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We've found 2 haunted hotels in California, in Long Beach and Coronado. 2 have written guest accounts of unexplained experiences. Below you'll find the ghost story behind each one, plus where to book your stay.
A 1936 Cunard liner moored in Long Beach since 1967, with staterooms you can book. Two crew deaths behind its best-known ghost stories are on record; the drowned girl in the pool is not.
The ghost story: Watertight door No. 13, deep in the engine room, is the center of the Queen Mary's best-known story. The ship's records show that John Pedder, an 18-year-old crewman, was crushed by it on July 10, 1966.
An 1888 Victorian beach resort near San Diego, haunted, it says, by a young woman found shot on its steps in 1892. Her death is on record; the haunting rests on the hotel's own accounts.
The ghost story: On Thanksgiving Day 1892, a young woman checked in alone as "Lottie A. Bernard" of Detroit. Five days later, on November 29, she was found dead on an outside staircase leading to the beach, with a gunshot wound to the head. A coroner's inquest ruled it suicide.
The Queen Mary in Long Beach tops our list of haunted hotels in California.
We list 2 haunted hotels in California, in Long Beach and Coronado. 2 have written guest accounts of unexplained experiences.