Kate Morgan
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A photo of Kate Morgan, the ghost of the Hotel Del Coronado?
In 1885, Kate Farmer married Thomas Edwin Morgan. They had one child, who died after 2 days.
In 1890, she ran off with a stepson of her husband's stepmother. She ended up in Los Angeles, CA, working as a housemaid. At this point, she told her co-workers that she was married to a gambler but it is unknown to whom she referred.
On November 24, 1892, she checked into the Hotel Del in Coronado. Five days later, she was found on the stairs, dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide while some still believe that it was a homicide.
Here's the mystery: She checked in as "Lottie Bernard." No family members identified her body and the recent photo her employers gave the police was said to not look like the body. So was the "beautiful woman" who checked in alone Kate Morgan? Why was she staying at the luxury resort alone? Why did she commit suicide or was she killed - and why? Is she the ghost of the Del? And, if so, why does she still haunt the resort after more than 100 years?
In 1885, Kate Farmer married Thomas Edwin Morgan. They had one child, who died after 2 days.
In 1890, she ran off with a stepson of her husband's stepmother. She ended up in Los Angeles, CA, working as a housemaid. At this point, she told her co-workers that she was married to a gambler but it is unknown to whom she referred.
On November 24, 1892, she checked into the Hotel Del in Coronado. Five days later, she was found on the stairs, dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide while some still believe that it was a homicide.
Here's the mystery: She checked in as "Lottie Bernard." No family members identified her body and the recent photo her employers gave the police was said to not look like the body. So was the "beautiful woman" who checked in alone Kate Morgan? Why was she staying at the luxury resort alone? Why did she commit suicide or was she killed - and why? Is she the ghost of the Del? And, if so, why does she still haunt the resort after more than 100 years?
Date & Place:
at California, in California United States
Age: 22
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Updated Nov 01, 2018
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Very unfinished.....If she checked in under a different name...and they say she couldn't be identified.....how do the even know it was Kate Morgan?? She might have lived out her life in Paris....LOL
No one knows for sure . . . we know that people (and the phenomena of things moving, bumps, footsteps, lights turning off . . . ) report experiencing things. We know that the body was listed as Kate's. But the mystery continues - even at the Del.
Picked up a book about her while visiting San Diego this past summer. It's called "Beautiful Stranger, the Ghost of Kate Morgan and the Hotel del Coronado".
Id like to read it. Have friends in Canada who mght get it f me. Interesting
A personal story: My cousin's family has owned "the 2nd oldest house" in Coronado for 4 generations. (The oldest house is next door - both houses built by the same family, the 2nd one for their daughters.) My Aunt said that every time a new generation moved in the house, a female ghost would visit. My Aunt's mother asked the ghost her name, she said "Allie." So she went next door and asked the family what the name of the daughter who lived in her house was. "Allie." So . . . needless to say, I was scared when we visited them. But I never saw her ghost. I guess she didn't bother with visitors.