For centuries people in countries across the planet have reported seeing mysterious, glowing lights that appear to move of their own volition through the darkness. Whether you call them Ghost Lights, Spook Lights, Will o' the Wisps or any other number of names, chances are there's a local version of this legend somewhere in your region. So what exactly are these things?
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Hello will come back to the show. My name is met. My name is no spooky brown. They call me dead and various other things. You are you that makes this stuff. They don't want you to know a relatively spooky episode forest today, yeah, I'm not sure if unjust getting old and like sentimental or something- but I was riding around yesterday, listening to thriller really loud in my car, and it made me cry how good that song is like how perfectly able done that song is an out like you'd, think it couldn't get me better. You think he couldn't get you better than Vincent Price, but fun fact. I use
no, the choreography of the thriller.
Yeah this I mean that my experience is separated from the video, the video as all another layer of like shocking
Amazon, piece of peace of our right there. Yes,
We we are doing what we are delving into. One topic that is particularly speed.
So spooky, in fact, that they use the word,
book in the name is correct.
It was. We were heaped to the attention of this topic by a listener,
Megan who wrote to us, she says
Hey guys, assorted your progress couple weeks ago, and I am greatly enjoying it. It's been agree way to help me get through the work day, though my co workers might be getting a little annoyed with me randomly laughing or bringing up odd conversations. We understand that he had lately make the laughing part. You know maybe the odd conversations for sure
She says, I'm not sure. If you ever heard of the Joplin Spook Light but
thought it might be something that you'd have an interest in
fascinated by it. Since I was a little when I always liked the various theories that I hear get
I thank you for writing in making our first
inside. I don't know about you guys, but my first response when I read the phrase Joplin Spook Light, was what a great ban name.
Her wake. I would go. I will go see them only. They can get Janis the front over
that sailed
Well I mean you know you could do stuff a hologram server or ghost, maybe never holograms
for not never. Holograms are right, we'll see freaks me out. We
the old pensioner, him back out, see what we can
you're conjure. The Janis are equal. So
think we were. We ve just started a ban guessing before we before we get to our album, which is pretty clearly gonna, be a concept album right. Ok,
as long as we're all on board, oh- and we need to introduce- are super producer, Alex Williams on the ones twos and threes. He pointed out, Scott Joplin could be
yeah that'd be a different kind of banned, but I like it when we could make it like space jazz. What about the two of them? Just the two Joplin thou it,
Cancel each other out, devil job of like dark matter, big explosion.
I mean very dangerous. There is sort of crossing the proton beams. Ghostbusters
going on with that, you have a maybe you'd. That's. Why would be incredible?
ass. They will foot. I will put a will, put a pin on this and we want to hear your opinions to what sort of banned Joplin Spook light would be. It turns out that the Joplin spook lay in addition to being a fantasy.
Bad name is a
phenomenon. That is widespread.
Relatively well known in the Joplin area. This
is a phenomenon that is widespread, relatively well known in the Joplin area,
Have we not maiden
on this, we haven't right
Because, as we know have been through the other women, the feed they damage- and I it's it's ok, oh, I think we're good. I think we're good. We ve talked about ghosts, a lot, and I think this is come up, come up in the periphery before sure, but we ve never actually delved into. I will say frat for a fact stuff to blow your mind our sister broadcast when he caught compatriots, which he wished.
Reply cast stuff to blow your mind are peer pop part, Pip, that's hard to say
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will the website? I checking that one out nitrogen too, which are about to hear hear fantastic,
yeah, and you can also, if you are a stuffed, the blue remind fan, you can catch
blow those guys on appearances on this very issue. Last week in particular on the by
Camera mind was one of my fate.
Discussions, we leave had a minute really fun so
you check that out, but first
this episode, we're going to examine spook lights were willed wisp in general, the one in Joplin
tickler and see whether we can determine some sort of common cause or best guess right. Then we are going to delve into some folk lore end. I hope
little bit sciences well yeah Joplin, and this is in Missouri right. Yeah
that is in it is near
it is near. Joplin is not actually in Joplin Missouri that, like the closest town, tat kind of how my kind of the way that people in the EU,
tend to just described themselves as being from the closest big town in their area. Exactly so wait what
is a spook like youth
heard, the turnover will o the wisp. Definitely it's one.
Common names were a thing holding atmospheric ghost light, and these have been
documented numerous times and Folklore Willoughby.
Is still probably the most common term. It comes from a wisp which meant a bundle of sticks were paper sometimes used as a torch and
The name will meaning will of the torch
Jack O Lantern Jack, o Lantern has a similar meaning. There also called goes
you'll hear, folklore call them orbs paranormal enthusiast have names for them as well. My favorite, though, is ghost candles ghost
handles about deadlights like linking it.
