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I spent some time in the mountains of Kentucky and I can guarantee at least SOME of the mystery lights are moonshiners and mushroom farmers checking on their operations. The lights can often pop up in strange places because they are using cave systems. If you see the light moving, it's a person moving through the forest. If the light glows but doesn't move, it's likely light leaking out of a cave that is being used for moonshine or mushrooms.
Ah, that's a good explanation (for at least some as you said). Sometimes, it's the simple things people jump over when trying to either go with supernatural or crazy scientific speculation.
Ball lighting is real. My mother, my two younger brothers, and myself all witnessed this. Its happened in rural NC back in the late 80s. A blueish white orb floated down our dirty road past our house. It was traveling around 5 to10 mph and hit a very large pine tree in front of my grandparents house right next door to us. There was a very loud exposition and it killed the pine tree stripping the bark off one side of the tree and leaving a black charred mark around 4 feet in diameter on the side it hit. We were all mesmerized just watching it float until it exploded. It made the exact same sound as lighting striking a tree.
I believe in ball lightning not because i’ve experienced it, and i haven’t experienced it, but because there are so many people who have detail descriptions of it
I have a feeling that the guy that didn't want to talk about his experience after chasing down the mysterious light, was because he discovered that it was just a dude with a lantern, and he was too disappointed and embarrassed to admit he wasted so much of his time on it.
My mom, born in 1947, lived in rural Michigan. She says ball lightening used to hover over the old electric fences. They also had the old old phones with the bells on top and little talking horn, she said they'd get ball lightening off of that during storms
My dad grew up in eastern Tennessee, He witnessed ball lightning along with his family, come through a screen door of their house, bounce off a hard wood floor, and out an open window opposite the screen door. This did happen during a thunderstorm at night, but they lived in a rural area with not many power lines.
My dad's side of the family has always told their stories on seeing a ghost light called "Mooneyham" here in North Georgia. He hung himself on a foggy New Year's Eve, and that's when they always saw the light. It followed my dad and his girlfriend in the car once time and shot straight up into the air.
Where I live in southeast Ga, there a phenomena people call swampfire. It's mostly seen in the Okefenokee Swamp, but it's also seen in swampy areas outside of the swamp, mostly in swampy, marshy areas. It's a rare electrostatic phenomenon involving submerged methane. I've seen it once or twice in my life. When I saw it, there was an eerie blueish-white just below the surface of the water that lingered for a few minutes before disbursing. There are stories of people seeing a ball or cloud of light rising out of the water for a few minutes before disbursing, some have even said to have seen a little burp of fire right before the light disburses. Now swampfire might be a phenomena similar to Will O' The Wisp. People also claim to see Will O' the Wisp in graveyards, so it being some sort of electrostatic phenomena involving methane or other gases tied to decomposition. There's a ghost light near where I live called the Surrency Ghost Light. I've never seen it and none of my friends have never seen it, but there are people who swear up and down they've seen it. The sightings all center around a bridge that passes over some railroad tracks. People who have seen it said that they were driving across that bridge late during a foggy night and they saw the light go across the bridge. The story of the Surrency Ghost Light says that there was a railroad worker who was travelling along the tracks with a lantern when he was hit by a train and died. The stories differ slightly, some say the railroad worker thought the train was being delayed and decided to lay down on the tracks to take a quick nap, some say while he was walking along the tracks, he tripped, fell and got his foot caught in the tracks, some say he had been drinking and passed out on the tracks, some say he was killed by a local and the murder placed his body on the tracks to cover up their crime. Of course Surrency is a bit of a hotbed for paranormal sightings and strange discoveries. There's a sinkhole or an old drill hole that's called the Hell Hole and locals claim that it's an entrance to Hell. There the old Surrency High School that the locals claim is haunted. There's the Surrency Bright Spot(which I think is closer to Odum) where a geological survey using ground sonar was carried out and an anomaly was found close the bedrock, but the people who own the land wouldn't allow anyone to drill to find out. Many people have posited that the Bright Spot is either a natural reservoir of natural gas or a very large deposit of kaolin. Kaolin is only found in specific clay deposits and is mostly mined in the Piedmont region of Ga, but there it's also mined in spots across southern Ga. Kaolin is primarily used in blackboard chalk as a hardening agent and in kitty litter as an absorbent agent.
@oldeskul this is mostly unrelated but I'm from central Florida and spent a lot of summers in north Florida/Georgia. I LOVE hearing people unfamiliar with the name try to say Okefenokee, or any south eastern native names. It brings me endless joy.
@@manyabrana The Surrency Hell Hole sits on private property and is full of water because of the water table here, people used to visit it and even swim in it. After an incident where some folks went out there, got drunk, started swimming and one of them drowned, the owners of the property put up locked steel gates to keep people out. With the exception of the Ghost Light and the old High School, most of the oddities in Surrency are on private property, and there's a lot of oddities in Surrency.
@@cbass04 I don't recall. It's back in the woods a ways. It used to be part of the tour around Surrency on Surrency Day, but the owners of the land closed off access to their land in the late-90's. The Surrency Hell Hole is a big hole in the ground that filled up with water. I don't remember if it's a sink hole or an old drill hole, I remember that people used to go swimming in it. There's a lot of holes that filled up with water across Appling County where people would go swimming, the Jenny Hole, the Blue Hole. The Hell Hole was a story some people in Surrency made up, like how the people made up the story of the Handshake grave and the Satilla House.
My husband's grandfather said that he saw ball lightning enter the house, then disappear. Interesting stuff. My mom and I both witnessed something not as great as ball lighting many years ago. My mom had milk cooling in a large (approx. 18 x 8 inch) metal pan covered with aluminum foil resting on the kitchen sink a little distance down from a screened window. It wasn't storming, but we both saw something like a static charge go from the screen to the pan top, making a sharp tapping sound on the foil. If we both hadn't seen and heard it, I might think I was imagining it, but we both yelled out at the same time.
About ten years ago i was standing on my front porch it had been raining but seemed to be about over. I saw a bright flash in the corner of my eye and turned to see this very bright ball of light about the size of a basketball and it was actually bouncing down the street coming in my direction. I saw it bounce four or five times then i heard a very loud snap and it was gone. There were no power lines down or anything like that. I walked out to where i last saw it but there were no burn marks or anything.
Earthquake lights are still to this day the most insane thing I've ever seen. I live in New Zealand and in 2016 I went outside during quite an intense earthquake around midnight. About 20 seconds in, the entire sky started lighting up mostly Blue and Green above me. I assumed at the time it was power flashes and the earthquake must have been very close. Turns out I was nearly 600km from the Epicentre and nowhere within 200km of where I lived even experienced any power issues. Being half asleep while the ground is moving beneath you and the sky is continuously lighting up is quite an experience
I believe you. My aunt witnessed flashes of light about a minute preceding the Christchurch quake, and she lives in the country. She happened to be awake as she often is, and uses no curtains (because country). So she was lying in bed puzzled by the lights, then Bam! earthquake.
Yes, I got to witness the same phenomenon in Mexico City during the September 8, 2017 earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2 degrees in Richter scale. This happened at around 11 p.m. My husband and I were about to go to sleep, we were literally pulling the comforter out, when the seismic alert started blaring off. During the earthquake, the sky brightened out with the same flashes of blue-green light you described. It was soo freaky. And everything we have a night-time earthquake above 6.0 degrees, those lights come out again.
