{"id":45524,"date":"2025-11-20T01:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45524\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:21:13","slug":"5th-person-dead-at-disney-world-resort-in-less-than-a-month-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45524\/","title":{"rendered":"5th person dead at Disney World resort in less than a month: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fifth person has died at a\u00a0lavish\u00a0Florida Disney World<\/a>\u00a0resort in a chilling string of deaths in less than a month that\u2019s cast a dark shadow over the \u201cMost Magical Place on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unidentified guest was reportedly pronounced dead at Disney\u2019s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, just steps from Disney Springs, on Nov. 8, the Orange County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirmed to The Post Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A Walt Disney World guest was pronounced dead at Disney\u2019s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. JHVEPhoto \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough there was a death at Disney\u2019s Saratoga Springs Resort, we declined jurisdiction,\u201d the Medical Examiner said in a statement, noting the body was ultimately turned over to the individual\u2019s personal physician.<\/p>\n

The grim news was\u00a0first reported by a Disney World-focused X account \u201cWalt Disney World: Active Calls,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>which tracks real-time police activity across the massive theme park.<\/p>\n

A person was first reported \u201cdown\u201d at the Saratoga Springs property at 3:18 p.m., according to the account. Minutes later, it delivered a grim update that the individual was \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Victorian-style resort \u2014 tucked between manicured golf-course greens and packed with pools and a spa \u2014 boasts studio and multi-bedroom villas complete with living and dining areas, in-room laundry and full kitchens, with some stays costing a staggering $2,300 a night,\u00a0according to its website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

No further details about their mysterious death have been released.<\/p>\n

The death at Saratoga Springs is the fifth in a chilling string of deaths in less than a month. Eve Chen \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Disney and the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

The eerie wave of deaths at the sprawling theme park<\/a>\u00a0started on Oct. 14, when\u00a0Disney superfan Summer Equitz, 31, was found dead<\/a>\u00a0at the Contemporary Resort in an apparent suicide, hours after she vanished from her Illinois home, local authorities said.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the recent deaths at Disney World in Orlando<\/p>\n

Just days later, another guest at the park, identified only as a man in his 60s,\u00a0died from a pre-existing medical condition<\/a>\u00a0at Disney\u2019s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground on Oct. 21, police said.<\/p>\n

Summer Equitz was found dead of an apparent suicide at Disney World\u2019s Contemporary Resort on Oct. 14. facebook\/summer.equitz<\/p>\n

Matthew Alec Cohn jumped from the Contemporary Resort in another apparent suicide on Oct. 23. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

The incident took place in the 1500 loop, or site Cottontail Curl, one of 21 resort-based trails and campsites on Disney\u2019s Orlando property.<\/p>\n

Tragedy struck the Contemporary Resort again on Oct. 23\u00a0<\/a>when 28-year-old Matthew Alec Cohn, an aspiring football referee from Los Angeles, leapt from the 12th floor of the popular hotel in an apparent suicide, officials said.<\/p>\n

And on Nov. 2,\u00a0a woman in her 40s was found unresponsive at Disney\u2019s Pop Century Resort<\/a>, a budget hotel connected to Epcot and Hollywood Studios near the famed Skyliner, and was later pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth person has died at a\u00a0lavish\u00a0Florida Disney World\u00a0resort in a chilling string of deaths in less than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1015,6133,9479,3640,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-45524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-disney-world","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}