The Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights Episode

"The Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights " is an episode of Carl White's Life in the Carolinas, which first aired in syndication March 21, 2015.
In this episode we travel with Carl to Burke County NC to explore the famous Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights. These lights have been the subject of songs, folk tales, speculation, and investigation for over one hundred years.
Sightings
At the 20 mile marker off Highway 181 near Morganton is an overlook that provides an extraordinary view. Strange lights have been reported from this site and others nearby since at least the end of the 19th century.
A September 1913 article appearing in the Charlotte Observer reported members of the Morganton Fishing Club seeing strange lights near the mountain. Soon afterwards, Congressman E. Y. Webb requested that the US Geological Survey investigate; they concluded that the lights were train lights. Later, Senators F. M. Simmons and L. S. Overman requested another more extensive investigation and George Rogers Mansfield was commissioned to conduct the survey. He attributed the lights to headlights, stationary lights, and brush fires.
C. W. Smith and Les Burril, Retired, US Forest Service both report that they have seen the lights. According to Les, they looked like candles, then diminished. He reports that he has seen the lights numerous times. C. W. says he's seen them twice.
Daniel B. Caton, PhD, professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Appalachian State University and Joshua P. Warren, an author and paranormal investigator who has spent 20 years investigating the lights since he saw the lights as a child, agree on at least two things: we must separate fact from fiction, and at least a small percentage of the Brown Mountain Lights are authentic.
Theories
Theories about what causes the Brown Mountain Lights range from the paranormal to the scientific, and everything in between: gasses, electrical fields, spirits walking, underground military installations, headlights from trains, planes, or automobiles, and even aliens.
According to paranormal theorists as well as scientists, the lights are similar to ball lightening and they are extremely rare. But as one visitor says, "No one knows for sure."
What causes these strange lights? According to Josh Warren, Brown Mountain is a geological conduit for massive amounts of electricity that can trigger paranormal activities. At the end of the day, though, people base their theories about the cause of the lights on their own areas of interest.
Evidence
Charles Braswell, Jr. is an author and professional photographer. He has invested twelve years investigating the lights, often setting still and video cameras on tripods throughout the night. On October 15, 2001, Charles captured one of the best known photos of the Brown Mountain Lights. He later wrote the book Are Those the Brown Mountain Lights?
Dr. Caton and his team have installed two cameras overlooking the Brown Mountain to provide a constant view of the lights. By sequencing digital images taken across the gorge, the individual frames are built into time lapse videos. Dr. Caton's team rules out possible misidentifications such as ATM's, military aircraft, or other manmade sources of the lights, and posts them on KZbin.
What can you do to help? If you happen to be looking across the Linville Gorge toward Brown Mountain and see some unusual lights, contact Dr. Caton with the following information: date, time, weather, behavior (what did the light do?), color of the lights, and the exact location where you saw them.
Who knows? Perhaps YOU will help solve the mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights!
Carl White’s Life In The Carolinas is an Emmy nominated TV and award winning show in its sixth season. It airs throughout the Carolinas. Check guide listings for air times. For more on the show visit www.lifeinthecarolinas.com

[@longcoolwomaninblack]

I had an experience with this light back in the early 90's near Sneedville at Elrod falls. My sister and I , her husband and my boyfriend were camping at the falls. My sister and I had to "take a leak", so we walked back behind the camper. I had my back turned from my sis as she did her thing. She said something to me and I turned to ask what she said and right in front of me, and I mean less than arms reach, was a red floating light. It was as big as a beach ball and had some type of liquid plasma moving inside of it. all of it glowing. It was very bright but yet not casting glow on anything else. Of course I screamed and my sister nearly peed on herself trying to get up and get her pants pulled up, and I was telling her to LOOK, LOOK AT IT!! And this glowing thing had to be intelligent for when I screamed, it shot up in the tree above my sister and then into the sky. They all thought I was telling a big fib just to scare them. The only other one that got a glimpse, was my boyfriend, later that night when we went to our sleeping bag and where we was laying, you could see the bridge, and I spotted it hovering near it and told him and he looked and saw it, but it was more distant than I had seen it, so he couldn't tell just how big it really was. Till this day my sister still claims I was telling a story just to scare them. I, to this day will still swear to it and swear this thing was intelligent because it reacted to my scream. I will never forget this and will take to my grave swearing it is true. Now that my kids are grown, we are planning to go back to camp and to see if we can spot this strange entity again.

[@Zestyfloridaguy]

The plasma might of been affected by the sound waves🤷🏻‍♂️

[@nobodyinparticular709]

I have had a similar experience in the Drakensberg mountains, kzn South Africa about 2 years ago.

[@fiercest_calm]

Great story! My brother & mom were going to a doctor appointment back in the 80's in the foothills of NC. It was cold, overcast day. Right in front of the car a ball that looked like you described floated up to the windshield and right before hitting the car, shot off left into a field. It had the plasma light in like a ball of light, like a translucent glass beach ball. They both ducked because they really believed it was going to crash into the car window. I trust my brother, he is no nonsense and would never make up a story. They reported it and the police said their were sightings all in that area on that particular day. I want to gol to see the Brown Mt Lights, but then I think of the 411 missing people and lose my curiosity. 😏 I find it fascinating!! Thanks for sharing your story!! I enjoyed it.

