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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Yeah, she is sex on wheels.
Yet when us dudes look at it we are drawn into enemy fire. All the while they can look at the Russel Crows and whatnot. Not fair.
Don kills it with that Gibson of his. Just absolutely roasts it.
One of my favorite guitar players
I liked the Sammy Hagar song from the soundtrack.
A Gainesville boy!
My uncle was a USAF pilot in the 50’s - he saw one and gave chase. The thing stayed around for a few minutes than took off faster than possible...
Conversely, Dad was on a long flight over the Pacific at night, and the pilot kept changing course to avoid collision with an oncoming aircraft. This kept on for quite a long time, the pilot constantly altering course to avoid collision.
Finally, Dad climbed up the ladder out of the Black Hole and took a look out the cockpit window. He then informed the pilot that he’d been trying to avoid collision with Venus....
Get you kicks or Route 66!
Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas.
Sammy is greatness. Hope I’m going like him when/if I reach his age. He’s like 70.
74 to be exact.
Don is 75. Had to look Don up when you mentioned Gainesville, I was thinking Texas...
Felder actually taught Tom Petty piano, not guitar.
Steven Stills was also in Gainesville for awhile in the 60s. Must’ve been something in the water.......or the “Gainesville Green.”
That’s a trip. I Petty was a Gainesville native.
Knew Petty was a native Gainesville dude.
I love now how at the end of the third quarter of Gator home games, the fans all sing “I Won’t Back Down”.
There are three will-o-wisps Im aware of nearby, two of which Ive personally seen. The one I havent is very near one of the ones Ive seen and Im told is “the same one.” The one in the swamp I havent seen is accepted as swamp gas even though it is “the same” as the one that travels up on a nearby ridge with no swamp. The third travels down through a valley and up the hill on the other side, no swamp anywhere nearby. Two and three are supposedly temperature inversion/headlights.
All three existed before headlights. Before modern times one was and ancient evil spirit, another was a lost ghost searching for his family, and the third is alternately a postman or railway worker both of which were killed by indians.
Somewhere along the line I saw some geologists put a large spindle of granite into a machine and crush it. I forget what they called it but it was basically a pneumatic press like engineers might use when stress testing concrete. When the spindle fails under stress it briefly releases what visually appears to be a fireball that is the same as the two Ive seen and is supposedly the same as the third.
The geologists explained that the balls of energy were piezoelectric energy created when the edges of a fault are pressing into each other. I do know that at least two of the three Im speaking of lie over faults.
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