The Southern Ghost Light Directory

There Are Many Ghost and Spook Lights Across The South

Courtesy of Thornton Austen and the Booger Lights ghost light Project 
This is a directory of ghost lights, spooklights, and earthlight phenomena we have heard of in the American South.

Alabama

• Cloverdale – Lights float over grassy fields
• Coy – Lights reported to appear in the Carstarphen Cemetery
• Moundsville – A drum has been heard and lights are seen on top of one of the larger pyramid mounds at Moundsville State Park.
• Prattville – Lights appear in and around Bear Creek Swamp.

Arkansas

• Crossett – Light on an old removed railroad bed
• Dover – Multiple lights over Long Pool on Big Piney Creek
• Gurdon – Light on an active railroad
• Little Rock – A phantom motorcycle zooms up out of no where and vanishes as it passes motorists on Woodson Lateral Road.
• Melbourne – Strange lights are seen in the Old Philadelphia Cemetery.
• Mena - Rich Mountain light
• Sardis – Strange light along a pipeline

Florida

• Arcadia – The Goat Hill light
• Ft. Meade – Pisgah In the 1950s and 60s, ghost lights were seen on County Line Rd. and Heard Bridge Rd. near old Mt. Pigsah.
• Greenbriar – Ghost light road
• Oviedo – Light seen from a bridge with a tragic history
• Wakulla County - The Wakulla Volcano was a prominent column of smoke, and bright light deep in the swamps of Wakulla County from the Spanish occupation.  It disappeared in 1886 during the Charleston earthquake.

Georgia

• Cogdell – Light on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp
• Pearson - Light follows and hovers over cars on the dirt roads by the railroad tracks.
• Rock Oven – Lights and more at a strange site on the Altamah River
• Surrency - The Surrency Spooklight
• St. Simon’s Island – A ghostly candle in the Christ’s Church cemetery

Kentucky

• Harlan – In Bardo Hollow every spring a mysterious light appears at the end of the hollow.
• Jeffersonville – The Sand Mountain Light
• Estill County – Multiple locations

Louisiana

• Collinston – Railroad light
• Gonzales – Light on a rural road in the 1950's
• Thibodaux – Lights and other events occur at the rail crossing in Devil`s Swamp 

Mississippi

• Beauregard – The Illinois Central Light
• Mantachie - Strange lights and figures are seen in Mount Pigsah Cemetery.

Missouri

• Arbyrd/Senath – Light on an abandoned railway 
• East Prairie – Light on old railroad bed
• Farrenburg – Light on an abandoned railway
• Joplin – The famous Hornet Spooklight
• Knob Knoster – The ghost of a hermit killed by lightning manifests as a light during thunderstorms
• Poplar Bluff – Railroad light

North Carolina

• Badin – Light on the old Whitney Train Tracks
• Brown Mountain – Numerous lights on a mountainside that became the subject of an X-Files episode
• Cullowhee – Lights on the banks of Wehahutta Creek
• Maco – Railroad light
• Tarboro – Railroad light

Oklahoma

• Ada - Kalihoma Indian Reservation – A phantom car pursues motorists only to disappear as it draws close. 
• Kullihoma - In the Chickasaw Nation bouncing balls of bright light float around and are reputed to be the legendary little people seen by young Indian children. 
• Sand Springs – In Postok Cemetery, balls of light move about in and around the cemetery and the surrounding woods.

South Carolina

• Beaufort – An eerie light floats over Land`s End Road.
• Catfish – Lights at an Indian burial ground on River Bend Road.
• Dillon – Bingham’s Light appears near the old cemetery.
• Ravenel – Light in a churchyard with a tragic past
• Summerville – Railroad light

Texas

• Anson – Light appears near a local cemetery
• Marfa – The famous Marfa Lights have been the subject of numerous investigations and an episode of Unsolved Mysteries
• Mexia On Battery Road a ball of fire travels late at night.
• Odessa – Lights reportedly appear in Odessa Cemetery
• Saratoga - The Big Thicket Light haunts a gravel road
• Sweetwater – Mysterious orange lights reported floating across Sweetwater Lake
• Wimberly – Strange lights near a campground and swimming hole

Tennessee

• Chapel Hill – Railroad Light
• Crossville - Lights follow the Obed River in and just outside of town and have even been known to cross Interstate 40.
• Henry/Springville – A ghost light haunts an old dirt road.
• Leiper's Fork - Ghost lights bounce around on fields, through forests, and occasionally across the highway in and near the historic district.

Virginia

• Belfast – Light in the valley below Clinch Mountain
• West Point – The Cohoke Crosseroads Light
• Yorktown/Williamsburg – The James River Peninsula is known for numerous sporadic lights

West Virginia

• Moorefield – The Cole Mountain Light
• White Sulphur Springs - Reports of lights around Kate’s Mountain that hover in the sky and then shoot out of site.

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