Driving Down This Haunted Oklahoma Road Will Give You Nightmares

On July 7, 1905, a lady named Katy DeWitt James, 29, and her baby Lulu Belle, 14 months old, got on a train to go visit a cousin in Payne County. She had filed for divorce from her husband the day before on grounds of cruelty. Her father, Henry Dewitt, saw them off from the train station and planned on hearing from them within several days.

After some digging, Bartell learned that Mrs. James had met and befriended Fannie Norton, a known prostitute, on the train. On the evening of July 7, Norton took Mrs. James and Lulu Belle to the home of her brother-in-law, William Moore in Clinton; they spent the night there before riding off in a buggy the next morning, saying they would be back in three hours. Norton returned two hours later—but neither Mrs. James nor her daughter were with her.

The detective discovered that the buggy had disappeared into a field near the creek. After about an hour, it came speeding back out; one wheel was stained with blood. Norton pulled up to a farmer’s house, called the farmer’s boy over, and gave him a baby - Lulu Belle - wrapped in a bloody dress. Clearly foul play was involved, but when the detective tracked down Norton, the prostitute denied killing Mrs. James. It was never confirmed whether she was lying or not. It was presumed she was guilty since she swallowed a heavy dose of poison, killing herself in one fell swoop later that day.

The mystery was never solved, and a number of questions still remain.

A researcher was in the area doing a school project, when she noticed a blue light with no particular shape that originated in the creek, and was coming towards her friend and her.