How to play the elevator game / Elisa Lam update.

Hey friends.

It was only a few days ago that I posted the link to that Reignbot video about the Elisa Lam documentary kickstarter page. << click to read

Although there's very little chance that a documentary or movie could shine any more light on the series of events that lead to Elisa's death (unless they talked to someone who hadn't previously come forward) at least it didn't seem like it was going to be a straight up horror film about possession or ghosts and whatnot. 

Well I just learned of another film being based on the Lam case called "The elevator game". 

It's about a girl whose sister goes missing and last images of her were captured on the CCTV from a sketchy hotel. The missing girl goes in the hotel elevator and vanishes. 

It's nothing about the Lam case really, more about the paranormal theories that were flying around online.

As you probably know the elevator game is a game from South Korea (Japan too, so I read) that involves getting into an elevator and pushing the buttons in a particular order. If you successfully complete the steps in the correct order when you exit the lift you'll find yourself alone in another dimension or world. If you've ever listened to any scary story channels (suggestions here) you will probably have heard of stories of people using elevators in old buildings and accessing floors that were supposed to be non-existent or under construction, only to realize they have entered a strange place and are usually chased back into the elevator by a screeching, tall black shadow woman.

If you remember a few years back when the Elisa Lam case got a lot of attention due to the "creepy" last recorded video of the girl in the lift of the Cecil hotel (now "Stay on main") you'll remember the internet relating her death to the game. Which was dumb, but you know how people like to scare themselves for kicks.  

(By the way, if you want to read my post on the death of Elisa Lam, which contains every piece of information I could find online, including people who have visited previously and dispelling the idea that it was impossible to climb into the water tank etc. then click HERE<<)

So anyways the film is being directed and written by Nicole Jones-Dion and produced by Sean S.Cunningham (Crystal Lake Entertainment). Not sure when its coming out, but its in the works-I just thought I'd let you all know, as I always add to my Elisa post for the sake of completeness. 

Oh, also,if you don't know how to play the game, I'll tell you quickly here:

How to play the elevator game: 

First you find a building with an elevator that has at 10 floors or more.

Get in alone, and ride it to each floor in this sequence: 

1, 4, 2, 6, 2, 10, 5, 1.

Instead of going to 1, you'll automatically begin going up to floor 10. This is how you know it's worked.

During the sequence, you must ignore anyone who gets into the lift with you. This is especially import to note while on the 5th floor, as there is an otherworldly being in the guise of a girl who will try her best to eternally lure you from the reality you know.

To get back you repeat the process and will be taken back to reality on the first floor. Be sure to check you really are in the real world before you settle back into your life. If you pass out during the return process and awake in your own bed, you're most likely not home, so you'll have to scrutinize your surroundings to check.

Have fun visiting other dimensions everyone.  

Horrible History

Hey everyone.

Recently I was talking with a friend of mine who lives in Japan. 

He'd been traveling a little around South East Asia, and knowing that I run this blog, passed on some of his (for lack of another term) dark tourism photography to me. (I should probably add that I did edit them slightly)

1. The killing fields (phnom penh, Cambodia)

Between 1975 and 1979, Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Over 1 million civilians were murdered as a part of a genocide implemented by the state.

The skeletal remains of it's victims lay in mass graves to this day.

You can watch a documentary on the Killing Fields here [X]

Above is a picture of a (Chankiri) tree which executioners would smash the skulls of babies and infants against (while often feigning enjoyment) to save on ammunition. 

The children were the sons and daughters of those thought to have committed crimes against the regime.

 The execution of the infants was seen as an end to the family line and thus the end of any future issues.

(The sign outside of S-21)

These are from "Security Prison 21" (or S-21) a former high school turned processing center at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. 

In order to make prisoners confess to crimes they were often not responsible for they would be heavily tortured. 

They would be shocked, cut, waterboarded and in some cases skinned. Some would be used in brutal medical experiments that resulted in slow painful deaths.

 Most of the prisoners were dragged out into the killing fields at night and executed.

(Entering S-21)

 So many were executed that space for burial became limited, and the bones of those previously buried began to break the surface. Today S-21 is a museum.

 The photographs of those who suffered and died hang on the walls. 

You can watch a documentary on S-21 here [X]

Above: The gallows outside of the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at the site of the killing fields. 

As part of their torture and interrogation, prisoners would be strung upside down with their arms bound behind their backs. When they lost consciousness their heads would be dipped into ceramic pots of stagnant water below them and they would be subjected to further torture.

2. Seodaemun Prison  (Seoul, South Korea)

Seodaemun was used as a prison during the Japanese rule over Korea (1910-1945) There was around 3000-3500 liberation activists imprisoned here at one time despite the maximum capacity being 300 persons. They would be tortured into confessions, malnourished due to lack of food and executed.

(An interrogation)

(Photographs of prisoners) 

A sword, cane and dagger carried and used by a Japanese warden at the prison.

Members of the independence would be tortured into confessions and executed here.

3. Abashiri prison (Hokkaido, Japan)

Abashiri prison was built by shackled prisoners upon a hill, between the ocean and a lake, over a century ago in the quiet town of Abashiri on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. The isolated location was chosen specifically for the difficultly it would pose to any escaping prisoners. 

The prison had the capacity to house around 1000 inmates, however it was overcrowded with what Japan considered its most terrible criminals, including members of the Yakuza. 

The prisoners would be put to work and made to expand the town through labor work that was so intense that many of them died. 

There is a great review of a visitors trip to the prison on this site [X]

Well that's all for this post.

Three headed Japanese demon mummy:

The three faced demon mummy head of Zengyoji. 

Found in storage in a temple in Kanazawa, Japan. 

Origin story unknown.