Related now diving
small red balloons, but not sure we'll deadlines are, and other worldly
the fascination of the macro verse in which the Euro, which is everything that exist outside of reality, as we understand it in the Stephen King universe? Oh my gosh, I am making this a different show, but yes, spooky light
singing allegedly wondering graveyards, they're called ghost candles, but their across the planet. This
phenomenon,
known and the name might change to pay on the location or the culture that user them.
Didn't so they might be called a navy or heat dogma in Japan
were the men men like in Australia, AIR Amendment light.
He's a man like
like. How can you do that impression? You didn't like clinch your teeth. He I other yeah,
You might also hear people differentiate between types there,
that's largely based on what the light is doing, how its changing or moving the shape. Essentially
so to people who believe there's some kind of Superman
troll, reason behind or occurrence, behind these days,
We thought to move in ways that would be naturally
hurrying to have some animal or something that has a will something that can choose to move in a way something that's century at Re Jill. Maybe there would be
for instance, a legend about a jilted lover who was murdered,
Spook, light traces, the path of their did their dying steps or its searching for something towards a malicious spirit which is trying to lure you further and further into the ball gas. Someone got killed on a road at a certain place and then all the way down. On the other side of the road miles away, you can still see, like the Spirit of the person just going on their path down a road as they died
and this I know this sounds like a wet morbid really quickly, but these are no slight, yet the ghost lights and these things have been around for a long long time and when
Metalogy rates were much higher distributed differently. It was my
a plausible to think. Well, people
die all the time and child birth or below the age of thirteen, so you would also here will of the West's being like parents. Mothers are kids,
and so you can, you then called wandering spirits or the work of Devils, Japan or fairy pranks in Europe
the japanese word is yoke. I re there's a cartoon called yoke. I why
should we heard of the area sort of like Pokemon, but they like live in a watchers? Maybe that's just a branding tion alone the yoke I n is also Attaka. She meagre fantasy film called like the great
hi war, which is all about like these kind of like grim Lenny like a Japanese,
tourism, like living in the underworld and kind of like a rollicking, Goonies style adventure who Maya, pretty sloppy horrid directors, also respond to see the men going to Frederick
and there also, these lights are also fear by some humans as a portent of death similar to,
stories about hearing banshee and ass. This the very
This would be entirely visual, like at all. You saw the flickering blue light means. Your time is now,
in other parts of the world. There are full beliefs that supernatural fires of some sort appear where treasure
is buried or hidden somewhere, o away from a regular view, but with this fire, maybe you can you can figure out where it is
with this. Sometimes the fires are said to be spirits of the treasure itself, or maybe even spirits of the people who buried the treasure or you know. Maybe spirits were searching for the treasure with like that. Can I, like
buried forgotten treasure. Is there always stood over sensitive? Like
ass, an ominous kind of dread surrounding it? Where, if mean under, they don't want you to find it the curse, treasure sure that shows up a latin folklore pretty often- and it's weird, because already just listing out some of the big folklore themes for ghost lights, we see,
contradictory explanations right in the cannon
you should you run away from this thing? Should you chase
four treasure. Does it
I mean you're going to die on yeah further
I swear. I guess
right now, there's no one explanation or wine.
And behind it, but they do have commonalities, that's correct wine is that all of the speakers
do seem to share this tendency to occur in humid conditions like said,
bog gas. Through the reason there is
provable atmospheric thing right,
The even more bizarre part may be that there are ubiquitous. They ve been reported
almost everywhere, we mention Australia and Japan. We mention the: U S right, Missouri specifically, but these lights
so been reported in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Bangladesh, Pakistan? The list goes on
Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay.
Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, Norway and many many more and we couldn't find any
ports of them occurring in Africa by or on the african continent? Rather. But if you have had personal experience with any of this in any
and of african country or a good story about a setting all we would actually like to hear from you add conspiracy. It has the forthcoming nice smooth sender system. So if these lighter
Widespread and are well known, and they ve been around for such a long time. Have we
species actually figured out. What go. Slights are
maybe
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Here's where it gets crazy. Nice cliffhanger, before the aftermath is only one of us having a word ethical, the created to get to them.
