A 19-year-old woman who snuck into an abandoned five-story building that was featured on the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things” with her friends plummeted to her death early Friday.
Leah Palmirotto and her pals went into the former Georgia Mental Health Institute building at Emory University’s Briarcliff campus in Georgia before she fell around 1 a.m., WAGA-TV News reported.
“She was perfect,” her dad, Todd Palmirotto, later told the outlet. “I was just, I was blown away.
Leah Palmirotto and her friends snuck into the former Georgia Mental Health Institute building at Emory University’s Briarcliff campus. GoFundMe
Palmirotto plummeted to her death while exploring the abandoned building — featured on “Stranger Things” and “Vampire Diaries.” Fox t5 Atlanta
Palmirotto’s devastated father called his daughter “perfect.” Instagram / @leah_palmirotto“Going to these places are dangerous, being with people that you really don’t know, like we just kind of always had something in the back of our mind that something could happen,” he added. “I’m just hoping it was instant. I just hope she felt no pain.”
The building, now known as Building A, has been featured in movies and TV series over the years, including “The Vampire Diaries” and more recently as the Hawkins National Laboratory in a fictional Indiana that becomes a gateway to a darker world in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”
According to the DeKalb County Police Department, Leah Palmirotto and her group of friends climbed a fence to get into the closed-off property to check out the abandoned building.
Palmirotto had a love for cars and photography, “and loved exploring and photographing abandoned buildings,” according to a Gofundme.com page her family set up.
“Just doing stuff that normal 19-year-old kids do ended up in pure devastation,” the family wrote.
