Anybody every investigated the Hotel Del? Ii've stayed there, but never really gotten into it. Would love to do it sometime soon.
Jen, having literally just spent your honeymoon in the Kate Morgan room last night, would you like to field this one? (Happy Honeymoon, BTW. Hope you both had a wonderful time.)
No formal investigations but I would LOVE for us to do one!!! My husband and I spent our one year anniversary in the Kate Morgan room. I did do some EVP work which I have yet to review. As far as personal experience, aside from some footsteps,knocks and noises which I'm pretty sure must have a "normal" explanation (the hotel was incredibly busy), something I can't (yet) explain is being woken up in the middle of the night by the bed shaking hard. I actually thought it was an earthquake - but no quake was reported for last night that I'm aware of. (anyone?) I tried to recreate it but wasn't able to do so.
I'd really like to see our team check it out.
Hi, Jen:
I lived in Coronado for a year--from August 1991 to July 1992--in a house that can arguably be described as the worst location on the entire island: in the "crotch" of the freeway lanes leading on and off the bridge, as they separate into two one-way streets around residential blocks. (So many bad memories about that place, really.) Anyway, while I was there, San Diego had a small earthquake whose magnitude was no higher than 2.0; however, because all of Coronado is built on a large sandbar, essentially, even small earthquakes cause intense liquefaction, amplifying the shaking tremendously. I've been in a 6.4 earthquake before (I'm sure you have too), and that little 2.0 quake in Coronado felt more like a 6.0 temblor. I was even concerned at one point that the house was going to come down. I was shocked to find out the next day just how small the quake rally was. So, it's possible that you experienced a small tremor that was falsely magnified by liquefaction. Add to that the fact that the Hotel Del is a completely wooden structure, and you suddenly realize that you've been sleeping in the equivalent of a tree-house built over quicksand.
Did you happen to notice if anything else was shaking in the room besides the bed?
Hi Karl! I did look to see if anything else was shaking - mostly at the chain from the ceiling fan. Nothing else seemed to be moving. I tried to recreate the shaking but wasn't able to except by placing my hands on the mattress and pushing it back and forth. A little later on I did see the fan chain swinging but was able to determine that it was in line with the air vents.
Sorry Coronado has such bad memories. :-\
Hi Jen,
According to the USGS website http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10284097.html there was a small quake that happened at 2:22 am on October 7th. Was that about the time you felt the shaking? There was another one about the same strength that happened later at around 6:00 pm http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10284193.html
Regards,
Brian Miller
You guys are brilliant! I thought I felt some shaking at 1:18am (it's what originally woke me up from an alcohol induced sleep) That's what I recorded, at any rate - but in all honesty, I may have been dreaming. I have the other one recorded as being at 2:25am so that fits in perfectly! Nothing else in the room seemed to be shaking - but there really wasn't anything in the room to shake - just the chains on the fan which I dismissed because I had the vents on. My husband was no help - was asleep to the world.
I am going to be down in SD the 19th throught the 21st if any one wants to go, i'll be staying on base so it's just "around the corner".
We were lucky enough to interview someone who actually wrote a book about the mystery surrounding the Kate Morgan story and the Hotel Del Coronado. Check it out here if you have some spare time...his take is rather interesting.
http://www.scparanormal.com