[@RealEyesRealizeRealLies.]

Update?

[@AlisonBryen]

Oh wow! Fascinating story!

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

If you sit still and quiet on the river in the early morning the orbs will come inspect you and test your spirit. I've been exploring the area for 25 years, and we see them nearly every trip within the gorge and surrounding areas.

[@RainyJan309]

I live nearby. My dad has seen these lights many years ago. He told me about them. Im so tempted to go!! Fascinating!!! The Native Americans believed the lights were the souls of loved ones. They've been seen for over a century.

[@marktwain368]

Native/indigenous people tell stories that we ought to give more respect to. They know these valleys and hills, they have ancestry and lore that goes back many many years. They have information that isn't available anywhere else!

[@javadelahi5533]

I'm a Persian from Iran..I've been reading a book about all strange things and occurrences happening in our surrounding environments and I'm so excited to be here because the book I'm devouring it containing pointing out to this part of the Western North Carolina,,,in the book it's mentioned the Military Air Forces Engineers used some tools and equipment name "Geiger Counter"(tool for measuring radioactive particles) checking and investigating the area to be seeing any probable uranium supplies due to this saying there might have been uranium and that's why lights coming to appear there,,or another one was the reflection of the moon on the topside the surface of some kind of mica layer such as mineral glass or mica stone,,,even though the both were erroneous !

[@SinkorSig]

I saw the brown mountain lights the first time this past weekend at the base of table rock while camping. Really an unexplainable experience

[@mikeandrews1899]

I seen them back in the 1990's at wiseman's view . Very intriguing , interesting and fascinating .....not scary at all . We watched them for hours 👌

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

my mother says it's bigfoot playing with a flashlight, hahahaha

[@ufobigfoot4002]

It is!

[@JensenSarpy]

Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 4 and at verse 13 in your King James Bible tells the answer to these entities. They're Satan's counterfeits we see here on Earth, though.

[@MAX3D2]

One of these lights appeared about 3 feet from me back in 1986. I had gone there with a fine lass to enjoy the sights from one of the cliffs late one moonless night. ;) After about being there about 45 minutes we saw a light behind a bush beside our sleeping bag. It appeared out of nowhere and looked as if someone was standing behind a bush with a flashlight. My anger arose while thinking that some pervert was spying on us. I got up and approached the stranger with the intent of putting some boot to his backside. But things quickly got stranger than I had bargained for! As I approached the light behind the bush (and it was a thin bush by the way with a sparse amount of leaves.) I was about an arm's length away. And as if knowing I was approaching, the light turned. It looked as if that eerie stranger turned to his left side and walked away. The light went out as if it was a flashlight, turning its beam in the opposite direction. At this moment chills crawled up the back of my neck. I could feel the hair on my neck stand up. I felt the goosebumps ripple across my arms. Because what was on the other side of the bush was empty air! And a 1-mile drop off of the side of the mountain. At this point, I had lost all interest in my other activities. I said "darling" gets cha back clothes on!!! We are outa here!!! In a semi-state of undress, we scrambled to the tiny path back up to the main viewing area at Wiseman's View. We left there as fast as we could! This is a true story. If you do not believe me, then go there and test it yourself. I never went back there again. It has been almost 30 years ago. I still get goosebumps when I tell this story, even right now! If you go there, don't say I did not warn you!!!

[@francescofazio3518]

cool story bro ahahahahaha

[@yoriichitsugikuni85]

Francesco Fazio hahaha ikr what a great fucking story for childrens!

[@francescofazio3518]

You would believe in basically everything dont you ?

[@yoriichitsugikuni85]

Francesco Fazio nah not really bro,i mean the story is creepy for childrens,but not me bro not me

[@francescofazio3518]

Since paranormal things are simply not existing the cause must be scientific and explainable. As usual people like to invent and to pump up urban legends and never seriously investigate the possible causes. There is nothing paranormal there is an explanation to everything you just have to find out what is the cause.

[@marktwain368]

This presentation was better than expected! Carl White does a fine job of interviewing key persons and finding a balance between the competing theories. What I really like is that there is a consensus that the phenomenon is real, and somehow keeps us guessing!

[@LifeInTheCarolinas]

Thank You for the comment Mr. Twain. The interest in this subject continues to be strong.

[@michaelsbeachmom]

My GrandParent's were Lee & Lennie Medford & my Parent's were Paul & Norma Thomas. They are all deceased now.

[@invertedcrown]

I moved to Asheville a few years ago (only 1.5 hours away from brown mountain)… went to "wiseman's view" park last year to see them for 1st time. was NOT expecting to see jack, but we were blown away with all the weird lights and shit we saw. most notably, a big red orb that would keep appearing above the mountains (it would keep disappearing & reappearing at different altitudes)…… then we went back there a couple months ago. didn't see lots of activity like 1st time, but saw one thing that was fascinating: at first I just saw a blinking light, so I stared at that spot, lights blinked again and suddenly a giant white orb expanded from that spot & floated around. was unreal.... brown mountain is only place I have ever experienced inexplicable phenomena like this... made quite an impression on me. going back for visit #3 real soon...

