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This is a directory of ghost lights, spooklights, and earthlight phenomena we have heard of in the American South.   Last Updated: 9 October 2011

Woodson Lateral Road outside Little Rock, Ark.

Alabama

• Cloverdale – Lights float over grassy fields
  …..Booger Lights Cloverdale Page
• Coy – Lights reported to appear in the Carstarphen Cemetery
• Moundville – A drum is heard and lights are seen on top of one of the larger pyramid mounds at Moundville Archeological Park.
  …..Moundville State Park
• Prattville – Lights appear in and around Bear Creek Swamp

Arkansas

• Crossett – Light on an old removed railroad bed
  …..Booger Lights Crossett Website
  …..Booger Lights – The Old Crossett Light
  …..Booger Lights – The New Crossett Light
  ….. Booger Lights: A Crossett Light Warning!
• …..Obiwan’s Crossett Page
• Dover – Multiple lights over Long Pool on Big Piney Creek
  …..Booger Lights Dover Page
  …..Astronomy Cafe Dover Page (Skeptic Alert)
• …..Obiwan’s Dover Page
• Gurdon – Light on an active railroad
  …..Booger Lights Gurdon Page
  …..Astronomy Cafe Gurdon Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Gurdon Page
  …..Troy Taylor’s Gurdon Page
  …..Garr Lystad’s Curiosity Shop Page

• Little Rock – A phantom motorcycle zooms up out of no where and vanishes as it passes motorists on Woodson Lateral Road.
  …..WoodsonLateral.Net
• Melbourne – Strange lights are seen in the Old Philadelphia Cemetery.
• Mena – Rich Mountain light
  …..Obiwan’s Rich Mountain Page
• Sardis – Strange light along a pipeline

Florida

• Arcadia – The Goat Hill light
• Ft. Meade – Pisgah In the 1950s and 60s, ghost lights were seen on County Line Rd. and Heard Bridge Rd. near old Mt. Pigsah.
• Greenbriar – Ghost light road
• Oviedo – Light seen from a bridge with a tragic history
  …..Astronomy Cafe Oviedo Page (Skeptic Alert)
• Wakulla County – The Wakulla Volcano was a prominent column of smoke, and bright light deep in the swamp. It disappeared in 1886 during the Charleston earthquake.
  …..Wikipedia Article

Georgia

• Cogdell – Light on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp
  …..Astronomy Cafe Cogdell Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Cogdell Page
• Pearson – Light follows and hovers over cars on the dirt roads by the railroad tracks.
• Rock Oven – Lights and more at a strange site on the Altamah River
• Surrency – The Surrency Spooklight
  …..Astronomy Cafe Surrency Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Surrency Page
• St. Simon’s Island – A ghostly candle in the Christ’s Church cemetery

Kentucky

• Harlan – In Bardo Hollow every spring a mysterious light appears at the end of the hollow.
• Jeffersonville – The Sand Mountain Light
  …..Troy Taylor’s Sand Mountain Page
• Estill County – Multiple locations

Louisiana

• Collinston – Railroad light
• Gonzales – Light on a rural road in the 1950′s
  …..Astronomy Cafe Gonzales Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..About.com Article
• Thibodaux – Lights and other events occur at the rail crossing in Devil`s Swamp

Mississippi

• Beauregard – The Illinois Central Light
  …..Booger Lights Beauregard Page
  …..Astronomy Cafe Beauregard Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Troy Taylor’s Beauregard Page
• Mantachie – Strange lights and figures are seen in Mount Pigsah Cemetery.
• Satartia – The Yazoo River
  …..WJTV Reort from the Gates of Hell

Missouri

• Arbyrd/Senath – Light on an abandoned railway
  …..Astronomy Cafe Senath Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Senath Page
• East Prairie – Light on old railroad bed
• Farrenburg – Light on an abandoned railway
• Joplin – The famous Hornet Spooklight
  …..Astronomy Cafe Hornet Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Hornet Page
  …..Troy Taylor’s Hornet Page
  …..The 4-State Explorers Hornet Page
• Knob Knoster – The ghost of a hermit killed by lightning manifests as a light during thunderstorms
• Poplar Bluff – Railroad light

