Christopher Chacon is an American parapsychologist, anomalist, and self-described UFOlogist, regarded as one of the world's foremost investigators of paranormal and anomalous phenomena, best known for his 1992 investigation of the Hotel del Coronado, the real-world case that inspired Stephen King's short story and the 2007 film 1408.[1]
Career
Over more than four decades, Chacon has investigated thousands of cases spanning possessions and exorcisms, hauntings and poltergeists, psychic phenomena and altered states of consciousness — including Clairvoyance, Psychokinesis, and near-death experiences — UFO and alien close encounters, and unexplained anomalous phenomena more broadly, alongside claimed cryptid sightings.[2] He is also a professional magician and illusionist, having begun practising magic at age four and performing to international audiences by college.[2] He has combined this background with his investigative work as an on-screen consultant and expert for television and film productions, including PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, Miracles, and Constantine.[2]
The Hotel del Coronado
In 1992, the Hotel del Coronado contracted Chacon to conduct a confidential, continuous 24-hour assessment of anomalous phenomena reported throughout the resort. Over almost 10,000 hours of on-site monitoring across a full year, Chacon's team scanned and recorded temperature, electrostatic emissions, air current and content, electromagnetic and geomagnetic fields, radiation, vibration, air pressure, humidity, and light spectrum, alongside confidential interviews with around 1,100 guests, staff, and visitors.[1] The investigation documented moving furniture, disembodied shadows, doors and windows opening and closing unaided, taps turning on and off, sudden cold spots, and disembodied voices and footsteps, concentrated particularly around the hotel's third and fifth floors — including over 400 anomalous events recorded in Room 3519 alone.[3] Chacon returned to the hotel on multiple later occasions to continue his research.[1]
The hotel's reputation is closely tied to the 1892 death of guest Kate Morgan, found dead of a gunshot wound days after checking in alone; the case was ruled a suicide. Her presumed room remains among the hotel's most requested, and reports of a woman in black in the hotel's hallways and along the beach have continued for decades since.[4]
Other hotel investigations
Beyond Hotel del Coronado, Chacon has investigated hundreds of reportedly haunted hotels across the United States, including the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, the Battery Carriage House in South Carolina, and the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Paranormal Investigation."Hotel del Coronado.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Christopher Chacon."IMDb.
- ↑ "San Diego's Hotel del Coronado Named Among America's Most Haunted Hotels by Historic Hotels of America."Hoodline.12 November 2024.
- ↑ "The Resident Ghost At Hotel Del Coronado."Patch.
- ↑ "1408 (2007) — Trivia."IMDb.