Oklahoma’s Unknown
About the Writer Jeremy Robinson, Staff Writer
Oklahoma’s Unknown, a new series, will feature the mysteries, legends and myths of all of Oklahoma’s eeriest of tales and locations. What better day to venture into the unknown than Halloween? Check back weekly to learn more about Oklahoma’s Unknown.
The Sideshow Mummy
This series explores the possibility of Oklahoma's best urban legends, from Bigfoot to the Oklahoma Octopus, or even poor Elmer McCurdy. Elmer McCurdy was a clumsy, disease ridden man who brought -and left- nothing to the table. He was a clumsy alcoholic and an alleged two bit criminal, or so the group that gunned him down in 1911 thought. The posse that killed him near the Oklahoma-Kansas line...
The Hex House
Tulsa is one of the bigger cities in our great state, so of course it has it's fair share of haunted attractions; However, the most popular of these haunts is by far The Hex House. Before being torn down and made into an attraction in 1975, the house belonged to a 45 year old woman by the name of Carolann Smith. In the state of Oklahoma, Smith had lived under many names, claimed insurance on them...
The Spook Light
For mor than a century people near Quapaw, Oklahoma and the better known town Joplin, Missouri have reported something that has taken several names, the most common of which? The Spook Light. Described as not more than an orange ball of light that bounces up and down from East to West along a road nicknamed "The Devil's Promenade" by locals of the area long ago. The story goes that it was...
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