Baxter Springs

Years later, I began visiting the area near the borders of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma to look for strange lights known as the Hornet Spook Lights or the Joplin Lights.

My mom had grown up in Baxter Springs, Kansas, close to the region where the lights were commonly reported, and she told me stories about seeing them when she was young.

According to her, visiting the lights had been a familiar activity for local teenagers.

They would travel out to the area together, watch for the strange glow, and spend time there with friends.

There is a statue there of Tow Tater that was made by Joe Ranft and that is apparently the inspiration for Tow Mater.

I of course stuck a sticker on the window and then we headed out toward Baxter Springs.

In Baxter Springs, we almost drove right through town, but then I found out that there was an American giant, a muffler man, Big Al, at an old service station that's now a gift shop called Gear Heads, I think it's called.

And that was a fun little shop.

There were some Star Trek memorabilia even included in that one, but it was a great little stop.

And then after that, Kate and I drove over the Rainbow Arch Bridge, who also have a new sticker.

It is a really cool old bridge that I wrote the history of in our blog post that I will put a link to here.

and I can't exactly remember it or find my notes while I'm talking so we camped that night in Baxter Springs City Park which is a nice little park right by the river and they have not that we used it but they have a really good disc golf course that was very popular the campground wasn't too crowded which was nice It was really great and made a good place to prepare and think about our next day where we were heading off to Oklahoma.

Lloyd Barker left the Army in 1919 but mostly bummed around until being arrested for vagrancy in 1921.

On June 17, with William Green and another man, he robbed a mail truck at Baxter Springs, Kansas, a crime for which he was arrested and convicted.

He was sent to Leavenworth for a 25-year sentence, and this marked the end of Lloyd's criminal career.

Paroled in 1938, he went straight and re-enlisted in the Army during World War II.

So I've got ten locations for you today, ten towns and cities, and these include Wales, two towns in Wales, including Flintshire and Debon- Debon- [clears throat] Flintshire and Debishire.

Also, Baxter Springs, Kansas, Kerrville, Texas, DeRidder, Louisiana, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Muscatine, Iowa, Methuen, Massachusetts, Tupelo, Mississippi, Wallingford, Connecticut, and Waukegan, Illinois.

While these do take a lot of time and research, it's so much fun to find these little gems, these cases that really most people have not heard about.

But it's amazing because they have been covered in local newspapers or appear in various databases of UFO organizations.

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So now let's move on to our next location, which is Baxter Springs, Kansas.

So this was suggested by OnTheGoCrow, and you did a pretty sneaky method for getting me to cover this case quickly, kind of betting me that you had me stumped.

The suit alleged severe physical, emotional, and other types of abuse and seeked a formal release from her extremely restrictive exclusive recording contracts.

In 2018, 50 years after they started touring, John Kay and Steppenwolf played their final live concert at the Decades of Wheels event in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

The hard rock band, which were famous for the songs Born to Be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride, actually performed during sleet during their final curtain call.

Guess they stayed out a little too long, and it got really cold.