Southern Ghost Light Directory


    This is a directory of ghost lights, spooklights, and earthlight phenomena we have heard of in the American South.

    Alabama

    • Cloverdale – Lights float over grassy fields
    • Coy – Lights reported to appear in the Carstarphen Cemetery
    • Moundsville – A drum has been heard and lights are seen on top of one of the larger pyramid mounds at Moundsville State Park.
    • Prattville – Lights appear in and around Bear Creek Swamp.


    Arkansas


    • Crossett – Light on an old removed railroad bed
    • Dover – Multiple lights over Long Pool on Big Piney Creek
    • Gurdon – Light on an active railroad
    • Little Rock – A phantom motorcycle zooms up out of no where and vanishes as it passes motorists on Woodson Lateral Road.
    • Melbourne – Strange lights are seen in the Old Philadelphia Cemetery.
    • Mena - Rich Mountain light
    • Sardis – Strange light along a pipeline

    Florida

    • Arcadia – The Goat Hill light
    • Ft. Meade – Pisgah In the 1950s and 60s, ghost lights were seen on County Line Rd. and Heard Bridge Rd. near old Mt. Pigsah.
    • Greenbriar – Ghost light road
    • Oviedo – Light seen from a bridge with a tragic history
    • Wakulla County - The Wakulla Volcano was a prominent column of smoke, and bright light deep in the swamps of Wakulla County from the Spanish occupation.  It disappeared in 1886 during the Charleston earthquake.

    Georgia

    • Cogdell – Light on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp
    • Pearson - Light follows and hovers over cars on the dirt roads by the railroad tracks.
    • Rock Oven – Lights and more at a strange site on the Altamah River
    • Surrency - The Surrency Spooklight
    • St. Simon’s Island – A ghostly candle in the Christ’s Church cemetery

    Kentucky

    • Harlan – In Bardo Hollow every spring a mysterious light appears at the end of the hollow.
    • Jeffersonville – The Sand Mountain Light
    • Estill County – Multiple locations

    Louisiana

    • Collinston – Railroad light
    • Gonzales – Light on a rural road in the 1950's
    • Thibodaux – Lights and other events occur at the rail crossing in Devil`s Swamp 

    Mississippi

    • Beauregard – The Illinois Central Light
    • Mantachie - Strange lights and figures are seen in Mount Pigsah Cemetery.

    Missouri

    • Arbyrd/Senath – Light on an abandoned railway 
    • East Prairie – Light on old railroad bed
    • Farrenburg – Light on an abandoned railway
    • Joplin – The famous Hornet Spooklight
    • Knob Knoster – The ghost of a hermit killed by lightning manifests as a light during thunderstorms
    • Poplar Bluff – Railroad light

    North Carolina

    • Badin – Light on the old Whitney Train Tracks
    • Brown Mountain – Numerous lights on a mountainside that became the subject of an X-Files episode
    • Cullowhee – Lights on the banks of Wehahutta Creek
    • Maco – Railroad light
    • Tarboro – Railroad light

    Oklahoma

    • Ada - Kalihoma Indian Reservation – A phantom car pursues motorists only to disappear as it draws close. 
    • Kullihoma - In the Chickasaw Nation bouncing balls of bright light float around and are reputed to be the legendary little people seen by young Indian children. 
    • Sand Springs – In Postok Cemetery, balls of light move about in and around the cemetery and the surrounding woods.

    South Carolina

    • Beaufort – An eerie light floats over Land`s End Road.
    • Catfish – Lights at an Indian burial ground on River Bend Road.
    • Dillon – Bingham’s Light appears near the old cemetery.
    • Ravenel – Light in a churchyard with a tragic past
    • Summerville – Railroad light

    Texas

    • Anson – Light appears near a local cemetery
    • Marfa – The famous Marfa Lights have been the subject of numerous investigations and an episode of Unsolved Mysteries
    • Mexia On Battery Road a ball of fire travels late at night.
    • Odessa – Lights reportedly appear in Odessa Cemetery
    • Saratoga - The Big Thicket Light haunts a gravel road
    • Sweetwater – Mysterious orange lights reported floating across Sweetwater Lake
    • Wimberly – Strange lights near a campground and swimming hole

    Tennessee

    • Chapel Hill – Railroad Light
    • Crossville - Lights follow the Obed River in and just outside of town and have even been known to cross Interstate 40.
    • Henry/Springville – A ghost light haunts an old dirt road.
    • Leiper's Fork - Ghost lights bounce around on fields, through forests, and occasionally across the highway in and near the historic district.


    Virginia


    • Belfast – Light in the valley below Clinch Mountain
    • West Point – The Cohoke Crosseroads Light
    • Yorktown/Williamsburg – The James River Peninsula is known for numerous sporadic lights

    West Virginia

    • Moorefield – The Cole Mountain Light
    • White Sulphur Springs - Reports of lights around Kate’s Mountain that hover in the sky and then shoot out of site.




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