Hornet Spook Light

When I was young my family and I watched the "In Search of" series hosted by Leonard Nimoy.  I was pretty young so I don't remember most of the episodes but there were a few that stuck in my head.  I remember the Bigfoot episode and the episode about the Oak Island treasure mine.  But the one that stands out the most to me was the one about the Hornet Spook Light in Missouri.

The spook light is often described as a will-o-the-wisp or earth light, a glow orb moving around the forest.  The one in this area is reported being seen as far back as 1866 and still can be seen today.  It has been chased and vanishes, it has been shot at with no effect, it has passed through people's vehicles and they describe feeling heat radiating from it.  It also have been reported in different colors of orange to blue as well as more than one appearing at a time.

Some feel it is a spirit and there are many legends as to who's spirit it is which seem to revolve around the locate Indian tribes.  One says it's an Osage Indian chief that had been beheaded and the light is his torch as he searches for his head.  Another is that its two two Quapaw Indian children who died in the area.

There have been many attempts by individuals as well as professional groups to investigate the cause of this light that ranges from the size of a basketball and larger but no solid answer has been found.  The most realistic explanation is that it's automobile headlights and watching modern video of the spook light certainly gives that appearance however sightings go back well before autos filled the roads in this area.  Seems like a fairly easy theory to test since we all have cars with headlights but so far this hasn't been confirmed.  Some have thought it's people playing tricks or a hoax but if that's the case the people doing it are certainly devoted to the cause as we can see from the pictures it has been visible for a number of years.

The idea of will-o-the-wisps, spirit lights, or earth lights have always intrigued me, they remind me of the strange lights Bilbo saw in Mirkwood, leading him off the path.  I would love to visit the are and try to see it for myself.  Road trip anyone?

- C

Stange Lights in Villisca

On one of the investigations I was invited by the Southern Wisconsin Paranormal Research Group to the town of Villisca Iowa to a house where a family was murdered with an axe.  This is of course the Villisca Axe Murder House as it's now known.  It was a fairly uneventful night.  We had a few strange temperature readings that went from 75 degrees down to 45 then back to 75.  We had an EVP that might have been the sound of a child laughing but that is open to interpretation but this thing that I found the most strange was the photo below.



I'm a really big skeptic and especially of photos.  You always need to ask the person why they were taking a picture of what they did and what were the circumstances surrounding the photo, but in this case I was standing to the right so I know what was happening.

One of our team was standing in the yard with a digital camera snapping pictures of the house.  She was snap a picture, look at it; and if nothing look odd she would erase it and snap another.  Suddenly she ran over and said, "Guys look at this."  At first I thought bugs with a long exposure but this was a digital camera so I'm not sure how that would work.  Also there is that bend in the stream that perfectly repeats itself in all the streams which rules out bug unless they know how to synchronise their flying.  Then I thought well she was moving the camera but nothing else is motion blurred so frankly I'm stumped.

It reminds me of the "rods" crazy a few years ago that was eventually completely bunked but this isn't a single object in the frame it's a streaming line that is glowing.  I have no idea if this is even the slightest bit paranormal but it is strange if nothing else.

- C

Netflix Brought Me Back

As previously stated I have been away from the "paranormal scene" for a few years now.  It wasn't that I had lost interested but due to some personal issues I couldn't devote any time at all to it so the Nocturne Society web site came down.

However in the last six months I've been able to have some free time so I decided to subscribe to Netflix through my gaming system.  There I found many interesting shows I'd been missing due to my lack of cable television.  One program in particular is the History Channel's MonsterQuest.  Netflix has four seasons of the program available.  I watched the first season of the 45 minute shows in one afternoon.  Unlike many shows they didn't mock the "believers" they were interviewing and always seem to leave things as "maybe it's possible" which is nice.  Some shows have the narrator speaking poorly about the people they are interviewing and even thought I'm a HUGE skeptic I don't like to see people being told they are wrong or stupid.

So after watching those episodes I began recalling how I enjoyed the ghost hunts, radio interviews, and articles that I was involved in before so I thought I'd start small with just this blog and see where it goes.  It's certainly cheaper than buying the url again so it's a great way to "test the waters" and see what the enthusiasts are focusing on now.

- C

Nocturne Society Has Returned......sort of

The Nocturne Society is a paranormal web site that has been online since 2003 however in 2009 it went offline.  This was mainly die to the author going through some personal issues however he is now able to focus again on his interests again so things are on the mend.  The original url has no been recovered as of yet but for those that remember the site it has been temporarially placed back online and can be viewed by clinking the link below.

Nocturne Society

For now the original site is not going to be updated so all updates will be on this blog.  Also the new email address is thenocturnesociety at gmail dot com.

- Admin