I was with my now husband and a friend on the Outer Banks of NC watching a thunderstorm coming in over the ocean at night. One of us commented on how large the moon suddenly looked and then we realized that it wasn't the moon at all as the moon was also visible. It was a large ball that was coming in our direction and turning from whitish to red. It just kept getting bigger and bigger until it was so close and large we started getting scared, I even think myself or my friend started screaming. Then it suddenly burst like a firework and was gone in an instant. We didn't know at the time, but I now realize it was ball lightning. Still one of the craziest things I've ever personally witnessed.
i've seen ball lightning myself. i was in probably about 3rd grade, we were driving back from a play at my elementary school during a storm & suddenly we heard the sound of thunder and a ball of blue-white fire came bouncing along the road in front of us. it bounced a couple times before exploding and i remember we had to swerve to avoid it lol. i've tried asking my family about it but they don't remember and i had chalked it up to an active imagination for years until i recently learned about ball lightning and i'm convinced this is what i saw. there were powerlines along the road we were driving on, by the way.
A few years back, we were driving on the Florida turnpike and there was a pretty bad storm, and we saw really weird blue flashing lights from the clouds. Very weird
When I was about 8-9 years old, I was witness to something odd that I can't explain. I was at my grandparents cabin with a friend. I was sitting by the water looking out on the water. The landscape next to the water, behind me, is a quite steep hill. It was early in the day, summer, clear skies. My friend was about 150 meters away. As I'm looking out on the water, I suddenly hear a relatively loud crack, and from my right side, seems just a few meters away, slightly above me, I see something blurry and reddish just absolutely zoom out across the water. The water is about 1400 meters wide, and I lost sight of it when it seemed to be about half way across the water, within just 1-2 seconds. Knowing my friend was near the water, I ran over to him to ask if he saw or heard anything. But when he told me he did indeed see it, I could immediately tell that he was just playing, so I couldn't believe him. My grandparents were inside the cabin, and they did not see or hear anything. I can't even begin to guess what this was. All I know is that I am absolutely sure it did happen, and that it wasn't a product of imagination or anything like that.
@@riverAmazonNZ that's why I added the detail about the landscape behind me, a steep forested hill. Whatever it was seemed to travel horizontally, from behind me. So it seems unlikely. But while I am sure "something" happened, I can't be sure of the exact details. Due to the sudden and unexpected nature of the event, I maybe wasn't able to process exactly what happened. But the way I recall it, it came from behind me. However, it could have been a meteor. I have been sharing this story various places, hoping someone would tell me they experienced something similar. Another hypothesis I came across, is that it could have been some sort of rare "ball lightning"-like phenomenon, resulting from geological ... stuff
Witnessed the Marfa, Texas lights in person in 2015. They have a viewing area on the edge of town away from the town lights with public binoculars. It was very eerie to witness them sort of dance across the desert horizon. My band was playing at a bar there called Padre’s. It was a funeral home converted into a bar. So, the lights weren’t the only strange experience. Ha!
My family has had a house up in the mountains of North Carolina for a long time. Growing up we would always go up there and sometimes go on hikes during dusk. And while I’m not a superstitious kind of guy, I have seen on multiple occasions the mountain lights get as close as only a couple feet away and they are truly something unbelievable. And when I tell people the stories about them I always feel like one of those crazy folklore people, but when it comes to the mountain lights I will defend them because I have witnessed them firsthand.
The way the blue-ish one of the Brown Mountain lights moved makes it look like some kind of reflection in the camera lens. Its movements don't appear to be tethered to real physical space, but to the camera itself.
As a kid in 1992 there was a severe thunderstorm. My parents had us sleep downstairs in case we needed to be up quickly to go down into the basement. Well, me and my sister were lying on our couch and chairs facing our dining room. When a orange ball of light passed by our dining room window. Now here's the thing it couldn't have been a car. There was a 12' shed 20 feet from the back of the house. light from the road was blocked by the house and fence. Light from the alley was blocked by the shead. No marks in the mud to show anything went through the yard.
A really uncommon name for Will O' the Wisp is Corpsefire. The first time I heard it was the Super Unique Zombie "Corpsefire" in Diablo II and Runic (made up of same devs of the first two Diablo games) would use corpsefire to describe blue, fiery ghost enemies encountered in Act III of Torchlight II which is set in a swampy environment.
In Laura ingalls Wilder's book On the banks of Plum Creek she describes balls of light that come down the chimney and cross the floor but did not leave scorch marks. I have always wondered about that and thought perhaps it was ball lightning.
@@cherilangguth2151 I do that when the adhd lets me 🥲 I have finely honed the skill of only thinking about these things when I have no way to check and forgetting again immediately.
7:40 The entire time after "well, why don't we see them today?" I was screaming "light pollution!" at my screen. People think it's only a thing in cities but it still impact a large area around cities and towns. I used to LARP in the woods as a teen about 30 km from the nearest small town and the night sky still looked pretty much the same as smack dab in the middle of a city. But two years ago my uni went to Kenya and we camped in a nature preserve 100s of kilometers from the nearest settlement which didn't even have electricity. The night sky there looked like it bellonged to a different planet, it was so vibrant.
One ball lightning theory I’ve seen is that it could be caused by silica oxide. If lightning hits sandy ground, it can vaporise the sand and make silica oxide. If there’s carbon present in the soil, from dead leaves for example, the carbon sucks away the oxygen leaving behind pure silica vapour. As it recombines with oxygen, it creates light. I saw this in a How It Works magazine, though it is just a theory.
There is a famous light phenomena from Norway. In Hessdalen, lights have appeared over the mountain Rognefjell long before cars or electric lights. Lights have been reported there for over 200 years. Still no one can explain them. However, there is an old mine there and it could have something to do with it scientist think.
My grandma's sister was struck by lightning while doing the dishes. She said a ball of lightning came out of the faucet and startled her (obviously lol) so she started backing away from the sink. It came towards her and hit her, knocking her to the floor. She had minor electrical burns. And she was not the type to exaggerate, so I've always believed her story.
I’m a scientific-minded individual, and I’ve witnessed the Brown Mountain lights. I have heard of no good explanation for them. In addition, these lights have no swamps around their origin.
At 18:22 you show a picture of like 200 wires all crossing each other and I have to guess they are all electrical since no cable was around during that picture. How the hell did they survive even one storm. As soon as one touched the other I would think it would cause a terrible chain reaction.
An Electrical Engineer I used to work with had an old fashioned large satellite dish several meters away from his house up a small hill. Lightning struck it. He observed ball lightning come from the dish, down the wires, through his storm door, run along the kitchen baseboard, up the electrical cord to his kitchen clock which was burnt out as a result. He said it happened again after he repaired the dish, maybe not the clock but from the dish. - Ball lightning seems to occur frequently in "tubes" like chimneys, underground stone hallways (old houses/mansions/roman tunnel walkways in the UK), and submarines.
11:17 That almost looks like the reflection of someone's face looking at their illuminated phone. I have no idea what sort of equipment setup they had for this, but the fact that it shows up as blue when everything else is monochromatic green makes me think that they were filming the view through a night vision lens rather than recording the night vision directly. Then, someone behind the camera checks their phone, the light bounces off the viewfinder of the night vision and into the lens of the secondary recording camera. In fact, I would bet that they actually were filming through the night vision WITH their phone.
