Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar. Join Zilia as she walks us through

some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. Beaver County, Oklahoma,

sometime in 1905, a sense of darkness and silence that is truly alien in this age of information.

A man is driving a wagon down a desolate road towards his home when up ahead, the ground is

illuminated by an orb of light. The horse is startled, nearly upending the wagon. By the time he

has calmed them down, the light still remains unmoving up ahead directly in his path.

Today, in honor of the new podcast, The Great Beaver Fiasco, hosted by my mom, L.A. Bass, and two of her friends,

Craig Wormbold and Thomas Rayfeld. I have decided to include a story I briefly mentioned when I

guested on their inaugural episode.

So today, without further ado, this is the case of the Beaver County Spook Lights.

Now, this case was detailed by the witness, William Bathlot, in the January 1952 edition

of Fate magazine.

Bathlot opens up by referencing an article entitled Phantom Lights in Nevada,

written by Kenneth Arnold of Flying Saucer Fame. Now, Bathlot entitled his article,

Phantom Lights in Oklahoma, eager to show that these luminous anomalies were not restricted to Nevada,

nor recent to the mid-century. No, as a matter of fact, in his article, he states that,

to his knowledge, these lights have been spotted in the Oklahoma Panhandle and other regions nearby since before 1900.

William Bathlot moved to Beaver County, Oklahoma sometime in 1905, and shortly after relocating to the area, claimed that one warm June night, he saw a light the size of a toy balloon,

floating about 100 yards away from his house. He claimed that it moved at kind of an even level

about a foot and a half above the ground and cast a yellowish glow. He asked his friend who was

sitting with him, who could be out that time of night carrying a lantern. And his friend responded that it was

what he referred to as a ghost light, explaining that they were common to the area and often

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