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Have you ever seen a will-o-the-wisp??

SOURCES:

Isaac Newton: https://epub.us/wp-content/books/opticks-by-isaac-newton.pdf

Rocky Hill Experiment (George Washington and Thomas Paine): https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/rocky-hill-experiment/

Gourdon Ghost Light: https://web.archive.org/web/20181010062004/http://www.prairieghosts.com/gurdon.html

Journal of Folklore for Definition of ignis fatuus: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/533928.pdf

Lantern Jack story from Wales: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/willowisp.html#parry

MinMin Lights article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220714065225/http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/MinMinCEO.pdf

Paleontology Newsletter: https://web.archive.org/web/20110727184243/http://newsletter.palass-pubs.org/pdf/News64.pdf

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