The Ghost of Kate Morgan at the Hotel del Coronado

Record summary

Kate Morgan died at the Hotel del Coronado in 1892 under circumstances initially treated as suicide, although later writers have debated murder and other possibilities. The hotel subsequently acquired a long-running ghost tradition involving apparitions, room disturbances, and reports associated with Morgan’s supposed presence. It matters for comparison because a real, named death became the anchor for a commercial haunting narrative whose details accumulated over decades. Uncertainties include the identity and biography of the deceased, the original inquest, the dating of reported phenomena, and the influence of tourism and media storytelling.