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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.


  Equitz, 31, died from “multiple blunt impact injuries” at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Disney World in Florida. Ron Buskirk/imageBROKER/Shutterstock Equitz, 31, died from “multiple blunt impact injuries” at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Disney World in Florida. Ron Buskirk/imageBROKER/Shutterstock

Very little other information about the incident or the victim was given at the time.

On a March 2020 afternoon, a woman jumped from the Contemporary Resort in front of horrified guests.

She was found dead by emergency crews, deputies and officials from Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District told WESH at the time.

“At this time, we believe this was a suicide, and we have no other information to release,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

And in July 2023, a man allegedly took his own life at the resort hotel.

One purported hotel guest claimed “security wouldn’t allow us to take the 5th floor bridge to Contemporary this morning” in a post on X at the time.

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“Walked outside and saw the scene being cleaned up [and] investigated from a distance. Apparent suicide. Prayers to the family,” they added.

Police corroborated the shocking incident in a statement.

“On July 26, 2023, at 5:33 a.m., deputies responded to the Contemporary Resort after a call came in about a man found unresponsive on the hotel grounds. He was pronounced deceased on scene,” the statement read.

The Contemporary Hotel, outside of Magic Kingdom, is arguably the most iconic of the more than 25 hotels on the Disney World property.

The site’s monorail, which connects the Contemporary Resort to the Magic Kingdom and multiple other hotels, runs straight into the lobby. Once there, guests can dine and take pictures with Mickey, Minnie, Pluto and Daffy at Chef Mickey’s — Disney World’s original character meal restaurant, established in 1977 and originally called Coconino Cove.

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.


  Equitz, 31, died at the Contemporary Resort Hotel, one of more than 25 hotels on the sprawling property — just hours after she vanished from her Illinois home. facebook/summer.equitz Equitz, 31, died at the Contemporary Resort Hotel, one of more than 25 hotels on the sprawling property — just hours after she vanished from her Illinois home. facebook/summer.equitz

But suicides and other mishaps on Disney property are often shielded from the public by the House of Mouse, he claimed.

“Disney actually has a canopy setup so they can fairly quickly cover the body,” said Hill. “They try very hard to shield folks from tragedy.”

“[Back in the day] Walt Disney World [had] its own fire and emergency equipment, so if somebody died there or was fatally hurt and there were no signs of life, there was this rule that they were supposed to continue heroic efforts until their emergency vehicle left the property,” Hill said in 2022.

During one such incident decades ago, a man who died by suicide — putting a gun to his head in the middle of Epcot — wasn’t pronounced dead until much later, according to the 1990s book “Inside the Mouse.”

“The medic told me that they are not allowed to let them die there,” a cast member told the team of authors at the time. “Keep them alive by artificial means until they’re off Disney property, like there’s an imaginary line in the road, and they go, ‘He’s alive, he’s alive, he’s dead.'”

But in a world where every phone has a camera, the Disney powers that be have had a more difficult time keeping suicides and accidents out of the headlines.

Walt Disney World did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

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