A woman has been found dead at Walt Disney World in Florida after a relative said she had gone missing in a social media post earlier that day.
Summer Equitz, a 31-year-old from Illinois, passed away at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort, a hotel on the Disney complex not far from Magic Kingdom, on 14th October. In an email to Variety, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed her death as an “apparent suicide”.
The Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office told PEOPLE that she died of “multiple blunt impact injuries” from a jump at the resort. This comes after initial resorts wrongly stated she had been hit by a monorail train. Police confirmed she was “NOT struck by the monorail” and said any reports suggesting she was are “erroneous information”.
Officers responded to a call about a body being found at the hotel at around 6.40pm. A video shared on Twitter shows a white tent being put up around her body. Disney has not issued a statement at the time of writing this.
BREAKING NEW: Body currently being removed from @WaltDisneyWorld Contemporary Resort after person fell onto tracks in way of on coming Monorail. #Disney #disneyworld #florida #BreakingNews #orlando pic.twitter.com/0O8gxnAUux
— Zack Zerio (@Empirestrikes16) October 14, 2025
Hours before her body was discovered, a now-deleted post appeared on Reddit where someone was frantically searching for Equitz. They described the 31-year-old as a “missing person” and said Equitz had flown to Florida to go to Disney “without telling us”.
“Just want her found,” they wrote, as per PEOPLE. In the comments, one person said “Terrible ending to this. Sorry for your loss,” while another added: “May she rest in peace.”
The woman was reportedly obsessed with Disney and spent her honeymoon at Walt Disney World in 2024 before announcing her pregnancy in December.
Credit: Summer Equitz/Facebook
She often spoke about her love for Disney on social media, and worked at Disneyland in California between 2012 and 2015 as a character performer and entertainment host.
In a blog post on the Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater, she said she would love to play “Belle from Beauty and the Beast” in theatre, adding: “But my other dream roles would be Elle from Legally Blonde, Ursula from The Little Mermaid or Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady.”
“I would say that acting is my strongest, I have always been an actor first and a dancer and singer second. Although I am better at just doing plays I find them boring, musicals are just so much more fun.”
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