His report, let's look at some specific examples of these atmosphere, ghost
I will start with Megan suggestion the Joplin Missouri Spook lights. The spook lay occurs in,
we're homer and its near a small town residents. Please be forgiving,
pronunciation, Papa, Papa, Papa, copper
Papa a q, you a p w. However
because its most often seen from the east, it's been put attached to the tiny hamlet,
worn it Missouri and the larger area,
you're in a larger context, the better known, larger town,
yeah. Just for some simplicity. There is occurring in Oklahoma, but you're, mostly seeing it or where's, mostly reported from, is across the way in Missouri. Just did for an understanding
sat there for using family guy rules, the town and their show is called co hog, but Isabel Way Hog. Maybe it's cool,
oh yeah, that's nice guy also have entirely invented that pronunciation. I don't know
have a fairly we'll find out in the listener. Male air,
According to the legend, this report
interesting dates back while you're here people
say that this light was first seen by native Americans along the trail of tears in eighteen, thirty, six, so from a folklore perspective, its tied to that great tragedy
however, the first official new imprint report
heard in eighteen. Eighty one magazine called the Ozarks Spook light will not really a magazine printed pamphlet. It typically
apples EAST to West alone, no four miles stretch of road with a really cool name, then I suspect is not official. The devil's prominent
can you can do that and the australian voice, the devil,
it's ok! I have to get this.
A hundred Harry's promenaders such Devils the day
most prominent, see that now
I've never taken all about keeping,
that's fine promises such a? Where were those only one way to say it is like a sullen gentlemen,
levels problem aid,
probably lemonade, ass, the devil problem, nay, so
I think all of those pronunciations great bucket
according to the witnesses descriptions- and there are quite a few witnesses dislike
looks like a ball of orange colored fire
its size changes in it.
Was down the center of the road.
Speeds and then will also rise and hover over the tree tops before it retreat
and disappears, and retreating is,
Billy common thing with with the belief of ghosts, lights and others, a move from the side like side aside,
I got a lantern someone's, swaying a little bit as they're carrying it. You know some invisible being or spirit, perhaps
lights also been reportedly of hearing nightly for over a hundred years. So you know every
for a hundred years that sea
like there's something going on that's common enough,
occur every night and
to be visible? I don't know there were we're gonna get deeper into this, yet
and if you are listening to this- and you happen to be in the area of Joplin Missouri, you can head off
two hornet to check.
The light for yourself, the local say them.
Time to see it
later in the evening between ten and midnight, so don't shop at three p m and get disappointed. Please
so they're all these proposed explanations over the right one
would be natural gas. Another would be. The reflection
a car lights and billboards, which sounds super mundane, but could be an explanation for at least some of these are so
escaping natural gas. That's cool
in in marshy areas, but the
light is seemingly not affected by wind or rain. So how would it you? How would it sparked coward itself ignite
Donna recalling the horn. It right now
the horn light or is it the Joplin light?
those two towns have been in a bitter rivalry. They beefed up yet Phyllite naw naw man, it's a hornet life. It's nice Jacqueline
while Megan called it the Joplin spook lights. I think we know where she stands on this debate are, I think we should also be back and forth just to see who wins in it. Ok deal just to make things.
Fusing is by thinking here see. I will make sure that we are super unclear about, so
Who, who are, I guess, true believers? Maybe we call them?
we'll call them true believers, because they think that there is-
some other explanation. That is not wonder about this, causing this light. So these
leavers will tell you that the headline explanation or the billboard explanation I'm just easily dismissed, because
Light was seen years before automobiles or billboards were made and before road existed in the area,
but torches man torches were all over the place he had to have fire in light of universal.
That time telling you
Maybe there's something going on with light. There
again I feel like I'm jumping the gun here, but now jump at once. Ennobled we'll talk about it towards the end.
What're, we going you gonna teach the jump at you knock and we're gonna. Tell you gonna jump, there's some interesting things that occur in the horizon, with your eyeballs, a jump tease. Yes like the Aurora Borealis ends of either
not really ok, ok,
get into it. But one possible explanation that has been put forward is that the lights are somehow electrical.
Miss fear charges in
gets a little weird here, so in areas where rocks deep below the earth's surface are shift
in grinding together there
can be an electrical charge created depending
on what the make up of those rocks is cedar. Pc electric activity read that
It is so. This area lies on a fault line that runs east from new mattered. Missouri
swear to Oklahoma, and it was at the sight of for earthquakes during the eighteenth century. So
keep thy reminders activity going on beneath the surface. Ok in these types of electrical fields are most commonly assert associated with earthquakes are when you have an earthquake,
Have you gonna get one of these electrical fields above the surface of the ground? I have a completely unhelpful cyber. Ok,
the only reason that I know dealing reside pronounce that town
misery as New Madrid from the video it
heads because the will of a Wilkerson. Ah, where these notes I welcome its uncle to below the predecessor of worker,
they have their support.
It's. Where is section lyrics where they say
Rome II under New Madrid had no idea what they meant and for years
He was said me under the mattress while uncle to blows old darker than the are those jaunty cunt.
