A strange red-orange ghost light is spotted traveling over the Oklahoma prairie and in 1926 people begin to try and hunt it down to find the source of the strange light.
Ghost Eludes Pursuers
They have stalked it with Winchester rifles and have tracked it through the graveyard and streets of the deserted village of Old Ruby, but “they,” which includes numerous newspapermen and dozens of ghost detectors from this city, have not solved the riddle of the red-orange ghost light that moves over the prairie of the most thinly settled section of Nowata County.
Mac A. Hawkins, skeptic writer of the Tulsa World, attempted to lay the uneasy light wraith, and came to the conclusion that the mystery was beyond his powers.
The Rev. W.J. Scantling, pastor of the Christian Union Church, has attempted to solve that light and failed.
Hawkins describes his view of the phantom:
“An orange red glow, that did not throw any reflection, such as an automobile headlight might have thrown. To the watchers it was visible below a small catalpa tree at the graveyard entrance, so it must have been close to the ground.
“Lon Bryant and one of the other reporters rushed to the cross roads. There was nothing to be seen – a light shower that had settled the dust had made it perfectly impossible to miss any tracks that might have been made, but there were none.”
So the spook of Old Ruby will continue to wander through the deserted streets and caper in its playground at the graveyard until someone finds an explanation of its existence. [Source]
