{"id":3442,"slug":"bonnie-clyde-ambush-site-gibsland-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The ambush is the 167 — the bullets that the six lawmen fired, the 12 seconds that ended it. The Ford was the arsenal — the BARs and the shotguns, the saxophone that Clyde carried. The Methvins were the trap — the family that lured them, the Black Lake party that was the last.","The marker is the stolen — the '14 replacement that was taken, the '24 that replaced it. The museum is the Gibsland — the Ma Canfield's that's the site, the 'death car' that's the replica. The ambush is the '34 — the 9:15 that was the end, the lovers who never fired.","The file keeps the ambush: the 1934 site, the 167 bullets, the Methvin trap, and the marker.","Bonnie & Clyde is the archive's Gibsland file — the 12 seconds' end."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bonnie & Clyde is the archive's Gibsland file — the lovers' ambush.","A road keeps its bullets — the file's suggestion being that the ambush's hold is the speed: the 12 seconds, the 167 rounds, and the car that's the relic."]}],"name":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","TRUE_CRIME"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"May 23, 1934—the roadside where the outlaws died.","full_desc":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush site is a site in Gibsland, Louisiana. May 23, 1934—the roadside where the outlaws died. The name the accounts keep returning to is Bonnie and Clyde. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Gibsland","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.540236,"lon":-93.055298,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"LA2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3690,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Bonnie and Clyde are reportedly seen. The site in Gibsland, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Bonnie & Clyde ambush' carries the account. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Bonnie and Clyde","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsland,_Louisiana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3691,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. Bonnie & Clyde ambush site in Gibsland, Louisiana carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Bonnie & Clyde ambush'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsland,_Louisiana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The May 23, 1934 ambush is documented. Bonnie & Clyde ambush site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Bonnie & Clyde ambush' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1934-05-23","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsland,_Louisiana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Bonnie and Clyde are reportedly seen. The reports at Bonnie & Clyde ambush site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Bonnie & Clyde ambush'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Bonnie & Clyde ambush","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsland,_Louisiana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Bonnie and Clyde","claimed_identity":"Bonnie and Clyde","verified":null,"summary":"Bonnie and Clyde are reportedly seen. The reports at Bonnie & Clyde ambush site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account appears in 'Bonnie & Clyde ambush'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. 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