[edshuck]

Every place in the world seems to have a place, spot, something odd that cannot be explained. Home is where Kansas, missouri and Oklahoma meet. In Hornet, Missouri there is a light. I have seen it.

There are a bunch of links.

First, it was there before automobiles. It is not swamp gas. It is not at the Devils Prominade (as some pages say).

http://users1.ee.net/pmason/spook_light.html

http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html

http://www.spooklight.freewebspace.c...ite_links.html

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/...1997/01/2.html

Is there such a thing in NZ?

[Sparklechick]

and we have Gore.

Who can really explain the mysteries of Gore?

*whispers to non-NZers*

It's the swingers capital of NZ! Or so they say

[Penny]

Good one Sparkley Gal.

[trogg]

We had a spate of UFO sightings off the Kaikoura Coast (east coast of the South Island) in December 1978.
An Argosy transport plane sighted something strange one night and on a subsequent flight with a TV crew on board filmed the UFOs complete with comfirmation from radar and other air and ground observers.

www.classicfighters.co.nz/aircraft/argosy.htm (the airframe of the transport plane is now a cafe)
www.ufocasebook.com/newzealand1978.html

Other than that I cant think of any strange things off the top of my head.

[edshuck]

Hey Sparklechick,

We in the States call that going to the submarine races.

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Hi Trogg,

There has been UFO sittings a few miles away, in Oklahoma but that was the same day the sheriff burned a barn full of pot.

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Traveler

What do you think of the hornet spook light?

[Sparklechick]

A friend of mine was telling me about his Dad who reckons he saw a UFO ...

Hid Dad isn't the sort of person to make things like that up, and he isn't on drugs or anything ... he simply said that he saw an unidentifiable flying object that he just couldn't explain.

He lives on Great Barrier Island (far off the coast of Auckland). Apparently there have been quite a few UFO sightings around Great Barrier.

[Bluey and Aquila]

Im sure I saw something on the "other site" about how some people drive thru a certain area and they seem to lose power to their car and its quite spooky. I just cant remember where they said it was

[NiteFenix]

We have the legend here of the ghost hitchiker. I dunno if you guys have something similiar in your parts of the world.

The legend goes like this.

You drive in the middle of the night and notice a young lady standing next to the road. So you decided to pick her up. She drives along with you and takes out a pack of cigarettes to smoke, then complains of the cold. You offer her your jacket/sweater/whatever and she smiles at you. She tells you about her evening and where she lives. You eventually reach your distination and when you turn to tell her, she is gone. Your jacket/sweater/whatever is laid neatly on the seat and there is no sight of her. You go to her house and her parents answer the front door. They look shocked when you describe their daughter to them and they tell you she died many years before in a horrible car accident.

I haven't met anybody who experienced this first hand, but I have heard many people in the area where it frequently happens tell me about it. The thing about it is these are respectable people who wouldn't make these things up.

It makes you wonder.

[edshuck]

We have songs and legends about similar occurances.

There is a popular country and western song about a guy buying a car that had belonged to a soldier who had gone off to Vietnam and was killed.

Someone has to help me with this one. Private xyz.

I am sure folks just wrote them to make a buck. But the idea had to come from somewhere.

There is a book called haunted heartland. It covers all manner of mystery in the middle of the US. One story and this is off the top of my head. Which means it may be from either end. But Traveler may be familiar with the story. The location is Missouri and the time is before the mid 20th century. A youn girl began to speak in the manner of a woman at the time of the civil war. I am messing it up. Will get the book back from Briall and relate the story then.

Some really bad stuff happened in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas.

[KJM7]

Originally Posted by edshuck

Every place in the world seems to have a place, spot, something odd that cannot be explained. Home is where Kansas, missouri and Oklahoma meet. In Hornet, Missouri there is a light. I have seen it.

There are a bunch of links.

First, it was there before automobiles. It is not swamp gas. It is not at the Devils Prominade (as some pages say).

http://users1.ee.net/pmason/spook_light.html

http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html

http://www.spooklight.freewebspace.c...ite_links.html

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/...1997/01/2.html

Is there such a thing in NZ?

I did a little research, but any other infromation about the "light" would be greatly appreciated.....
Thanks in advance.

[Sparklechick]

I've seen a ghost dog. It was a very freaky experience. We were sure we hit the dog (a big white one ... sort of like a husky) but when we stopped and took a look down the road we couldn't see it.

We only ever saw it when it was foggy.

[NiteFenix]

OH OH. I just remember something my uncle once told me.

He used to work as a Baker in Botswana and you will note that the towns and cities are very far from each other. I'd say about 200-300 km apart average. Now there are absolutely no lights or anything on these old dilepidated roads and it makes for a pretty scary experience if you drive through those vast expanses in the middle of the night. I speak from experience as my dad and I were down there 1999/2000 for the new millenium stuff. Anyways. Every 100 km or so there is a security boom for inspection of cows and stuff for diseases and the like. Most of them are abandoned at night because no farmer in his right mind would drive those vast distances, transporting cattle in the middle of the night. So if you drive down those long roads in the night you have to stop, get out, lift the security boom yourself and drive through.

This story my uncle told me happened at one of these security booms. He says he was driving home to Francistown one night from another town (I forgot which), he stopped at one of these security booms to lift it. But as he slowed down he noticed someone lying in the middle of the road and his headlights clearly lighted this bundle in the road. So he stopped the car, turned off the ignition, never letting his eyes leave the bundle on the ground. He started to get out of the car and for one fleeting moment he took his eyes off the bundle and when he looked back it was gone. It gets weirder. After he had left again, driving through the boom, he went on with his journey and decided to stay at a small motel in a town off the road. He mentioned the weird event to the guy working at the motel and the guy told him that someone was run over at the boom many years ago and that his spirit still lingers.

[edshuck]

There are just so many stories and I am inclined to belive some of them. Maybe some. Maybe even all.

I am a bit skeptical but to both existence and non existence of any of these things.

I just do not know. Really know.

But because I cannot put one of these in a jar, does that mean it is not there?

I know so little, I suspect so much and I can prove nothing.

[Sparklechick]

I never really truly believed in it until it actually happened to me. Now when someone tells me a true life ghost story I tend to believe them. It actually makes them a lot more spooky to listen to.

[NiteFenix]

I'm a very practical person. I believe that if it's not real then it can't hurt me. I have more worldly fears, such as terrorist attacks, car accidents and the like.

Bottom line is, ghosts are real, but they are a different kind of real. Something which even we don't understand.

[edshuck]

Cool thoughts. And they make sense.

What it does for me is to point out that there is much that I do not know and probably vastly more that I have not dreamed of.

peace