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"
https://www.libertypuzzles.com/wooden-jigsaw-puzzles/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
https://bizarrela.com/store/haunted-by-history-vol-1-soft-cover/

 
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Below is a  list of resources  used during the research and telling of this story. (partial) 
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://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/sd-me-archives-kate-morgan-20171120-story.html
https://sandiegoghosttech.com/haunted-places-2/2017/11/23/missing-on-thanksgiving-the-mysterious-identity-of-la-grants-house-servant
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.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/October-2015/Inside-the-Icon-Hotel-Del-Coronado-Room-3327/
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
and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org and FindaGrave.com
 

 

 
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