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Nizari
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< on 11/2/2006 3:41 AM >
|  | | | I've searched/read through the ten pages here and I've found not one thing about Brown Mountain.
For those who don't know, going east from Boone on the Blue Ridge Parkway at some times at night you can see Lights, though I've never seen em myself.
Anyone ever been on the mountain or seen the lights, or better yet have pictures?
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MCP
   
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Fallston, MD
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Brown Mountain Lights
<Reply # 1 on 11/5/2006 8:21 PM >
|  | | | Lifted from internet***
Brown Mountain is a long, low-lying ridge on the border of Burke and Caldwell counties in Western North Carolina. Most of it belongs to the Pisgah National Forest. For perhaps 800 years or more, ghostly lights have been seen flaring and creeping along, and below, the ridge at night.
Some of the earliest reports came from Cherokee and Catawba Indians, settlers, and Civil War soldiers. Thousands have witnessed the spectacle, which is ongoing to this day. The lights have been investigated three times by the United States government, and countless times by private groups.
Over the years, watchers have tagged the Brown Mountain Lights as everything from ghosts to UFOs to various natural phenomena.
It's not even really clear when people started talking about the mysterious lights.
Folklorists point to a Cherokee legend that says the lights came from torches carried by grieving maidens following a battle between American Indian tribes on the mountain. Another tale says they're from a lantern carried by a slave's ghost seeking his master, who disappeared while hunting in the 1800s.
More can be found here...
http://www.eso-gar...untain_lights2.jpg
BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS
BROWN MOUNTAIN DURING THE DAY
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kjohnnytarr
location:
Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos: CoMO
| |  | Re: The Brown Mountain Lights
<Reply # 2 on 11/5/2006 8:36 PM >
| | | | This may be a phenomenon called foxfire, which is the result of natural gasses from decomposing wood. Then again, why has this been going on for 100s of years?
Very cool.
It seemed like a good idea at the time... |
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solstice
 
location:
Charlotte, NC
Gender: Female
Just assume I have no idea what's going on.
| | Re: The Brown Mountain Lights
<Reply # 3 on 11/6/2006 3:57 AM >
| | | | I remember reading somewhere that they can't be foxfire/swamp gas/etc for various reasons...I can't remember where, but I'll try to dig it up again. I've never seen them myself, but I intend to make the short drive over there and chill at the pulloff in the dark some night before the year is out, hehe.
I <3 archaic industry. |
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