Hornet Spook Light (Spook Light Road)

The Hornet Spook Light, also called the Joplin Spook Light, is a famous light that people have reported along a dirt road near the Oklahoma-Missouri border for more than a century, appearing as a bobbing ball of orange or white light that moves, splits or retreats as watchers approach. Local legends tie it to a murdered miner, to lovers who died, or to the spirits of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears; none has ever been proven, and researchers have suggested it may be car headlights. It is one of the best-known unexplained lights in the country.