TWAIN rhythms would have you believe. Oh dear
some pathos in their my friend, do you remember when we made the video on the new mattered fault? Oh yeah, we called it the new measure at fault time, yeah, yeah, sorry had the internet take to that. People are very helpful shirt in pointing out things like that.
Matt did you role plus one on diplomacy.
That was a those youtube. Video you can check it out red.
It's on me. I miss pronounced the name of the town in catch it either so
We have another example, though,
increase our sample size a little bit over in Marfa Texas, there's something
hold the Marfa lights,
I saw the Marfa lights are near: U S reach sixty seven on Mitchell, Flat EAST in Marfa, Texas, in the United States, these United States and the first published account of this site.
Appeared in the July nineteen fifty seven issue of Coronet magazine
nineteen. Seventy six Elton MILES tale of the Big Bend included. Stew,
he's dating to the nineteenth century and a photograph of them.
Lights taken by a local rancher. According to
Cecilia Thompson's book history of Marfa and Presidio Canny, Texas, the earliest alleged report
from cowboy rubber Red Ellison. That is a good cowboy name that was in March of eighteen. Eighty three
Marfa lights have also been given an official viewing area. Naturally, Wolf.
A picture is being like almost like one of those like scenic overlooks. The blue mountains recently only creep here and there,
It is at the sight of Marfa Army airfield where there are tens of thousands of
personality station there between eighteen, forty, two and forty seven
retraining, training, american and allied pilots yet
and this is a very important detail so that the Marvel lights here in the? U S or one of the most well known examples of this phenomenon:
that means that these are probably the lights that are seen most often terrify the most people. I mean
after the viewing area itself speaks volumes. Blight hears
Here's a detailed, it's important, and maybe
rose, the paranormal allegations a little askew.
This massive field like nor said, and it has been used as an airport at Daily Airline service, which means there was a constant poetry.
Schedule flow of human beings going to that area right. So, if
were anything super duper unusual way.
You know something supernatural. This would be the place
would have been most likely to have been single, acknowledge
did you know if someone actually say found treasure or they followed the goose light
to a grave or something here will maybe it was covered up man or
There may be some other explanations in play:
now we're IX now we're
being folklore and science in opposite corners of the boxing ring,
that's always tough, because they're all these great stories that have no
explanations that are out there and that's why they're fun rare,
what what we're gonna try and do is find the space. Where do these things connect somehow
is there a little space in the middle, we'll find out after a word from our sponsors,.
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all right so ugly
explanations that have been proposed by various scientific mines? We have chosen the top contenders.
I want explore them a little bit. One is super fast needs, the ideal, bio luminescence, the belief, the concept
this that the light we see, the ghost lights, the spook lights- might be the result of insects, swarming that have taken on Bio, luminescence characteristics, maybe
They were contaminated by some agent in local fungus, local fun, fun
I love or
maybe there's a species avowal with their own, naturally occurring source via luminescence night. Darwin,
don't buy vile luminous. An owl well, owls are also the with some of the quietest. Birds.
In terms of the noise like when they fly yeah.
Oh I don't know if thou in measures
so, maybe ok, let's say way. What about what about just lightning bugs yeah
they'll fireflies right insects, jellyfish jellyfish, worry about wait, Rita.
You like airborne jellies yoga, so jellyfish that are just
floating. Yes, ok S, Magyar got any man understood all rights in case of dry guys case
No I'm figure that seen in their life aquatic we're
like they got middle name. The beaches covered in this by women as the jellyfish and someone asks him like. What's what's this?
of their glowing like it's, the moon referred
thing off of their skills
the one thing about the movie. I really thought was funny rested a kind of board me a little bit. I tried, I tried,
I tried to it and get into it. Jellyfish work that way
That's yes just so! Then. What
What's that
from family guy, get stuck in my head years ago, when they're trying to argue unpretentious terms about the godfather and a peer and
saying because it insists upon itself
it insists upon itself which sounds intelligent but makes no sense when you say that about a film that
mine. So whenever we're talking like, if we go see a film together
no losers, no one eye and our crew go out and watch films. We can fight time,
as regards, but if we ever walk out, you hear me say that I didn't like something cuz: it insists upon itself. It probably means I wasn't
attention- and I want to sound smart ice
expression means something was pretentious
thank you for giving a meaning to learn without it's me,
What started using people of insisting on themselves have? How would you do that?
walk up to them and they say it's me. There's me truly me outside
you mean. How would somebody insist. The vine themselves is kind of like insist that year important in this situation, I think, is what ok. I know me that's what it is we ve solved it slam you're fast down on the table. We ve
as well as solving the mystery of spook lights or have we
I came a subway because to date no one has captured or observed an animal that has all these characteristics that would make it
you're one of one comparison with a ghost light, and
There is also this point, no bio, luminescence source that we know of that's bright enough
it's overwhelmingly unlikely for these rights to be produced by animals correct, but why
if the earth is doing it itself, you guys yeah.
