Posted on 10/09/2022 7:14:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On a four-mile rural road eerily nicknamed the Devil's Promenade, just off the old Route 66 in the north-east corner of Oklahoma, a paranormal mystery has puzzled spirit seekers for more than 100 years. The Hornet Spook Light – a mysterious, basketball-sized glowing orb named for the former town of Hornet – has been appearing in the night sky here since 1881. No-one knows what this peculiar, smouldering ball of light signifies, where it comes from or what it's composed of. Even the Army Corps of Engineers have concluded that it's a "mysterious light of unknown origin".
It moves, spinning and bobbing up and down, like a lantern held by a dancing ghost, and is usually spotted from inside the Oklahoma border looking to the west.
The first documented investigation into the Hornet Spook Light was undertaken by AB MacDonald, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, in January 1936. MacDonald judged that the mysterious lights were the headlights of cars driving east on Route 66.
Writer Robert Gannon concluded the same in a 1965 article in Popular Mechanics after conducting a test: he flashed his headlights on the adjacent highway at a specific time. His assistant, stationed on Devil's Promenade, reported that the Hornet Spook Light appeared simultaneously.
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My ex absolutely hated that movie. I would put it on and she would leave the house.
Sounds like she was jealous of cartoon boobs...
A few years back, I had a gf from Northern Louisiana who told me of a similar local phenomenon called the Crosset Light, just over the border into Arkansas. Supposedly it shorts out vehicle electric systems. She’d promised to take me there on a visit once, but we never got out to see it. You can find stuff about it on Google.
“My ex absolutely hated that movie. I would put it on and she would leave the house.”
The weekend before we graduated Parris Island, our DI’s let us have a movie night where we watched Heavy Metal.
LOeffinL! She may have been! That was funny!
I had an ex that had jealousy issues.
I got yelled at for Lena Headey being naked in 300.
He we are, a hundred years later, and the newspapers are still full of fiction.
It is always ball lightning until it takes you aboard a craft and does a medical exam on you.
;-)
The Marfa lights have been seen for 135 years. A little early for car headlights.
Only counts if they do an anal probe!
Think about it they travel across light years of space to stick something up their subject’s butt? I hope that’s not their basis for measuring a civilization’s worth!
I think it’s explained well in an episode of the UK SciFi comedy series Hyperdrive!
Cerci? That got me in trouble!
That was a great soundtrack.
Ever heard of a Comanche Moon? A Comanche Moon is a full moon. That is when they raided.i kinda know about the subject.
Yep, with her eraser nipples jiggling.
Apparently that was somehow my fault.
Like 95% of the movie is ripped dudes, but she was the problem.
Sounds just like S.E. DC...
Some of my favorites came from a guy who manned the first weather station on Pike’s Peak. He telegraphed weather conditions to the newspaper in Colorado Springs. He got bored with that and started making up and telegraphing wild stories. One was about how gigantic rats had attacked him and his wife and daughter, killing the daughter. He managed to kill the rats with electricity from the telegraph. He didn’t have a wife or daughter up there, but that didn’t stop him making a grave marker for the girl. He also reported that the Peak had erupted as a volcano.
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