Hotel del Coronado Ghost. After working at the Hotel del Coronado and becoming familiar with the Heritage Department's official book about the famous ghost (Beautiful Stranger), I spent two years intensively researching the baffling mystery of how and why this stunning young woman died violently and mysteriously in 1892, amid rumors of forbidden romance and corruption in the highest places. Now I have created a special website for my two resulting books. Truth is stranger than fiction—the astounding facts have been hidden in plain sight for over a century. Finally, the entire saga is revealed!