Ick: Hotel water contaminated with dead body.

Oh the horror.  Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles received complaints about the water's pressure being too low -- that aside from the complaints of bad tasting water, apparently.  A maintenance person checked the water tanks on the roof, and in one of them was the rotting corpse of a woman.

For nearly three weeks, guests were bathing and drinking the water contaminated by a dead woman's body.

"When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal."

Well, that's probably not the reason that the water was black; that's typically because of rust in the pipes.  The taste was more likely from the rust in the pipes, as well.  Most everyone who has visited Los Angeles, knows that the water already tastes pretty bad, which is why most everyone who lives in LA and the region, use bottled water to drink from.  I digress.

It turns out that this woman was Elisa Lam, who had been staying at the Hotel Cecil, of course until she went missing, that is.  She checked in, but never checked out.

In the video below, she appeared to have a psychotic breakdown of some sort (looks like a drug-induced hallucination, no?) as she gets into the elevator.  You're probably wondering like I am, why don't the doors ever close, when she's obviously pushed a bunch of buttons, and she stands outside, away from the door.  At the end of the video, you can clearly see the door close and open, as it moves from one floor to the next.



Her arms loosely swing about after first getting into the elevator, implying that she's extremely high.  Later, when her hands start moving around in the air, there's a short glimpse of her face, and you can see that she is smiling (at 1:59).  She's not tense at all, as she's constantly bending her knees as she moves her hands around.

Weird, right?  Adding to the mystery, according to the LA Times:

"A locked door that only employees have access to and a fire escape are the only ways to get to the roof. The door is equipped with an alarm system that notifies hotel personnel if someone is up there, Lopez said."

In a separate story from the LA Times, one resident said that there was a "tremendous" noise the night before this woman had disappeared, and that the day after she disappeared there was some obstruction between the 3rd and 4th floor drains that caused flooding on the fourth.

Wow.  Freaky and icky.