E176: MYSTERY - The Hotel del Coronado (part I)

The Hotel Del Coronado, is the largest wooden Victorian resort hotel in the world. On Thanksgiving Day, 1892 a beautiful young woman checked in, using the unaccompanied ladies entrance. Five days later, her lifeless body was found on the steps leading to the beach. This was only the beginning of a series of baffling clues; who was this woman, and how did she come to such a sad end? Today we discuss the incomparable Hotel Del, from its inception and construction to the most infamous, (but not the only) mystery whose secrets she keeps to this day.

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