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El Cortez Hotel, San Diego, CA

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Julie (67.136.142.66) -

A real estate agent and myself are trying to find out about hauntings, ghosts or poltergeists seen or experieced at the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, CA.

It seems the once jewel of the city became a diplaitated and condemned building in the 1980's. The area became an area of town were transitional homeless sheltars were set up on the Cortez Hill area.

It was revealed to me by residents of the newly redeveloped El Cortez (2002) that when the new construction was conducted there were several bodies found dead on several of the top floors. It had turned in a crack house, drug haven, and homeless retreat. Darkness and graffetti painted its interior, and the floors were so unstable that they could not investigate the top floors to find the horrible contents until it could be supported.

It seems to me there has been a cover up on the internet to remove all reference to these past events and findings by the real estate community that have big $$$$ invested in the project. Yet, people feel eerie presences and uneasiness through out the building.

Does anyone have any information for us ghost hunters?

Reply #1 dustin (63.176.159.94) -

I really couldn't find much on this on the internet. But I did find out they tried hiding the past in order to sell condos after renovation. Below I copy-pasted a bit from the article..

In order to sell it as this opulent property, they scrubbed every scary, ghostly, or hideous thing that ever happened off the Web. If any ghosts of the past haunt the halls of the El Cortez, the realtors have a muzzle on them.

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Reply #2 walter (63.176.159.209) -

very nice article. i did not know those things.. interesting to read.

Reply #3 Frederich (63.176.159.153) -

Great informative article there dustin. This is how far businessmen will go to sell their business out, well it is a good strategy though... to cover and hide the truth. I somewhat feel that that is not the first time that someone in power has used this form of selling out.

Reply #4 Dale (63.176.159.55) -

Well, I believe that there are no such things as ghost... demons are doing such things. Even your beloved ancestors or deceased loved ones (once dead) will never come back again either to haunt or visit you. These ghosts and paranormal phenomena have been forewarned in the bible that there will be a great deception or watch out for deceivers who will trick you to believing such lies in order for you to loose faith in God and this is what these "Ghosts" incidents or "paranormal" news is doing, deceiving us to believe them rather than in God alone. Be prepared.

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Reply #7 Tonio (63.176.159.66) -

This is really hilarious. People using such ghost stories to attract visitors and potential customers to patronize their hotel services. This can be either good or bad for business. Well, by the looks of it, it looks like it is good for business especially to those who wanted to be frightened out of their wits.

Reply #8 Ederin (63.176.159.98) -

But as you see Tonio this is truly effective to those people who wanted to see something weird in their lives.

Reply #9 Gustave (63.176.159.120) - 03/08/09 19:56

This is actually a good way of marketing for business and publicity because it is innate to humans to explore their curiosity and to disprove such hauntings. I also believe that psychics or paranormal experts can be a good target market to such "claimed" ghost hauntings on hotels and apartments.

Reply #10 Dawn (63.176.159.207) - 04/24/09 00:23

There are things in this physical Earth that even Science could not explain. The paranormal, spirits, ghosts, hauntings, and demons are just some of them. The question here is whether they are authentic or not, and on a similar note, are the ghost hunters or paranormal specialist really capable of understanding the situation? The last thing anyone reads right now is being deceived and not getting their money's worth. Or it could all just be a public spectacle.

Reply #11 Mike MacDonald from San Diego, CA (Contact Member) - 06/15/09 15:27

I actually just moved into El Cortez about 3 months ago and was really curious about all the ghost stories I was hearing about it.

It is exceptionally hard to find any information on the internet about this property. I've gotten most of my info from people that live there now and some who used to hang out in the hotel when it was in ruin (during the 80's).

My girlfriend and I haven't experienced anything unusual yet but I won't be surprised if we do (I'm fairly in tune with that stuff).

Reply #12 Mike MacDonald from San Diego, CA (Contact Member) - 06/15/09 15:30

I forgot to mention that everyone that lives there believes that there is a cover-up going on in regards to info about the property online. You just can't find info about it on the net (bad info, that is).

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Reply #13 empirenine (70.167.183.79) - 06/15/09 15:32

This place gives me the willies. My friend Jorge and I were in SD last year and took some pics of the place. Its very lifeless from the outside.

Reply #14 Snarf (63.176.159.71) - 06/15/09 22:14

Whether or not this place is haunted, saying it is will attract customers by the boat load. For example, many people will stay the night in the so called haunted room where a former tenant had killed himself, hoping for a glimpse of his ghost.

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