VIDEO: Scariest Unsolved Deaths

Humans have always been either afraid of what they can’t understand, fascinated or both. We love the intrigue, we thrive on mystery! That’s why some of us are totally in awe of scary serial killers and, even better, strange deaths that were never solved.

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This video presents five creepy, very weird deaths that remain unsolved to this day.

Death of Elisa Lam

According to Wikipedia, while traveling, Lam kept in touch daily with her parents back in British Columbia. On January 31, 2013, the day she was scheduled to check out of the Cecil and leave for Santa Cruz, they did not hear from her and called the Los Angeles police; the family flew to Los Angeles to help with the search.

Hotel staff who saw her that day said she was alone. Outside the hotel, Katie Orphan, manager of a nearby bookstore, was the only person who recalled seeing Lam that day.

“She was outgoing, very lively, very friendly,” while getting gifts to take home to her family, Orphan told CNN. “[She was] talking about what book she was getting and whether or not what she was getting would be too heavy for her to carry around as she traveled.”

Police searched the hotel to the extent that they legally could. They searched Lam’s room and had dogs go through the building, including the rooftop, looking unsuccessfully for her scent. “But we didn’t search every room,” Sgt. Rudy Lopez said later, “we could only do that if we had probable cause” to believe a crime had been committed.

While the search for Lam was raising the case’s media profile, guests at the hotel began complaining to management about low water pressure in their rooms. Some also claimed their water was colored black, and had an unusual smell. Employees began investigating.

On the morning of February 19, an employee went to the roof, where four 1,000-gallon (3,785 L) water tanks provided water pumped from the city’s supply, for the guest rooms and the kitchen and coffee shop downstairs.

In one of them he found Lam’s body, floating face up a foot below the water surface. Police responded, and by noon that day the hotel had drained the tank so firefighters could cut it open and remove the body, since the opening of the tank was too small to accommodate the necessary equipment.

In the wake of the discovery, all of the Cecil’s short-term guests left, many expressing revulsion at the thought that they had unknowingly been drinking water contaminated by a decomposing body for the preceding two weeks. The hotel paid for some to relocate to another hotel, and required those that remained to sign a waiver stating that they had been made aware of the health risks.

Reviews making light of the situation were posted on the hotel’s Yelp page. While the county’s health department found that the water had not been contaminated, it issued a “do not drink” order and required that the entire system be drained and refilled before retesting for possible fecal contamination and rescinding the order.