I remember the story that my wifes grandmother told. They were unside in their apartment with a thunderstorm outside. Suddenly a ball of light came through their wall, not just anywhere through their wall but coming out if their power-socket. They heard a sound first and then it came shooting out, directly towards their window. I dont recall if it broke the window, but it scared the shit out if everyone, and the grandma was always sitting with a packed bag of their most needed stuff in case they had to leave the appartement quickly^^
fungi growing on rotten wood can also glow in the dark, some can even glow in the air for a while as dust. i have seen that while my army service in a rainy night middle in a old swamp forrest.
6:49 Love this hypothesis. My dog has a glow on the dark ball and when it’s pitch black outside you can see the ball but not him. It would look really freaky to someone who wasn’t aware of the dog.
Ball lightning does exist as I've experienced it first hand and was within a few inches of it. Most peaceful serene experience I ever had in my life. I couldn't move outside of just following it with my eyes as something was keeping me from moving on my own as I wanted to reach out and touch it. It wasn't fear though. This was inside a house as it was just effortlessly moving through the hallway at 3am during winter time. There were no storms and it disappeared within a vent at the end of the hallway...
Hello @SwegleStudios, for what its worth, Ive seen a Will o the Wisp. At the time I thought I had seen a supernatural phenomenon, it was about 20 years ago. Your video now absolutely confirms to me that what I saw was what what you have described in your video, it was about 30 meters from me, floating suspended about a meter above a small marsh and was a glowing blue, ball of what is most likely, gas. So thanks, now I know. I always knew there was a rational explanation for it.
There was a case of ball lightning a few years ago at the campus of a Chinese university. It was a few years ago so I don't remember the details of the article, but apparently it is thought to be caused by a lightning strike hitting soil that has a certain composition and rotting leaves on it, which starts the chemical reaction that is the base of the phenomenon.
Happy you made this video because the whole phenomenon of "weird glowing ball of light" seems like something that happens all over the world. Even here in Malaysia, I've heard stories of people seeing glowing floating orbs, or sightings of them being caught on camera. I like to think there's logical reasons to it, like gases reacting to electrical charges, but it's still interesting.
I found your channel not long ago through your tornado content, but I'd like you to know that I also find these videos of other interesting atmospheric phenomena quite enjoyable, too.
I had a weird fixation with exotic forms of lightning when I was in the 8th grade, stuff like red sprites or blue jets, and ball lightning was chief among them. I even asked my science teacher about it on more than one occasion.
I am happy we've gotten to the point in humnity, where we don't go crazy like in the medeival times, but actually do take effort/time to explain it scientifically, instead of it just being a miracle.
In Missouri I have seen St. Elmo’s fire I think is the name. It was in a damp field between cities where there is less light pollution. In a field in the spring that had the purple weeds growing in them that often happens before they plant. Under most of the plants was a blue green glow. Very faint. All the lights were on the West side of the plants.
Thanks for another excellent video, the content was a lot of fun! Great research as well,, I imagine it was a lot of work! Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next video!
IN SWEGLE WE TRUST! In all seriousness though, you made me truly fall in love with learning about all this stuff. Truly cannot get enough, I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel !
I actually saw these once at Gettysburg when me and my friend and family were camping on the battlefields. Me and my friend were sitting on the river all night hearing stuff all around us and feeling wierd sensations, and around 3am right next to the river a bright ball of light appeared and danced around and then disappeared..it was quite insane and an awesome memory my friend and I have and can talk about because we were both there. We both ran in terror lol
Surprised I managed to catch a video this early, I'm usually SO late lol! I love weird weather phenomena, they're so whimsical (and occasionally spooky)
I know you only touched on it for like 30 seconds, but the bioluminescent mushroom theory is the best. explanation I have for the Easton White Lady ghost… being both a forager and resident of the next town over, I can confirm 100% that nowhere else have I seen such large flushes of Omphalotus illudens, a bioluminescent mushroom, as around those roads… sometimes flushing up the side of a tree to 5-6 feet in height, about the right height to be mistaken for a human size.
I'm from England, and I can confirm your tunnels theory is absolutely accurate. Also, thanks for the fungi kingdom shout out. Those guys have the answers to many things. 🍄🌩
In the southwest corner of Missouri, near Joplin, there is a country road that runs along a field and chicken farm-- there is what we call the "spook light", which fits this description precisely. It lingers in the center of the road but it never draws near. It vanishes after you travel about half a mile. I've driven out there dozens of times and shown it to a bunch of people. It's surreal to experience. Spooky for sure. You can see it basically any time around 11 or 12 at night in the dog days of summer. It's so reliable in its appearances that it is actually a tourist attraction.
My grandparents told me stories about what their families experienced growing up, and they said if ball lightning comes near the house doors or windows they said cover the mirrors so it doesn't attract the light and open all the other door or windows and it will pass straight threw so it must have happened alot for them to figure that out, so who knows that took place in the out back of Australia.
During WW2, ball lightning was apparently such a common enough hazard in US submersibles that there was a very particular way of connecting and disconnecting batteries so as to NOT result in ball lightning. I'm certain no thorough study was made of this at the time because the US sub fleet was kinda a neglected part of the navy, especially earlier in the war (see: the torpedo that does a 360° and blows up its own ship), but there might still be some documentation laying neglected in some archive regarding the phenomena. Could also just be stressed out, superstitious sailors - but I think there's something to the vacuum-sealed metal tube submerged in water aspect of it, since you get things like St. Elmo's Fire in airplanes when flying through certain clouds. There is totally a way to experiment with this aspect of the alleged phenomenon.
I've seen ball lightning before. It was moving along some train tracks. I wanna say it was about the size of a good size grapefruit. Definitely among the cooler and weirder things I've seen.
My whole family on my mom's side has had at least one person per generation who saw ball lightning. I am the youngest one, during a storm around 7-8 years ago. I was standing in the back door, recording the storm because it had these gorgeous purple hues. I put away my camera, and kept watching for a while until there was a flash from the corner of my eye, followed by extremely loud buzzing. I looked over and saw a pale purple/pink ball of light descend towards our shed (where I live those are all connected, so it was just a flat roof for ±60 meters) and watched it hover just above it. Having heard my mom's story of her ball lightning experience (where it went into a home and scorched the ground) I immediately closed the door and ran inside. Not recording it will haunt me till I die, but at least I have the footage of the rest of the storm.
There's a mysterious light phenomena that occurs in a neighboring town where I live called the Oviedo lights. My father became disenchanted with it as he hung out at the bridge where people saw these lights for almost the entire 1970's nearly every weekend. He never saw it and was almost always a he said she said thing. Now he did talk to at least one person who claimed to have seen it firsthand, but he seemed to either be on something or liked claiming extraordinary things for attention. But yeah, locally it's well known and even showed up in the Weird Florida books by Charlie Carlson.
Another famous “ghost light” is the Chapel Hill Light in, you guessed it, Chapel Hill, TN. People gather at a specific intersection to see it at the RR tracks in town.
When I was a kid my grandmother told me about when she saw a small blue/white "fireball" that hovered in the air and then moved over a lake. Now that I'm older I'm pretty sure she explained ball lightning by the way she described it and it moved. As a child I was a bit thrown off by her dialect, she called it "eldkule" which means fire ball (in my dialect that would be ildkule), but I heard it as "elgkule" or moose ball 😅. She wasn't one to tell tall tales and she was never online or anything. I'm 100% certain she wasn't lying. I'm not 100% certain if it was actually ball lightning, but it sure sounds like it. I wish I could ask her more in detail.
