Local lore reflected in Spook Light, Ghosthunter findings
Colby Williams
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: News
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On a two-lane road just across the Oklahoma border, a crowd met on the center yellow line.
Before and after this meeting, the gatherers are strangers. For a few short hours, however, between the chirps and cracks from the woods on the left and the groans and shuffles of a cow pasture on the right, the gatherers assembled as friends and adventurers in a common goal: to see the Spook Light.
One group from Wichita came to celebrate a grandparent's 100th birthday. Eighty years ago their patriarch saw the Light. Couples and friends populated the crowd, hailing from Seneca, Joplin, Tulsa, Miami and a small town in Arkansas that GPS has not yet located.
"It seems to be a night for it," said an old man with a walrus mustache. He and his wife claimed to have seen the Light three times already tonight.
While some watchers succumbed to boredom while waiting to experience the unknown, dread overtook others.
Debates flared about the origin and cause of the Light: an Indian lover looks for his princess, murdered on the Trail of Tears; a miner with a lantern searches for his wife and child; natural gas flares up from the earth's crust; a ghost haunts the fields.
"I got a chill," someone from the crowd says. "I think it's going to show up."
The crowd quiets down and looks to the west.
The MoSo Ghosthunters are no strangers to the marvel of the human psyche. During their paranormal investigations, people frequently have "weird feelings" and see things out of the corners of their eyes. But who can blame them?
"That's not enough for me," said Nicholas Haring, president of the Ghosthunters. "I need cold, hard evidence."
The Ghosthunters go to seemingly haunted places around the four-state area, such as the Peace Church Cemetery, the Prosperity Bed and Breakfast and the Webb City Health and Rehab Center. Ghost stories abound at each of these locations.
The Ghosthunters visit these sites in the middle of the night and try to explain away these myths using scientific experiments and simple tools like digital voice recorders and video cameras.
Before and after this meeting, the gatherers are strangers. For a few short hours, however, between the chirps and cracks from the woods on the left and the groans and shuffles of a cow pasture on the right, the gatherers assembled as friends and adventurers in a common goal: to see the Spook Light.
One group from Wichita came to celebrate a grandparent's 100th birthday. Eighty years ago their patriarch saw the Light. Couples and friends populated the crowd, hailing from Seneca, Joplin, Tulsa, Miami and a small town in Arkansas that GPS has not yet located.
"It seems to be a night for it," said an old man with a walrus mustache. He and his wife claimed to have seen the Light three times already tonight.
While some watchers succumbed to boredom while waiting to experience the unknown, dread overtook others.
Debates flared about the origin and cause of the Light: an Indian lover looks for his princess, murdered on the Trail of Tears; a miner with a lantern searches for his wife and child; natural gas flares up from the earth's crust; a ghost haunts the fields.
"I got a chill," someone from the crowd says. "I think it's going to show up."
The crowd quiets down and looks to the west.
The MoSo Ghosthunters are no strangers to the marvel of the human psyche. During their paranormal investigations, people frequently have "weird feelings" and see things out of the corners of their eyes. But who can blame them?
"That's not enough for me," said Nicholas Haring, president of the Ghosthunters. "I need cold, hard evidence."
The Ghosthunters go to seemingly haunted places around the four-state area, such as the Peace Church Cemetery, the Prosperity Bed and Breakfast and the Webb City Health and Rehab Center. Ghost stories abound at each of these locations.
The Ghosthunters visit these sites in the middle of the night and try to explain away these myths using scientific experiments and simple tools like digital voice recorders and video cameras.
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Rachel
posted 12/05/07 @ 8:59 PM CST
I have heard of this many times. I read on the net that this has even recorded sightngs that date back to the mid- 1800's Me and my husband plan on traveling to see this very soon. (Continued…)
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