Colorado Marine Officer

If you want to watch a magic ball of light, you can venture into the Hornet Spooklight Road, a remote road about 20 km to the southwest city of Joplin, Missouri, USA. Near it is a place called “Devil’s Promenade”, where the devil walks. Since 1866 the frequent Spooklight ball of light the size of basketballs or larger.

A resident of Miami, Oklahoma, Steve Hale was intrigued and waiting for it a few times. In July 1998 he managed to catch him.

Usually the ball rolling quickly in the middle of a gravel road, then climbed, jumped and darted from side to side. It looks like a large lantern, but no one took him.

The light that never appeared in the vehicles, but moved away when pursued. No one ever hurt. It’s just that people are afraid of passing on the street at night, because the light can come round suddenly. Of course, the various tales that arise around the ball.

Have long studied the light, chased, photographed and even shot, but no avail.

Does light swamp gas? Apparently not, because the wind did not bother him. Mineral glow from the mines in the area? It should be questioned also because of the rise is not always in the same place. Magnetic field is formed in the earthquake and ground movement? Perhaps. 1811-1812 four-year earthquake indeed ravage this region. Its existence was reported only after its population grew around the time of the Civil War.

There are people who believe that light is reflected lights of a passing car on the highway about 8 km east of Devil’s Promenade. However, the ball was reported to have appeared since 1866. Where there is a highway and cars coming and going at that time?

Spooklight not the only place the ball glow appeared in the U.S.. There are many other places. Bar and hotel owners often use them to attract tourists.

In the Wet Mountain Valley in Colorado say a magic light up almost every night since more than 100 years ago. Place in the … grave!

New York Times reporter specifically come to the funeral Silver Cliff in 1967 to see it with my own eyes. Two years later turn Edward J. Linehan, assistant editor of National Geographic there accompanied Westcliffe resident named Bill Kleine.

They arrived at the cemetery when it was dark. Linehan saw “specks of light blue dim white” on top of each grave. As he approached, the light was gone and then slowly came back. He shined his flashlight. That looks just tombstones. Fifteen minutes they played cat and mouse with the light at the Tombs.

Linehan collect theories, but one by one fall. Some thought the light was released by the radioactive ore. But when tested with a geiger counter, it was in the area found no radioactive.

Allegations that there was fraud that gave the paint on gravestones is not proven. There’s no way that light also released the gas from the decomposing corpse because since the turn of the century there were no more bodies were buried there.

Some claimed that the light that arose as a “special effect” of light mercury lamps on the side of the hill. In fact, the light was installed before the installation of lights and stay there a few times when the electricity died.

There have been many miraculous events can be explained scientifically. However, the ball of light is still a phenomenon that can not be explained rationally, even though it reported more than 1,000 years ago, when St. Gregory of Tours (538-593) witnessed with surprise and amazement a bright fireball and blinding appeared in the procession of people, including a number of authorities, which will inaugurate a place of worship.