Are there any bizarre cases similar to "Lan Ke'er" in the world?

Do you still remember the mysterious death of a Chinese-Canadian girl Elisa Lam that occurred in Los Angeles in early 2003? Recently, many North American media have brought up this matter again. The reason is that Lan Keer's parents filed a lawsuit in court not long ago, believing that the Ceceil Hotel (Ceceil Hotel) where Lan Keer lived at the time was negligent in supervising Lan Keer's death. Be responsible.

However, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard Halm, who is responsible for the case, said he was inclined to find that Lan Keer's death was unforeseen because she died on the roof of the hotel. In the water tank, the hotel originally prohibited guests from entering this area, so it does not need to bear any responsibility.

Formal results will be announced on Monday, U.S. time, but little change is expected. This means that this bizarre case that once caused a sensation on the Internet and is still full of doubts may become another unsolved mystery from now on, along with the many mysterious incidents that have happened in the history of the Cecil Hotel , buried forever in people's memories and legends.

The Cecil Hotel no longer exists. In 2014, a New York hotel tycoon named Richard Born bought the hotel for $30 million, quietly renamed it the Stay on Main, and continued to operate with a different sign. The origin of the name should be the address where the hotel is located, 640 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.

The hotel is very low-key about this name change, obviously wanting to completely distance itself from its previous dark history. I searched online and found that rooms in this hotel can be booked on major booking websites, and the price is quite cheap. Many guests who didn't know the truth also left comments, "the staff service is very good" and "the location is very good".

If you travel to Los Angeles, please remember to avoid this Stay on Main hotel, although it is very cheap, only more than 30 US dollars per night, while hotels in Los Angeles often cost two to three hundred US dollars.

It is also necessary to remember the address of this hotel, 640 South Main Street. Because Richard Born told the media that he plans to renovate the hotel again within two years and transform it into a mid-range hotel for about US$150 per night.

This hotel has been renovated many times before, and it is said that the public security environment in the area has not been very good.

The screenwriters of "American Horror Story" also got inspiration from the Lan Keer case and wrote the incident into the fifth season "American Horror Story: Hotel", which aired in October.

Lam Keer was a student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and her parents were immigrants from Hong Kong. In January 2013, she traveled to California alone and stayed at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. After staying in the hotel for five days, she originally planned to check out on January 31, but she disappeared on this day.

Lan Keer’s parents reported the case to the Los Angeles police, but there was no progress in the case for nearly two weeks. Until February 13, the police released a surveillance video of the hotel elevator, in which Lan Keer made various very bizarre actions.

This video immediately set off the Internet in the United States, Canada, China, and even many Asian countries. Many people began to analyze the case online and make various speculations. I remember there were a lot of discussions on Weibo and Tianya at that time. Some local people in Los Angeles even spontaneously organized an investigation team to conduct investigations at the hotel.

The following is the description of this video on Wikipedia:

The "weird video" released by the Los Angeles police shows Lan Keer walking into the elevator in casual attire, wearing red The top and slippers are not in any abnormal condition. But then she immediately bent down and pressed the buttons for multiple floors, but the elevator did not close.

About 20 seconds later, Lan Keer stuck her head out of the elevator to check, and then went back and forth in and out of the elevator many times. During this period, she once stood in a blind corner in the elevator, as if trying to avoid someone. , the elevator door has always been open and never closed. After standing outside the elevator for about 30 seconds, Lan Keer returned to the elevator, but with her head in her hands, she pressed the buttons for multiple floors again.

At this time, Lan Keer walked out of the elevator again, facing right, gesturing up and down, left and right with her hands in strange postures, and her legs also made some strange movements, as if she was talking to the person opposite. During this period, she was also photographed counting with her fingers.

Fifteen seconds later, Lan Keer left the elevator and disappeared from the monitoring range. After Lan Keer left, the elevator remained open for a while and then closed. After the elevator door was closed, the elevator operated as usual and ran to other floors without any abnormality. However, every time it opened and closed, no passengers entered or exited.

This strange video immediately caused a sensation among netizens everywhere. People from all walks of life are constantly trying to find clues from the video, and many netizens and media have made detailed analyzes of Lan Keer's behavior. Some analysts believed that her behavior seemed to be to avoid a suspicious stalker, but her expression showed that Lan Keer did not have panic caused by fear, and did not look like she was nervous in a critical moment. The strange operation of the elevator itself also attracted attention.

According to reports from Canada’s OMNI TV station, Mai Vo, a 12-year friend who has been classmates with Lan Keer from elementary school, middle school to university, said that she saw Lan Keer on the elevator monitor. It was very different from her usual style. Because drugs were suspected to be rampant in the area and the hotel was full of weird people, she seriously suspected that Lan Keer had been drugged.

Then on February 19, a guest complained that the water pressure was too low, so the hotel sent maintenance personnel to the roof to check the water tank. As a result, Lan Keer's naked body was unexpectedly found at the bottom of the water tank.

The hotel guests were very panicked, because this meant that they might have unknowingly used or even drank the water in which the corpses were soaked in the past few days...

The weird thing is , the hotel's rooftop access is usually locked, and an alarm system is installed. Once the door is pushed open, the alarm will be triggered. No one knows how Lan Keer can reach the room without being noticed. top.

On the other hand, the water tanks on the roof are quite high. How Lan Keer could climb into the water tanks is also very puzzling

At that time, many netizens suspected that Lan Keer The son was killed by hotel staff who were familiar with the internal situation of the hotel. Some media even reported that a hotel staff member was named as a suspect. But Los Angeles police denied those claims.

A few months later, the Los Angeles police hurriedly closed the case, believing that Lan Keer had bipolar disorder and ruled out the possibility of homicide. However, this explanation is not convincing, and many people still suspect that there is a hidden secret in the case.

Many people began to post online about their various haunted and supernatural experiences when they stayed at this hotel before. Many murders that have occurred in the history of the Cecil Hotel have also been widely reported by the media:

In 1991, the Austrian serial killer Jack Ortwig used this place as his base camp and killed him while living here. Multiple prostitutes.

In 1985, Richard Ramirez, the midnight murderer who massacred 14 people, lived on the 14th floor of the hotel for several months.

In 1964, telephone operator Goldie Osgood was found dead in a hotel room. She had been stabbed multiple times and showed signs of rape. The room was also ransacked. The case remains unsolved.

In October 1962, a 27-year-old woman, Pauline Otton, had an argument with her husband and jumped from her room on the 9th floor to commit suicide. She died on the spot and crushed an unlucky passerby to death.

In February 1962, a woman named Julia Moore jumped to her death from her room on the 8th floor. She only had a bus ticket from St. Louis to Los Angeles, 59 cents in change and a bankbook worth $1,800. .

In October 1954, a 50-year-old woman, Helen Gurnee, jumped from the seventh floor after staying in the hotel for a week and died on the spot.

In 1947, actress Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia", was murdered and dismembered. The body showed signs of being refrigerated, cut into two parts at the navel, and had multiple fatal wounds. After the incident, 33 people surrendered to the police, but all were ruled out as suspects, and most of them were sent to mental hospitals. This case is still the most famous unsolved case in California history and has been adapted into movies many times...