My grandfather grew up on a dairy farm here in northeast Wisconsin in the 1950's. This is a story he told me and I kinda forgot about it untill I started watching this video. Here is his story as he told me. It happened as he was walking back home after a day of fishing. Growing up on a farm meant that you always had some work to do, bit that day after the morning milking was pretty much his. It was a hot, humid, Midwestern summer of the kind that made the air into a thick wet blanket that clung to your skin and stuck to your lungs. He had gotten to the dirt road that lead to the family farm when he felt the hair on his body stand up, from his head to his toes. Maybe twenty feet in front of him, floating a few feet off the ground, was a ball of blue light. It floated lazily off the ground with a slight sway to it as it passed on front of him. There was a sound to it as well, a humming cackling sound that Grandpa would one day associate with the high gain antenna of the radio recoviers he used on the Marine Corp. But here he was a 12 year old boy who was convinced he had seen a ghost. He waited for it to pass into a field, were it dissapated into nothing and than he ran the rest of the way home. It wouldnt be until later in his life that he would learn that what he had seen was most likely ball lightning.
I've seen ball lightening. I was around 8 years old and there was a particularly bad thunderstorm one night, me being afraid of storms, was sleeping with my parents. I remember at the end of the storm was one last VERY bright lightening flash and one VERY large thunder. Immediately after, a blue disc formed on the wall, out shot a blue ball over the bed, and vanished into the mirror on the other side of the room. I'll never forget it and the smell it left behind. To add, I also lived and still live in the South.
My dad and his sisters (catholic family with 9 kids) have multiple stories about ball lighting from down here in north Florida. In one instance a bluish white light about the size of a soccer ball appeared at one end of a field my dad and aunt were playing in, it rushed across the field towards them and they ran away and it exploded before it caught up to them. In another story they saw an orb of ball lightning come out of one of the sink faucets about the size of a tennis ball, it floated through the room and through a wall before disappearing. My dad is an x ray physicist and my aunts all very reliable academic people not prone to exaggeration. I believe the stories
My grandma saw it in the south to and it' was crazy and my mom saw a strange ball light inside a house and it's was rapidly flashing getting faster and faster till it disappeared
4:43 it's really funny how when "educational" youtubers cannot find that one guy's photo they just some other guy's random photo, like "he has mustache, so it's close enough" lol
That video about the brown mountain lights where the second light popped in, it didn't occur to me until I was talking with my girlfriend about it, that the second light is most likely a reflection from behind the camera, and it actually can't be part of the scene. The image we are seeing is shot though an image intensifier, aka a night vision tube. This means that the image we see is on a green phosphor screen similar to an old CRT TV, hence why the whole image is this green hue, and why the bluish blob of light can't be coming from it. This is probably a camera pointed into a night vision goggle and someone accidentally turning on a flashlight behind, which reflected on the screen of the goggles.
My grandmother told us kids that she witnessed a ball lighting in her childhood, it went inside opened doors and went out of the window without doing any damage. Whenever it is thundering during hot summer, we used to close all the windows not to create draft to avoid the ball lighting.
regarding ball lightnings: once we were having a bbq, i think it was 2018, and a thunderstorm started coming. first lighting hit a tree like 100m away, and during that we put the grill and the chairs away. then we had a ball lightning. its like a normal lighting striking right infront of you grabbing all the enegery in the area to form the ball (the whole power went out and the power lines also had sparks coming out of them
Once, when I was a little kid, I was sitting in my living room and there was an intense summer lightning/thunderstorm going on outside. We had a window ac unit in the dining room and all of a sudden, a ball of light came through the ac unit and drifted through the dining before disappearing. I was so confused and had no idea what I had just witnessed. A few years later I had learned about ball lighting and discovered that that’s exactly what I had seen when I was a kid! I definitely believe in them since I literally saw one!
My grandmother once told me of when ball lightning went through the house. My mother has also told me that story. neither my mom nor grandmother were/are prone to lying or telling tall tails. If my mother says she saw it, then she did see it. It came into the livingroom window, traveled down the hallway and out the bathroom window.
I grew up in East Texas, and now live near San Antonio. I've only recently heard about the Esperanza Lights. I've seen the Marfa lights on multiple occasions (one being a very active night). Same goes for the Saratoga Lights. Glowing gas in swamps is not uncommon. The common denominator in those areas is high hydrocarbon production...which Texas is full of. On another note, my wife & I had dinner one night at a restaurant north of San Antonio. After dinner we took a walk down by the river there. It was fall and turning cooler and we made our way down a dark path with a bridge over a small spring fed creek that flowed into the river. It was dark enough that night that we could clearly see flashes of blue and green light shooting across the creek. Absolutely beautiful colors, and was caused by some bioluminescent creature.
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I spent some time in the mountains of Kentucky and I can guarantee at least SOME of the mystery lights are moonshiners and mushroom farmers checking on their operations. The lights can often pop up in strange places because they are using cave systems. If you see the light moving, it's a person moving through the forest. If the light glows but doesn't move, it's likely light leaking out of a cave that is being used for moonshine or mushrooms.
Ah, that's a good explanation (for at least some as you said). Sometimes, it's the simple things people jump over when trying to either go with supernatural or crazy scientific speculation.
I thought if you see something in the woods know you didn't
Would never guess cave shrooming is a such a big deal in Kentucky O_O
what if it was IN the sky tho
@@breannathompson9094 Obviously that's aliens.
Ball lighting is real. My mother, my two younger brothers, and myself all witnessed this. Its happened in rural NC back in the late 80s. A blueish white orb floated down our dirty road past our house. It was traveling around 5 to10 mph and hit a very large pine tree in front of my grandparents house right next door to us. There was a very loud exposition and it killed the pine tree stripping the bark off one side of the tree and leaving a black charred mark around 4 feet in diameter on the side it hit. We were all mesmerized just watching it float until it exploded. It made the exact same sound as lighting striking a tree.
I believe in ball lightning not because i’ve experienced it, and i haven’t experienced it, but because there are so many people who have detail descriptions of it
I have a feeling that the guy that didn't want to talk about his experience after chasing down the mysterious light, was because he discovered that it was just a dude with a lantern, and he was too disappointed and embarrassed to admit he wasted so much of his time on it.
I thought of that, too!
Lol
thats exactly what I thought haha!
My mom, born in 1947, lived in rural Michigan. She says ball lightening used to hover over the old electric fences. They also had the old old phones with the bells on top and little talking horn, she said they'd get ball lightening off of that during storms
I saw ball lighting in Detroit in 2005! My father’s apartment had a backyard and it floated through the yard before puffing into nothing. It was wild!
The concept of the will o' the wisps actually just being a borgy (bug orgy) is so funny to me
I loved it when Seegle said "It's Swoogling time" and Sweegled all over the place.
"No, mother, it's just the Brown Mountain Lights."
"Brown mountain lights? At this time of year, at this time of day, and this part of the country, Localized entirely within your kitchen?"
@@logangillespie7675may I see it?
