Visible from afar, a mysterious light emerging in a remote area on the Upper Peninsula in Michigan has become a famous local legend, causing the most heated debate about its origin (see video below).
A bright white ball known as the "Paulding Lights" periodically appears in the depths of the forest, over the dirt road leading to the city of Paulding. It can change its size and shape, and then disappears into the darkness.
The first report of the mysterious phenomenon came from a local sheriff in 1966, and then, for half a century, it has become an invariable attribute of the community, attracting not only a wide range of visitors who dream of seeing strange lights, but also researchers of the paranormal.
Official legend has it that this ghostly light comes from a conductor's lantern, who was crushed while trying to stop a train speeding towards the wagons stuck on the tracks. Locals say that the event took place over 100 years ago, when several railways existed in these places, now disappearing into the overgrown undergrowth.
Some believe it is the light of the train, which itself is a ghost. Others claim that these are the distraught souls of grandparents, searching with a lantern for their lost grandson. There are also opinions that this glow is associated with aliens. Skeptics argue that this is the light from car headlights. Moreover, the cases of the appearance of lights became more frequent after the construction of the highway.
So a group of engineering students from a nearby university in 2010, trying to solve the riddle of this phenomenon, said that the lights come from the headlights of cars passing along the nearest highway. But the local community dismissed their findings, arguing that the lights were not a modern phenomenon, and citing Native American legends as evidence.
Journalist John Carlisle has just returned from these places. He conducted his own investigation and interviewed a lot of local residents. And then, along with enthusiasts eager to unravel the mystery of the "Paulding Lights", he decided to go to the place to see this phenomenon with his own eyes.
According to Carlisle and other eyewitnesses, they saw the light the same evening and after observing it, they said that "none of them believed that this phenomenon was caused by headlights."
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Paranormal researchers claim that Paulding's lights bear a striking resemblance to the wandering lights on Brown Mountain in North Carolina.
