Phenomena of light, usually globular or in the form of shapeless spots of light, are reported to be seen throughout the world and defy natural explanation.
Most often, the ghostly glow is yellow or white, but red, orange, or blue are found. May change color under observation. It occurs randomly or appears regularly in certain places, changing in shape and intensity. It can be active for many years. Sometimes it occurs and after a short time it stops. A similar phenomenon, judging by the data, is quite common in parts of the United States, Great Britain, Japan and other countries.
The Society for the Study of Spirits, based in Oak Lawn, Illinois, collects information on these kinds of light phenomena and examines the places where they are found. As a result of the studies carried out, the following characteristic features were established:
1) these phenomena are found in remote areas;
2) they are rather difficult to detect, since they can be seen from a certain angle of view and at a certain distance;
3) they react to noise and light, moving away or disappearing;
4) they are accompanied by a hum, a dull hum or bursts of gaseous matter;
5) they were reflected in local folklore, where a strange phenomenon is mentioned in connection with some terrible story or tragic incident that occurred in a given place and caused death. For example, a man died due to the beheading of his head, and now his decapitated spirit is visiting this place to find her. It is believed that the light comes from the spirit lantern.
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The most famous manifestation of such a glow in the town of Martha, Texas. It was first reported in 1893 by a local resident, Robert Ellison. The lights were often seen on the southwestern slopes of the Chinati Mountains, where they moved bouncing or moving in stripes like grass burning. Eyewitnesses claimed that at times it seemed as if the lights were frolicking, and their movements looked quite meaningful.
A strange glow has been observed since 1913 at the Brown Mountains near Morganton, North Carolina, in multicolored lights moving sideways and horizontally. The phenomenon was investigated by the United States Geological Survey, which believed it was related to headlights and a locomotive searchlight. This conclusion was disputed by many witnesses. In the 1970s, research by the Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Complex found that the refraction of light from points outside the area could have caused some, but not all, phenomena. Many cases defy explanation.
Near Joplin, Missouri, there is another high-activity site where yellow and orange spirit lights are rumored to appear every night from the darkness. The glow seemed to defy researchers trying to establish its cause, and, apparently, was indeed an anomaly. Dale Kaczmarek, president of the Society for the Study of Spirits, observed this phenomenon through powerful binoculars from a distance of 300 to 400 feet and found that the lights were diamond-shaped, with a concave and transparent central part. As they moved, they left behind a trail of luminous points that seemed to dance in the air.
Many of the phenomena of this glow can be attributed to natural causes, such as the light from the headlights of a car or the phosphorescent glow known as ignis fatuus (flying lights).
The glow of spirits has the power of a hypnotic effect, and many of those who have observed the mysterious light, rather want to maintain a sense of belonging to the magical, rather than accept a prosaic explanation.
Megaliths, ancient stone circles and monuments used as cemeteries, or for astronomical observations, or for unknown sacred rites, are places where a mysterious radiance appears, called by some researchers "the glow of the earth."
According to many theories, the glow is caused by manifestations of terrestrial activity: ionized gases burst from faults in the earth's crust; light phenomena were associated with earthquakes or as yet unexplored types of electromagnetic energy. Fault theory may explain some of the fires in the Brown Mountains - the Grandfather Mountain Fault, old and not very active, extends close to these mountains. Other theories suggest that the glow is associated with alien aircraft heading for the megalithic region.