Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Oklahoma Spook lights.
That's correct, the Oklahoma spook lights.
Now, this is a subject that kind of balances on the edge of the
paranormal. We don't know if these things
are some sort of ultra dimensional things.
Some people think they're ghost. Some people think these things
are a longstanding UFO phenomena, and we find the
Oklahoma spook lights. I mean, they're a mysterious and
captivating phenomenon. They're characterized by these
inexplicable recurring lights that appear in a remote area
near the town of Quapaw, Oklahoma.
And now they do appear in other places across the US But right
now we're talking about these once here in Oklahoma, and these
elusive lights. They've intrigued and puzzled
residents and visitors for generations.
Now they manifest as glowing orbs or eerie luminous
formations in the night sky, and despite numerous scientific
investigations and local legends that try to explain their
origin, the source of these lights is still elusive.
Kind of adds an element of intrigue to this really enduring
natural mystery. Now from the historical counts
of Oklahoma spook lights. They date back over a century at
least, and they're shrouded in mystery and folklore.
Located near the small town Quapaw in northeastern Oklahoma,
this natural phenomena has fascinated and bewildered
generations of observers, and the earliest documented
sightings of the spook lights take back to the late 19th
century, least as far as you know.
Modern civilization knows, and these reports emerged as far
back as the 1860s, and the lights typically appear in a
secluded area known as the Devil's Promenade.
This is an expansive, remote countryside near the Oklahoma,
Missouri border. You may have heard about these
lights happening in and around Joplin, MO as well.
So local Native American tribes, including the Osage and Quapaw,
have long held that these legends about these mysterious
lights attributing them to the spirits of lost warriors or
other supernatural entities. It's kind of what we've seen
happen down there, Georgia and North Carolina.
But a lot of the natives say, hey, these are the women, the
wives of the warriors that died in these long ago battles.
And you kind of see the same thing happening here, these,
these native folklore rising up around this, these operations,
phenomena, whatever you want to call them.
And one of the most significantly early accounts
comes from a quapaw settler named Jake Vanneman in the early
20th century. Vannemann claimed to have seen
the lights in the early 1900s and reported them to be eerily
bright and capable of performing bizarre maneuvers.
His account sparked the interest of both locals and scientists
alike, leading to the first organized investigations into
the phenomena. Of course, this is 1900, so you
can be pretty sure they weren't drones back then.
So over the years, numerous researchers, journalists, and
paranormal enthusiasts have visited the area to witness and
study the spook lights. Now these investigators yielded
various theories, including suggestions that the lights were
reflections from passing trains, atmospheric anomalies, or
geological processes. But none of these explanations
provided a definitive answer. And The thing is, you'll even
find articles online saying, you know, spook lights debunked.
Well, they just love to put this whole debunking thing out here,
even when whatever they're trying to debunk hasn't been
close to debunked. So the Oklahoma spook lights
became a subject of national tension in the mid 20th century.
You know, in the 50s and 60s when they were featured and
publications and documentaries. Now one notable investigation of
all scientists from the US Geological Society who conducted
research in the area but weren't able to reach the conclusive
explanation. Throughout the decades, the
spook lights have continued to appear intermittently and
captivating. New generations of curious
onlookers and local residents have embraced the phenomena and
it has become part of the community's identity, even
inspiring an annual festival celebrating the lights.
And we see that a lot with these UFO phenomena.
Where, you know, local businesses try to exploit it a
little bit, but that's fine, I think, because it helps bring
awareness to these things. Now, to this day, the Oklahoma
spook lights remain an unsolved mystery and they defy
explanation. Add to the rich tapestry of this
area for the American folklore. Whether they are the product of
natural forces or something more otherworldly, these lights
continue to ignite the imagination and curiosity of
those who ventured a witness or mesmerizing display.
And they really are something. Now I want to look at this first
article here from onlyinyourstate.com and it talks
a little bit about it and it's kind of going with the tourism
side. It says the mysterious Oklahoma
Rd. You absolutely must drive at
least once, and this was came out November 17th, 2022, it says
by Ashley. There are many mysteries in
Oklahoma, and one of them lies on East 50th St. in the small
town of Peoria. Also known as Spook Light Rd.
this mysterious Rd. has a long and confirmed history of
unexplained lights flashing in the distance.
It's baffled visitors and scientists for over half a
century, and everyone should drive on it at least once in
their lifetime. Is this weird area really a
haunted Rd. in Oklahoma? And then it says take a look.
It's got a little map here, You can see this.
I'll go ahead and I'll put a link to this on the Buy Me a
Coffee website. It's got some pictures here from
back in the 50s and it's got this, a couple ladies here and
they're actually standing there taking a picture of this looks
like 2 orbs, a large one on top and then a small one on the
bottom. It says no one can give an
accurate account of where the lights come from, nor can any
two people describe the lights in the same words.
And that's interesting. So oftentimes, these types of
phenomenon almost are personalized.
