Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:41:11 -0800 (PST)
To: stories@ghosts.org
yourname Toni Gonczy
email gonczy04@aol.com
My friends and I drove from Springfield to Joplin on a Sunday night in 1998 and arrived there around midnight. My friend Dave, who had been there and seen it before told me to go down this dark gravel road and park. Then he had me turn out my headlights. We were just sitting there and nothing was happening. Then he said for me to flash my brights. I did. Not 5 seconds later down the road I saw what looked like a red laser pointer. It grew bigeer and bigger in a matter of seconds. Then it turned into a big white round light about the size of a basketball. It bounced in and out of trees. Up and down the road. It came so close it lit up the whole inside of my car like daylight! Then I turned my car on and started chasing it down the road. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen! I've been once after that and the same thing happened. It was totally worth the hour drive to Joplin, to sit there for 15 minutes and watch the spook light. I am definitly a believer.
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