[@mackenziesigmon898]

I just went tonight to an overlook that has a perfect view of Brown Mountain. That red orb you describe is EXACTLY what we saw. It kept starting at the west side of the mountain and would move to the east side, rising and falling, only to disappear. Then, always after a few minutes, it would reappear on the west and repeat.

[@sydIRISH]

Who came here after watching the film "Alien Abduction"????

[@setsu_dubs]

scared shitless at tht tunnel part

[@Jordankingg]

Me 😂

[@chrissduarth1313]

Me !!!! 02/04/19... 11:15 pm

[@Stonktradomus]

I didn't...and I am now feeling...very...alone...naked...and scared.

[@egyptj8476]

@@setsu_dubs me too 😂😂😂

[@amandam120]

Someone please help me. Do kids go on field trips at night to see the lights? I forgot all about ever seeing the lights until now. I'm feeling really freaked out too because I'm very active in the UFO community. That's not something someone like me forgets. My husband went to the same school ol and was one grade ahead. He doesn't remember a field trip like that. I saw the words "Stephenville lights" a bit ago and it instantly reminded me of the brown mountain lights, that I had seen and forgot existed. Then the memories flooded and I remembered the field trip where I saw the lights and remembered the other times I had been there and seen them. I remember each kid sitting alone so they could have a window seat to see the lights. My husband pointed out that it must not have been many kids on the trip then. A field trip at night, where we just happened to get lucky and actually see the lights. What are the odds of that? I'm hoping someone else from the area will remember taking a night trip to see the lights because I'm having this weird feeling that I forgot all about the lights immediately after they happened and just now remembered. I feel anxious and sick. No other random memory has done this to me. It's not ball lightning. I remember the lights. I remember they are nothing like ball lightning. I once saw them on a trip with my mother before she died as well. I didn't see them with her. I was all alone. Why do I remember how alone I was? It was right before my mother died. I remember everything about that time. How could I forget this? I'm starting to question my sanity because as i type this I'm remembering other things I'm not even going to type because no one will take me seriously.

[@Mandrax1138]

It's strange that nobody mentions the historical records of the many people that have disappeared in the Brown Mountain area or the even stranger disappearances of search parties that were sent to find the missing people. I wonder if there is a connection between these strange lights and the disappearances.

[@cdaltonc76]

+Marc Nation These lights are real. My grandmother had a ball of lightning shoot through one window and out the other, breaking the glass out of both windows. She was born in 1914 and witnessed this as a teen so it was about 1930 and she remembers that after there was a rain storm.

[@PDZofficial]

Watch the film "Alien Abduction".

[@francescofazio3518]

Bullshit both things. There is nothing paranormal as it was explained several times by different researches the "mysterious" brown mountain lights are nothing but headlights of cars passing. It is the most idiotic dumb fake legend ever but yeah as Einstein said: "There are only two infinite things. The universe and the human stupidity and I am not sure about the first."

[@francescofazio3518]

Ahahaha YEAH RIGHT ahahahahahahha

[@jesus4602]

Francesco Fazio Good job shill, want a sticker?

[@hannibalbarca2792]

Some mysterious lights(like a fireball) used to roam in the mountains in our village in LADAKH. I have seen them myself many times when I was a kid(1995_2000). those areas were up in the mountains and not accessible to vehicles. It may have been some people wandering in the mountains but on a freezing winter night when temp drops below 25' C who the hell would be crazy enough to traverse through the snow up in the mountains without any purpose. Further those lights used to move at a constant speed (not possible for a human walking on foot through a rough terrain) and at some point It would split in two and proceed in different directions. I have not seen them for the past 10-15 years and i am curious what they were.

[@cyberspice4401]

Chitamani

[@dhutch12345]

@@cyberspice4401 what is chitamani

[@cyberspice4401]

@@dhutch12345 Tibetan name of this element,exsualy it is 5th element in esoteric www.williamhenry.net/2017/04/there-is-a-light-being-within/

[@SAGE_Dust]

@@dhutch12345 I'd like to know too ? 🤔

[@anthonylovavto3228]

I am from New Mexico living in Albuquerqe. Back in 1984-85? I saw a light similar to the Brown Mountain light at sunset over the west Mesa of Albuquerque, thinking it was an airline coming in for a landing at the airport. However, after several minutes, I noticed the light was still there. Then I saw the light go out as an airliner was approaching to land. Short time later the light came back on over the it's original position; A friend and I watched it for nearly half hour and would intermittently dim and come back to full brightness as aircraft would come in to land. It is still a mystery that has baffled me, even as the sun had set!

[@joythompson610]

Thanks for such a beautiful depiction, and excellent commentary of the mysterious light's on the Brown Mountain! What a awesome sight, and gorgeous place to share with others! I enjoyed the variety of explanations given in reference to this unexplainable occurrence that's been happening for many years! So glad I tuned in tonight to this channel!☺☕🍰

[@thesputtus]

This is an excellent, informative report on the Brown Mountain Lights. I wish I had known about them when I lived in NC.

[@kellyoxo2818]

I read that when Nancy Ward Cherokee and beloved woman died, a light came out of her body and took the shape of a swan and flew to the heavens. I don't know if its accurate, but that's what I read. The Eastern Band of Cherokee have a star on their flag, their legend is that they came from the stars. Technically we did, bacteria on meteorites.

