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S. L. Linton's avatar

We have a similar story in South Carolina. My mother told me about the Summerville Light. I don't know if the phenomenon is still occurring but I think it first appeared in the 50s and 60s. According to my mother's story, a railway worker on a train leaned out to catch the mail bag as they were going through Summerville, but the hook from which the bag hung caught him around the neck, decapitating him. And, of course, they never found his head. The light is either the worker looking for his head or the worker's wife doing the looking. Supposedly, some drunk sailors once mocked the light and it responded by setting their car on fire, burning them all to death.

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Shey's avatar

“You do NOT want to say the words gas furnace and fireball in the same sentence. Especially when talking about the house you just bought.” Indeed. Priceless, or rather …really fucking expensive.

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