This is another down-home spooky light story. In fact, the lights are called the Spook Lights, or the Hornet Spook Lights, after the name of the town nearby where the lights keep appearing.

Since around 1866, these unexplainable lights have been witnessed in a small area referred to as the “Devil’s Promenade,” a four-mile stretch of country road on the border between southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma, just west of the town of Hornet, Missouri. According to witnesses, these little balls of fire vary in size to that of a baseball up to as big as a basketball. They dance and spin around down the center of the roadway at high velocity, rise and then hover above treetops, then suddenly just take off and vanish into the night. Sometimes they have even manifested inside of cars driving down the roadway, much to the dismay of the drivers.

The lights never allow anyone to get too close to them and always retreat and disappear when someone tries. No one has been hurt by one, though many have been thoroughly frightened. Some have even taken shots at the lights with shotguns and rifles, with no effect of course. Throughout the years, many investigators, from paranormal to mainstream scientific, have tried to unravel the mystery of these Spook Lights, but none have been able to provide a conclusive explanation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers even came in once to take a crack at figuring the mystery out – they came up empty as well!