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5月7日 Kate Morgan and the Hotel Del CoronadoMy next stop, the Hotel Del Coronado, is in my mind the perfect place to go ghost hunting. It's a gorgeous old hotel with a fabulous beach in Coronado, California, just across the bay from San Diego. So in between ghost hunting you can grab some R&R and soak in the atmosphere. The most haunted room, #3327, is booked from here to the next century (well, not really, but it's hard to score), so I "slummed it" in a Junior Suite overlooking the pool, just down the hall. I scheduled a meeting with the hotel's resident historian, Chris Donovan. To prepare, I read the book she wrote on the hotel ghost, Kate Morgan. Here's the short version of the story. A young woman checked in to the Hotel Del Coronado, claiming to be Lottie Bernard, a few days before Thanksgiving in the year 1892. She appeared agitated and ill, and had no luggage. She claimed to have been separated on a train from her brother, Dr. Anderson. He had the claim tickets for her luggage, and when he arrived, she explained, he would bring her luggage and look after her. Over the course of the next few days she looked sicker and sicker, and kept asking if her brother had arrived. A few days later, she took a streetcar into San Diego to buy a pistol and ammunition. The next morning, she was found dead. The newspapers followed the story of the "beautiful stranger" as it unraveled. Lottie Bernard turned out to be an alias, and the investigation took a few missteps before finally identifying her as Kate Morgan. As the story goes, she and her husband, Thomas, used to make a living riding the rails, posing as brother and sister. She would charm men, and he would play them at poker. It is speculated that she became pregnant (or wanted to) and asked Thomas to settle down. They separated, and she found work as a domestic in Los Angeles. No one is quite sure what prompted her to check in to the Hotel Del Coronado without luggage that day. Some believe she and Thomas began the journey together, then quarreled on the train enroute, at which point he left her. After her suicide, quinine was found among her possessions, leading to the speculation that she was pregnant and trying to self-abort. At any rate, no one arrived at the hotel to meet her, and the beautiful stranger took her own life on the hotel steps leading to the ocean. Now, Kate is said to haunt her room, the beach, and some of the shops. Chris took me down to "Established in 1888," a hotel gift shop where some strange things have been reported. I talked to Mary, who works in the store. She confirmed what I had heard about unexplained events in the shop. Mary showed me a wall in the store that used to be a Marilyn Monroe display. "Some Like It Hot" was filmed at the hotel, and Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is sold in the shop. "Things would fly off the wall," Mary explained. "Not just fall off. Fly off." Thinking Kate was jealous of Marilyn, the hotel's other famous female, the memorabilia was moved to a less prominent spot behind the counter, and replaced with other merchandise. Now, wine bottles, ceramic mugs, and wine glasses are kept on that wall, and they have all stayed put. Mary told me about another hotel employee who had actually seen Kate's ghost, so Chris and I headed downstairs to find her. She seemed embarrassed about the questions we were asking. Her co-workers were surprised, as she had not mentioned any of this to them. She certainly wasn't making up stories to get attention. She explained that her job required her to arrive at the hotel early, around 7 A.M. "I was walking past the shops, which were all closed," she said. "I happened to look into 'Established in 1888' and saw a woman behind the counter. She was looking down, like she was looking for something. She wore a long black dress with a high collar." Spooked, she hurried past the shop and went to work. Later that day she mentioned what she saw to the store's manager, hoping there was an explanation. The manager confirmed no one was let into the store that early, but noted all the books at the bottom of the counter were in disarray, as if someone had been leafing through them. Some were pushed back on the shelf, and others were on the floor. She noticed because she always took care to leave the books very neat and straight before she left that night. I asked the employee if she ever saw the woman again. "I don't look into the store anymore," she admitted. "I just sort of rush past it." I was intrigued enough to get up really early the next morning and try to spot Kate. So, at 6 A.M., I strolled past the store a few times, trying to look like a window shopper when someone walked past. I poked around for about an hour, taking a few pictures, but I didn't see Kate. I also walked past her room, #3327, and took a picture outside. I guess Kate was sleeping in that day. 评论 (4)
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