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THE ELEVATOR game is a creepy activity which sees the player “given the chance to enter another world”.

With a new documentary on the mysterious death of Elisa Lam in 2013 that rocked the web coming out on Netflix, it has been questioned whether she played the game before she died.

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What is the Korean elevator game?

The elevator game is believed to have originated in Korea.

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It is an odd ritual with a strict set of rules that says it will bring you to another world.

The “game” must be played by one person in a building with 10 floors.

The rules tell the player to move up and down to different floors, before they are said to encounter a woman on the fifth story who should not be interacted with at all costs.

According to the guidelines, if the elevator then descends to the first floor, the player must exit immediately.

If it goes up, the player has apparently been admitted to another world.

People have been warned not to try playing the game as it is dangerous.

Was Elisa Lam playing the Korean elevator game?

Elisa Lam, 21, was a college student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Lam headed on a West coast trip alone on January 26, 2013, via an Amtrak train from San Diego to Santa Cruz, California.

She made a pit stop in Los Angeles and decided to check in to the Cecil Hotel and was due to check out on January 31 but never did.

Her family, already wary that she was alone, decided to call the LAPD.

Cops searched the hotel but could not find Lam anywhere in the premises.

Authorities then decided to review surveillance footage and realized that Lam had stepped into an elevator on the day of her disappearance.

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In the footage, Lam can be seen acting strangely as she steps into the elevator and begins pressing every button in the panel.

She eventually steps out and pokes her head out to see who is in the hallway and does that a few times until she decides to walk out completely.

The last of the video shows her standing by the left side of the door waving her hands and making random gestures.

She is not seen talking to anyone and is the only one captured on tape.

The video made the rounds on the internet and amassed over tens of thousands of views, as many found her behavior in equal parts strange and chilling.

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It was the last footage of Elisa alive and it is unclear how she died.

Authorities found no evidence of physical trauma in her autopsy report.

Additionally, the only notable findings in the toxicology report were multiple different medications to treat her bipolar disorder but there was no presence of alcohol or illegal drugs in her body at the time.

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She was discovered wearing the same clothes she had on in the elevator surveillance footage and her body barely had blood due to the decomposition.

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An LA coroner issued a finding of accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor.