14The Hotel del Coronado, San Diego
Regular readers might recognize this “star” of television and film, but the terrifying truth is this hotel, open since 1888, is also home to the city’s most famous ghosts. American Kate Morgan checked in here in 1892, waiting for her husband to join her. She was discovered dead at the foot of an outdoor staircase four days later.
Today guests and work staff come across blinking, flickering lights, unexplainable drops in temperature, oddly behaving televisions, and even phantasmal scents in the third-floor room Morgan once occupied. Paranormal investigators have also noted odd activities in the hotel’s gift shop, where merchandise has been observed throwing itself off the store shelves. Similar strange occurrences have also been reported in Room 3519, where the body of the original owner’s mistress was allegedly found.
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