That was me.Īnd if she was in the middle of a bipolar episode, I can almost guarantee you that every one of her actions in the elevator and elsewhere had a 'purpose.' She pushed those particular buttons for a reason, she was following a logical (to her) chain of events when she climbed up on the roof and into the water tank, etc., and it made sense to her manic mind, even if we can't fathom the freaky sequence of her behavior now.īut everything she did would have felt perfectly rational to her at the time. When I first watched the video of EL in the elevator, before I read that she was bipolar, that was my initial reaction: "She's acting like I acted when I was manic or in a mixed state." The button pushing, the darting in and out, the looking around-she repeats all this behavior in a rapid, jerky, energetic manner, she can barely hold still, she seems hyper-alert but at the same time under the influence of something. On a more personal note, I am bipolar I, prone to acute manic episodes, and have experienced everything from mild hypomanic states to delusional mania that ended in full-on violent psychosis that landed me in jail and treatment for a while.
Why the elevator doors so eerily refused to close. Her past history of mental illness and behavior.ģ. If true, the above helps effectively explain:Ģ. Obviously, convincing as it sounds, I have no way of knowing if all this is true, but some of it (like access to the roof through a fire escape, bypassing the locked/alarmed door) has been confirmed by other legit souces and pointed out by Redditors elsewhere in this thread. * emphasis mine, and slightly edited to fix odd punctuation One of the amateur videos demonstrates how the door hold button works and is overidden.
That would prevent the door from closing. From both Yelp pictures of the hotel's elevator control panel and from video/pictures from the amateur sleuthing teams, one of the lower buttons (the bottom one, if I remember correctly) is Door Hold. (3) EL presses a non-random sequence of buttons along the middle, from top to bottom. Instead, she would probably just sleep through it (as if a mental state of depression). In one entry I recall reading, she reflected on her mental state and noted that she would not be one to commit suicide. Her "hypomania" could explain her odd behavior at the last bookstore (ironically called "The Last Bookstore") that she reportedly displayed shortly before her disappearance. (2) From 's blogs (Tumblr, and to a lesser extent, Blogger), EL posted about her mental condition, having been diagnosed with some disorders and prescribed medication. An amateur sleuthing team from China demonstrated this.
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(1) Access to the roof can be via the fire escape, through unlocked windows at the end of the hall. This thread is my first time hearing about this case pretty damn unsettling, for sure.Īfter a little googling, though, I do think some of the creepier aspects can be (possibly) explained:įor instance, the top commenter on this article says*:
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