The Brown Mountain Lights
The Brown Mountain Lights are ghostly lights that appear up in the air over Brown Mountain in Burke County North Carolina. Over the years since the Blue Ridge Parkway was built many people have reported seeing strange dancing lights up in the air over Brown Mountain near the North Carolina city of Morganton.The lights are easiest to view from milepost 310 at the Brown Mountain Overlook and at milepost 181. There are markers at both locations where you can read about the Brown Mountain Lights and know that you're at the right place.
They even did a episode of the Brown Mountain Lights on the X Files. I've been up there and saw the Brown Mountain lights myself and I know I was not seeing car lights or a trick of any kind. I don't know what I was seeing for sure but I do know it was not natural. I personally think it's some form of paranormal activity but I can't prove that. Maybe some day they will. What do you think the Brown Mountain Lights are. Where do you think they originate from. What do you think is the source of the lights. Why not share your comments below and tell us what you think.
People tell of seeing strange lights that often appear to look like miniature campfires dancing in the air up over Brown Mountain. The Cherokee Indians that once lived in this area told of seeing these strange lights going back hundreds of years. The Cherokee said that it was the camp fires of the little people who lived in the area that they were seeing in the area. Other people tell of a great American Indian battle that was fought hundreds of years ago and that the lights are ghosts from that battle.
Some people who have experienced seeing the lights often report other strange occurrences. Recently one man sent me an email telling of seeing the lights while he was pulled off at Milepost 310 on the Blue Ridge Parkway and he said that all at once his video camera which he had put new batteries in suddenly went dead and that when he tried to crank his car that for a few minutes it would not crank or even turn over. He said that as long as the lights were up in the air that his car would not crank. He said that when the lights vanished he tried to crank his car and that it cranked right up.
His story is only one of many that have been told over the years of strange things happening when people see the Brown Mountain Lights. Many people have told of flashlights and cellular phones that suddenly sent dead. And a lot of people say that flashlights, cellular phones, and even car and truck engines go dead when the lights are up in the air. What is it about the lights that drains the power from batteries. I do know that batteries are often drained where there is paranormal activity. I have often been doing paranormal investigations in some location when a battery operated device is drained of its power suddenly.
Researchers have gone to the area of Brown Mountain on several occasions and they have never been able to find any geological explanation for the Brown Mountain Lights. But as you can see in the photo above the lights are very real and when I have seen them they have appeared at times to be almost living. One light will seem to chase another light and the lights will often appear to suddenly dive down into the tree tops and then seem to chase each other back up into the sky. And another really strange thing is that several times when I knew for a fact that I took a photo of the lights nothing showed up on the film. While at other times I have been able to capture the lights on photographs and video.
