Don't be afraid. Lock the doors. Turn out the lights. Inclimb into bed. It's time for

a real building. Dead time. Stories.

Ghost lights used to be called Will of the Wisps. They were a weird glow over swamps

or bugs. Nowadays people report strange lights in the sky in all sorts of places, often

over highways. Some are more famous than others, would possibly the most famous being the Marfa

lights. These lights get their name because they're often seen in the Davis Mountains near

Marfa, Texas. In other locations such as Joplin, Missouri, they are referred to as Spooklights.

The state of Arkansas has two of these stories, the Garden Light and the subject of today's

story, the Dover Lights. Imagine this. You're driving your car in the

dead of night down a long, twisting gravel road. Cell phone reception spotty and the destination

you're heading toward is not exact on any map. You pull up to a dirt flattened clearing

in the trees with a stone wall three feet high. The wall is overlooking a drop into complete

darkness. If you squint a few trees can be seen at the bottom. Your phone's flashlight

is the only source of light that you have. You might sit there for five minutes or even

a couple of hours waiting, waiting on the stories to be true. You get excited only for a

firefly to flutter away. The Dover Lights.

Depending on who you asked, the mysterious orbs floating back and forth in the strange

patterns below the overlooking Dover could be the product of any different legends. Nobody

knows who these lost sozar wander in the hillside, but spectators remain captivated.

There are stories of Spanish conquista door searching for gold. Native American burial

grounds, co-moners trapped in the eternal labyrinth and the most common story of all, a doctor

in search of silver. The story goes that a doctor went to an older couple's home to aid

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