After a while the light became such a regular sight that it wasn’t a big deal. He soon heard more spooklight tales at the Fedora Coop, a local hangout. “After asking him a few questions, I realized that the strange light I had been seeing fairly regularly had a story behind it,” Spader says. Before he heard about the spooklight, he worried someone was out trying to steal something.įinally Spader was asked by his neighbor Jim Kothe if he had seen the spooklight. It appeared to be a bright spotlight cresting a hill and going down below the hill, but a car would never show up. “After I moved to that farm it wasn’t long before I was aware of this light that was very peculiar,” Spader says.
Joe Spader lived on the former Hass farm from 1984 to 1988. “That’s just the spooklight.” After hearing a little more about it, the salesman decided not to spend the night after all, and made a hasty retreat. When he went outside to get his suitcase he noticed a bright light from the south, and commented that the snowplow must be opening the road. The salesman stayed for supper and was invited to spend the night. The road to the north of the farm was open, but eight-foot high snowdrifts covered the road to the south. The salesman was there late one winter afternoon shortly after a blizzard. Lester’s stepmother Agnes once told him that she watched one night as he drove right through the light, but Lester didn’t see it.Ī salesman used to stop by the farm twice a year to service Harry’s hearing aid. His grandfather told him that sometimes the spooklight was so bright they could sit inside the house and read by it. The light appeared at least every other night. Lester grew up on the farm, and seeing the spooklight was commonplace. It was once the home of George and Lizzy Hass, and later their son, Harry. All that remains are a gate with a no-trespassing sign, a driveway and a grove of trees. The light can be seen along a short stretch of seldom-traveled dirt road between the two small Miner County towns.Ī farm that once stood on the west side of Spooklight Road is no longer there. The Hass family homesteaded on this land along Spooklight Road south of Carthage.įor as long as people living near Carthage and Fedora can remember, there have been stories of the spooklight - a mysterious light that appears out of nowhere and then vanishes.
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