Cory Monteith returned to his Vancouver hotel room alone Friday night after an evening out with friends, security footage from the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel reportedly shows.

He and his buddies had hit up The Roxy and The Queen's Republic nightclubs, just a few doors apart in downtown Vancouver.

It was just after noon on Saturday that the Vancouver police department received a call from the BC (British Columbia) Ambulance Service.  The paramedics had responded to a call from the hotel -- it's believed a housekeeping employe