Mystery Hunting: Did You See That?!
It's not your eyes playing tricks in the dark.
WHAT ARE WE DISCOVERING THIS MONTH?
Did you start reading yet?
Forgive me, but I lost some time and not in a fun time slip way.
Are the Paulding Lights real?
First, I’d be failing as an author of books if I didn’t remind you to go buy A Quick Test before the price jumps to $1.99 on Monday. Do you want me to fail? No. I didn’t think so.
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This isn’t the post you are expecting. I know and I’m sorry. I honestly can’t recall if I told you, but hubby and I bought a house at the end of February. Since then, I have been extremely busy with that and all unexpected issues that have cropped up.
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.
I am speaking from experience.
Luckily the other issues I’ve been dealing with don’t threaten to make our house go boom, but I also haven’t had the time to research the Ghost in the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. 😭
I do have this post about the Paulding Lights phenomenon, so we can go on a quick mystery hunt in between my house shenanigans. (If only I could tell you those involve discovering there is a ghost in the basement, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.) Hopefully, in May we can go find the ghost lurking at the telephone company in Grand Rapids.
A STRANGE PHENOMENON
Along a plain stretch of US 45 in Upper Michigan near Paulding, a strange phenomenon occurs. Lights that seem to have no origin or earthly explanation. They were first reported in 1966 by teenagers. Since then, scores of people have gathered there to see the lights for themselves.
A handful of legends have popped up to explain the lights. They usually involve a man with a lantern who is hit by a train. Some say he is a worker who was trying to stop a crash. Others say he is a father or grandfather looking for his little child. But those are just legends we have little to no proof for.
WHAT ARE THE LIGHTS?
Naysayers claim it’s just car lights and students from a nearby college ran tests that they claim debunk the lights. Then there are the groups who run similar tests and can’t debunk anything. Who is telling the truth? Maybe both are. Some lights may be cars and others a mystery. Whatever the truth, if you find yourself in Paulding, MI one night, be sure to keep your eyes open and follow the light.
ARE THE PAULDING LIGHTS SUPERNATURAL?
What do you think the Paulding Lights are? Have you ever seen unexplainable lights? Do you think there are normal reasons for these lights that we just haven’t uncovered?
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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.
“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.