Season 4 Episode 3
Kate Morgan
The Hotel Del Coronado opened in February of 1888. It has hosted famous people from Marilyn Monroe to Ellen Degeneres. But the most famous guest of the Hotel Del is one that been there for almost 130 years. Kate Morgan checked into the Hotel Del Coronado on Thanksgiving Day 1892, the employees knew almost immediately there was something different about the Beautiful Stranger, little did they know that she would be still famous so many decades later.
Link to the painting by Dr. Suess. “I dreamed I was a doorman at the Hotel Del Coronado”
I Dreamed I was a Doorman at the Hotel Del Coronado
Pictures of the Crown Room with lighting designed by Frank L Baum
Haunted by History by Craig Owens
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Information
https://www.realtygroupssd.com/2018/01/10/the-intriguing-history-of-hotel-del-coronado/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jordilippemcgraw/2018/02/28/secrets-hotel-del-coronado/#64bf69cd19bc
https://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/hotel-del-coronado-san-diego-haunted
https://hoteldel.com/timeline/like-hot/
https://hoteldel.com/press/brief-history-hotel-del-coronado/
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/at-the-hotel-del-a-deadly-obsession/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_del_Coronado
https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/hotel-del-coronado/history.php
Photos
https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/americas-most-notorious-hotel-ghosts
Books
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Stranger-Ghost-Morgan-Coronado/dp/091625173X
https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Kate-Morgan-Search-Coronado/dp/1122265743
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Marti
I had an experience while staying at the Hotel Del.
We were out in a room in the older part of the hotel (my preference). The first night, I awoke to kids running down the hall, laughing and pounding on the walls. Not long after, I smelled smoke – someone smoking a pipe. It kept me up and I was irritated the next morning. So, I approached the housekeeper for that wing, explained the situation and asked that she have someone speak with the family sharing our section of the hotel. Her response (as she smiled a knowing smile):
“Ma’am, there is no one else staying in this wing.”
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hauntinghistorypodcast
O M G!!! I love this!!!
Cat