Kate Morgan was born in 1864/65 and died 1892, she was an American woman who died under mysterious circumstances and is believed to haunt the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California. She is buried in nearby Mount Hope Cemetery, listed as being in Division 5, Section 1. She has been tied up to the Hotel del Coronado and suspected hauntings there, most of the time people concur that her death seems to be more like that of suicide and support the official verdict. Some of the legends say that Kate never checked out and had been waiting for a man to show up there, she was lovesick and lonely and this may have led to her death/suicide.
Kate’s mother died in 1865 and she was sent to stay with her maternal grandfather, and then in 1870 her father was appointed to be the Postmaster of Hamburg, Iowa. He remarried in 1871 with two more daughters in his life and died in Texas, 1876.
Kate married Thomas Edwin Morgan, they had one child together on 31st October, 1886 but sadly the boy only lasted two days. Around 1890 she ran off with Albert Allen, a stepson of Tom’s mother. She was then hired as a housemaid in by the Grant Family in Los Angeles and she told her co-workers that she was married to a gambler and Tom Morgan was incorrectly assumed to be the gambler. When she died 28th November, 1892, he was a rural mail carrier out in Nebraska.
Kate was found dead on the exterior staircase leading to the beach, it looked like a self-inflicted gunshot to the head and this was five days after she had checked out from Hotel del Coronado, Coronado. A San Francisco lawyer (the late Alan May) suggested that there was foul play involved and evidence for this was a passing statement during the coroner’s inquest that the bullet from her head did not match the gun that she owned. Officials never reopened the case because to them it seemed to be more speculation than fact.
In respect to the ghostly tales, she seems to haunt the hotel room where she was a guest, but is not solely limited to this area. Most the activity seems to be fleeting glimpses of the pretty woman, cold spots or the televisions turnings off or on without explanation. A couple reported that during their romantic Valentine stay they were interrupted with sleep when the covers were taken away from them in the middle of the night by a ghostly apparition.
The gift shop was established in 1888 with the lower lobby being part of it being a vintage display for the hotel, it has been active with events such as things coming from the shelves and walls. They moved the lobby and displays when they updated it and thought it might cause them to cease but it seems that the ghost does not like this. Marilyn Munroe’s 1958 filming was there for the film Some Like It Hot and anything related to that seems to tumble or falter when on display, maybe the ghost does not enjoy sharing the limelight.
A psychic gave their input in 1912 (ish) and stated that they had a vision of men (not unlike miners) who were digging a tunnel near the hotel and had a lingering presence. There is in fact a tunnel that connects the remote infrastructure to the main hotel so perhaps they had picked up on that?
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