NOVERBER 29, 1892
Kate Morgan, (alias: Lattie A. Bernard) was found dead on the steps leading to the beach.
The cause of death was determined to be suicide and a .44 was found by her side.
After her death, reports of a ghost at the hotel started by guests and those working at the hotel where asked to keep it quite.
One hundred years later it is questioned if she was shot by a .38 and not the .44 she had purchased.
The hole in her head is said not to be the size a .44 would leave.
Did she buy the gun to commit suicide or to protect herself? We may never know the truth to this haunting.
Kate's ghost is said to still haunt The Hotel Del.
I believe it is due to her wanting someone to know the truth of what happened that night.
Could someone back then have paid to keep the murder quite? Could someone have made it look like suicide?
Would the hotel have suffered if people knew there was a murder? Perhaps better to make those believe she commited suicide?
I am not a historian or a reporter. I am a photographer and I am entilied to believe as I do.
I believe she was murdered and I believe that is why she haunts and not because
she waits for her husband or lover. No one today can prove murder or suicide.
Kate’s room has been re-numbered several times over the years and was at the time of my visit,
Said to be Room #3327 (originally #302 then #3312).
Kate‘s is not the only ghost roaming the Del, another is said to be her maids Room #3502.
Kate’s maid, (name unknown), disappeared on the day her body was laid to rest. Was she killed because
she was a witness to the murder, or perhaps she found out information, that would lead police to the real killer?

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