Hotel del Coronado, San Diego

    

Legend of Del Coronado
       In February 19, 1888, founders Elisha Babcock and HL Story opened their dream hotel that they aspired to become, " the talk of the Western world. "  Indeed, given its elaborate construction and location, the hotel has served as host to countless United States presidents, royalty, Hollywood stars and several more famous personalities. It also served as the backdrop to the famous Marilyn Monroe movie "Some Like It Hot"  as well as many other films and television series over the years. On the other,  it has become known as one of the most famous haunted hotels in the world.

The Beautiful Stranger
       On November 24, 1892, a young woman checked into the hotel under the name Lottie A. Bernard and was assigned the room 302. The hotel staff was a bit concerned as she looked ill and carried no baggage. She explained that she had been separated from her brother while traveling by train and that he had her baggage claim ticket and would be joining her soon. After a few days passed and the brother still didn't show, the staff grew more concerned as the woman appeared to be getting sicker and was under duress . One day, she traveled to San Diego, where it is presumed she purchased a handgun. On November 29, five days after checking in, her body was discovered on the steps leading to the beach from what was proclaimed a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was buried in nearby Mount Hope Cemetery, 
            The media latched on to the story and dubbed the woman " The Beautiful Stranger " after it was discovered that she had checked in under an alias.  They soon uncovered that the woman's real name was Kate Morgan and that she had been born in Iowa.  It is believed that she traveled around in trains with her husband, Thomas Morgan, conning fellow travelers out of their money.  The story goes that it was on one of these travels that Kate discovered she was pregnant and decided that she wanted to give up the grifter lifestyle and settle down. Thomas, meanwhile, had other plans and an argument ensued that ended with Tom storming off the train somewhere north of San Diego. Kate continued on to San Diego and checked into the Hotel del Coronado, where she assumed that Thomas would soon join her.  After five days of waiting, she concluded that he would never arrive and took her own life.

Novel about The Legend Of  Kate Morgan
        In 1990, lawyer Alan May published the novel, The Legend of Kate Morgan: The Search for the Ghost of Hotel Coronado. In it, he put forth the theory that Kate was actually murdered by her husband.  The evidence he presented was that the bullet that took Kate's life was actually a different caliber than the one for the gun she purchased.  He also claimed that her body was found in a position that isn't typically associated with suicides. Whatever the case, the story of Kate Morgan and the Hotel del Coronado didn't end with her death. Apapun masalahnya, kisah Kate Morgan dan Hotel del Coronado tidak berakhir dengan kematiannya.

The Ghost of Kate Morgan

           The room where Kate stayed, Room 302, was later changed to Room 3312 and then again to Room 3327.  This room has become the most requested room in the entire hotel, in no short part to the years of paranormal activity reported from guests and staff.  This activity is said to include the lights and television turning on and off by themselves, the toilet spontaneously flushing, objects moving around the room, cold spots when there is no draft, disembodied whispering, and the shadowy figure of a woman looking out the blinds and window when no one is in the room. Furthermore, there are reports of Kate's ghost seen wandering the halls of the hotel as well as the steps where she died. Many people believe that Kate is there still waiting for Thomas to arrive to this date.

Room 3502 Room 3502
          There have also been reports of paranormal activity in Room 3502 as well. The experiences that have been described are very similar to what has been reported from Room 3327., however, less clear about the cause of these disturbances.While some believe that a maid who had attended to Kate Morgan formerly occupied the room and even that the maid might have witnessed what truly happened to Kate, others report that it is the room of a mistress of the hotel builder, Babcock, who also took her life when she discovered she was pregnant. Regardless, this room is rumored to be a hotbed of activity as well.

In Popular Culture
     As mentioned earlier, the hotel had a starring role in the classic 1959 Marilyn Monroe film, Some Like It Hot , but it was hardly its only starring role.  Over the years, the Hotel del Coronado has appeared in such films as The Stunt Man , My Blue Heaven , and K-9 .  While it also notable for appearances in the horror genre in television and film (see below), one of the more interesting aspects of the hotel is the influence it has or the appearances it has made in several literary works over the years.
      Perhaps the most famous piece of literature involving the Hotel del Coronado is the L. Frank Baum novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - better known in reprints and the classic movie adaptation, The Wizard of Oz . Aside from writing some of the countless sequels at the hotel itself, it is often reported that the Hotel del Coronado itself was a possible influence for the design and look of the series's Emerald City.  It should be noted that Baum reportedly first set eyes on the hotel some four years after the original novel, so any influence would have shown up in the later books.     
        

