Indiana

The Barbee Hotel

Barbee Hotel was a very high-class resort during the 1920- 1930, the Al Capone decade. The Barbee Hotel was the nightspot for many miles around. Probably the only place that served alcoholic beverages in about a ten or twenty-mile radius. It was the place for parties, drinking and carousing. Capone stayed in the hotel frequently, often clearing out all the guests so he would have the place to himself and his friends. He always stayed in room 301 at the back of the hotel.

He left his mark for this is the most haunted of all the rooms. When the staff is cleaning his room, they smell heavy cigar smoke in his room.

One of the guys came out of Chicago with somebody else’s girlfriend. They came to the hotel but her boyfriend came hunting for them. He found them at the hotel, broke into their room and they were both killed. Ever since the remodeling at the hotel, people can still hear her moaning sometimes during the night.

The veteran bartender sees an old man in one of the booths. When she calls someone to see him, he disappears. Almost everyone has heard the footsteps on the stairs and in the hall above the dining area.

Many parties when taking their picture will line up on the stairs. When they look at the pictures, they see orbs of light in back of the group although the person taking the picture do not see them at the time the picture is taken.

Many other celebrities stayed there as well. Rita Hayworth stayed here in her room for days at a time. When you drive by the area of the hotel she stayed in late at night sometimes you can see a faint light.
Where the Landing is now, next to the Barbee hotel was an old haunted house. The area was loaded with bats which may have contributed to the stories associated with the house being haunted.

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