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CORONADO, CA — What started as an elegant check-in at a luxurious seaside resort in 1892 ended in death, suspicion, and whispers of a ghost that still lingers here in California. Kate Morgan, a young woman traveling alone, entered the iconic Hotel del Coronado under an assumed name—but she would never leave alive.
A Troubled Past Shadows Her Steps
Kate Morgan, born Kate Farmer around 1864 in rural Iowa, had a rocky upbringing from the start. After losing her mother as a toddler, she was raised by her grandfather while her father remarried and eventually relocated to Texas. As a young woman, Kate married Thomas Edwin Morgan, but tragedy followed: their only child died just two days after birth. Not long after, she vanished into a stormy relationship with a man named Albert Allen—a connection tied to her husband’s extended family. That, too, unraveled.
By the early 1890s, Kate had become a ghost of her former self—sick, alone, and adrift.
The Arrival of a “Beautiful Stranger”
On November 24, 1892, a well-dressed and refined woman checked into the Hotel del Coronado using the alias “Mrs. Lottie A. Bernard” from Detroit. Staff later recalled her as elegant but deeply melancholy. She was quiet, polite, and appeared to be in distress, both physically and emotionally…