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@@Onkusisaword well Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say, you steam a good ham
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My dad grew up in eastern Tennessee, He witnessed ball lightning along with his family, come through a screen door of their house, bounce off a hard wood floor, and out an open window opposite the screen door. This did happen during a thunderstorm at night, but they lived in a rural area with not many power lines.
My dad's side of the family has always told their stories on seeing a ghost light called "Mooneyham" here in North Georgia. He hung himself on a foggy New Year's Eve, and that's when they always saw the light. It followed my dad and his girlfriend in the car once time and shot straight up into the air.
What part of North Georgia? I might need to do some "field research"
@@Blowingmind Gwinnett county
I'm down not far from Savannah. Have you guys ever heard about the ones in Applying County.
@@bri0013 I haven't, but I'll look into that. I find them fascinating. It's been 12 years since I've been to Savannah, but it is a wonderful old city.
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Where I live in southeast Ga, there a phenomena people call swampfire. It's mostly seen in the Okefenokee Swamp, but it's also seen in swampy areas outside of the swamp, mostly in swampy, marshy areas. It's a rare electrostatic phenomenon involving submerged methane. I've seen it once or twice in my life. When I saw it, there was an eerie blueish-white just below the surface of the water that lingered for a few minutes before disbursing. There are stories of people seeing a ball or cloud of light rising out of the water for a few minutes before disbursing, some have even said to have seen a little burp of fire right before the light disburses. Now swampfire might be a phenomena similar to Will O' The Wisp.
People also claim to see Will O' the Wisp in graveyards, so it being some sort of electrostatic phenomena involving methane or other gases tied to decomposition.
There's a ghost light near where I live called the Surrency Ghost Light. I've never seen it and none of my friends have never seen it, but there are people who swear up and down they've seen it. The sightings all center around a bridge that passes over some railroad tracks. People who have seen it said that they were driving across that bridge late during a foggy night and they saw the light go across the bridge. The story of the Surrency Ghost Light says that there was a railroad worker who was travelling along the tracks with a lantern when he was hit by a train and died. The stories differ slightly, some say the railroad worker thought the train was being delayed and decided to lay down on the tracks to take a quick nap, some say while he was walking along the tracks, he tripped, fell and got his foot caught in the tracks, some say he had been drinking and passed out on the tracks, some say he was killed by a local and the murder placed his body on the tracks to cover up their crime.
Of course Surrency is a bit of a hotbed for paranormal sightings and strange discoveries. There's a sinkhole or an old drill hole that's called the Hell Hole and locals claim that it's an entrance to Hell. There the old Surrency High School that the locals claim is haunted. There's the Surrency Bright Spot(which I think is closer to Odum) where a geological survey using ground sonar was carried out and an anomaly was found close the bedrock, but the people who own the land wouldn't allow anyone to drill to find out. Many people have posited that the Bright Spot is either a natural reservoir of natural gas or a very large deposit of kaolin.
Kaolin is only found in specific clay deposits and is mostly mined in the Piedmont region of Ga, but there it's also mined in spots across southern Ga. Kaolin is primarily used in blackboard chalk as a hardening agent and in kitty litter as an absorbent agent.
@oldeskul this is mostly unrelated but I'm from central Florida and spent a lot of summers in north Florida/Georgia. I LOVE hearing people unfamiliar with the name try to say Okefenokee, or any south eastern native names. It brings me endless joy.
The rest of your comment is super interesting, btw!! Is Hell Hole some place that can be visited like Devils Millhopper here in Florida?
@@manyabrana The Surrency Hell Hole sits on private property and is full of water because of the water table here, people used to visit it and even swim in it. After an incident where some folks went out there, got drunk, started swimming and one of them drowned, the owners of the property put up locked steel gates to keep people out. With the exception of the Ghost Light and the old High School, most of the oddities in Surrency are on private property, and there's a lot of oddities in Surrency.
Where is the hell hole in surrency? I live in rincon ga close to savannah and have never heard a most of this super interesting though
@@cbass04 I don't recall. It's back in the woods a ways. It used to be part of the tour around Surrency on Surrency Day, but the owners of the land closed off access to their land in the late-90's. The Surrency Hell Hole is a big hole in the ground that filled up with water. I don't remember if it's a sink hole or an old drill hole, I remember that people used to go swimming in it. There's a lot of holes that filled up with water across Appling County where people would go swimming, the Jenny Hole, the Blue Hole. The Hell Hole was a story some people in Surrency made up, like how the people made up the story of the Handshake grave and the Satilla House.
My husband's grandfather said that he saw ball lightning enter the house, then disappear. Interesting stuff.
My mom and I both witnessed something not as great as ball lighting many years ago. My mom had milk cooling in a large (approx. 18 x 8 inch) metal pan covered with aluminum foil resting on the kitchen sink a little distance down from a screened window. It wasn't storming, but we both saw something like a static charge go from the screen to the pan top, making a sharp tapping sound on the foil. If we both hadn't seen and heard it, I might think I was imagining it, but we both yelled out at the same time.
About ten years ago i was standing on my front porch it had been raining but seemed to be about over. I saw a bright flash in the corner of my eye and turned to see this very bright ball of light about the size of a basketball and it was actually bouncing down the street coming in my direction. I saw it bounce four or five times then i heard a very loud snap and it was gone. There were no power lines down or anything like that. I walked out to where i last saw it but there were no burn marks or anything.
Earthquake lights are still to this day the most insane thing I've ever seen. I live in New Zealand and in 2016 I went outside during quite an intense earthquake around midnight. About 20 seconds in, the entire sky started lighting up mostly Blue and Green above me. I assumed at the time it was power flashes and the earthquake must have been very close. Turns out I was nearly 600km from the Epicentre and nowhere within 200km of where I lived even experienced any power issues. Being half asleep while the ground is moving beneath you and the sky is continuously lighting up is quite an experience
I believe you. My aunt witnessed flashes of light about a minute preceding the Christchurch quake, and she lives in the country. She happened to be awake as she often is, and uses no curtains (because country). So she was lying in bed puzzled by the lights, then Bam! earthquake.
Yes, I got to witness the same phenomenon in Mexico City during the September 8, 2017 earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2 degrees in Richter scale. This happened at around 11 p.m. My husband and I were about to go to sleep, we were literally pulling the comforter out, when the seismic alert started blaring off. During the earthquake, the sky brightened out with the same flashes of blue-green light you described. It was soo freaky. And everything we have a night-time earthquake above 6.0 degrees, those lights come out again.
I was with my now husband and a friend on the Outer Banks of NC watching a thunderstorm coming in over the ocean at night. One of us commented on how large the moon suddenly looked and then we realized that it wasn't the moon at all as the moon was also visible. It was a large ball that was coming in our direction and turning from whitish to red. It just kept getting bigger and bigger until it was so close and large we started getting scared, I even think myself or my friend started screaming. Then it suddenly burst like a firework and was gone in an instant. We didn't know at the time, but I now realize it was ball lightning. Still one of the craziest things I've ever personally witnessed.
i've seen ball lightning myself. i was in probably about 3rd grade, we were driving back from a play at my elementary school during a storm & suddenly we heard the sound of thunder and a ball of blue-white fire came bouncing along the road in front of us. it bounced a couple times before exploding and i remember we had to swerve to avoid it lol. i've tried asking my family about it but they don't remember and i had chalked it up to an active imagination for years until i recently learned about ball lightning and i'm convinced this is what i saw. there were powerlines along the road we were driving on, by the way.
