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Her death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles remains one of the most mysterious cases in public consciousness.

The chilling details of this story might shake you to your core—read at your own risk.

To this day, no one knows for sure how she died. She was last seen at the hotel, and a creepy surveillance video showing her strange behavior before she disappeared has only raised more questions.

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On January 26, 2013, Elisa Lam arrived in Los Angeles. She had taken an Amtrak train from San Diego and was on her way to Santa Cruz as part of a solo trip along the West Coast. The trip was meant to be a break from her studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she lived.

Her family was worried about her traveling alone, but Elisa insisted on traveling solo. To ease their concerns, she promised to call them every day to let them know she was okay.

That’s why it seemed strange when her parents didn’t hear from her on January 31, the day she was supposed to check out of the Cecil Hotel (now renamed Stay on Main) in Los Angeles. Worried, they contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. The police searched the hotel but couldn’t find her.

Police soon released surveillance footage from the Cecil Hotel's cameras on their website, marking a turn into the truly bizarre.

The video showed Elisa Lam inside one of the hotel's elevators on the day she disappeared, exhibiting peculiar behavior.

In the grainy footage, Lam can be seen entering the elevator and pressing all the floor buttons. She steps in and out of the elevator, occasionally leaning her head out sideways toward the hallways. After peering out a few more times, she exits the elevator entirely.

In the last part of the video, Lam is seen standing by the left side of the door, making random hand movements. No one else appears in the video, only Lam.

Even in Canada and China, where Lam’s family is from, the mysterious video got attention. Millions of people have watched the four-minute clip of her strange elevator behavior.

On February 19, two weeks after authorities released the video, maintenance worker Santiago Lopez found Elisa Lam’s body floating in a hotel water tank. He discovered it while checking complaints from guests about low water pressure and strange-tasting tap water.

The Los Angeles Fire Department chief said the tank had to be completely drained and cut open from the side to remove Elisa’s body, as she was 5 feet 4 inches tall.

No one knows how Elisa’s body, along with the clothes she wore in the video, ended up in the tank or if anyone else was involved. Hotel staff said they only ever saw her alone on the premises.

However, one person saw her before she died. At a nearby shop called The Last Bookstore, owner Katie Orphan remembered Elisa buying books and music for her family in Vancouver.

When Elisa Lam's autopsy results were released, they raised even more questions. The toxicology report showed she had taken some prescription medications, probably for her bipolar disorder. However, there was no sign of alcohol or illegal drugs in her system.

After an autopsy report revealed no trace of drugs or alcohol in her system, Lam’s depression was blamed for her death, and her demise was ruled an “accident.”

The below entry from her blog, while obviously not happy, doesn’t sound like someone who has lost her mind to the point she’d think imaginary people were following her. And it doesn’t answer these questions

After the toxicology report was released, the internet was flooded with many theories. People on the internet started looking for clues to explain Elisa Lam's death. One Reddit user shared a summary of the report.

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The summary pointed out three things:
1) Lam had taken at least one antidepressant that day;
2) she had taken her second antidepressant and mood stabilizer recently, but not that day;
3) she hadn’t taken her anti-psychotic recently. These points suggested that Lam, who had bipolar disorder and depression, might not have been taking her medication correctly.

This is important because using antidepressants to treat bipolar disorder can cause manic symptoms if not done carefully. Some people have focused on this and suggested it might explain Lam’s unusual behavior in the elevator.

When Ms. Lam initially enters the elevator she is not in fear, according to 'Body Language & Emotional Intelligence'

"Ms. Elisa Lam is playing a game of hide and seek (or something similar) in this video. And although at times she displays some anxiety, there is no indication of fear. There is definitely an element of play present here. It is of course also possible that narcotics are influencing her behavior. Of particular importance is she is putting herself on sexual display. While what is seen here may have no connection with her demise - if the events in this video occurred just before her disappearance, it strongly suggests that the person to whom she is attracted may have knowledge of, contributed to, or be responsible for her death."

Read the full source here: bodylanguagesuccess.com/2013/02/nonver…

Hotel manager Amy Price’s statements in court support this idea. She said that when Elisa Lam stayed at the Cecil Hotel, she was first booked into a shared room. However, her roommates complained about her "odd behavior," so Lam was moved to a private room.

But even if Elisa Lam had mental health problems, how did she end up dead? And how did she end up in the hotel’s water tank?

The autopsy didn’t find any signs of foul play. However, the coroner's office said they couldn't do a complete examination because they couldn’t test the blood from Lam’s decaying body.

Price stressed there’s no mystery.

"I couldn’t have been more involved with the case from the beginning," Price explained. "I can say 100 percent in confidence that there is no conspiracy to Elisa Lam’s death. I know exactly in my mind what happened because I was there every step of the way. I worked with the police. … I wish there was a little bit more focus on mental illness than the conspiracy theories."

