Ghostlights are seen around the world and have endured throughout history. But what are they? Science offers up a variety of logical explanations. From Swamp Gas to Ball Lightning to Geophysical changes met with electrical discharges. Our world is a pretty strange place and can produce natural effects that are almost as baffling as the ghostlight phenomenon itself. But is that all there is to the story? Is there more than meets the eye when these orbs of light suddenly appear?
Today we dissect many of the scientific theories behind them and explore when these theories most certainly apply. And when they most certainly, do not. We take a very deep dive into an example of one of the most well known of America’s ghostlights before shining a light (see what I did there?) on an encounter that I found to be one of the most compelling examples in support of a far more mysterious occurrence taking place.
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SOURCES:
Ball Lightning; Answers with Joe: https://youtu.be/_gOlQCI9Tgg?si=UhiC3sW_YtHUecg9
Ball Lightning; Medium: https://medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37
Will-o’-the-wisp; Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o'-the-wisp
What causes will-o’-the-wisps: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/what-causes-will-o-the-wisps/
The Hookerman Spook Lights of the Flanders Tracks: https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplained-phenomena/hookerman-spook-lights/
Ghost Lights: The Legend of the Hookerman: https://blackriverjournal.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/ghost-lights-the-legend-of-the-hookerman/
Spooklight Sites across America: http://inamidst.com/lights/spooklights
How Stuff Works Article and Podcast: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/are-ghost-lights-apparitions-dead-or-even-aliens.htm
Charlotte Observer Article; No Explanation - Burke County’s Mysterious Light Still Baffles Investigators: https://dsoftp.appstate.edu/web/BML/CharObs092413.htm
Photographic Evidence of Luminescence during Faulting in Granite: https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.5047/eps.2010.02.004
Brown Mountain Lights: https://freecharm.com/BML/BML.html
L.E.M.U.R. Brown Mountain Report of Cause of the Mysterious Brown Mountain Lights: https://freecharm.com/BML/Pics/LEMURreportPDF.pdf
Brown Mountain Viewing Guide: https://freecharm.com/BML/Pics/BrownMtnLightsPDF.pdf
Brown Mountain Lights Up Close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmmuZ1HzPA
Police Chase Mysterious Glow; Hebron: https://groups.io/g/Forteanaexchange/attachment/545/1/The_Daily_Times_Thu__Jul_10__1952_.pdf
Eerie Light Puzzles Police; Hebron: https://groups.io/g/Forteanaexchange/attachment/545/11/The_News_Tue__Jul_15__1952_.pdf
The Hebron Light and others: https://userpages.umbc.edu/~frizzell/hebronetal.html
Hebron Spooklight Investigation 1998: https://www.ghostresearch.org/Investigations/hebron.html
The Hebron Light: http://www.astronomycafe.net/weird/lights/hebron1.htm
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