[@joelalex8087]

There is a great chapter on the lights in Mountain Ghost Stories: and Curious Tales of Western NC by Randy Russell and Janet Barnett.

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

Do they have video of there stories on you tube ?

[@appalachianamerican6737]

The lights are real. I have saw them on two occasions. Once in the distance and once less than 50 yards away.I went to investigate but there is no way that a human could have been standing in the location that I Saw the light. I don't know what caused the lights but I can tell you right now that it is not human or anything that we will understand anytime soon or ever.

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

I live in the foothills of these mountain’s. ✌🏼. I seen some come out in pictures I’ve taken. Best time to see them is in October & November I’m pretty sure .

[@Mandrax1138]

Everybody should watch all of David Paulides' fascinating videos on KZbin. If you like mysteries you will love his videos and books.

[@garylefevers]

Agreed. My wife and I have been hooked for years. Planning on buying some of the books someday soon.

[@ashleyhaskett8710]

I live in the area and have seen them twice in my life. A few years ago I was photographing the super moon and noticed the lights. I was lucky enough to capture a few on camera.

[@LifeInTheCarolinas]

That's incredible Ashley. It’s one thing to see them and another to capture the image. Congratulations!

[@cdaltonc76]

These lights are real. My grandmother had a ball of lightning shoot through one window and out the other, breaking the glass out of both windows. She was born in 1914 and witnessed this as a teen so it was about 1930 and she remembers that after there was a rain storm.

[@JensenSarpy]

Excellent video/representation of this phenomenon!!

[@jbaez4368]

I'm 24 yrs old born and raised in Jersey City NJ 5 mins away from NYC.. when I was 13 yrs old I moved with my family to Salisbury North Carolina about 45 mins from Charlotte and growing up I saw so many UFO's ! I've even caught the USSS through my telescope. Moved back up north.. but when I was 21 I moved back down but to Valdese/Morganton NC and saw so many lights which I'm not that far from brown mountain and Boone but it was amazing view and a phenomenon. Miss living down south !

[@cathyhuffman3359]

Come on back down!!!

[@bikini3501]

My aunt when they would walk in the night had a light come near them my aunt said she stepped in it she could see her buckle of her shoe and it disappeared. They often said they would watch the lights dance around the mountain sides several at a time.

[@theldawood80]

Cherokee tale is its maidens looking for their men after a great war. I will be 60 in Dec and saw them.in the 60's as a child.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

This is a very informative video. I think that ball lightning or something like that is the most reasonable explanation.

[@michaelmclaren1333]

I always love these old ghost stories but as a skeptic with technology getting better every day, we still have ghost stories, alien stories etc but not ONE damn photo or video in HD. NOT ONE.

[@armyretired28]

I live near there and have seen them many times. Most start low and travel up over the mountain.

[@phatmanxxxl]

I make a Brown Mountain every morning after my coffee.

[@ujeffDavis]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 me too

[@Angelnder-Typ]

but do you light it?

[@janet982]

LOL, phatman. Not quiiiiiite the same. These are real. I used to live there and I’ve seen them.

[@milevenvibes4773]

I've lived right by the brown mountains for years, and I've seen barley any lights above the mountains the last sighting was 2014...

[@orange70383]

I've seen rainbow ball lightning, a gold ball surrounded by a multi-layered sheen of translucent neon rainbow colors. The whole ball was basketball sized and from first spotting it was 35' up and it took 5-seconds to contact the ground as it fell in a slow arc. The ball was trailing a shower of sparks that fell straight to the ground as the ball was gently falling. I was no more than 75-feet away from the ball. It happened at 10:30pm as I was letting my dog out the back door. From my backdoor there is no-one, no buildings, no trees just a flat open field and it was a well moon-lit night so I could easily see that no-one was around. The ball fell silently and completely disappeared when it contacted the ground. I went to the spot were it landed in the grass and found no sign of any burn or anything out of the ordinary. This happened 15-years ago.

[@Lee_B_Futures]

Put up a realtime livestream already!!

[@mjparadero7046]

Do they even have internet or phone service there?

[@cathyhuffman3359]

@@mjparadero7046 This is deep in the mountains. No homes just valleys and mountains. People have disappeared in this area as well.

[@winson5159]

They did in Hessdalen Norway. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnjYkI1mi9d8iZo

[@jillthompson5862]

These lights are real. I have seen them.

[@Amatullah.574]

@@cathyhuffman3359 No actually there are homes on the way there. Was just there yesterday lots of homes along the way up.

[@mairi2w2]

I think maybe it's a natural phenomenon from the minerals in the area. Some crystals and stones can cause light when rubbed together. Or maybe charged particles in the atmosphere caused by something similar.

[@dutton1991z]

Wooooooah 😳😳 ...i hace been going to the mountains of good ole N.C for yearssssss ....and never knew about this. I am super massively mind blown !!!!!! Super good video !! Im now subscribed to your channel !!! I live in South Carolina and havrALWAYS loved going to the mts up there !!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍 👽👽👽👽👽 💯💯

[@jodylowe8476]

Ive seen the lights a couple times from the Hwy 181 overlook pulloff. LIghts sort of bob around on the mountain, up and down, sort of shimmering. I hear it is better in the fall but not sure about that.

