Hotel Del Coronado

[pennylayne]

Anybody every investigated the Hotel Del? Ii've stayed there, but never really gotten into it. Would love to do it sometime soon.

[PPI Karl]

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.)

[TAPS Jen]

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.

[PPI Karl]

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?

[TAPS Jen]

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.      

[PPI Brian]

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

[TAPS Jen]

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.

[pennylayne]

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".

[SCP_Dave]

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