Member of the thing, a pc electric.
They ve been mentioned before, where the earth itself is
idiot, or perhaps even that fabled Marsh gas yeah.
Oh, ok, the idea is that the
tectonic stream, moving falls in the earth would also heat up the road
paper, rising any water content and
or soil containing something like courts or silly corner. Arsenic can also
use electricity that would be channeled up to the surface through the soil v,
the water as a medium and then somehow appearing as these light
this if it were a pediatric in origin, we also explain why the lights appear to be erratic or even intel.
And in their behaviour, because there's some kind of flow,
occurring there that may be as moving it in a way that you would think as you're watching it
there are choosing to do that. Yak as we like
anthropomorphized things right and ascribe agency to them, but
a marsh guess what about Mars gas?
this guy Alessandra Volta discovered methane in seventeen. Seventy six originally put forth this idea that these ghostly orbs of light were somehow tide
Two marsh gas? He believed that lightning mixed with
want gases and caused the ghost lights. His theory was,
the controversial the time
and initially was me now disregarded wholeheartedly due to two very important factors:
one is the unlike Linas of spontaneous combustion. Ok,
that's a good one. It is likely that super likely.
And two is the his failure to explain why
these phenomena appeared to retreat, went up
as if they knew something was colors. If tobacco
into the void
like a swarm, siren, ass, well,
Oh no, no! No! No! No! No! No! No! Don't follow, see I'll. Give you re supposed to go into the lighter you not supposed to go into. The light really depends on the cards are dying and you're ready to go. Then. Yes, right there,
A point that the only time you know I wasn't there, poltergeist thing don't go into the light yet because the and the actual poltergeists the dead colt leader is trying to take caravans, enormous power in I've never seen poltergeist Ben you to spoil poltergeist for me night and even tell you the coolest far dead caught leader, though, is that
They don't get to that until eight poltergeists, two or three c
boil the whole franchise for me. Do you let me go ahead? It. Let me make it worse. The guy
the guy had a show called coach he's the dad. What else is new.
The only thing you need to know about poltergeist there is that
braces sometimes attack you
your own braces, sometimes attack you and that's terrible
nobody knows that now. I feel I get
must have done races. I mean more horrible, malicious things I feel like. I may have done you a disservice. My friend, because I went
that period where I was just sending images screen
apps from poltergeist in response to work emails. I creepy old dude with the hat, is like pre emergency
We re emerging here
first time, I ever saw meat in it like a decomposing state.
Where there are maggots and everything is from poltergeist, and I was a little kid scarred me ever since you. Yes, I'm glad you take him out decomposition
because this this idea that Walter proposes says there
or of the normal way, that organic stuff decomposes
in open air is called aerobics decomposition
sounds like a lazy fitness programme. It means are affected by around them and
like all organic matter, plants animals. What have you are mostly made up of carbon and oxygen, and hydrogen and window
even in the presence of oxygen, the by products of the deed,
position. Processor are gonna, be carbon dioxide, energy or heat water, but in
swampy or more, she areas, which would also happen to be very humid aerobic, Dick
position often doesn't take place because the dead matter, the organic stuff gets bury beneath water or what
saturated soil, and it continues to decompose in the absence of air anaerobic d,
position, and that would mean that the matter gets broken down by anaerobic bacteria and hearing
This is why it matters because, when the bacteria are
he composing this stuff breaking down there?
use carbon dioxide, nitrogen, fast fiends
their chemicals, including methane, as
in swampy or more she areas
What do we know about methane?
have counterparts. Well, anyone out there ever attempted to light a toot on fire, a tooth.
Really? What are you about? This is like the time, so it was a while back. We would you called so they don't know no place here.
Should we take a break in good tinkle? I mean you know if you gotta tingled single bud,
no rights, toots, yeah, Tutsi methane is flame,
that's why it's important,
the poor, yet
things are also flammable and they can burst into spontaneous flame,
in the presence of air aha as it.
It produces this dense white cloud which could
or to give more substance to the flame right, especially from far away mixed.
Methane, this these gases.
Function in concert, I would go, would be
The explanation for Will o the wisp, at least according to a voter yeah, especially for you to pocket.
The gas dishes on fire for a little bit in burns for a little while and then dissipates or you know,
it's burning in a direction sure sounds like you need some pretty specific circumstances to generate this effect, though you know that's correct when you hear the weights described it's all, I got
very similar, look grey or their lobbying and weaving and kind of, like you said,
Retreating,
so you see it every night. Re me why,
a good national park style.