[@joseywells264]

its not ball lightning I saw ball lightning when I was 15 . I was with my sister and brotherenlaw we wer siten at a 4 lane intersection when lightning hit the road on the right and roled and roled in front of us to the left and went down a manhole it was about 3 ft. across and all sparkes like a plasma light or ball .never forget 45 years ago.

[@timmarzac544]

Hi guys. I`m surfing the web trying to find similarities on what I see on my property in NC. Looking for rational explanations. I`ve bought some real estates in SW of NC, the G. Smoky Mountains in the last 10 years, as vacation retreat and future retirement place. This covid thing made me stay in NC most of this year so it happened I (and other members of my family) saw more frequently the hard to explain phenomenon. During the years, on sporadic times we've been to stay at the house, we could see sometimes, in late evening, lights hoovering 3 - 4 ft. from the ground, moving slowly between the big pines not far from us (max. 50yds. and one time not even 10yds.), not a drone, not a laser beam, not a light from cars because there's nothing behind the house other the steep wooded mountain side, no other house around, no reflecting materials in the woods (I've checked most of the explanations I could think). The light is most of the time orange and the shape, I say as a water droplet and my other family members range in description from diamond shape to spherical and also the color for some of their encounters was red, the size 10" to 12". We've learned to stay and watch it moving and slowly dissipating, it doesn't take more than 15 sec. Last time appeared two nights ago. Isn't a horror story, I don't try to spook anyone even there ware two different situations which can be characterized as not easy explicable, but I don't want to sound as a crazy lunatic so I leave those aside. If other people have a good explanation or had seen something similar please let me know. Thank you!

[@youngmarley4629]

I own a house in NC on several acres. Infront of my house is peanut and cotton field about 10 acres big. I was sitting in my truck one night smoking and looking at the beautiful sky when i see what i thought was a low flying helicopter about 10 stories high hovering over the field. It moved slow and when i noticed i couldnt hear propellers or anything at that i stepped out my truck and watched this ball of light cross and literally dissipate into nothing....still messes with me til this day

[@04granada]

My family and I live about 2 hours southwest of asheville and we've seen them too, it was probably 10 years ago and I'll never forget it. At the time I lived with my parents and the house was on the end of a pretty tall ridge with christmas tree fields down below it on the side of the ridge and in the valley below. A creek runs through this valley with the Christmas tree field on our side of the creek and a strawberry field on my grandma's side. My family and i were all watching tv in the living room around 10:30pm, and for some reason my dad decided to look out the window and when he did he saw a pale red almost orange light that was hovering about 10 feet or so off the ground in the woods line that separates the tree fields in the creek bottom at 400 yards. He called us over and we watched it out the window for id say around a minute and it never moved. At that time we thought it may have been somebody trespassing so we called her on the house phone(you know we're in the mountains because we didn't have cell service where we lived lol) and she saw it to. It then dissappeared for a few seconds so we decided to walk out onto our front porch to see and watched for a minute or two without seeing the light. Then instantly it reappeared in the edge of the strawberry field across the creek infront of my grandmas house looking like it almost rose up out the ground. Anyways, this ball of light or whatever it was started moving off to the left as my dad, mom, and i were watching it from the porch. At first it was moving at what I would guess to be 5-10 mph, after moving at this speed maybe 10 seconds it changed directions and instantly accelerated to 80mph (just my guess from watching it from 400 to 500 yards away) and shot through the treeline into the chrismas tree field below our house. Without ever slowing down, it entered the woods and climbed straight up the side of the mountain behind the house. That was the only time we've ver seen anything like that and it was some freaky shit, nothing natural could've moved the way it moved through the woods and across rough terrain at that speed like it did.

[@RealEyesRealizeRealLies.]

If your Interested In stories like these then look up the Dennis Martin case that happened In the Smokey Mtns In NC. Its crazy what we think we know about the world we live In...

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

I used to live on Old Indian burial ground in Hinkley California, in the Mojave Desert. It's on the edge of civilization. There is a invisible creature that lives there. I've seen it in a Mist shape one time moving through the house (when I live there). This thing likes to come out mostly at night time. It will stomp and bang on the ceilings. There will be dust flying, the ceilings bowing down, lights flickering off and on & such a loud noise from the banging, it will shake fear into you! As loud as a 12 gauge shotgun! There have been dish rags and knives chase people. the rag wrap around their throat, couches come up off the ground while I was sitting on it with 3 other people. The couch jumped off of the floor when the fourth person got up to walk away, the couch pinned them to the floor. 3 grown man could not lift the couch off my cousin. She was there for over 5 minutes. Now of course I don't expect any scientists to believe me! So please, I challenge any scientist, ANYWHERE! go and document what goes on there. When we lived there between 1976 and 1981, my mother was going to the local community college in Barstow California. Her and her professor at the time, after months of research, came to the conclusion that this property is built over old ancient burial ground. There are old ancient Indian pictographs in the nearby mountains. They are protected by the federal government . There is also a military base not too far from there. ( China Lake US Naval test weapon base). It had a lot of Indian history in that area but, because it is now a military base, no one is allowed there. I have wrote a letter to a KZbin channel called "Strange but true stories " they made a 10 minute video reading my short story. Please feel free to watch it. I will post it at the end of this message. Please, someone from the scientific Community or a group from the scientific Community needs to document the activity of this location! Thank you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnjRoXZuZs2knZo

