A sixth body in just four months has been reported at Walt Disney World in yet more horror for the world-famous theme park.

The incident is being investigated as a possible suicide, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said after it received a call to the theme park on Friday at around 9pm. It is the sixth fatality at the Orlando resort in the space of just four months.

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Authorities are now contemplating a complete closure of the Disney Springs area to ensure visitor safety and to conduct a thorough forensic investigation, Inside the Magic blog reported.

The first of the deaths was reported on October 14. Disney superfan Summer Equitz, 31, took her own life at the Contemporary Resort Hotel. She had travelled to the resort, where she spent her honeymoon, from Illinois without informing her family.

At the same hotel on October 23, aspiring NFL referee also took his own life.

And on October 21, an unidentified 60-year-old man passed away after experiencing a medical episode at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. He had been travelling with his wife, who discovered him unresponsive.

The man suffered form had been hypertension and end-stage liver disease, the Nurse Anesthetists’ report, reviewed by People said.

Another death was recorded on November 2 when a woman was found unresponsive at the Pop Century Resort. She later died in hospital. There were no signs of foul play.

Another person, also unidentified, died at the Saratoga Springs Resort on November 8.

It comes after a Disney World Worker was injured while attempting to stop a large runaway prop boulder from rolling into seated spectators at the Indiana Jones live show.

The worker at the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park was knocked to the ground by the 181kg prop boulder after it moved off its track and started rolling toward audience members. Another worker stopped the boulder before it reached the spectators.

One of the attraction’s scheduled shows was cancelled after the accident, and shows were modified to exclude the prop boulder. Disney said it was reviewing why the prop rolled off the track during the incident on New Year’s Eve.

“We’re focused on supporting our cast member, who is recovering,” Disney said in a statement. “Safety is at the heart of what we do, and that element of the show will be modified as our safety team completes a review of what happened.”