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David and Yinna Lam filed a lawsuit against the Cecil Hotel months after their daughter's death was discovered. Their lawyer said the hotel should have checked for dangers that could hurt their daughter or other guests.

The hotel fought the lawsuit and asked for it to be dismissed. The hotel’s lawyer argued that they never expected anyone could get into their water tanks.

The hotel’s argument isn't completely unreasonable. Santiago Lopez, the maintenance worker who found the body, explained how hard it was to find her.

Lopez said he took the elevator to the 15th floor, then walked up the stairs to the roof. He turned off the roof alarm, climbed a platform with four water tanks, and then climbed another ladder to reach the main tank. It was only after all this that he saw something strange.

The hotel’s Chief Engineer, Pedro Tovar, explained that it would be hard for anyone to get to the rooftop, where the water tanks were, without setting off the alarms. Only hotel staff could turn off the alarm correctly. If the alarm went off, it would be heard at the front desk and on the top two floors of the hotel.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard Halm decided that Elisa Lam’s death was “unforeseeable” because it happened in a restricted area, so the lawsuit was thrown out.

Horrifying backstory of The Cecil Hotel

Elisa Lam's mysterious death wasn’t the first at the Cecil Hotel. The hotel has a dark history and is known as one of the most haunted places in Los Angeles.

Since it opened in 1927, the Cecil Hotel has been the site of 16 unnatural deaths and strange paranormal events.

Besides Lam's death, the most famous tragedy there was the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia." She was seen drinking at the hotel bar days before her brutal death.

According to reports, Short allegedly visited the bar at the Cecil shortly before she was killed in 1947 at age 22.

The hotel has also hosted some of the country’s most infamous killers. In 1985, Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker," stayed on the top floor during his killing spree. After murdering someone, he would throw his bloody clothes outside the hotel and return half-naked. The hotel was so rundown that no one seemed to notice. Six years later, Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, the "Vienna Strangler," also stayed there.

Meanwhile, the tragic death of Elisa Lam at the hotel has inspired pop culture adaptations like Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel.

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This is just mind blowing but controversial theory by Julian Jaynes who suggested that Ancient humans lacked modern consciousness, mistook inner voices as commands from gods, and even cared for dead relatives as if they were still alive, due to a divided “Bicameral” mind.

In his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Jaynes argued that the "bicameral mind" was a way of thinking where people literally heard voices in their heads and obeyed them like divine commands. He believed this mental state stopped working around 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean.

He said this change led to the rise of modern human consciousness, where people became more self-aware and made decisions on their own.

Jaynes also suggested that people we now call schizophrenic might still have parts of this old way of thinking, and if someone from ancient times were alive today, we would likely see them as schizophrenic too.

In 1976, an American psychologist named Julian Jaynes, who lived from 1920 to 1997, published a book called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

In this book, he made a bold and unusual claim: that humans weren’t actually aware of their own thoughts until about 1000 BC.

He believed that when ancient people heard inner voices in their heads, they didn’t realize those voices came from their own minds.

Instead, they thought these voices were gods speaking to them and telling them what to do, which is how stories of divine communication may have started.

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Jaynes introduced his theory about the bicameral mind in the 1970s, most psychologists didn’t respond positively.

In January 1979, William Thomas Jones wrote a paper questioning how any intelligent person could believe Jaynes’s theory.

He analyzed the book in detail to show why Jaynes’s conclusions were unrealistic and explored why, despite this, some people still took his ideas seriously.

Jones argued that Jaynes’s supporters were drawn to the theory because they disliked Darwinian evolution and natural selection, felt nostalgic for the supposed lost state of bicamerality, and wanted a simple theory that could explain everything about human nature.

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This Man says NASA asked for his help to understand ORBS that were harassing their astronauts. He said these are Angelc Beings, they come out of orbs and can be as tall as 125 feet with wings and even smile at the astronauts.

For the first time, Chris Bledsoe, an American experiencer revealed on Bledsoe Said So podcast that the government is very afraid of mysterious beings or phenomena that he calls "plasmoids" or angelic beings because they cannot control them and have no way to defend against them.

He has attended high-level meetings in Washington, D.C. with congressmen and military officials who are scared and uncertain about how to handle these beings.

According to him, the government does not want the public to interact with or even think about these entities because they fear losing control.

To prevent this, they try to twist the truth or create fear by labeling the beings as aliens, plasmoids, or Chinese drones. This creates confusion and fear in people who don't understand what is really going on.

Chris explains that he worked with NASA for years and has proof, including photos, videos, and official documents, as well as meetings with high-level scientists.

