Considering my area of northeast Oklahoma has the Spooklight, one of the weirdest tourist sights in the entire US, I naturally fell in love with the new book "Weird Oklahoma" by Wesley Treat and edited by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran. Tagged the "Tri-State Spook Light,' the natural phenomenon of a ball of light gets four pages in the book along with a couple of photos! I've only seen it once, one night when I was driving in its area to visit some friends; the swaying light followed my van, stopped when I stopped, and continued when I drove on, but left me as I reached the end of its road.
I thought the Spooklight was the weirdest thing in Oklahoma, but there are plenty of other contenders for that title. For example, the Shaman's Portal in the Oklahoma Panhandle which is said to have swallowed unsuspecting travelers over the last few centuries; a beast with the head of an alligator and a humanoid body which lurked around Tahlequah in the 1840s; the Hex House of Tulsa, known as the most haunted location in that area for years; the Heavener Runestone, thought to have been created by Vikings; Gravity Hills of Bartlesville, where cars roll uphill, and loads of ghosts, murderers, eerie places, and unbelievably strange sights. Weird Oklahoma is a very entertaining book, full of color photos and fun tales of the odd to be found throughout the state, well worth perusing on a summer afternoon.
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