The scenic overlooked for the damn thing's immunization? Oh yeah, it's not me.
Phenomenon, but we know how the northern lights were rain yea. We know we know what the.
That phenomenon is pre, interesting that we accepted this visual oddity, but we don't really know occurs it it's pretty,
What do I mean there are a lot of people say they have figured out. The key
of a specific one, specific area right, but you right there are people would still disagree with this, because
the forts girl come true believers who think that
These explanations are okay, but they dont really in capture
demystify the thing they would say in a lotta cases, lights are reported from areas without these favourable conditions, and I agree that it so
like a set of pretty?
complicated specific things is almost Rube Goldberg feel to this definitely but
There is one other explanation that was what did we
all it it was like a quick hint at
was a quicker. Are you are? You are doing? I jumped ease, he was a jump tease, we jump teased, guess what were jumping in right now, it's called fatter
you're gonna, be first her head. First
well I'd like to go belly your flop,
yup, that's
generally, my life, just flappin
for after eager think that address the street to the fluff toots, the tank, so what's a far more Ghana. So this is a third ipod facetious and that's this is that the lights are a result of optical illusion occurring in the observer, or at least it
happens to the observer from what's happening.
In your eyes away. The light enters your eyes over the horizon. Right there,
here that the whole thing is a mirage swamp gas. Forget some kind of earthquake Bay
electricity people
are just somehow making this up.
Gently over decades,
centuries and so on
Morgana is pretty
trusting, but it has one big problem
in this case the aid
here, is that there has to be a thermal
inversion, such that the
curvature of light raise within the inversion, become stronger than the curvature of the earth?
look. I know this sounds like a lot of gobbledygook burden essentially means the rays will bend and create arcs, so
if you are seeing this, what you or seeing is a distorted, erector, inverted image and
because of the changing nature of the atmosphere at the time of a thought him, a good Morgana, this type of mirage can change within just a few seconds
it can seem to be very dynamic. But
the big problem with ATO Morgana words are most commonly seen in polar regions. Really,
no, not misery, not Texas,
it seems so. I was banking on this one, because we're talking about human conditions right where you ve already got some optical stuff going on theirs moisture in the air. You ve got
four miles of roughly flat terrain,
you're, looking all the way down in seeing some light way on the other end of that four miles, and you know if you ve got lights
Even if your way back in the day and you ve got torches during the trail of tears in its way way way down there and you ve got those human conditions. You got that distance. I was thinking that is what would end up happening. You could you know it might look larger.
Might look to be moving differently than it actually is because of
Furthermore, Ghana, but dang it
I really thought I was onto the figure it out there.
Well I mean, don't don't
dismiss entirely yet it could be some kind, a mirage, but my issue with that is if it were a mirage
if it were some sort of optical illusion, then why
it be consistently the same. It seems much more likely that may be. There would be
a busy road that somehow is reflecting light, but then, if these,
are moving cars on an interstate or road would not affect the behaviour of the light near
what if it's, a smaller road
then maybe you only have a couple cars on there at once, but there's usually a car only a few. At a time
the closest thing? I can say that I've seen to this sort of like this super common,
when it's really hot new driving in the green on the street is really
and you see this- like ain't shimmering in the air-
the right of the right above the horizon kind of anything you now. That's that's the closest thing. They work a visual disk
events that I personally witnessed so
that happens all the time and all it takes. Is it being really hot yeah
So what about heat? Would you really talked much about temperature
we haven't yeah. Could the temperature be effectiveness in and that that weird heat wave
No mention is something that I think we ve all seen: friends and neighbours. I mean you can just walk out in a hot area and look into the distance, but would that call
The heat, create jobs, just eat alone, create the sustained ball of creepy light. I think anything any true explanation for one of these and I think you probably have to take each one can't oh yeah. I think you probably do, because all the conditions in the different areas are gonna be slightly different by. I think. Maybe it's a combination. You guys
This point- mainstream science, probably agrees with you and feels is adequately explained this phenomenon through the following
the following causes or a combination thereof: net
We agree, atmospheric conditions, miss
unification by eye witnesses, right and so on,
thing is you know you think it's you ever
but it's a secret governments biplane still creepy or you know, though, the
lanterns they go up I've. I have tricks myself into believing there's a europhile with the chinese lantern, a group of chinese lanterns. Oh really was from the lantern operators. It wasn't. The lantern parade was off Lantern period time, but it was for sure, that's what it was and
Of course we would be remiss if we did not mention the likelihood of purposeful hoaxes.
Which is still do understand. I guess it's.
Sort of hoaxing came along before it was easy to just troll people on the internet. A few
years ago here,
in Georgia, where the show is based, we heard tell as it would seem
and you see we heard tell of swimming claim. They found the
corpse of assess watch. Yes,
they had no cooler and their picture.
