Ma Barker House

The Story

The lakefront house where Ma Barker and her son Fred died in a confrontation with federal agents has its own ghost tradition. HauntedPlaces.org reports that the Barkers’ spirits are believed to remain there. The story ties the haunting to the preserved domestic setting of the notorious shootout, rather than to a separately identified apparition elsewhere in town.

The Hauntings

The lakefront house where Ma Barker and her son Fred died in a confrontation with federal agents has its own ghost tradition. HauntedPlaces.org reports that the Barkers’ spirits are believed to remain there. The story ties the haunting to the preserved domestic setting of the notorious shootout, rather than to a separately identified apparition elsewhere in town.

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Sources & further reading.

• HauntedPlaces.org — Ma Barker House (reports)

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