[@lisad6106]

Both my daughters would talk about balls of light that would come in their bedrooms in the middle of the night. When I mentioned it to my friend she asked her daughter and she talked about them I a much similar story as the one I got from my daughters. They are all grown women now and doing fine. I think if you want to experience anything magical you have believe we are magical beings ourselves and we have to be able to curiously wonder for the mere sake of the experience. And as always, it's just human nature to see what you are looking for. We will be there in August curiously wondering.

[@JensenSarpy]

We aren't magical beings. We're spiritual beings.

[@HieiLover0745]

O_O well ever since I learned about these Brown Mountain Lights and watched a movie based on it called Alien Abduction, (which was filmed in 2014) you can count me out! I ain't gonna go there. I'll stay more close to the boarder between North Carolina and Georgia, around the Blue Ridge Mountain range lol

[@cdaltonc76]

+Amber Wakefield These lights are real. My grandmother had a ball of lightning shoot through one window and out the other, breaking the glass out of both windows. She was born in 1914 and witnessed this as a teen so it was about 1930 and she remembers that after there was a rain storm. She was born in Pickens County and grew up in the mountains, so did my grandpa.

[@blackquiver]

I just finished watching that movie..not bad..think it could have been better..but not bad..

[@francescofazio3518]

It is bullshit Amber. Come on.

[@jesus4602]

Amber Wakefield South Carolina and Georgia?!

[@dannyboi2111]

Amber Wakefield not even Wisemans view?

[@keillormose5568]

I've seen them from the hills near Lake Lure myself and three others were with me and I was a meteorologist and was baffled. lit up the entire area. I was near the top of the mountain, and facing the peak, late at night, Nov. 2018. I was shocked and stood up from my chair. I was snowed in in a blizzard for 3 days with no power in the entire county. There was not an artificial light source within 10 miles. I remember saying immediately, "thats the only thing I've ever seen that I could never explain."

[@cyl742]

The indecipherable word in the opening song is "catamount".

[@melindahaigh1730]

I live an hour from the Brown Mtns. I have heard people disappear when they go into the mountains.

[@musicNmyhead2day]

Yes, people do disappear up here. They will often visit here several times over the course of years or possibly go to school in the area, then they fall in love with the place, build homes and vanish up here.

[@musicNmyhead2day]

I was just joking, but after researching this, You are right... even search parties have vanished. Spooky. I live right oft the Blue Ridge parkwary too, I see a lot of weird things passing by the overlooks on my way home.

[@melindahaigh1730]

I live in Asheville and want to go up to the Brown Mts. I am disabled with back/mobility troubles so I don't think I'll walk too far. I don't see that much but then I am not out at night much. I wonder if the earth is causing some of this but not at Brown Mts. In Japan there were lights before an earthquake and we have faults around here.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

yes i disappeared once it's called a vacation

[@dannyboi2111]

Melinda Haigh there's only one Brown mountain in North Carolina

[@wherearewewherearewe]

I’d really love to see someone try to recreate the lights using piezoelectric crystals and decaying rock from the area the one gentleman was talking about. It actually seems very plausible. If the theory holds water, then it should be fairly easy test.

[@thefixer2954]

Encountered it this weekend while camping down in the gorge. Was laying in my hammock looking up at the canopy when I saw a light move in an intelligent pattern that at first I thought was a lightening bug. Also saw a flash in the sky but it wasn't accompanied by any sound and there were no more flashes that night. This was the same night of the earthquake in Sparta, not sure if the two are related but that would be wild. The next morning I asked the two I was camping with if they saw anything strange last night (I limited any detail to rule out a mob think) and my girlfriend described verbatim what I saw as she too was in a hammock with no rain fly. Strange stuff indeed.

[@derekc4355]

Me and my wife was there that night camping on craigs creek rd. We also seen what i thought was heat lighting. Then later after that we was looking up seen a bright light like a plane but moved oddly enough for both of us to talk about it.

[@derekc4355]

We also didn't feel the earthquake. That morning

[@Stacydean666]

Was it a red light I saw a bunch of round red balls flying at fast speeds weird manuevers and I mean crazy weird at one point some would turn a light orange and instantly back to its dark bright red when it did manuevers again these speeds are so fast if a human was going and performing any of them manuevers theyd be dead this was in iowa 2012 never saw them again just slightly different things I noticed afterwards but wont go into right now. All I'm saying is if it's not our technology I sure hope whatever it is that they are friendly.

[@prince-solomon]

"intelligent pattern" ... which is? it's like saying, it moved in a curious way.... which too can mean absolutely anything

[@banjoist123]

The undecipherable animal named up front is the catamount, a sort of cougar native to the area.

[@JensenSarpy]

Short for "cat of the mountain". Basically a mountain lion. Beautiful song!

