Schelmischer Rancher behind these mysterious lights in rural hot springs County

The electrician burned a power failure when he was startled to see a mysterious light on the horizon at a rural location of the Hot Spring County, Wyoming.

The area was in a blackout and the light shone brightly against the hill. It slowly changed from red to blue and bass wondered what he had just seen the hell.

“I knew there were no houses there,” he said. “So I wasn't sure what was going on.”

Others also saw the lights, so Basse knew that he wasn't crazy. Some suspected that it was a UFO landing site and suspected others that it was bound to the oil field, even though it was miles away from every pump socket.

There are actually four lights that flash on different hills from high viewpoints.

There are three in the owl streams and a fourth is outside of Worldland. They are bright provisions of changing colors and can be seen from an estimated four miles away, also from the highway, on which frightened drivers were wondering who the police officers performed on a remote hill

The local Rancher Colter McCumber said Cowboy State Daily that he was constantly asked about the lights who border his property. He described her as a changing globe lights that he can clearly see from below in the valley and from his own home.

“People ask me what the hell is and why?” he said. “You notice from the Lucerne page and then notice them from the 120 motorway.”

The man behind the lights

Everyone was installed by McCumn's neighbors, a local rancher with a bizarre sense of humor. Eddie Shumway, the owner of the mysterious lights, said they just make him happy.

“I have this and this,” said Shumway, pointing to two of his light structures that he had built on his ranch from Highway 120.

In 2021, Shumway bought four Amazon solar lights and installed them on its properties. It was outdoor lights that were built to light up driveway, and he bought them out of a mood.

“They are still working,” he said with a smile. “When you come past my place at night, you will see red, blue and green in the hills.”

McCumber also finds the lights amusing, although he admits that he never knows what to say when people ask about it.

“I'm at a loss for answers,” said McCumber. “I'm trying to find something new. He is waiting for the UFOs to appear or something.”

Shumway's family has been in the OWL streams since the late 19th century. Both sentences of his grandparents had spanned the stream along the ranch and its arable land.

The 70 -year -old Shumway was grew up on the family's homestead and lived most of his life in the family. It was when he built between the tasks, looks out of towers in which he could install the solar lights.

He admits that the neighbors always ask what he is doing now and said that it is only about having fun. He also likes how the solar lights are with little maintenance and work without batteries.

“I just like her,” he said. “I have her at home too.”

It was not his original intention with the lights to illuminate the landscape, but to give its viewing towers light.

Place the lookout towers

Its small sunlight, which only measure 10 inches, are not simply placed on a pole in the middle of the bonus. Shumway had built streets on his property into the hills and looked.

Old Poles, which were recovered by the imaginative ranch, were used to build the structures that McCumn's children are convinced of all time. Shumway said that the remaining poles were very practical.

“There used to be telephone masts that used to go into the valley,” he said. “When they took them all, we inherited them.”

He was determined to ensure that his prospects were robust and could withstand the elements.

“It's actually a sophisticated setup,” he said. “I went up there with a Bobcat and put the phone masts.”

He dug the holes as deep as the piece under and there would be every bar there. It was difficult to determine his contributions for all the rocks that he had met again and again, and he had four attempts that did not work.

His observation towers are still in the works. He dreams of laying a roof over it so that he can sit up there with his sunlight and enjoy the view.

“I have another lookout tower on the other side,” he said, showing his property. “I can look back and forth. They are both about as high.”

The sand cranes can be heard in the distance. Ducks swim peacefully in the reservoir, which he built from an old gravel pit and its cattle size in the distant fields.

Keep the story

While Shumway checks the property, it points to the old Wagon road, which runs through the red dirt and the house, which is at least 120 years old. He remembers the Duncan family, who lived down there and the stories his mother told him when she was a little girl. She grew up as the neighbor of the previous owner.

While he is investigating this special property that has been in his family for almost 50 years, he continues to discover puzzling references to the people who have lived there before. He found three shelves that are lined with Red Rock and wonder if the mountain men had built them as caches.

When his lights shine from the hills at the top, Shumway creates his own legend, while people wonder what Eddie has intended up to now.

Jackie Dorothy can be achieved jackie@cowboystatedaily.com.