A few years back, we were driving on the Florida turnpike and there was a pretty bad storm, and we saw really weird blue flashing lights from the clouds. Very weird
not very descriptive, that kind of sounds like regular lightning strikes🤷🏽
@@JustRyzlen that’s the joke.
@@A_sad_vegetable i know.
Mustve been Thor. Was he really loud? Usually really loud.
Got caught in a sudden storm in the mideast once. Blue point-light flashes definitely happened mid-lightning.
When I was about 8-9 years old, I was witness to something odd that I can't explain. I was at my grandparents cabin with a friend. I was sitting by the water looking out on the water. The landscape next to the water, behind me, is a quite steep hill. It was early in the day, summer, clear skies. My friend was about 150 meters away. As I'm looking out on the water, I suddenly hear a relatively loud crack, and from my right side, seems just a few meters away, slightly above me, I see something blurry and reddish just absolutely zoom out across the water. The water is about 1400 meters wide, and I lost sight of it when it seemed to be about half way across the water, within just 1-2 seconds.
Knowing my friend was near the water, I ran over to him to ask if he saw or heard anything. But when he told me he did indeed see it, I could immediately tell that he was just playing, so I couldn't believe him. My grandparents were inside the cabin, and they did not see or hear anything.
I can't even begin to guess what this was. All I know is that I am absolutely sure it did happen, and that it wasn't a product of imagination or anything like that.
Small meteor?
@@riverAmazonNZ that's why I added the detail about the landscape behind me, a steep forested hill. Whatever it was seemed to travel horizontally, from behind me. So it seems unlikely. But while I am sure "something" happened, I can't be sure of the exact details. Due to the sudden and unexpected nature of the event, I maybe wasn't able to process exactly what happened. But the way I recall it, it came from behind me. However, it could have been a meteor.
I have been sharing this story various places, hoping someone would tell me they experienced something similar.
Another hypothesis I came across, is that it could have been some sort of rare "ball lightning"-like phenomenon, resulting from geological ... stuff
Stray bullet (hunters nearby?) where-ish was it?
I have never been this early for a swegle studios video this is amazing
Me too.
Witnessed the Marfa, Texas lights in person in 2015. They have a viewing area on the edge of town away from the town lights with public binoculars. It was very eerie to witness them sort of dance across the desert horizon. My band was playing at a bar there called Padre’s. It was a funeral home converted into a bar. So, the lights weren’t the only strange experience. Ha!
I was wondering if anyone would mention the Marta lights, and here you are!
I commented also on the Marfa Lights...they're legit.
My family has had a house up in the mountains of North Carolina for a long time. Growing up we would always go up there and sometimes go on hikes during dusk. And while I’m not a superstitious kind of guy, I have seen on multiple occasions the mountain lights get as close as only a couple feet away and they are truly something unbelievable. And when I tell people the stories about them I always feel like one of those crazy folklore people, but when it comes to the mountain lights I will defend them because I have witnessed them firsthand.
I purchased myself the Significant Tornadoes 1974-2022 book in celebration of my birthday. I’m super excited!!
The way the blue-ish one of the Brown Mountain lights moved makes it look like some kind of reflection in the camera lens. Its movements don't appear to be tethered to real physical space, but to the camera itself.
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This footage has been admitted to be fake by the original uploader, apparently. Which is a shame.
Yeah that was my exact thought. It looks just like lens reflection.
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Jake just made my day. I always love it when he uploads a video.
As a kid in 1992 there was a severe thunderstorm. My parents had us sleep downstairs in case we needed to be up quickly to go down into the basement. Well, me and my sister were lying on our couch and chairs facing our dining room. When a orange ball of light passed by our dining room window. Now here's the thing it couldn't have been a car. There was a 12' shed 20 feet from the back of the house. light from the road was blocked by the house and fence. Light from the alley was blocked by the shead. No marks in the mud to show anything went through the yard.
A really uncommon name for Will O' the Wisp is Corpsefire. The first time I heard it was the Super Unique Zombie "Corpsefire" in Diablo II and Runic (made up of same devs of the first two Diablo games) would use corpsefire to describe blue, fiery ghost enemies encountered in Act III of Torchlight II which is set in a swampy environment.
In Laura ingalls Wilder's book On the banks of Plum Creek she describes balls of light that come down the chimney and cross the floor but did not leave scorch marks. I have always wondered about that and thought perhaps it was ball lightning.
Ooooo I've had this sitting in my memory as an incomplete little tidbit of a story and I could never recall where it was from, thank you!!!
@@Avendesora I know that feeling! Glad you found this one. I find roughly typing the scene on a Google search sometimes works.
@@cherilangguth2151 I do that when the adhd lets me 🥲 I have finely honed the skill of only thinking about these things when I have no way to check and forgetting again immediately.
Perfect video for my Friday evening. I was told as a child, ball lightning blew up a chimney on a house in the street I lived on.
It’s always a good day when swegle uploads :)
Bless the day you decided to open a UA-cam channel! 🙌🏼
7:40 The entire time after "well, why don't we see them today?" I was screaming "light pollution!" at my screen. People think it's only a thing in cities but it still impact a large area around cities and towns. I used to LARP in the woods as a teen about 30 km from the nearest small town and the night sky still looked pretty much the same as smack dab in the middle of a city. But two years ago my uni went to Kenya and we camped in a nature preserve 100s of kilometers from the nearest settlement which didn't even have electricity. The night sky there looked like it bellonged to a different planet, it was so vibrant.
One ball lightning theory I’ve seen is that it could be caused by silica oxide. If lightning hits sandy ground, it can vaporise the sand and make silica oxide. If there’s carbon present in the soil, from dead leaves for example, the carbon sucks away the oxygen leaving behind pure silica vapour. As it recombines with oxygen, it creates light. I saw this in a How It Works magazine, though it is just a theory.
There are also water discharge experiments which create similar phenomena - which explain some of the encounters at sea
There is a famous light phenomena from Norway. In Hessdalen, lights have appeared over the mountain Rognefjell long before cars or electric lights. Lights have been reported there for over 200 years. Still no one can explain them. However, there is an old mine there and it could have something to do with it scientist think.
I was really surprised that the Hessdalen Lights weren't mentioned, since they're the best researched of all these luminous phenomena
I love this stuff
The most rare, bizarre phenomena discussed on this channel just absolutely fascinates me
My grandma's sister was struck by lightning while doing the dishes. She said a ball of lightning came out of the faucet and startled her (obviously lol) so she started backing away from the sink. It came towards her and hit her, knocking her to the floor. She had minor electrical burns. And she was not the type to exaggerate, so I've always believed her story.
I’m a scientific-minded individual, and I’ve witnessed the Brown Mountain lights. I have heard of no good explanation for them. In addition, these lights have no swamps around their origin.
You have a really great way of explaining things in your videos. You make all of this sound so interesting and make sense.
At 18:22 you show a picture of like 200 wires all crossing each other and I have to guess they are all electrical since no cable was around during that picture. How the hell did they survive even one storm. As soon as one touched the other I would think it would cause a terrible chain reaction.
An Electrical Engineer I used to work with had an old fashioned large satellite dish several meters away from his house up a small hill. Lightning struck it. He observed ball lightning come from the dish, down the wires, through his storm door, run along the kitchen baseboard, up the electrical cord to his kitchen clock which was burnt out as a result. He said it happened again after he repaired the dish, maybe not the clock but from the dish.
