Skeptoid #226: The Brown Mountain Lights
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2010
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago.
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| 0:00.0 | Ghost lights are a fascinating topic, in part because they're so mysterious, and in |
| 0:08.5 | part because many of them are actually out there, and you can see them for yourself. |
| 0:14.5 | One such example is the famous Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina. |
| 0:18.7 | It's been pretty conclusively solved, but a lot of people refuse to accept the solution. |
| 0:25.1 | Today, we're going to find out why, and that's coming up next, Unskeptoid. |
| 0:36.1 | Hey everyone, Brian here. |
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| 1:20.1 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
| 1:23.1 | The Brown Mountain Lights. |
| 1:26.1 | Come with us now to the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, about 110 kilometers northwest of Charlotte. |
| 1:32.1 | Within the Pizga National Forest are rocky gorges, streams, and green everywhere you look. |
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