Of it and they said they were getting dna analysis and I think it was just
a gorilla costume, so we turned out to be yes.
The deadly wasn't assess watch. So we
Do you have to at some point
anyone who looks into this has two at some point ignore
I urge the
possibility or even plausibility of someone purposefully pulling a fast when I'm friends and neighbours, but here's the thing yet
even if there is a perfectly good explanation for one of these things are weakened,
splendid away. Somehow, through science
it doesn't make the physical view.
Wing of one of these things, any less spooky which makes me think,
Wonderful, to see pictures of
flights or will of the wisps with
wills of the wisp have you have to be. Wills will have the
we will have the wisp yeah, because each one is a different will soon column, while the wisp is the thing that these are the wills of. So there would be only one where the great wisp individual items are the wills of said Great West. What, if it's one will controlling,
all of the world. Will there is a will? There is a wisp guessing, yes
if you are a will o the wisp fairer than we would like to hear your first hand, experience friends and neighbours. We ourselves,
like anybody else, have seen certain phenomenon that we can't complete
we explain right without careful research by, I dont believe we have in this room
actually seen goes later,
who played for ourselves is correct. I have not seen one. I have watched
tons of videos online of people showing it
I've seen things that were very strange honor.
Mountain road.
Lurid mountains where out
distance? It,
looks as though there is a light
shimmering, nerve, shining and floating a little bit and
After a little bit of investigation. I found out that its this specific road that wrapped around the mountain in this one way and when, when cars go around, it
for some reason, it just looks very strange and not like headlights
true that, even though different propose-
was the explanations, might sound.
Highly unlikely or maybe even to a degree condescending when people tiger misidentification lives. It still true that it's easy for this sort of stuff to happen. I, if you
believe that you have proof
supernatural will of the wisp by the way please write to his post haste before it gets you,
I have one other thing away to put in here-
the question about why these light seemed to retreat? Yes, I want to know other, depending on how close people get.
For the retreat occurs? Is it possible that it
servants in the air of the person approaching or from the person approaching interesting,
I'm waiting for someone right in and say: that's not how air works, pretty call someone is an expert in an air. A weathermen was or- or
woman. Well, I guess I'll be a meteorology that, furthermore, the weather
whether whether men or women is diminutive,
in this respect,
the media community.
Very powerful. Your you'll get a big meteorology mad. They say about their only a couple clicks away from controlling the weather, so yeah texture,
do check out. Our episode are whether modification while we're while we hear we
talking so much about you, friends and neighbours, and we ve been asking for you right in and that reminds us what better
for she had gone asked are fresh,
today, subjects daughter of a psychic
hey conspiracy, do them anew listener and you guys have an interest in psychic people. My mom is made of
predictions in her lifetime, mostly around death back in the night,
my family went to New York and we're going to visit the World Trade center they're on their way to cross. The bridge with my mom's car is completely freaking out saying she doesn't want to go and something bad is going to happen,
you're freaking out so bad. My dad ass, a police officer to help them turn around a few weeks later, world Trade Center blew up for the first woe.
So she predicted the death of my grandmother. She had a dream that my grandma was sitting at the edge of my fathers brothers coffin. He died a few years prior. She said
they are just looking at my mom and talking to her when my mom woke up and asked my dad to take her to his moms house by the
they got there. She had already passed away.
Others have about how she gets back
bad vibes about people
things and I'm not a big believer in the stuff, but I am a bit believe her protections. She
had once in a while, but I guess that's a good thing. Thanks
what you do signed Alina. You know
I want to say at the very top of this reaction that I absolutely do not care what
people ascribe a bad vibes too. I would listen to it because
As you know, there's any combination of
views that your subconscious might pick up on that your conscious mind does not acknowledge, and sometimes I could translate as a bad feeling. You know like someone to talk over my grave her. I just
her hands with that guy. Now it feels weird. No trust in you know, I think, there's nothing wrong with following your got in that regard, I mean, don't don't you know
go out and then try to murder someone, because you got a bad vibes off of them here, but even I mean they did not dare to oversimplify about. Haven't you very had him had a thing, we're like you?
thinking about a song
that song came on
I can only say, and others like confirmation visor. Who is it where you say to a minor later my half syndrome aware but like it, it is a very, very powerful feeling
You don't mean, especially when you connect it with something that ultimately does come to pass.
Easy, even like something as simple as like hearing assign you could almost its genome, your brain.