[@michaelsbeachmom]

Where I was raised in Spruce Pine, NC OUR HOME ON ALTAPASS WAS 1 MILE - 2 MILES FROM OUR HOME. WE USED TO GO ALL THE TIME. I'D LOVE TO GO BACK & SEE THE BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS ONE MORE TIME IN MY LIFE. IT'S SOMETHING TO SEE & WE ALL ROASTED MARSHMELLOWS OVER THE FIRE'S WE HAD SUCH FUN!😊 I GUESS THOSE DAY'S ARE OVER THOUGH.

[@GADNEWTRON]

Not UFO’s but UAP’s a type of Ball Lightning! I have seen the same phenomenon in the Galithia mountains in north Spain! A large very bright ball of light, flew above the Family house in a village called Grixo, by Viva la de! The object in the distance at first we thought it was a passenger jets headlight, but the sky wall cloudless! The object split into two one much larger than the other, the large one shot at an angle at great speed, the smaller on zig, zagged towards the ground and disappeared some 30ft above the ground!

[@AlisonBryen]

Years ago, my grandad saw ball lightning in the factory he worked at. It entered through the doors, floated around the factory for a while before exploding in mid air.

[@GADNEWTRON]

Alison, thank you for replying! Your Grandad was fortunate to witness an event of ball lightning!

[@ZombieKnight-mn4jd]

North Carolina my home I sure miss it😊

[@kippercat123]

You can go to my gallery and read an old book of the lights. If the text is too small for you, make sure your reading it in the ORIGINAL size. You can download each page and enlarge it with your own software... www.pbase.com/kippercat/brown_mountain_lights

[@shereehardin5783]

funny how people forgot what will o the wisp is.

[@Oerbyss022]

I saw these aliens when i went camping in the brown mountains. There were a few of them, then they stopped and scanned the gorge with a sort of beam. Then they focused on my family and I, and they started to strobe at us as if they were trying to communicate. We flashed flashlights back at them and they continued to flash at us. But, right after we took out a phone to try and record it they disappeared, and that was the end of it. This happened in the summer of 2014. This lasted for a good 15 minutes. They were also zipping above the trees and along the sides of mountain cliffs.

[@melindahaigh1730]

Were you a little uptight over this?

[@rogernorton5504]

camera at brow mountkan .c

[@francescofazio3518]

ahahahahahaha

[@jac9963]

@@melindahaigh1730 Some people simply do not become very afraid at all upon encountering paranormal phenomena.

[@cathyhuffman3359]

@@jac9963 My daughter took me to Ireland. This was after a haunting weekend in Blowing Rock at the old Green Park Inn. I didn't really take it serious at the time. But later when I met up with folks that were also there and took pictures I took it more seriously. Back to Ireland, the tour group was taken to an old prison. The guide told awful stories how the English were so cruel and even put children in prison. I took photos here and figured there should be orbs of people that died in awful ways here. Sure enough, I had lots of orbs in my photos and one photo actually had a face outlined in it. I need to find what I did with my pictures and when I find them, I will try to post them.

[@sandykhusted]

Love the Steve Goodman at the end, GOOD JOB

[@jondoes8222]

They need to put manned stations up there where they can see close.

[@SpookyAppalachia]

Spooky stuff! I'm looking into this for a future entry on my blog.

[@jillthompson5862]

These lights are real. I have seen them.

[@IFilmUfos]

Look at my channel I film them when out night fishing

[@甜金]

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE INFO ITS JUST SOOOO BEAUTIFUL

[@cryptrider1]

I am extremely disappointed that this episode left out the wonderful song 'Brown Mountain Lights' sung by Tommy Faile.

[@wyattjames8]

If you look closely you can see me on trail 1A about 3-4 times a year. This is an ORV park and yes we ride at night

[@noah45crisco]

How do you explain the balls of lights with tails and them shooting straight up in the sky and then there gone

[@RazZelDaZzel16]

That haircut though:D

[@armyretired28]

Looney toon ...lefty. lol

[@brenda8837]

There's a difference between ball lightening and orbs of lights that can move at mind blowing speeds and have purposeful directions and turn on a dime. You can't call all unexplained lights "ball lightening". Why can't scientist just say, "We don't have a clue what it is"?

[@cathyhuffman3359]

The professors and scientist I have heard speak of the lights, most say they have no clue what causes them. One of my son's favorite professor was on TV and said he had seen the lights many times and he has no idea what causes the lights.

[@metrocard09]

Where can I watch this movie? Can’t find it anywhere

[@svarogeuropeidentity4355]

Same in Hessdalen Norway

[@stevendeatley4878]

my Dad took me up there one night and I saw them that was back in the 1970's

[@erinbenfield5515]

I really tried to take that man with the hat seriously...

[@FeelsFlows]

Omg Lmao!

[@SuperBoomshack]

It's the flames from people making moonshine in the hills

[@mmarnp1]

Help me out here: The Elephant in the Room is that there aren't people all over that area investigating the phenomena. I have a very open mind but this is such an obvious thing to do, that hasn't been done, that it makes me doubt the veracity the whole thing. Sorry about the grammar.

[@cathyhuffman3359]

We have had professors and researchers study the Brown Mountain Lights.

[@portugal5698]

See these in Northern Portugal every summer. Rumor has it that it’s sign of ancestors roaming.

