Restroom with a Light and No Power
5223 E 41st St N, Tulsa, OK 74115
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Green fees apply for golf play. General park access is free.
Access
Limited Access
Maintained fairways and paths; some uneven terrain on older sections of the course
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1924 · Tulsa Park History · 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Context
Mohawk Park came into being in 1924, tied to the infrastructure project that piped Spavinaw Dam water to the city. The park's development accelerated through New Deal federal programs in the 1930s, which funded the Tulsa Zoo, a recreation lake, shelters, fish hatcheries, and the golf course.
Mohawk Golf Course opened in 1934, initially 18 holes and eventually expanded to a 36-hole facility. At 3,300 acres, Mohawk Park ranks among the largest city parks in the country — a fact that often surprises visitors expecting something more modest.
The park carries a darker historical footnote. During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, some residents of Greenwood used Mohawk Park as a refuge during the violence that consumed the district on May 31 and June 1 of that year. The massacre destroyed more than a thousand homes and businesses and resulted in thousands of Tulsans being held under armed guard. The park's role in those events is not formally commemorated on-site.
Sources
The specific report attached to Mohawk Park Golf Course is narrow and verifiable in principle: a bathroom building on the women's side shows a light visible at night, and no power runs to that structure. The cold air emanating from the interior is described as consistent with air conditioning, though no cooling system is installed.
This kind of low-intensity, location-specific anomaly is among the harder claims to dismiss outright — it's testable, it doesn't rely on a dramatic apparition, and the detail about the absence of electrical service is either accurate or fabricated. No independent verification of the electrical status of the building was found during research.
The golf course sits within Mohawk Park, a 3,300-acre property with its own deeper historical layers. Some accounts fold the golf course anomalies into broader claims about the park — including legends of 'little people' heard in the park's wooded sections, and the so-called Deer Lady, described as an eight-foot figure, half woman and half deer, said to walk on its hind legs. These accounts appear in the companion entry for Mohawk Park rather than here, and their relationship to the golf course specifically is unclear.
Play golf or walk the grounds of one of Tulsa's oldest municipal courses, originally established in 1934. The anomalous bathroom facility reported as lit at night with no power connection — and notably cold even in midsummer — is part of an older maintenance cluster on the course. No organized paranormal programming exists.
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