Ghost Story (1972-1973)
          Fans of the 1970s William Castle horror anthology, Ghost Story / Circle of Fear , that aired as a NBC television series might recognize the Hotel del Coronado.When the series first debuted as Ghost Story , Sebastian Cabot played narrator William Essex. Sebastian Cabot bermain narator William Essex. Each episode began in The Mansfield House, as Cabot introduced the story for the evening.The Mansfield House was none other than the Hotel del Coronado and Cabot could be seen walking around the hotel lobby and outside.When the series abruptly changed names to Circle of Fear in January 1973, Cabot and the Mansfield House were dropped completely.

Del Coronado in the horror film "Wicked, Wicked" (1973)
       The hotel would not remain away from the genre for long. Hotel ini tidak akan tetap jauh dari genre lama. In 1973, it appeared in the horror film, Wicked, Wicked , by writer/director Richard Bare. The film was filmed entirely in split-screen, which was sold to audiences as " Duo-Vision " in a William Castle-inspired gimmick. . The film follows a hotel handyman as he stalks and dispatches beautiful women with blond hair, before stitching them back together again.
      The Hotel del Coronado took on the role of the film's hotel and the film was completely shot on location on its grounds. The film starred Randolph Roberts as the murdering handyman, Tiffany Bolling as the nightclub singer he becomes infatuated with, and David Bailey as her ex-husband and hotel's detective trying to solve the murders. Despite its relatively interesting gimmick of completely utilizing split-screen action (a method popularized with lesser use by Brian De Palma and seen most recently in shows like 24) for the majority of the film except during the murder or sex scenes, Wicked, Wicked was considered a box office failure.

The Hotel Today
The Hotel del Coronado continues to be a first-class facility and a popular stop for tourists to the San Diego-area. The hotel firmly embraces both its role in books and movies, as well as the stories of the spirit of Kate Morgan. They have even published their own book on the stories titled Beautiful Stranger: The Ghost of Kate Morgan and the Hotel del Coronado.


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The Real  Amityville Horror

       

The Amityville House is very famous one of  scary building in USA...

 Even a Novel author, take this true story to be a reference ...
 And the story of the past is portrayed in a horror film titled " Amityville horror "...

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 Let's see the documentary movie about derive of this scary building..........