Definitely there's something going on here with the observer
effect. Now, I tell us, Despite
thousands of hours of combined research, scientific evidence
explaining the strange phenomenon cause still remains
inconclusive. Some people think the lights are
paranormal activities, Others think it could be aliens.
But no matter what you think, it's a hair raising experience
to drive down the road after dirt.
During World War 2, the US Army Corps of Engineers spent weeks
in the area with the latest scientific equipment.
They left just as baffled as when they arrived.
Despite thousands of hours of combined research, scientific
evidence explaining the strange, phenomenal cause still remains
inconclusive. If you enjoy visiting mysterious
places, make sure you visit this road on on the Oklahoma,
Missouri border. It's got a little video you can
watch here. Now it says directions to spook
Light road and then it gives you the directions here.
When it comes to mysterys in Oklahoma, this is pretty
intriguing. And then it goes on down here
has some more list of things you can do there.
The pictures are great on this site.
It just show us that this has been going on for you know
50-60, seventy years just in modern times.
Now I found some mention of us on Reddit and it was kind of fun
to just go through and look at the comments that people made
that had been from from around there.
And the contributor on this is is Blitz Baller.
And it says the spook light a mysterious visual phenomena
allegedly experienced by witnesses in a small area known
as the Devil's Promenade on the border between southwestern
Missouri and northeast Oklahoma. And so they got a pretty old
picture here. This is this post is from quite
a while ago, actually nine years ago.
And you can go take a look. Like I said, I'll put it in the
Buy me a coffee website. As always, thanks to the people
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Now this says I've gone hunting for that one before.
I never saw it, but my father claims he has.
There is a specific Rd. in Hornet that is supposed to be on
supposed to be on that cars line up most summer nights, but the
original Rd. it was seen on is much harder to find.
The original Rd. There used to be a home that the
owner turned into a Museum of the Spook light, but I believe
someone else owns that house and chases people off that come
looking for the Spook light. Where The museum?
Yeah, you find out. Sometimes these things that end
up appearing over prior property and people don't appreciate big
crowds out there, I suppose. Now this one here says my father
lives just a cross 144 from the Spook Rd.
It does not stay confined to just one Rd.
The thing followed us home one time on down a dirt Rd. that
parallels the Interstate until we turned on his road and it
stayed as heavily coarse. This might seem to support the
headlight theory spotted in this thread, but there's no
explanation for things I've heard and even felt out there
past the end of that same Rd. where he lives.
Over the gate across an old wagon trail littered with
arrowheads and half disintegrated cook pots in a
mattress frame that the mature tree has grown through, there's
a small cemetery that is reported you have a witch is
grave being out there at night. I feel as if I'm one of the few
men who have dared to be there past dark in 100 years, but I
can't help but feel as my presence is barely being
tolerated. It's as if my family has a
tentative lease on our land there, and it is actually, and
it actually belongs to older things.
I've never seen anything out there in the superstitious vein
beside the spook light, to be sure, but there.
Or a shirt. But there is assuredly I have
heard things. Metallic screeches there have no
that have no business so far from people.
And so late at night I put my girlfriend to crying and me
scampering inside for a gun. When I came back out I followed
the sound as it shrunk into the woods down the wagon trail.
My father is half mad and claims to be haunted by some two dozen
ghosts out there. The whole area of Devil's
Promenade is littered with landmarks bearing the Devil's
name or signature of fire, The Devil's Biscuits, the Devil's
Promenade itself. When the Quapaws were forcibly
removed to this place, they saw the Devil promenading on a high
bluff across the water and many drowned as they tried to Ford
the river there. The Hoffman Mansion that burned
down after the inhabitants died like so many other houses in
this area, which seems to relish a good fire.
Little People's Bridge, which is in Devil's Hollow said to be
watched over. But what by what Indians call
little people and what my loon father calls three people always
feeding from his property. I have come across apparent
animal sacrifices in Devil's Hollow near the mansion once on
Friday the 13th. Nonetheless, in this corner of
the state and the Ozark foothills, you are not welcome.
If my father doesn't scare you off, the witch will curse you
from hell. The little people will hurry you
and steal off from your property.
The spook light will spook you. Ghost wagons will make you Pete
yourself. If you're even more unfortunate,
you might cross paths with the devil himself, dancing between
the Spring River and the desecrated graveyard at the
burnt runs of the mansion. Yeah, it sounds like kind of an
unfairly place, and that's one person's experience, another
person says. Despite the despite the fact
that it is named after a small unincorporated community,
unincorporated community in Missouri from which it most from
which it is most commonly accessed, the light is most
commonly described as being visible from inside the Oklahoma
border. Looking to the West, the spook
light is commonly described as a single ball of light or tight
grouping of lights that is said to appear in the area regularly,
usually at night. Although the description of the
light is similar to that of other visual phenomena witnessed
throughout the world, the term spook light when standing alone
generally refers to this specific case.
Numerous legends exist that attempt to describe the origin
of the spook light, one of which involves the ghost of two young
Native American lovers looking for each other.
Explanation for the light's appearance very widely from the
extraordinary to the mundane. The area of Oklahoma in which
the light is seen is very hilly and forested, and out to the
West of where the light is seen lights Interstate 44.
