Veteran's Lake

Oklahoma · United States · Haunted site

A mother looked away for a moment and her son had gone under. He never came back up. She died trying to reach him.

Veteran's Lake sits near the Chickasaw National Recreation Area at Sulphur, Oklahoma. It is small, well kept and public, and the accounts about it vary in their origin.

The version told most often concerns a young mother. She looked away for a moment and her son had gone under. He did not surface.

She died trying to reach him.

On certain nights she is described at the water.

Drownings of exactly this kind happen at small lakes every summer, and the double loss, a child gone and a parent lost going in after them, is one of the most common ways two people die at once in America. That is very likely why the story has stuck to a lake that is otherwise entirely ordinary.

The lake is public and swimming is managed.

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Where is Veteran's Lake located?

Veteran's Lake is in Oklahoma, United States.