Morganton
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Nov 3, 2026
Jack MontgomeryHOST
Investigated by scientists, government officials, and journalists, they've become intertwined with stories of ghosts, lost souls, and tragedies buried deep in the history of the Appalachian Mountains.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
Brown Mountain lies in the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, roughly 12 miles northwest of the city of Morganton.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
Despite its name, Brown Mountain is less a dramatic mountain peak than a long, relatively low ridge surrounded by higher elevations from which observers can look across the valleys toward it.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
After sunset, the landscape becomes an enormous expanse of darkness, broken here and there by the distant lights of roads, homes, towns, and vehicles.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
According to the account, the light appeared just above the horizon and seemed to rise beyond the lower slope of the mountain.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
It was described as red, larger than a star but smaller than the full moon, and visible for less than a minute before fading away.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
The newspaper reported that members of the Morganton Fishing Club had seen the phenomenon more than two years earlier, only to be laughed at when they spoke about it.
Jack MontgomeryHOST
The report also quoted a longtime local resident named Anderson Loven, who said the light could be seen during all seasons of the year.
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The lights are seen much less often now than in the 1980s, but they are still seen from time to time, and Hesterlin remains one of the few places in the world where such lights have been studied with instruments over a long period.
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On the other side of the Atlantic, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, there is a long, low ridge called Brown Mountain near the town of Morganton.
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For more than a century, people have reported seeing lights rising above it at night.
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Glowing balls that appear over the ridge hover, drift, and fade.
Jacob SharpGUEST
Okay.
Cindy HowesHOST
You are from Morganton, a small town in the mountains of North Carolina.
Cindy HowesHOST
I looked up pictures and it looks very lovely.
Cindy HowesHOST
You can see huge mountains in the background, which you're just like, whatever, that's my life.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
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.
Steve StocktonHOST
According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.
Steve StocktonHOST
After the battle, Catawba women would search for their lost family members at night, using torches to light their way.
Orin FelixHOST
So we've got national forest, national park stuff right off the bat here.
Orin FelixHOST
And it's near the town of Morganton, which is in Burke County.
Orin FelixHOST
So it's like 70 miles northeast of Asheville.
Orin FelixHOST
So in kind of the western part of the state.
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Shayn JonesHOST
So again, this is that weird era where it parallels...
Shayn JonesHOST
Well,
Orin FelixHOST
it's funny you should say that because the plot of this Jules Verne novel, quote, features a mad scientist constructing an airship inside his secret lair in Table Rock near Morganton, North Carolina.
Orin FelixHOST
Is this
Rhiannon GiddensGUEST
You know, Piedmont style blues is, you know, it's hard to know sometimes what somebody's just called something, something, and then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? So I can't really speak to the guitar too much.
Rhiannon GiddensGUEST
But, you know, when you think about Etta Baker, who was in Morganton, which is like...
Rhiannon GiddensGUEST
Right next to the Piedmont.
Rhiannon GiddensGUEST
You know, that style is very much that syncopated, which itself is like, I think, very probably banjo influenced.
Micah HanksGUEST
It's actually in the Black Mountains adjacent to the Linville Gorge.
Micah HanksGUEST
Down, probably closest town would be Morganton, if we're talking about Brown Mountain proper.
Micah HanksGUEST
But again, often what people will do is they'll drive up to a little town called Linville Falls.
Micah HanksGUEST
And they'll drive up to what's called Wiseman's View.
Micah HanksGUEST
So, I mean, it's a good place to look and explore.
Micah HanksGUEST
You can see everything that's happening in the gorge, and often people say that they see these lights right there in the Linville Gorge too.
Micah HanksGUEST
So, beginning around 1911, 1912, people began saying they were seeing those lights, and a lot of folks from down in Morganton, in the area of Lake James, they claimed that when they were looking back up there toward Brown Mountain, they could actually see these lights.
Micah HanksGUEST
When Mansfield starts his investigation, he is immediately getting stories from people going all the way back, some of the old-timers who were alive shortly after the Civil War.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
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.
Steve StocktonHOST
According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.
Steve StocktonHOST
After the battle, Catawba women would search for their lost family members at night, using torches to light their way.
AnthonyHOST
I've got a notebook in a drawer that tells me exactly what that is.
AnthonyHOST
I went to an eye doctor in Morganton.
AnthonyHOST
She looked into my eyes with every light she had and told me there was nothing wrong with them.
AnthonyHOST
Healthy as a man half my age.
Alan SmithHOST
Okay, and what? So last Sunday night, Down here at the shop, I taught a little bit on 1 Timothy 4.1.
Alan SmithHOST
I'm going to be doing the same thing in Morganton Sunday morning.
Alan SmithHOST
In the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Jeff RowlandHOST
And that's what this is.
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