Wandering lights in the swamps are a rare phenomenon that science still hasn't been able to explain. Among the swamps of West Bengal, these mysterious lights are more common and therefore in Indian beliefs they are treated with reverence and caution, as if they were spirits rising from the depths of swamps only after sunset.
Seasoned hunters have repeatedly talked about strange lights in the swamps, but the opinions of eyewitnesses are ambiguous. After all, lost people, without thinking about it themselves, entrust their lives to “the wrong hands”. In an extreme situation, travelers often mistake the light for the light from the home and, like moths, enchanted by the flame, follow it, not paying attention to distance and direction.
At times, a barely noticeable ball-shaped light looming in the distance led people out of the dangerous thicket. Sometimes, on the contrary, he led him into the wilderness, from where only the most experienced and hardy could get out. There is an opinion that good wandering lights and "dead man's candles", leading astray from the right path, are two similar, but different phenomena.
Sometimes the glow can circle over the same place. According to the experience of the locals, it indicates a drowned man. Sometimes it was possible to find the bodies of the missing people at such a mark, and if they did not find them, they usually said "deeply gone". There is no doubt about the accuracy of the signs.
Mentions of the wandering lights are found in the legends of many peoples of the world, but the phenomenon has long gone beyond the scope of fiction, because in the uninhabited corners of the planet they are encountered to this day.
So what is it? Wonders of nature? Souls of the dead? Forest spirits? No one will give an exact answer, but the fact remains - this is energy that has signs of reason.
Scientists do not recognize the existence of the phenomenon and are trying to explain the glow with a special mixture of gases or phosphorization, deliberately closing their eyes to the rather meaningful behavior of the lights (movement, disappearance, change in shape and brightness). Perhaps when they have enough knowledge and courage, they admit their mistake …
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In conclusion, we will try to draw an analogy. Dolphins and sharks live in the seas. Some can help the shipwrecked not to drown, others can kill. In the practically unsociable swamps of West Bengal, wandering lights and "dead man's candles" often set their own rules and the fate of those lost here.