- Ball lightning seems to occur frequently in "tubes" like chimneys, underground stone hallways (old houses/mansions/roman tunnel walkways in the UK), and submarines.
11:17 That almost looks like the reflection of someone's face looking at their illuminated phone. I have no idea what sort of equipment setup they had for this, but the fact that it shows up as blue when everything else is monochromatic green makes me think that they were filming the view through a night vision lens rather than recording the night vision directly. Then, someone behind the camera checks their phone, the light bounces off the viewfinder of the night vision and into the lens of the secondary recording camera. In fact, I would bet that they actually were filming through the night vision WITH their phone.
Exactly, like seeing color in a Black/White TV tube, just impossible, by design!
I remember the story that my wifes grandmother told. They were unside in their apartment with a thunderstorm outside. Suddenly a ball of light came through their wall, not just anywhere through their wall but coming out if their power-socket. They heard a sound first and then it came shooting out, directly towards their window. I dont recall if it broke the window, but it scared the shit out if everyone, and the grandma was always sitting with a packed bag of their most needed stuff in case they had to leave the appartement quickly^^
That video of the ball lighting in someone's house seems terrifying even if it's not real.
fungi growing on rotten wood can also glow in the dark, some can even glow in the air for a while as dust. i have seen that while my army service in a rainy night middle in a old swamp forrest.
6:49 Love this hypothesis. My dog has a glow on the dark ball and when it’s pitch black outside you can see the ball but not him. It would look really freaky to someone who wasn’t aware of the dog.
We have The Dover Lights here in Arkansas. Loved the video!
Ball lightning does exist as I've experienced it first hand and was within a few inches of it. Most peaceful serene experience I ever had in my life. I couldn't move outside of just following it with my eyes as something was keeping me from moving on my own as I wanted to reach out and touch it. It wasn't fear though. This was inside a house as it was just effortlessly moving through the hallway at 3am during winter time. There were no storms and it disappeared within a vent at the end of the hallway...
Source: trust me bro
It vented? Did you call a meeting?
Hello @SwegleStudios, for what its worth, Ive seen a Will o the Wisp. At the time I thought I had seen a supernatural phenomenon, it was about 20 years ago. Your video now absolutely confirms to me that what I saw was what what you have described in your video, it was about 30 meters from me, floating suspended about a meter above a small marsh and was a glowing blue, ball of what is most likely, gas. So thanks, now I know. I always knew there was a rational explanation for it.
Hi! These videos are always so cool!!
There was a case of ball lightning a few years ago at the campus of a Chinese university.
It was a few years ago so I don't remember the details of the article, but apparently it is thought to be caused by a lightning strike hitting soil that has a certain composition and rotting leaves on it, which starts the chemical reaction that is the base of the phenomenon.
Fun stuff, Jake. The ball lightning story from VT sounds more like a small meteor to me than ball lightning, but you never know....🙂
Happy you made this video because the whole phenomenon of "weird glowing ball of light" seems like something that happens all over the world. Even here in Malaysia, I've heard stories of people seeing glowing floating orbs, or sightings of them being caught on camera. I like to think there's logical reasons to it, like gases reacting to electrical charges, but it's still interesting.
I found your channel not long ago through your tornado content, but I'd like you to know that I also find these videos of other interesting atmospheric phenomena quite enjoyable, too.
I had a weird fixation with exotic forms of lightning when I was in the 8th grade, stuff like red sprites or blue jets, and ball lightning was chief among them. I even asked my science teacher about it on more than one occasion.
I am happy we've gotten to the point in humnity, where we don't go crazy like in the medeival times, but actually do take effort/time to explain it scientifically, instead of it just being a miracle.
Really enjoying your channel! Great stuff! Subbed.
I really do hope that maybe one day I’ll be able to see one of these events firsthand. That would be so crazy.
In Missouri I have seen St. Elmo’s fire I think is the name. It was in a damp field between cities where there is less light pollution. In a field in the spring that had the purple weeds growing in them that often happens before they plant. Under most of the plants was a blue green glow. Very faint. All the lights were on the West side of the plants.
The last time I went to brown mountain I saw a light come up from the mountain and explode in the air
Thanks for another excellent video, the content was a lot of fun! Great research as well,, I imagine it was a lot of work! Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next video!
YES another phenomenon video
This channel always covers the most interesting topics.
The world is filled with many suprises no doubt.
IN SWEGLE WE TRUST! In all seriousness though, you made me truly fall in love with learning about all this stuff. Truly cannot get enough, I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel !
Your voice lends something special to your videos.
I think a lot of footage of Earthquake lights are actually just power flashes. You always see them on video in and around cities, after all.
I actually saw these once at Gettysburg when me and my friend and family were camping on the battlefields. Me and my friend were sitting on the river all night hearing stuff all around us and feeling wierd sensations, and around 3am right next to the river a bright ball of light appeared and danced around and then disappeared..it was quite insane and an awesome memory my friend and I have and can talk about because we were both there. We both ran in terror lol
It was probably 10 feet from us and it was so bright it was hard to look at. Definitely not a flame or bugs. I don't care if people believe it lol
Surprised I managed to catch a video this early, I'm usually SO late lol! I love weird weather phenomena, they're so whimsical (and occasionally spooky)
I know you only touched on it for like 30 seconds, but the bioluminescent mushroom theory is the best. explanation I have for the Easton White Lady ghost… being both a forager and resident of the next town over, I can confirm 100% that nowhere else have I seen such large flushes of Omphalotus illudens, a bioluminescent mushroom, as around those roads… sometimes flushing up the side of a tree to 5-6 feet in height, about the right height to be mistaken for a human size.
STRAIGHT UP TO THE CONTENT NO INTRO NO NOTHING. this is what we like lol
He literally had a intro explaining what he is gonna talk about
I'm from England, and I can confirm your tunnels theory is absolutely accurate. Also, thanks for the fungi kingdom shout out. Those guys have the answers to many things. 🍄🌩
In the southwest corner of Missouri, near Joplin, there is a country road that runs along a field and chicken farm-- there is what we call the "spook light", which fits this description precisely. It lingers in the center of the road but it never draws near. It vanishes after you travel about half a mile.
I've driven out there dozens of times and shown it to a bunch of people. It's surreal to experience.
Spooky for sure.
You can see it basically any time around 11 or 12 at night in the dog days of summer.
It's so reliable in its appearances that it is actually a tourist attraction.
My grandparents told me stories about what their families experienced growing up, and they said if ball lightning comes near the house doors or windows they said cover the mirrors so it doesn't attract the light and open all the other door or windows and it will pass straight threw so it must have happened alot for them to figure that out, so who knows that took place in the out back of Australia.
I saw the ghost light of Saratoga, TX. It was really creepy. I would love to go again. I wussed out the first time and left after the light appeared.
During WW2, ball lightning was apparently such a common enough hazard in US submersibles that there was a very particular way of connecting and disconnecting batteries so as to NOT result in ball lightning. I'm certain no thorough study was made of this at the time because the US sub fleet was kinda a neglected part of the navy, especially earlier in the war (see: the torpedo that does a 360° and blows up its own ship), but there might still be some documentation laying neglected in some archive regarding the phenomena.
