Ghostlights

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

Ghost Lights: https://www.facebook.com/DidYouSeeThatinNC/posts/vander-light-is-a-lesser-known-ghost-light-of-north-carolina-but-the-legend-is-s/3967272156620447/ 

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 

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