new perspectives on many issues that touch different areas of life. I'm so sorry we lost such a sincere person.

2:53 there are about 3 cuts before the door closes which could possibly mean that the tape was tampered with or maybe its just cause its really old. The door opening and closing could be because of how old the elevator is, all the buttons she pressed, or maybe there was a struggle or something outside that caused the up/down elevator buttons to be pressed and therefore opening the elevator

I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things I’ve studied this video & this case since 2016. I’ve said from day one, “This video has an aire of creepiness to it”, but I’ve also put myself in that situation & wondered what I would have done. As a New Yorker & a former tour guide, I’ve been in many elevators. All elevators are NOT THE SAME; different people, different activities, different walks of life, different cultures, we all do different things & live our lives the best we know how. Knowing we all live our different lives in unique ways, the video’s creepiness wears off. In this scenario, in my opinion, Elisa was a young college student, traveling, who had a lack of understanding of the elevator, was trying to get the elevator to work, but the scanner of this elevator had been used for many years, so it didn’t work as well as it did years ago. Finally when she decides to get off the elevator & walk away the door shuts & starts moving again, probably cause no one was in the path of the elevator scanner, like how any elevator scanner works. I can’t completely understand why she would press all the buttons, maybe she wanted to travel to every floor, maybe she was bored & going up & down in an elevator was a fun idea, but in the end, she encountered this crappy elevator & this creepy footage was created. 1:30 Notice how when she walks back into the elevator, she has big smile on her face, I think she had gotten frustrated & the only thing she could do was just smile it off. I think we’ve all been in situations like that. 2:27 - 2:28 Elisa turns left, LIFTING HER RIGHT FOOT TO AVOID HITTING SOMETHING, MAYBE A DOG. She wasn’t alone in that hallway, Elisa felt comfortable enough to talk to someone about the elevator, someone else was there. The Cecil employees or the investigators are not giving us the full story, something “human influenced” happened there. Someone is lying.

I think the official story is the truth here. She was having a psychotic attack. She thinks somebody is to out to get her, gets in the lift presses buttons the doors don't close. She thinks someone is out there that is pushing buttons causing the lift not to move. She hides and tries to see, then jumps out of the lift to catch him in surprise. Then she does weird movements because her distress goes up. Then runs to the roof and gets in the water tank to hide or falls in it, but can't get out. Removes her clothes due to hypothermia, and eventually drowns. It is a very sad death. Editing this comment for the many people asking about how she closed the lid: There are different reports if the tank was actually open or not, and a civilian later sneaked into the roof and recorded that half of the tanks were open so I am assuming it was open, or maybe was closed later by one of the staff. If someone closed it don't know how they wouldn't see the body though.

This is the exact behavior we saw at the emergency room when homeless people or the people down the street at the halfway house came off their meds or suffered a break with reality. They made all sorts of weird hand movements, spoke with people who were not there, and moved in obsessive-compulsive patterns and generally repeated tics over and over. What you're seeing here is not a person being pursued by a killer or a ghost or a person from another dimension. If there were another person threatening her, she would have run away. Instead, like a person suffering a psychotic break, she is alternating between paranoia and calm, wandering like she does not know where she is, repeating patterns, and fidgeting with her environment. It IS scary to watch. Psychotic breaks are VERY scary to watch. I know. But they are not supernatural, and they require no conspiracy or help from others to occur.

This is something you won’t have noticed but when she gets in the door starts to close them opens again so she gets scared and looks out the doors

Rest easy, Elisa Lam ❤

When you watch closely as she enters the elevator pressing many buttons, the elevator doors wanted to close . But something stopped it from closing 😨 this video gives me bad vibes !!

I'm reading a book right now called Gone At Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam. In the book it says that her autopsy shows there was no water in her lungs. When a person dies from drowning, there's water in their lungs. Just something to think about.

I only just watched the documentary about the cecil hotel on Netflix and I am so shocked how many deaths there has been in that one hotel and how they found her body and the people staying there was drinking the same water. Very scary, wouldn't be surprised if there would be sprits still staying there.

This is sad, I feel bad for her family and friends to know that their loved ones last moments of life are online for people to comment so much BS of opinions, theories, & etc on their loved one online….

2:02 am I the only one who's always disturbed by how her hands are looking so weird & creepy, and looks like she's touching something invisible?

I got goosebumps when she did movements w her hands

She is talking to someone on the other side

she had bipolar and her parents didn't want her traveling alone because of her unpredictable behavior in the past. the one time she goes on vacay alone, she dies :( I strongly believe she was mid manic episode here, probably lacking sleep, and super paranoid in a foreign country & sketchy ass hotel. as far as the water tank...I will always be puzzled there.

The most creepy part is when she waving her hands

Why on earth did the doors stay open for so long?? On every other floor the doors opened for a seconds, then closed. Even with her pressing the buttons she did, they shouldn't have stayed open for so long. What is going on there?

Given that she presses an elevator button and you see the door move to close slightly but then go back to being fully open, means someone pressed the button outside, she's not having an episode, she's not mentally ill. She was being stopped from leaving via the elevator. She keeps checking outside, pressing more buttons, waving her head over the sensors to try and activate it before eventually giving up and only once she's gone do the doors close. This is not normal elevator behavior, someone was stopping it from being able to leave by pressing and or holding the outside buttons.

this is terrifying, the fact people were drinking the water with fragments of her BODY in it is so scary, i’m sending prayers to her family, she seemed like such a sweet person:(

the fact that the elevator started moving *after* she left scares me