[@aidanbarnes4290]

very mysterious indeed

[@user-en2fo1sw8f]

I was in the midst of the BML , 2010 Abe Nail's Acer's in the Upton Rd area of Caldwell Co

[@summersglittergirlvlogs9673]

These mountains are behind my house

[@egyptj8476]

And you're still there ...wow at least you didn't disappear

[@ghostfacechilla1027]

I wonder if anyone has tried to camp right up under where this is happening?? camp one night, watch where you can see the lights, move your camp closer. watch again and repeat, Maybe they are a new species of animal like a fire fly.

[@mickyr171]

The only thing thats strange is that all these witnesses taking expensive cameras to observe cant seem to figure out how to use video cameras :p

[@BrianKnightSpringtimeHomes]

Let's see your example of good videos in darkness. Videos have high frame rates that require bright light to expose the sensor. The lights are typically seen at distances too far for good exposure.

[@BANTEI14]

me n my friends saw the same thing,its hovers 15ft above is in a dense jungle its size was 5time the size of a basketball its like a flame and it just disappears into thin air before our eyes and till now we were curious what is it,please shed some light on what they are....according to locals here they said they are spirits of the forest n usually harmless n they have been there for thousands of years and most of them are gone due to human settlement.... P.S I have seen it with my own eyes just 15foot above me,n i can surely tell you all its not GAS NOR E.T Coz it just disappear when we shouted due to frustration.

[@tammyleederwhitaker7697]

I felt things there.

[@gofetch9377]

its my cherokee nation

[@dannyboi2111]

Go FeTcH no it's the Tar heel nation

[@theldawood80]

Story is its Cherokee maidens looking for their men who fought in a battle.

[@scijak]

Sorry, due to total loss of composure with the giggles, forgot to film it.. Will revisit soon however..

[@kareng3847]

I have a theory from seeing it has a child over many years. Would love for one of the gentlemen in this video to contact me.

[@cathyhuffman3359]

My late husband was from Blowing Rock, and he saw the lights all the time. Of course being a mountain man, he could tell a good tell, but since I lived up there and where we met, there are a lot of mysteries in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hauntingly beautiful.

[@thesilentgeneration]

Luminous minerals in the ground when struck with light from stars, moon, etc?

[@franksigwart9777]

So the electric storm from the west can not a head light effect explain the sky phenomenon

[@regularjohn09]

Dam this has the bedtime stories theme.time to mix it up bedtime stories

[@highrevryan2288]

The guy was singing this at woodlands so I came to read it

[@brandonphillips5169]

damn good bbq...

[@bumpriderolling9158]

We have one light that appears down a railroad track in Gurdon, Arkansas. It is only one, but it has been documented since the 1800s. They believe it is gas.

[@noahchris7023]

Bumpride rolling I'm from Fayetteville, NC. We have the same thing here

[@Marsbonfire007]

Bumpride rolling Like the gas in El Paso. El Paso gas😁.

[@dannyboi2111]

Bumpride rolling that's like the maco light legend says a conductor lost his head in a crash and now searches the tracks. But now the tracks and the light are gone. But this was in Maco North Carolina near Wilmington NC.

[@cathyhuffman3359]

@@dannyboi2111 Oh No. The tracks are gone?

[@yeetthatskeet9055]

Begining xfiles music? or music type

[@rockosmg]

Old story to cover up moonshine

[@alanharris8282]

The big sweeping line of smoke and I hook formation looks like a Sky writer otherwise known as a smoke plane has dumped all of his load at one time in a banked sweep and the reflection from the city lights below create an eerie effect. Change to me somebody paid somebody to create a little controversy?

[@GamersExcellence]

I witnessed lights in the sky that looks like the ones in this video. I have a KZbin video called Scary Strange Lights In The Sky Over Waynesvile North Carolina. They look to me orange balls of lights.

[@Nebraska214]

Ing Germany in Bavaria there are the same things happen...

[@svarogeuropeidentity4355]

Wo in Bayern? Gibt es eine doku oder video beweise über diese lichter?

[@sarahboggs6298]

Somebody wanna tell me why no one has put a drone up to look at these bad boys?

[@01Lenda]

Marfa Lights, Marfa, Tx.

[@joschpz4715]

In Latino America when u see this kind of lights or hear about them the first thing u think is Witches.

[@richkeeshan9757]

La Llorona

[@jac9963]

Yeah...I would also be a bit worried about a friend's mental health if he was up there in the daytime, and he was sitting there in the dark, to be sure....(16:01)

[@tinastewart2225]

Has anyone thought of taken a flear camra there. You now a camra that detects heat

[@garyharris3159]

I'm A witness To These Lights

[@Johnnyeatsitall]

We have reason to belive it is that of a prehistoric bird also known as a pterodactyl, we believe the ball of lights is a mechanism it uses to catch it's rather curious prey. Soon I will find out if what I saw was real or just my imagination but I will find out.

[@jackiehendricks7764]

What is address to get there

[@Jo-qu4qn]

I seen one light rise over the mountain then turned into 3 lights colored stayed there for few seconds then turned into one light again.then went back down top mountain will never forget Hurd posible UFO bace