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Get ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This is Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren.

I am Joshua P. Warren, and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new,

mind-blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home,

and a lot more. And on this edition of the show, the Brown Mountain Lights.

Part One. Because this is a big story. I don't know how many parts we're going to have,

but this has been a big part of my life, and I decided I'm just going to take my time

and tell you this whole story. However many parts it takes, and it's kind of like a soap opera,

I believe you will be surprised. Okay, I was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina,

in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains there in the western part of the state.

That's where my family on both sides had been for generations. And if you drive a little over

an hour from Asheville, close to Morganton, North Carolina, you enter the Pysga National Forest,

and you find Brown Mountains. It's on the border of Burke and Caldwell counties.

This is a long, low-lying ridge, about 2300 feet in elevation, and there's an overlook there,

off of, they call it Highway 181, where you can park and look at this mountain.

And here is what I once wrote about Brown Mountain. The backside of the mountain is quite lush.

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