Authorities in Orange County, Fla., have confirmed a fifth death in less than a month at Walt Disney World, per TMZ, deepening what an insider says is an already chilling pattern of back-to-back fatalities inside the famed family resort.
The latest incident occurred November 8 at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort, the medical examiner’s office told the outlet. Officials have not yet released details about how the victim died.
This new case follows a grim series of four other deaths since mid-October — two of them suicides.
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A 31-year-old woman leapt to her death from Disney’s Contemporary Resort on October 14. Days later, a man in his 60s died after a medical episode at Fort Wilderness.
By late October, 28-year-old Matthew Cohn had also died by suicide after jumping from a height at the Contemporary Resort. On November 2, a woman in her 40s was rushed from the property to Celebration Hospital, where she died shortly after.
On November 6, National Enquirer previously exposed the parks’ chilling death history, uncovering over 100 fatalities between Disney World and Disneyland since opening in 1971.
“Disney will go to great lengths to keep this a secret,” says an insider of the growing body count. “The last thing they want is people thinking the parks are dangerous or associated, in some way, with death.”