It has been suggested that the headlights of cars seen over the
hills explain lights appearance, which is sometimes said to Bob
up and down and dance, or even split into two multiple globes
of light. And William Lease heats at
Moon's 2008 book Roads to Quiz. The author suggests that the
lights seen at the end of E50 are explained perfectly by the
fact that the road lines directly with Route 66, the
Interstate in the River Valley below, some 10 miles apart.
He also claims that the earlier lights of the the light from E40
Road one block to the north are explained by an earlier
alignment of Route 66 to the north to town of Quapaw,
Oklahoma and also aligned with E40 Road.
The author suggests that there are no reliable sightings of the
light in any location but directly W along the road and
therefore explainable by the Route 66 connection.
Well, the problem I have with this is a lot of times you got
these debunkers that come along and they'll just ignore the
evidence that doesn't agree with them.
And so when they say no other reliable accounts, they're not
giving you any information to show that every single account
that was presented to them was unreliable.
So I I question that part of the explanation because Honest has
one Legend details an old lost miner and the spook light is
actually his Lantern. This explanation results from
the spook light, situated in an area with a past of intense lead
and zinc biting in southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma.
However, most people prefer to state that they cannot explain
the almost nightly appearance of mysterious lights in the area,
and descriptions of the lights date back to an era prior to the
highways construction. Other explanations for the
lights appearance include atmospheric gases being affected
by electrical fields. A University of Arkansas
professor studied the light 1960s and suggested that it was
from a fixed object. Well, that seems interesting
too. And then we'll finish up with
this article here from farmersalmanac.com.
It says the Spook Light. This creepy glowing orb might
give you nightmares. The mysterious flickering light
that appears in the back woods of Missouri might just have you
spooked. What exactly is the Spook Light?
Find out if you dare. And this is dated October 18th,
2022. One of the oddest and weirdest
stories in the heartland of America is that of the Spook
Light, a glowing orb that appears near the border of
Missouri and Oklahoma in an area known as the Devil's Promenade.
The bouncing, colorful light has been a mystery for hundreds of
years. So what's behind this eerie
phenomena? The light is also known as the
Devil's Jack, Lantern Hornet Spook Light, Hall of Light, and
the Joplin Spook Light. But each of these names gives
you the rough idea. It's spooky.
The Spook Light has been witnessed by Native Americans
and others since the early 1830s, during the days of the
Trail of Tears. Now think about that.
People have been seeing this thing since the early 1830s.
You know, 200 years. Almost probably not cars.
No one knows for sure what the spook light actually is, but it
is commonly described as a single ball of light or type
grouping of lights varying in size from the size of baseball
to the size of basketball that appears to be in the area
frequently, usually at night, no matter the time of year.
So we'd probably call these things orbs.
Maybe in the UFO type orb. Sometimes a ball of light
remains still. Other times it moves with active
vibration. Folklore and legends say it's
either the devil with the Lantern warning the earth, or
the soul of a Confederate soldier.
Another tale involves a ghost of two young Native American lovers
searching for each other in the night sky.
One of the earliest written reports of the spook light was
in 1936 from the Kansas City Star.
Though the legend has been around for almost 100 years
before its official documentation say what causes
the spook light? Well, some speculate that it
could be anything from natural gas leak out of the earth to car
lights in the distance reflecting off a river a few
miles away. However, these strange lights
have been reported since the 1880s, before cars, and it was
over the land and even in the backyards.
In 1946, a team of investigators from the US Army Corps of
Engineers study the Spook Light, but there were no concrete
findings that seemed a logical source for the orb.
Right now, you would think that if the government investigated
this and there was any way they could have debunked that, they
would have, and then talks a little bit about the attractions
here. It says the Spook light is very
popular, especially around Halloween.
Automobile transportation made it possible for even more people
to visit these rumored haunted country roads.
Curiosity seekers have been coming from far and wide for
years trying to spook themselves, and witnesses and
witnesses spook light first hand and the day.
If you pull into southwest Missouri, the odds of someone
being able to give you the proper direction to the
mysterious lights are pretty high.
And it's got a couple couple good pictures here.
This is something that we see. It kind of goes on through the
southern United States especially.
It's these odd, strange or glowing lights that show up
sometimes singularly in this case, or maybe one or two.
Sometimes they'll be maybe a half a dozen or a dozen them,
like we see down there in North Carolina and West Virginia.
Whatever is happening, it hasn't been properly documented as a
natural phenomenon. They'll try to say it as cars or
trains, even when it's nowhere near a highway.
Sometimes it's near a highway, but that highway wasn't there
100 years ago. When when they begin seeing
these things, some people go for the paranormal explanation, I
think that's just easier form. But to me, these things look
like some type of a UFO, some type of an ore craft, Just their
energy source, whatever it is. These could be the real
multidimensional interdimensional craft
phenomena, whatever you want to call them that we're looking
for. That's really going to open up
the key to what this whole UFO thing is all about.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning.
Over and out.