GREEN LANTERN ROAD
Road — 1200N / 7 Hills Lane, Olney, Illinois
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Road associated with documented cultural history.

A road in Olney, Illinois, Green Lantern Road is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Road associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with road legends and disputed sites. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The legend of Green Lantern Road is a classic of the form: on a lonely stretch of 7 Hills Lane — officially 1200N — outside Olney in Richland County, a green lantern light is said to float in fast behind your car at night, kill your headlights and your engine, and resolve into a man in a trench coat who walks ahead of you into Fritschle Cemetery and vanishes into the woods, whereupon your car starts again.
It is also, by the most credible account in the file, manufactured. The Ghost Research Society's report relays the word of local investigator Jason Snider, who researched the story and traced it to a man who confessed to inventing it in high school to scare girls: there was an oil-well shack in the woods that held an actual green lantern that swung in the wind, and the storyteller reportedly took to walking the road with a lantern to feed the legend.

THE AUGUST 2019 INVESTIGATION
Ghost Research Society investigators Dale Kaczmarek and Mike Rosario ran the road and the cemetery with the Crawford County Illinois Ghost Society on August 4, 2019 — Phasma Box, digital recorders, infrared camcorders. The harvest was honest: crickets so loud they poisoned the EVP sessions, one investigator's report of a child laughing, and no evidence collected. Kaczmarek's written conclusion gave the location a 'scary factor' of ten and a verdict of outright hoax.
The dossier keeps the two claims side by side because they illuminate each other — a durable rural legend, and the named confession that explains it. A man-made ghost is still a file worth keeping; it just gets filed under legend, not phenomenon.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Disputed] phantom hitchhiker: A lantern-bearing man and stalling vehicles feature in local stories; the investigator attributes the legend to a deliberate prank. Green Lantern Road's legend rides the corridor itself: a stretch of Illinois ground where drivers have told the same story for years. The account is disputed — even the folklore has factions. 'Green Lantern Road' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Green Lantern Road (https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/glantern.html)
· [Investigation claim] investigation result: The August 4, 2019 team observed no unusual lights; one participant reported laughter, while recordings mostly contained crickets. The account has been recorded since 2019-08-04. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. Sources including 'Green Lantern Road' keep the claim in circulation. The results are suggestive rather than conclusive — the honest state of most field work.
  source: Green Lantern Road (https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/glantern.html)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Green Lantern Road — Ghost Research Society / Dale Kaczmarek
  https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/glantern.html

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