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The Story Of The Black Ooze
You turn the faucet's handle, and a thick black liquid comes pooling out. You later discover that the black ooze, was due to the dead body of a college student found in the water tanks. This poor college student is none other than Elisa Lam. Elisa Lam vanished on January 31, 2013 and was found a month later inside the water tanks on top of the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Her body was naked and her personal belongings were floating around her. There was no evidence of physical trauma; the only piece of evidence that the police found was the elevator's security camera. There it had caught her final moments. She acted particularly strange, she moved frantically around the elevator, pressed almost all the buttons, and every now and then

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