Third Disney World death in 10 days casts pall over Floridas Magic Kingdom

A third person has died at Walt Disney World in less than two weeks in a chilling string of fatalities that has cast a pall over The Most Magical Place on Earth.A man died at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom Park outside Orlando, Florida, the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to The Post.Officials didn’t reveal the cause or specific time of death, but a TikTok video shot Thursday from a guest’s window shows police tape and a gang of officers and emergency workers in the hotel’s courtyard.Others on social media said they were asked not to look out their balcony windows by cast members who knocked on their door, Inside the Magic reported.“Something happened in the back of the building with crime scene tape surrounding the water fountain.
I don’t know if somebody jumped or accidentally fell to their death, but something happened.And they have an employee at every single window to shield you from looking out the back so you can’t view,” another guest wrote on Facebook.
The Contemporary Resort is the same place a superfan leaped to her death last week from its iconic A-frame tower.Superfan Summer Equitz, from the Chicago area, got married last year, honeymooned at Disney World in October and announced she was pregnant two months later — before the 31-year-old took her life in full view of horrified guests.It’s unclear if Equitz delivered the baby.Then, on Tuesday, a man in his 60s collapsed at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground and later died at the hospital.Police, resort staff and medical responders were dispatched to the property after reports of a “Person Down” just after 7:30 a.m., Inside the Magic reported, citing Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO).“A man in his 60s experienced a medical episode and was transported to a local hospital, where, unfortunately, he died.There are no signs of foul play,” an OCSO spokesperson told The Post.The Contemporary Resort — a $1,000+-per-night ...