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           In the small town of Amityville on New York's Long Island, on a dark evening in 1974, 23 year old Ronald "Butch" DeFeo burst into a bar and declared that his entire family had just been shot. Police discovered six bodies in the DeFeo home at 112 Ocean Avenue, and what's more, the subsequent investigation revealed that Butch DeFeo had himself killed them all: both his parents, and his four younger siblings, with a Marlin rifle. Despite DeFeo's claim that strange voices in his head compelled him to commit the murders, he was convicted of all six murders and remains imprisoned to this day.
           Just over a year after the murders, the home was purchased by newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz, who moved in with their three children. The house was sold furnished so all of the DeFeo's furniture was still there, just as it had been on the night of the murders. George Lutz had heard of the murders, so just to be on the safe side, they called a priest whom Kathy knew, to bless the house. The trouble began when the priest was driven out of the house by an angry disembodied voice, and received stigmatic blisters on his skin. The family daughter reported a friendly pig named Jodie, who later began making appearances to the rest of the family through windows. A sculpted lion came to life and walked around the house, and even bit George Lutz. The apparition of a demonic boy appeared and was photographed, which you can find online. Angry red eyes looked into the house at night, and left cloven footprints in the snow. George Lutz woke up in a sweat every night at the same hour the DeFeos were murdered. Stephen Kaplan, a local parapsychologist, was called in to investigate. Powerful forces caused doors to explode off their hinges. Kathy developed strange red marks on her chest and levitated two feet off her bed, and George saw her transform into a hideous old hag. Green slime oozed from the walls of the house, and a crucifix on the wall constantly rotated itself upside down. And, in one final night of terror that the Lutzes have never even been able to describe, the family was driven out of the house, never to return. Their stay had lasted only 28 days.
               The events are not surprising, since a few hundred years before the Defeos were murdered, the local Shinnecock Indians used the same property as a sort of insane asylum for their sick and dying. Negative demonic energy was nothing new to the Amityville Horror house.
So what happened next?
                George Lutz, whose business was failing (ostensibly as a result of the distraction of the haunting), hoped to find a silver lining and called up the publisher Prentice-Hall. The Exorcist had come out only two years before and had been wildly successful, putting things like demons and abused priests firmly in the public consciousness, so Prentice-Hall was keen to capitalize on the Lutzes' experience. The publisher engaged author Jay Anson to write the book and the rest is history. The book and subsequent nine motion pictures were highly successful, though most critics agree that the movies were all stupid.
                Where it started to get murky was a meeting that George Lutz had during his 28 days in the house. The man he met with was William Weber, who was no other than Butch DeFeo's defense attorney. Who initiated the meeting is not clear. According to William Weber's admission in later years, what transpired in that meeting was an agreement that served both men's interests. The story of the haunting was concocted, based in part upon elements from The Exorcist. George Lutz stood to gain from the potential commerciality of a ghost story based upon the DeFeo murders, and Weber would have a new defense for his client: Demons, as evidenced by the Lutzes' experience, caused Butch DeFeo to murder his family, at least in Butch's own mind.
                Prior to the publication of the book, Lutz and Weber set out to publicize the haunting to the best of their ability. The most notable success they had was a television crew from Channel 5 in New York who brought a pair of psychics, Ed and Lorraine Warren, who reported on camera that the house was plagued with malevolent spirits. Other psychics also visited the house on different occasions, and by the time the book came out, the groundwork for a bestseller was well laid. To this day, the Warrens maintain that the Amityville
                Once enough money had been made by the book, the lawsuits began. Lutz and Weber sued each other and just about everyone else under the sun, with claims such as breach of contract, misappropriation of names, and mental distress. The judge eventually threw everything out of court, along with a stern lecture about the book being a work of fiction based in large part upon Weber's suggestions and the popularity of The Exorcist.
            Let's back up a moment to Stephen Kaplan, the parapsychologist whom the Lutzes called in during their brief stay in the house, per Lutz and Weber's marketing plan. As it turned out, Kaplan didn't buy the Lutzes' story, and concluded while he was there that he was being hoaxed. Later, when Anson's book became so popular, Kaplan became concerned that the Lutzes' story, which he considered bogus, would give paranormal research a bad name, so he wrote his own book called The Amityville Horror Conspiracy in which he laid out more than 100 factual inconsistencies.
Among these inconsistencies was that the Shinnecock Indians, or any other native tribes, never lived anywhere near present-day Amityville. The nearest Shinnecock settlement was 70 miles away, even according to the Shinnecocks themselves, and you can find their web site at shinnecocknation.com.

                 Father Pecoraro, the priest who tried to bless the house when the Lutzes moved in but was allegedly attacked, reports that nothing unusual happened during his visit and no attack or evil threat of any kind took place, although he did express a concern about evil spirits to George Lutz based on the house's history. Some reports, including one affidavit by Pecoraro himself, state that he never visited at all but only spoke to the Lutzes over the phone. As a result, author Jay Anson created a new priest for the book, Father Mancuso. The only priest who ever got blisters and a ghostly warning was a fictitious character.
              There were many other inconsistencies. No doors or windows in the house were found to have ever been ripped off their hinges; all were found undamaged and securely mounted with their original hardware. The local police department records indicate no calls or visits to the property during the 28 days, despite a number of such events in the book. The same goes for disturbances affecting the neighbors. No snow fell during the period, which strains the cloven hoof prints in the snow. In short the book was full of episodes that created physical evidence, but none of that alleged evidence has ever withstood any scrutiny. Indeed, everything that was falsifiable was easily falsified by Kaplan and numerous other investigators. It should be noted that the Warrens, who enjoyed their best public exposure during their televised visit to the house, consider Kaplan's book to be false and to be simply his own attempt at self-serving publicity.
                     If you've ever listened to this podcast before, you know what my recommendation is when you encounter claims that are far fetched or that violate physical laws: Be skeptical. In the case of the Amityville Horror, plenty of evidence exists to indicate that none of the events in the book happened, and the only evidence that anything did happen are anecdotal personal accounts by parties with clearly vested commercial interests. If you want to read the book — and most readers report that it is a great scary story — enjoy it for a work of fiction that launched one of pop culture's most engaging and long-lived ghost stories.
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