Could also just be stressed out, superstitious sailors - but I think there's something to the vacuum-sealed metal tube submerged in water aspect of it, since you get things like St. Elmo's Fire in airplanes when flying through certain clouds.
There is totally a way to experiment with this aspect of the alleged phenomenon.
I've seen ball lightning before.
It was moving along some train tracks.
I wanna say it was about the size of a good size grapefruit.
Definitely among the cooler and weirder things I've seen.
My whole family on my mom's side has had at least one person per generation who saw ball lightning. I am the youngest one, during a storm around 7-8 years ago. I was standing in the back door, recording the storm because it had these gorgeous purple hues. I put away my camera, and kept watching for a while until there was a flash from the corner of my eye, followed by extremely loud buzzing. I looked over and saw a pale purple/pink ball of light descend towards our shed (where I live those are all connected, so it was just a flat roof for ±60 meters) and watched it hover just above it. Having heard my mom's story of her ball lightning experience (where it went into a home and scorched the ground) I immediately closed the door and ran inside. Not recording it will haunt me till I die, but at least I have the footage of the rest of the storm.
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There's a mysterious light phenomena that occurs in a neighboring town where I live called the Oviedo lights. My father became disenchanted with it as he hung out at the bridge where people saw these lights for almost the entire 1970's nearly every weekend. He never saw it and was almost always a he said she said thing. Now he did talk to at least one person who claimed to have seen it firsthand, but he seemed to either be on something or liked claiming extraordinary things for attention.
But yeah, locally it's well known and even showed up in the Weird Florida books by Charlie Carlson.
Another famous “ghost light” is the Chapel Hill Light in, you guessed it, Chapel Hill, TN. People gather at a specific intersection to see it at the RR tracks in town.
camper in the wood making fire
observer: this is some serious phenomena shit
When I was a kid my grandmother told me about when she saw a small blue/white "fireball" that hovered in the air and then moved over a lake. Now that I'm older I'm pretty sure she explained ball lightning by the way she described it and it moved. As a child I was a bit thrown off by her dialect, she called it "eldkule" which means fire ball (in my dialect that would be ildkule), but I heard it as "elgkule" or moose ball 😅. She wasn't one to tell tall tales and she was never online or anything. I'm 100% certain she wasn't lying. I'm not 100% certain if it was actually ball lightning, but it sure sounds like it. I wish I could ask her more in detail.
My grandfather grew up on a dairy farm here in northeast Wisconsin in the 1950's. This is a story he told me and I kinda forgot about it untill I started watching this video. Here is his story as he told me.
It happened as he was walking back home after a day of fishing. Growing up on a farm meant that you always had some work to do, bit that day after the morning milking was pretty much his. It was a hot, humid, Midwestern summer of the kind that made the air into a thick wet blanket that clung to your skin and stuck to your lungs. He had gotten to the dirt road that lead to the family farm when he felt the hair on his body stand up, from his head to his toes.
Maybe twenty feet in front of him, floating a few feet off the ground, was a ball of blue light. It floated lazily off the ground with a slight sway to it as it passed on front of him. There was a sound to it as well, a humming cackling sound that Grandpa would one day associate with the high gain antenna of the radio recoviers he used on the Marine Corp. But here he was a 12 year old boy who was convinced he had seen a ghost. He waited for it to pass into a field, were it dissapated into nothing and than he ran the rest of the way home.
It wouldnt be until later in his life that he would learn that what he had seen was most likely ball lightning.
I've seen ball lightening. I was around 8 years old and there was a particularly bad thunderstorm one night, me being afraid of storms, was sleeping with my parents. I remember at the end of the storm was one last VERY bright lightening flash and one VERY large thunder. Immediately after, a blue disc formed on the wall, out shot a blue ball over the bed, and vanished into the mirror on the other side of the room. I'll never forget it and the smell it left behind. To add, I also lived and still live in the South.
My dad and his sisters (catholic family with 9 kids) have multiple stories about ball lighting from down here in north Florida. In one instance a bluish white light about the size of a soccer ball appeared at one end of a field my dad and aunt were playing in, it rushed across the field towards them and they ran away and it exploded before it caught up to them.
In another story they saw an orb of ball lightning come out of one of the sink faucets about the size of a tennis ball, it floated through the room and through a wall before disappearing.
My dad is an x ray physicist and my aunts all very reliable academic people not prone to exaggeration. I believe the stories
My grandma saw it in the south to and it' was crazy and my mom saw a strange ball light inside a house and it's was rapidly flashing getting faster and faster till it disappeared
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4:43 it's really funny how when "educational" youtubers cannot find that one guy's photo they just some other guy's random photo, like "he has mustache, so it's close enough" lol
Thanks for tickling my brain Swegle
That video about the brown mountain lights where the second light popped in, it didn't occur to me until I was talking with my girlfriend about it, that the second light is most likely a reflection from behind the camera, and it actually can't be part of the scene.
The image we are seeing is shot though an image intensifier, aka a night vision tube. This means that the image we see is on a green phosphor screen similar to an old CRT TV, hence why the whole image is this green hue, and why the bluish blob of light can't be coming from it. This is probably a camera pointed into a night vision goggle and someone accidentally turning on a flashlight behind, which reflected on the screen of the goggles.
Having milk and cookies while watching Swegle = good time 💜
My grandmother told us kids that she witnessed a ball lighting in her childhood, it went inside opened doors and went out of the window without doing any damage. Whenever it is thundering during hot summer, we used to close all the windows not to create draft to avoid the ball lighting.
regarding ball lightnings: once we were having a bbq, i think it was 2018, and a thunderstorm started coming. first lighting hit a tree like 100m away, and during that we put the grill and the chairs away. then we had a ball lightning. its like a normal lighting striking right infront of you grabbing all the enegery in the area to form the ball (the whole power went out and the power lines also had sparks coming out of them
I love seeing the fireflies (a.k.a. glow worms, light bugs) all over my backyard. So beautiful!
Once, when I was a little kid, I was sitting in my living room and there was an intense summer lightning/thunderstorm going on outside. We had a window ac unit in the dining room and all of a sudden, a ball of light came through the ac unit and drifted through the dining before disappearing. I was so confused and had no idea what I had just witnessed. A few years later I had learned about ball lighting and discovered that that’s exactly what I had seen when I was a kid! I definitely believe in them since I literally saw one!
You should do a review of the Twisters movie.
My grandmother once told me of when ball lightning went through the house. My mother has also told me that story. neither my mom nor grandmother were/are prone to lying or telling tall tails. If my mother says she saw it, then she did see it. It came into the livingroom window, traveled down the hallway and out the bathroom window.
Finally early for a Swegle video!
I grew up in East Texas, and now live near San Antonio. I've only recently heard about the Esperanza Lights. I've seen the Marfa lights on multiple occasions (one being a very active night). Same goes for the Saratoga Lights. Glowing gas in swamps is not uncommon. The common denominator in those areas is high hydrocarbon production...which Texas is full of. On another note, my wife & I had dinner one night at a restaurant north of San Antonio. After dinner we took a walk down by the river there. It was fall and turning cooler and we made our way down a dark path with a bridge over a small spring fed creek that flowed into the river. It was dark enough that night that we could clearly see flashes of blue and green light shooting across the creek. Absolutely beautiful colors, and was caused by some bioluminescent creature.