Talk:The Spooklight

Oklahoma, not Missouri; Citation Needed for Army Corps of Engineers report

First of all this isn't a Missouri related entry so that needs to be changed. The lights are in Oklahoma, and OKLAHOMA only. They can not be seen from Missouri.

Secondly, we need a citation for the claim that the light was studied by the Army C of E. I've read this claim all over the internet but find it hard to beilieve that in corps was ever in the area to "study the light". Where would we find such records if they exist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.245.60.205 (talk) 20:23, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

These things are all over the place, NOT just Missouri. Find them all over the planet. A few US locations are Marfa, Texas, Gurdon, Arkansas, Brown Mountain. Martial Law 20:50, 5 May 2006 (UTC) :)

Real People

Perhaps we should add a section detailing the involvement of the NBC TV show 'Real People' in the early 1980s. As I recall, they sent John Barbour and a camera crew out to document the light for an annual Halloween episode, although one website lists the episode as premiering on Dec. 2, 1982. Anchor Tony Beason and a support crew from NBC affiliate KYTV Channel 3 from Springfield, MO accompanied them. When the light actually appeared, the camera batteries for the NBC crew failed, but the KY3 cameras managed to capture the light. The resulting footage seemed to have quite an effect on the show's hosts. (As an aside, Beason got a kick out of how one of the cameramen from California totally freaked out when he found a tick on his arm. He had never seen one before!)

As for the theory that it is simply highway lights, it should be mentioned that accounts of the light date back well before the construction of the area's highways. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.196.132.92 (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Bizzare properties

• Chases people
• Emits infrared radiation (the ref. about it getting hot and burning people)
• Invades autos, other OPs (A OP is "Observation Platform).

Can that be added ? 65.163.115.114 (talk) 10:29, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

I think that Spooklight should become a disambiguation page since there are other spooklights in the S. USA that have articles/may soon have articles.

• Hornet ghost light of Missouri-Oklahoma stateline (also known just as the spooklight).
• Ozark spooklight of Missouri
• Surrency Spooklight of Georgia

ScienceApologist (talk) 16:20, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. --Nealparr ^{(talk to me)} 22:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

No longer necessary. I renamed the article to "The Spooklight" so that "Spooklights" could be freed up for general use. --Nealparr ^{(talk to me)} 18:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Explanation

As a scientific explanation for the spooklight has been found, I think it would be good to include at least a sentence referencing that somewhere up top. No reference to the verified explanation is in the article until the very bottom, even after other explanations are put forth. 108.171.131.165 (talk) 18:05, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Uses Same Photo as Another Page

There is another Wikipedia page about the "Paulding Light", which includes the same image. They are not the same thing. I do not know which one includes the correct picture. Not that it really matters because they're both about ghost lights, but still one of them is using a falsely attributed image. 2603:7080:1800:4400:540A:C217:5707:2B0D (talk) 03:14, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

It's not falsely attributed. The caption says, The Paulding Light is a "spooklight" in Michigan that is also caused by misidentification of car headlights on an aligned road. Geogene (talk) 03:18, 19 October 2023 (UTC)