The Ozark Spook Lights

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Nearly every region of the United States has its own lore surrounding supernatural "lights" that have no clear source—the Ozarks are no exception. Unlike most other phenomena, though, the Spook Lights of the Ozarks resist the usual explanations. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Hosted by Laurah Norton Written, Researched, Scored, Engineered, and Produced by Maura Currie Special thanks to Leroy Luna of Excuse Me, That's Illegal! for lending his voice talents. Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for, well, you know.
0:33.3	And if we've learned anything, it's that certain strange things really do seem to come up
0:40.7	again and again. There are so many cryptids, UFOs, mysterious noises, the fun stuff. But there are also
0:53.0	shining beacons. That's right. In every region of this patchwork
0:59.4	nation, there seem to be reports of mysterious lights. In fact, try this experiment. Give the phrase
1:09.1	mysterious light a search and skim the results. You'll find that
1:15.0	the headlines abound. Like this past May, sky gazers in Utah, in California, in Arizona, in Nevada,
1:24.2	all reported mysterious white strands of lights floating around in the evening sky.
1:31.3	And sure, maybe all of those were actually SpaceX satellites, but those breathless accounts speak to a bigger part of our psyches.
1:43.3	When something unknown flickers across the sky, we can't look away.
1:50.2	Let's go back a little further.
1:53.2	Now, we don't usually care for Wikipedia, but it happens to demonstrate this point for us
2:00.3	just beautifully.
2:01.6	Say you start with a page for,
2:04.6	Oh, the Paulding Light,
2:06.6	which has shimmered in a valley not far from Paulding, Michigan,
2:10.6	since at least the 1960s.
2:13.6	If you scroll down the page just a little further, you'll realize you've just scratched
2:20.5	the surface, because in the sea also section, you'll be led into a shining maze of famous,
2:28.6	or perhaps infamous, and unexplained lights. There's the Gerdin light in Arkansas, said to be the ghostly lantern still waved by a turn-of-the-century
2:41.2	railroad worker who met a tragic end. There's the brown mountain lights in North Carolina,
2:48.3	the light of Saratoga in Texas, the St. Louis light. Though thousands of miles
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