13 Strange stories of dead bodies discovered in public (With Pictures)

4. Tourist Found Dead In Hotel Water Tank

So this one is kind of nasty. Elisa Lam was a student and a Canadian tourist when her body was found floating in a water tank that was located on top of the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Lam was seen on hotel video acting very oddly in an elevator before she went missing.

She didn’t just fall in though; her body lay in the tank and decomposed  for 19 days. What this means is that for 19 days the water that hotel guests used for bathing and drinking was coming from a tank with a dead body in it. Guests at the hotel said that they were getting really bad water pressure  and that the water coming from the taps had a really bad taste to it. Well, yeah, that is because you were drinking water that was tainted by a decomposing body. Derp.