Posted on 10/17/2025 6:07:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The Walt Disney World hotel to which an Illinois woman traveled before she took her own life is notorious for suicides.
The body of Disney superfan Summer Equitz, 31, was found at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at the Florida park Tuesday night.
Equitz, from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, got married last year, honeymooned at Disney World in October and announced she was pregnant two months later. It’s unclear if she delivered the baby.
The iconic hotel where Equitz took her life opened in 1971 and has been the site of several similar tragic incidents in recent years.
On March 22, 2016, a guest jumped to their death from the central A-frame tower of the resort, according to reports at the time.
On a March 2020 afternoon, a woman jumped from the Contemporary Resort in front of horrified guests.
And in July 2023, a man allegedly took his own life at the resort hotel.
Jim Hill of the “Disney Dish” podcast previously talked to The Post about the horrific association between the Contemporary Resort and suicides.
“There’s this weird phenomenon where people who are severely depressed but want to have that one last good happy family memory will go to Walt Disney World,” Hill said in 2022.
“They’ll deliberately book a room at the Contemporary Resort, which is 14 stories tall. And after that happy family time, they will throw themselves off the building,” he said.
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Never had any desire to go there, so hopefully will never be influenced by what apparently is a common happening there.
You haven’t missed anything....and saved a ton of money.
I remember Orlando before DW came....it was a sleepy little town full of orange groves....real quaint “old Florida”.
I saw a documentary some years ago about how Orlando changed after Disney.
They interviewed every city council person alive that voted to give all the perks DW got to come there and even interviewed the mayor at the time....they all said unanimously that if they knew back then what was going to happen to Orlando they never would have allowed disney to come there.
Then you paid extra.
Then I’m still going with my Post-Partum Depression theory.
Not sure why others are flinging themselves off of Disney Land Hotels, though...
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