Brown Mountain lights

They will take his pickaxe from his hands, and they will terrorize Memphis.

The Charlotte 49ers for four quarters in a scene so violent it will live in the lore of North Carolina history like the Devil's Tramping Ground in Chatham County, the Brown Mountain Lights near Morganton, the Pink Lady Ghost at Asheville's Grove Park Inn, and the Lost colony mystery on Roanoke Island.

They will talk about this day in Carolina history for years to come.

A storm is coming to Charlotte, North Carolina tomorrow, and that dark, sadistic, terrifying cloud will take the form of a tiger.

As the sun dips below the horizon and the deep indigo of the night sky settles over the valley, the mountain comes alive.

They are known simply as the Brown Mountain Lights.

Now, if you stand on Wiseman's View, a rocky overlook on the edge of the Linville Gorge, you can look directly across the valley of Brown Mountain.

I've done this myself on several occasions, and the lights never disappoint.

We didn't believe in ghosts carrying lanterns anymore.

We wanted hard scientific facts.

So by the early 1900s, the Brown Mountain Lights had become so famous that they were drawing tourists and making national headlines.

Finally, the USGS, the United States Geological Survey, decided to put the ghost stories to bed.

When you look at how long the story has endured and how many people have put forth theories, doctors, lawyers, and preachers back in the day signed eyewitness manuscripts saying they witnessed these things, says Fitzhugh, it makes it more than just your standard folk tale.

And now, the Brown Mountain Lights.

The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.

Visitors and locals alike have witnessed unusual glowing orbs in shades of blue, white, orange, and red hovering about 15 feet above the ground in Brown Mountain near Morganton, North Carolina.

According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.

After the battle, Catawba women would search for their lost family members at night, using torches to light their way.

Some people believe that the lights observed today are the spirits of these Catawba women, who were still looking for their lost loved ones.

In 1771, German engineer John William Gerhard de Brom saw and recorded the Brown Mountain Lights in his journal.

When you look at how long the story has endured and how many people have put forth theories, doctors, lawyers, and preachers back in the day signed eyewitness manuscripts saying they witnessed these things, says Fitzhugh, it makes it more than just your standard folk tale.

And now, the Brown Mountain Lights.

The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.

Visitors and locals alike have witnessed unusual glowing orbs in shades of blue, white, orange, and red hovering about 15 feet above the ground in Brown Mountain near Morganton, North Carolina.

According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.

After the battle, Catawba women would search for their lost family members at night, using torches to light their way.

Some people believe that the lights observed today are the spirits of these Catawba women, who were still looking for their lost loved ones.

In 1771, German engineer John William Gerhard de Brom saw and recorded the Brown Mountain Lights in his journal.

When you look at how long the story has endured and how many people have put forth theories, doctors, lawyers, and preachers back in the day signed eyewitness manuscripts saying they witnessed these things, says Fitzhugh, it makes it more than just your standard folktale.

And now, the Brown Mountain Lights.

The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.

Visitors and locals alike have witnessed unusual glowing orbs in shades of blue, white, orange, and red hovering about 15 feet above the ground in Brown Mountain near Morganton, North Carolina.

According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.

After the battle, Catawba women would search for their lost family members at night, using torches to light their way.

Some people believe that the lights observed today are the spirits of these Catawba women, who were still looking for their lost loved ones.

In 1771, German engineer John William Gerhard de Brom saw and recorded the Brown Mountain Lights in his journal.

As the sun dips below the horizon and the deep indigo of the night sky settles over the valley, the mountain comes alive.

They are known simply as the Brown Mountain Lights.

Now, if you stand on Wiseman's View, a rocky overlook on the edge of the Linville Gorge, you can look directly across the valley at Brown Mountain.

I've done this myself on several occasions, and the lights never disappoint.

We didn't believe in ghosts carrying lanterns anymore.

We wanted hard scientific facts.

So by the early 1900s, the Brown Mountain lights had become so famous that they were drawing tourists and making national headlines.

Finally, the USGS, the United States Geological Survey, decided to put the ghost stories to bed.

Because when the sepia-toned twilight finally gives way to pitch black of an Appalachian night, the mountain wakes up, and it opens its eyes.

Now, folks have been seeing the Brown Mountain lights for as long as there have been folks in North Carolina to look at them.

I've ventured over there to see them myself many times.

Now, we aren't talking about a modern phenomena.

Later generations brought their own dark legends to the mountain.

During the plantation era, for example, folks whispered that the lights were the spectral lanterns of runaway slaves who had perished in the unforgiving wilderness, or perhaps even the ghosts of the cruel masters who were doomed to eternally hunt the ridges in the dark, paying penance for their sins.

But whether you ask a Cherokee elder or an old-time Appalachian logger, they will all tell you the same fundamental truth about the Brown Mountain lights.

They are searching for something.

I just want to share like a chapter in the story because each card is going to have a story with it.

So let's do, because I always talk about the Brown Mountain Lights, we are going to do that one first.

If I can find it.

Actually, we're going to probably do whatever I can find.

Because when the sepia-toned twilight finally gives way to the pitch black of an Appalachian night, the mountain wakes up, and it opens its eyes.

Now, folks have been seeing the Brown Mountain lights for as long as there have been folks in North Carolina to look at them.

I've ventured over there to see them myself many times.

Now, we aren't talking about a modern phenomena.

Later generations brought their own dark legends to the mountain.

During the plantation era, for example, folks whispered that the lights were the spectral lanterns of runaway slaves who had perished in the unforgiving wilderness, or perhaps even the ghosts of the cruel masters who were doomed to eternally hunt the ridges in the dark, paying penance for their sins.

But whether you ask a Cherokee elder or an old-time Appalachian logger, they will all tell you the same fundamental truth about the Brown Mountain Lights.

They are searching for something.