North Carolina

• Badin – Light on the old Whitney Train Tracks
  …..Southern Spooks Page
• Brown Mountain – Numerous lights on a mountainside that became the subject of an X-Files episode
  ……Astronomy Cafe Borwn Mountain Page (Skeptic Alert)
  ……Obiwan’s Brown Mountain Page
  …..Troy Taylor’s Brown Mountain Page
  …..Appalachian State Physics Dept Site
  …..Wikipedia Article
• Cullowhee – Lights on the banks of Wehahutta Creek
  …..Obiwan’s Wehutta Page
• Maco – Railroad light
  …..Astronomy Cafe Maco Page
  ……Troy Taylor’s Maco Page
• Tarboro – Railroad light

Oklahoma

• Ada – Kalihoma Indian Reservation – A phantom car pursues motorists only to disappear as it draws close.
• Kullihoma – In the Chickasaw Nation bouncing balls of bright light float around and are reputed to be the legendary little people seen by young Indian children.
• Sand Springs – In PostOak Cemetery, balls of light move about in and around the cemetery and the surrounding woods.
• The Spooksville Triangle
  …..Troy Taylor’s Spooksville Page

South Carolina

• Beaufort – An eerie light floats over Land`s End Road.
  …..South Carolina Ghosts’ Land’s End Page
• Catfish – Lights at an Indian burial ground on River Bend Road.
  ……South Carolina Ghosts’ Catfish Page
• Dillon – Bingham’s Light appears near the old cemetery.
  ……Astronomy Cafe Bingham Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Bingham Page
  …..South Carolina Ghosts’ Bingham Page
• Ravenel – Light in a churchyard with a tragic past
  …..South Carolina Ghosts’ Ravenel Page
• Summerville – Railroad light
  …..South Carolina Ghosts’ Summerville Page

Texas

• Anson – Light appears near a local cemetery
  …..Obiwan’s Anson Page
• Angleton – Brit Bailey’s Light
  …..Texas Escapes Article
• Marfa – The famous Marfa Lights have been the subject of numerous investigations and an episode of Unsolved Mysteries
  …..Astronomy Cafe Marfa Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Marfa Page
  …..John Bunnell’s Night Orb’s Page
  …..Wikipedia Article
• Mexia – On Battery Road a ball of fire travels late at night.
• Odessa – Lights reportedly appear in Odessa Cemetery
• Saratoga – The Big Thicket Light haunts a gravel road
  ……Astronomy Cafe Big Thicket Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Big Thicket Page
• Sweetwater – Mysterious orange lights reported floating across Sweetwater Lake
• Wimberly – Strange lights near a campground and swimming hole
  …..Obiwan’s Wimberly Page

Tennessee

• Chapel Hill – Railroad Light
  …..Obiwan’s Chapel Hill Page
  …..John Norris Brown’s Chapel Hill Page
• Crossville – Lights follow the Obed River in and just outside of town and have even been known to cross Interstate 40.
  …..John Norris Brown’s Obed River Page
• Henry/Springville – A ghost light haunts an old dirt road.
• Leiper’s Fork – Ghost lights bounce around on fields, through forests, and occasionally across the highway in and near the historic district.
  …..John Norris Brown’s Leiper’s Fork Page

Virginia

• Belfast – Light in the valley below Clinch Mountain
  …..Obiwan’s Belfast Page
• West Point – The Cohoke Crossroads Light
  …..Astronomy Cafe Cohoke Page (Skeptic Alert)
  …..Obiwan’s Cohoke Page
  …..WorldWide Brian Pages
• Yorktown/Williamsburg – The James River Peninsula is known for numerous sporadic lights

West Virginia

• Moorefield – The Cole Mountain Light
• White Sulphur Springs – Reports of lights around Kate’s Mountain that hover in the sky and then shoot out of site.

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