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Ozark Spooklight

Joplin, MO

The Ozark or Hornet Spooklight is a long-running borderland legend involving a mysterious light reported along rural roads southwest of Joplin. Modern explanations point toward distant vehicle headlights, but the story remains one of Missouri's classic supernatural roadside traditions; stay on public roads and never enter adjacent private fields.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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