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Hey guys welcome to Hillbilly Horror Stories midweek episode number 19. This is a show we've got JJ Crane. We told you a little bit about him last week.

He's an author, he's got several books, that's several more coming and great personality. He's still working on a Ricky Lake show.

Oh, ready to like. Nice.

But he did a lot of TV stuff and springboarded into being an author. So the story that we're going to talk about tonight, it's a cemetery story.

Okay. Pretty cool. It's called the Silver Cliff Lights.

Sounds interesting. So Silver was discovered in 1880 in wet mountain valley in Colorado. Prospectors as you can imagine they flocked to this area in Colorado.

And soon the town of Silverquick was born and had about 5,000 people from nothing to 5,000 people. The Silver soon ran out though and the town dwindled down to about 100 people.

Now above this town up on a hill was a graveyard. Strange happenings have been reported in this graveyard all the way back from when the first bodies were actually buried there.

The first was reported by a group of miners. They saw faint blue lights floating above each grave.

Their stories were pretty much I guess poo pooed though because they had just left one of the local saloons and may have been a little bit tipsy.

So nobody wanted to take the word of some drunk people miners that said they go bad and happen to see some lights.

Soon though some sober citizens started to see these lights. In 1956, the West Mountain Tribune wrote a story about the lights. In 1967 the New York Times wrote a story about it. So they started to pick up some stain.

This brought a bunch of tourists to come see the ghost lights. The town began to grow again. Two years later Edward Lennahan from National Geographic wrote an article about his own experiences there in the small town.

So the night that he arrived at town one of the locals by name of Bill Klein drove Lennahan out to the graveyard.

They had no sooner got there than they turned the cars headlights off and Klein started pointing and said there they are you see them? They're right over there.

And he did see them. Round spots of blueish white light above all of the graves. Lennahan stepped towards one of these lights but it disappeared.

But then it started gradually reappearing again. He points his flashlight towards it but Ollie could see was an old headstone.

They spent the next 15 minutes looking around trying to find an explanation where could these lights be from.

Klein told Lennahan that most of the people think that it was from the town's lights reflecting up there. Or the lights from nearby wet cliff.

Lennahan pointed out though that these two towns were so far away and they were so small there's no way that they could have caused this phenomenon.

Klein pointed out that he and his wife have seen the lights going on here when there was a really thick fog.

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