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Highways of Mystery
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Oct 3, 2007, 22:52
It is not just houses that find themselves possessed by ghostly presences and supernatural phenomena. Many roads and highways have their own resident mysteries that thrill and befuddle those who cross their path.
Just a few miles south of Joplin, Missouri, is a stretch of road who's spectral bouncing orange ball of light has been so well documented they named the road "Devil's Promenade" in it's honor.
It is reported that since 1866 this strange glowing ball travels eastward nearly every night, spitting a trail of sparks in it's wake. While it often darts through cars and trees it seems to purposely evade people who try to catch it.
The phenomenon has been studied but it remains, as the 1946 investigation by the Army Corps of Engineers concluded, "a mysterious light of unknown origin." The Ghost Research Society had no better luck determining just what the ball of light was. Their 1983 investigation only added the details that the ball was in fact diamond shaped and seemed to be hollow.
Down Main Street of Harper's Ferry in West Virginia, repeated sightings of a man identified as the Kansas abolitionist Johns Brown walks beside the ghost of a black dog. The apparition always fades when it reaches the Fire Engine House where Brown and his followers took hostages in a bid to steal armament for southern slaves.
While John Brown was hanged in 1859, his presence remains so strong that tourists have mistaken him for a local resident and requested he take pictures with them. One of his men reportedly still haunts an alley nearby where he had been mutilated and left to be devoured by hogs.
In Lexington, Kentucky there have been many reports of seeing the spirit of a young woman passing across US 460 on the outskirts of town. The road passes between the huge city cemetery on one side and a catholic cemetery on the other side of the road. She has only ever been seen crossing over the road or standing beside it on rainy nights.
Several people reporting sightings have stated they picked up the young woman, mistaking her for a hitchhiker, only to have her presence fade from their vehicles as they passed beyond the boundaries of the graveyards.
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