The Hornet Spooklight can occasionally be spotted along a four-mile stretch of rural road (nicknamed 'Devil's Promenade') on Route 66, located in northeastern Oklahoma but mostly seen from the east in Missouri.

The mysterious glowing orb has baffled people for more than a hundred years, and we still don't know exactly what it is or what causes it; some say it's a ghostly spirit, while others claim it's a combination of car headlights and a change in air densities. But with the Army Corps of Engineers describing it as a "mysterious light of unknown origin", the eerie floating orb remains unexplained...

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