NASA was interested in him because these beings seemed to like him and communicated with him, while avoiding official agencies. NASA wanted to know why the beings chose him and why they were bothering their astronauts.

He claims that all astronauts have seen orbs or these beings in space, even though this has never been officially released.

These beings appear outside space shuttles, looking through the windows, or floating above the shuttle bay or space station. Sometimes they are glowing, and there are reports of several of them standing together, up to 125 feet tall, with wings, smiling at the astronauts.

Chris describes them as energy beings that come out of glowing orbs. He says they are angelic and can appear in many forms. They can be six or seven feet tall or much larger.

They can look like drones or flying saucers and can even split into two or many forms. He says this is the first time he has spoken publicly about these things, even though he has known about them for 18 years.

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This will totally blow your mind. This Man found in his compelling study that our cells use higher-level systems to talk to each other and organize what they do.

One of those higher-level systems is bioelectricity — a kind of electrical communication that happens not just in neurons (brain cells), but in all cells. These electrical patterns help cells figure out where they are in the body and what they should become.

The groundbreaking work of Michael Levin, a scientist at Tufts University, and his research could radically change how we understand biology, development, and even intelligence itself.

Traditionally, scientists have believed that genes, the information stored in our DNA, are the main drivers of this process. Genes control how cells behave, what kind of cells they become, and how organs form. Since sequencing the human genome, most biological research has focused on figuring out how genes do all this.

Levin, however, argues that genes are not the full story. He compares genes to low-level computer code. In computer science, programmers don’t usually work with machine code directly—they use higher-level tools that make things easier to understand and control.

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Levin suggests that biology has higher levels of organization that go beyond genes. One of these higher levels is what he calls the bioelectric network—a system where cells communicate using electrical signals, not just chemical signals or genetic instructions.

We usually think of neurons (brain cells) as the only cells that talk to each other using electricity. But Levin's research shows that many types of cells can do this. And these bioelectric signals help guide development, healing, and even complex decisions about what body parts to grow.

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The CIA trains people not to look directly at the people they are following, as otherwise they can 'sense' they are being stared at and turn around. This Man argues that this is due to consciousness being extended outside of the brain.

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist who has written over 100 scientific papers and 9 books, and has helped write 6 more. His books have been translated into 28 languages.

In 2013, a top think tank in Switzerland named him one of the world’s 100 most important thinkers. On ResearchGate, a popular site for scientists, he ranks in the top 4% for research interest.

On Google Scholar, his work has been cited many times, giving him high academic scores. For twelve years in a row, Watkins magazine has listed him as one of the most spiritually influential living people.

His work has appeared in many well-known magazines and newspapers, and he has been featured on BBC radio and TV.

In the interview, philosopher Hilary Lawson asks Rupert Sheldrake why the scientific community has been so critical of his work, even though he has been very successful with the general public. Sheldrake explains that the scientific community is not just one group—it’s made up of many different people with different opinions.

When he first shared his ideas, some scientists were interested and friendly, while others were more skeptical. He had especially good experiences with scientists in India, who were open to his ideas like morphic resonance.

But things changed after he published his first book, A New Science of Life, in 1981. A powerful editor at the science journal Nature, Sir John Maddox, harshly criticized the book and even said it was “a book for burning.” This public attack made Sheldrake seem like an outsider or a heretic in the eyes of many scientists, which made others afraid to openly support him.

Sheldrake believes that the scientists who attack him most often are militant atheists. He explains that these people treat materialist science almost like a religion, and because his work challenges their worldview, they react very strongly. This kind of criticism also appears on platforms like Wikipedia, where a group called “guerrilla skeptics” has taken control of his biography and prevents others from changing it.

However, Sheldrake also says that most scientists are not so extreme. When he gives talks at scientific institutions, people often come up to him privately afterward and say they’re very interested in his work and have had similar experiences, like feeling telepathic connections or sensing when their dog knows they’re coming home. But they admit they’re afraid to speak up about it because they don’t want to be judged or attacked by their peers. Sheldrake tells them that they’re not alone, and many of their colleagues feel the same way in secret.

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One of Brazil’s strangest unsolved alien related mysteries: The Lead Masks Case. Two men were found dead on a remote hill near Rio de Janeiro. No injuries.. No struggle... Just... lying there with weird lead masks covering their eyes, like something out of a sci-fi movie.

In August 1966, two dead bodies were found on a hill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An 18-year-old boy named Jorge was flying a kite when it got lost in the jungle. While searching for it, he came across the bodies and told the police.

The dead men were lying side by side on some leaves. They had strange lead masks covering their eyes. These were not normal masks—they were made of heavy metal and didn’t cover the whole face, just the eyes.

