The Mysterious Deaths of Elisa Lam and Edgar Allan Poe

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What do Elisa Lam and Edgar Allan Poe have in common? Both of these artistic individuals died in extremely mysterious ways and have since become well known on account of their mysterious passing. In this episode we discuss the details that shroud the mysterious deaths of Lam and Poe.
Elisa Lam was an extremely talented and ambitious young woman who suffered from anxiety and depression. Her body was found in a water tank atop a hotel in which she had been staying. However many accounts suggest that it would be extremely difficult for her to gain access to this water tank much less actually get in on her own. Does this indicate she may have been murdered? Perhaps… however what makes this case even more bizarre is the security camera footage that shows Lam dancing around the hotel’s elevator in a mechanical and somewhat disturbing manner. What exactly caused this strange behavior? Drugs? Alcohol? A mental breakdown of some sort?
Watch Elisa’s bizarre elevator footage here!
Edgar Allan Poe was a talented man who was no stranger to death growing up. After the passing of many of his loved ones, he developed an interest in writing dark and macabre stories. Poe is well known for his famous poem known as “The Raven”. He was found in a delirious state on the side of the street strangely dressed in someone else’s clothes and later taken to the hospital. He was delirious and uttered only a few words during his stay in the hospital. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, he died leaving us with more questions than answers. Was his death related to his erratic drinking behavior? His attending physician was quite convinced otherwise. Tune in for this episode and hear the many theories regarding the mysterious deaths of these two individuals.
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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Strange Matters
0:28.1	podcast. Here at Strange Matters we discuss anything just outside the
0:32.2	norm ranging from the bizarre and
0:34.0	unexplained to the supernatural and paranormal and everything in between. I'm your
0:38.8	host for tonight Eric joined by my fellow co-host. Sean.
0:43.0	So for this episode, we've selected a pair of unsolved deaths that are particularly interesting to us.
0:50.0	Yeah, these deaths were very dark and very interesting stories that we
0:56.7	researched and we wanted to put out a special thank you to our listeners Kailani and John for suggesting these two unsolved deaths.
1:07.3	I don't know about you Sean, but these two deaths were particularly disturbing and kind of creepy to research.
1:15.0	I mean I know pretty much all of our stuff that we do episodes on is generally pretty
1:20.2	creepy but these two send chills up my spine.
1:25.0	Yeah, I mean definitely. I mean death itself is a pretty interesting topic and especially
1:30.6	when someone dies and mysterious and potentially darker disturbing ways, it kind of just adds that morbid curiosity.
1:38.0	And I think the two cases that we selected for this episode, definitely have that going for them.
1:44.7	Definitely and definitely unsolved cases and a bunch of potential theories to explain these deaths.
1:54.4	So I guess we'll get into all of that in just a little bit.
1:57.5	So I guess we can go ahead and get started.
2:00.5	All right, so let's go start with our first unsolved death of the episode.
2:05.0	We will be discussing the bizarre death of Alyssa Lamb.
2:08.0	All right, so this case is one of the more popular mysteries of the past couple of years
2:15.0	in big part due to the strange footage of Alyssa taken shortly before her death that we'll go into later.
2:22.0	If you have not seen this footage we highly
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