The Grave of Kate Morgan, The Beautiful Stranger
Mount Hope Cemetery Div 5 Sec 1
Mount Hope Cemetery Div 5 Sec 1
Kate Morgan, A.K.A. Lottie Anderson Bernard, is the famous resident ghost of the Hotel Del Coronado. The story goes that Kate and her husband Tom, a con artist who rode the trains of the time. Kate had become pregnant and was to meet her husband at The Hotel Del on Thanksgiving.
While she was there she had purchased a gun in San Diego. She was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, on an exterior stairway leading to the beach at The Hotel Del. The death was ruled a suicide, but a later investigation supposedly found that the bullet did not match the caliber of her gun. She was later buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in DIV 5 SEC 1, the tombstone was supplied by a donor. |