When police investigated, they learned the men were radio technicians named Miguel and Manoel. They were from a town called Campos dos Goytacazes. Miguel was 34 years old, and Manoel was 32.

According to their families, Miguel and Manoel had traveled to Niteroi (a nearby city) three days earlier. They took a large amount of money with them and said they were going to buy parts for their work. While in the city, they also bought raincoats and a bottle of water.

This strange case became known as the “Lead Mask Mystery” because of the odd masks found on the men. No one knows for sure how or why they died, and the case remains unsolved.

In the evening of the same day, they were last seen alive. A local security guard saw them with two other men, going towards Vintém Hill by car. After that, Miguel and Manoel went out of the car and started walking toward the hill, but the two other men did not leave the car and drove away.

When the police arrived at the scene, they found the two male bodies in business suits, covered by raincoats, laying on the dead leaves and branches. Their faces were covered with strange lead masks. The police did not find any sign of a fight, no gun wound, no injuries or marks on their bodies.

According to the relatives and friends of the victims, both men were into the research of extraterrestrials and UFOs. Besides, they planned to make contact with some supernatural powers from another planet on Vintém Hill. But what those forces were, no one could say for sure.

Some people believe they were planning to make contact with aliens, using their electrical equipment. What’s more, some strange notes were found with the dead bodies, translating as follows:

“Sunday, one capsule after lunch; Wednesday, one capsule at bed-time.” The second one: “Be at the place arranged at 16:30. Take capsules at 18:30. After feeling effects, protect half the face with lead masks. Await the agreed signal.”

The wife of one of the victims said that a day before leaving, he had told her that he was waiting for the most important test, which would confirm or deny everything that he believed in, that is, the supernatural.

A close friend of the deceased confirmed that a few months before, the men had tried to create a kind of apparatus for contact with supernatural entities, which exploded during the experiments.

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Pope Francis has died! However, not many people know that the Vatican has over 50 miles of underground archives containing the world’s history. Let that sink in… 50 miles. And this isn’t even a conspiracy theory.

The Vatican’s Secret Archives are real and located in one of the most famous religious and cultural places in the world—the Vatican. These archives stretch across 53 miles of shelving and include 35,000 volumes of catalogs. They hold documents that are over 1,200 years old.

The name “Secret Archives” adds to their mystery and makes people think of hidden secrets or dark stories. Because the indexes aren’t public and access is limited to certain scholars, many people imagine that the archives hold shocking or even strange things. Some even believe the Vatican is hiding aliens there!

But in truth, the archives are not actually meant to be “secret.” The word “secret” comes from a Latin word, secretum, which really means “private.” These archives were always meant to store the Pope’s official documents, letters, and important Church records.

Inside, you’ll also find some of the Church’s most valuable historical papers, with some dating back to the 700s. For a long time, not even religious scholars could read them. That changed in 1881 when Pope Leo XIII, a forward-thinking Pope, opened the archives to researchers. Since then, the documents have helped tell the story of both the Church and the wider world.

One of the most important documents in the Vatican's Secret Archives changed the course of religious history. It’s the official paper that shows the Catholic Church kicking out Martin Luther. Luther was a German man who challenged the Church by writing his famous 95 Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation. In response, Pope Leo X wrote a statement called Decet Romanum Pontificem, officially excommunicating Luther. This allowed Luther to start his own church and created a major split in Christianity that still affects the world today.

Another fascinating document in the archives is called the Chinon Parchment. It records the trial of the Knights Templar, a Catholic military group that was accused of crimes like heresy during the Crusades. The parchment is huge—about the size of a dining table—and was lost for hundreds of years due to a filing error. It wasn’t rediscovered until 2001, hidden in a box with other papers. Once found, it was properly sorted and made available to researchers.

When the Vatican made the Chinon Parchment public in 2007, it revealed something surprising: in 1308, Pope Clement V had actually cleared the Knights Templar of heresy. This new information helped restore the group’s reputation, which had been damaged for centuries.

All these documents—and many more—are stored in a special place near the Vatican Library in Rome. The archives include regular stacks and reading rooms, but also an underground fireproof bunker to protect delicate materials. There’s even a school for clergy to study history, and because it’s the Vatican, there’s sacred art to enjoy as well.

Access to the archives isn’t open to everyone. Only carefully approved scholars are allowed in. Still, the Vatican has become a bit more open in recent years. In 2010, journalists were allowed to visit for the first time—partly due to public interest after Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons. In 2012, the Vatican held a public exhibition for the archives’ 400th anniversary, showing off some of its most important documents.

In 2019, Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would open up its archives on Pope Pius XII. During an event honoring the 80th anniversary of Pius’s election, Francis said, “The Church is not afraid of history.”

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