Vague, very easily, be convinced by your brains is very clever. You now piece of scenery that you may that happen or that you somehow had for knowledge. That was going to happen, and it was like an inclination
I'd. I've never really experienced the phenomenon in the way that she's describing like that
They have ever really know anybody that was just spot on repeated
for me, a really believe it. I think you would have to be like repeatedly reappeared
well you know,
full disclosure, I've. It is
belief in this stuff is widespread and my extended family, and they will insist to you that they have
had precaution, dreams or that they have had no provisions.
Yeah that they have had the site- it's big in Appalachia, so my mother, right there with you, oh yeah, but
I would love to hear more of these stories. I am fascinated by this. Yes, please send a man if you ve got them. I am too, and I am not downplaying these
he's at all. I just kind of like filtering it through my own experience in my own jerky, skeptic brain. I guess, but you know I have experienced things like this, but not quite this intense and if it was going to happen to me,
am I feel completely differently about him. That's true! True! Now, I'm no
to be clear, paying close attention to every song. I here for the next day, because we mention better my office can follow me like a curse ribs. I used to dance, allow
my own volition, girdle. That's Alex's favour one too,
No thanks. I write it at a later. We
A we get a short
recommendation from the
been Randal on Twitter, so
spirits. He stuff. Please call your drunken after show: coins Beer, AC hashtag due for the kids
it's true? Now, I'm now I'm going to be caught, paying close attention to every song. I here for the next day, because we mention
the thing about trying to decide whether we're gonna recorded assets, aplenty Halloween, beer pine last night, it was with you,
care for a Miller rights
No, it is, after all, the sham pain
Fear is that I am so delighted. Thank you for bringing them into my life yeah. My girlfriend told me that and she'd she heard some friends sailor mechanism, name names been shattered to just press,
in the end to you as well been Randal. We have not yet
officially decided whether we're going to for a recording this, but we appreciate all
suggestions that we found on twitter, but you know people ass, yet
when the film it I don't know if I want but care,
He was a good pining. Conspiracy is pretty solid. Some think you ve been Randall,
our final shoutout goes to Damon from Indiana,
demon, says I've been listening to every podcast so far and I have to say it's quite the feet to get to the newer stuff there just so much of it. Well
welcome, Damon and sorry
I do also have a suggestion for you guys to research
I dont know how easy it would be for you to do a topic on this due to how mysterious it is the great a tractor.
Goodwin right. There are so many speculations on what this thing could be. No one really knows what it is other than a strange anomaly: that's pulling everything in the universe towards it. I think it would be
Who'll episode, maybe fun for you guys as well. We all
of looking into deep space agreed
Thank you for taking the time to read this guy's keep doing all the awesome stuff you do for all of US listeners. All that's really cool! Thank you, Damon and the great attractive.
I don't know that. I know this besides. Maybe
supermassive black hole is that one day was talking about or is it something even bigger or some other form
right now, science
referring to it as a gravity.
Nor anomaly it's at the centre of the line IKEA Super cluster end it
it's a localised concentration of mass that is TAT
of thousands of times more massive than the entire milky way
wow,
so
What's going on with that, there does so make a great idea for an episode. Yes, we just need to get somebody
phone with us or in the studio. I think you can just go here's this
its members,
fair enough.
Thank you. So much Alina, thank you so much deeper Randal and, of course thank you Damon. This concludes our
I should like not our show met nor super producer Alex, and I will be back next week with the some things
might surprise you some things that may disturb you, but definitely hopefully fascinate you as much as they fascinate us. So Germany stories about go slights or any other kind of paranormal activity. Really we love hearing that kind of stuff anything from psychics.
You know. Maybe
a premonition that somebody in your family had her somebody, you know- or maybe you had all the way
to just
a glowing red orb that appeared to you on top of your cat once I want to know about that, I think
goes due to Hell. Just tell us about your cat
if it were interested in TAT stuck yes, especially if your cat sit on your chest at night and tries to steal your breath, Y got
get off sinister me we're going to be about the cats o er sweet cute little kitty cat. That is only a serial murder on the side. As someone who is
as someone who is unreasonably popular with cats,
You can see they believe they are inherently sinister me to love him.
Don't think, that's a criticism agreed. I love guessing that movie cat people.
It's sort of like a skinny max like girl, like soft core erotica film from the eighties isn't hush, was not a Broadway show. Oh I'm you're! Thinking of cats. I was thinking of sleep walkers hours later one cat level. I think it's laboratory some other, basically about you know these very.
Sexy people in the eighties that turn into cats, while I only bring it out because we're talking about cats and sinister things, and I
they bought soundtrack, any rule.
Georgiana Roeder dies CORE and has got the thick. The cat people title trap.
Is by David Bowie featured in that seen in an inglorious bastards where the character
the fire.
Spoil Leslie S really intense Bowie Jack? And that's totally like the theme, the cap people laughing stock
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