Gurdon Light is Real

We decided to go back to Gurdon last night. We parked on the dirt road this time, and 4 locals pulled up behind us and walked in with us. Some of the locals were under the influence of some type of mind altering drug so they were a little rowdy.

We walked past the second trestle and the locals said it was far enough to start banging on the tracks. They banged away, but nothing happened. We walked another 75 yards or so and something just felt right. I stopped the group and we turned off all of our lights. (It was around 2AM) All of a sudden one of the locals starts yelling "Oh man! Did you see that. There it is. Right there man. How can you not see it?" We all thought they were pulling are legs, but at the same time, I was seeing something too. First, I would just see flashes of light way down the tracks 200 yards or more. Then, I started to see sparks of momentarily concentrated light way down near the horizon. You couldn't really look straight at it to see it well. You had to look off to the side a bit, but then we started seeing it more clearly. We could see it flickering and getting brighter. Then, we saw it swinging back and forth along the tracks. It would go down in the ditch and come back up, most of the time it hung around waist high. Then, it started to get closer. Slowly it swung closer to us and before you know it, it looked as if it were less than 20 yards away. The woods seem to flash around us. Then, we heard it. We heard the lantern swinging back and forth. We heard it off in the woods. It was coming from less than 10 yards away in the woods. The locals were freaking out. They wouldn't shut up! They said that they had never experienced this much in 14 years of living in Gurdon and that was a bad sign. Luckily they were scared off after just 15 minutes so it left just us 4. We watched the light swing back and forth towards us and away for another 10 minutes before deciding to get closer. When we got to about the point where we had been seeing the light, nothing was there. The light was gone. We walked all the way to the 5th trestle, but never saw anything substantially more. We kept walking and stopping all the way back, but again didn't see anything until we made it back the that same spot. It was about 3:45 AM before we saw it again. This time very faint and very far off, but still the same light.

After we got back to the car, we called in our cheeseburger order to the truck stop near the Interstate and we told everyone who would listen our story. Some travelers looked on wide-eyed as they asked where this took place. We told them just 3 miles down the road, and they quickly paid for the goods and high-tailed it out of there.

We have video footage. I'm pretty sure you can't see anything. The light was too faint to pick up on film. I took a couple pictures just because not expecting anything, but when I blew them up on the computer, there are all of these red, white, and blue dots all over the place. It is not digital noise, and I have been assured that lenses are very forgiving with dust on the lens and that shouldn't be the cause. If you look at some of the white dots in the picture, they look very much like the light that we saw, but at the time we didn't see all of this. The picture actually really freaked me out. I just looked at them for the first time and water just started rolling down my eyes. Very strange.

As far as possible causes. 1)I call BS on reflections off the rails. The moon had already set so there were only stars, and the rails were so rusty it took something as bright as a headlamp to make a reflection. Also, the place where we kept seeing it, brush had grown up over the rails. 2) Swamp gas: Yeah right, this stuff floated towards us and away from us. It never just aimlessly floated around in a ball. It never floated off into the woods, and it could move very fast at times. Not swap gas. 3) Quartz crystals: Really? 4)Hoax: Definitely not. This was not like a normal light from a flashlight or lantern. It's as if you don't believe it exists even as you are looking at it. 5) Car lights: No, but not for the same reasons other people give. We couldn't have been over a mile from the highway when we saw the light, but were looking west away from the highway, but we did walk 1.5 miles from the highway over about 6 trestles which is farther than most people even go and could still see cars crossing the highway very clearly. The reason it's not cars is that the cars give off a much different light. A much realer, more of this world, like you could touch and feel it unlike the Gurdon light.

There is nothing that can explain this light. Is it supernatural? Maybe. I can offer no other valid explanation. All I know is that IT DOES EXIST. Whatever IT is, it exists. This is not a joke, this is not a hoax, this is real.

PS, I'm still getting chills just uploading the picture. Oh, and the light part of the picture is the sky. It's not some ghostly trail.

Unfortunately, blogger compresses my picture quite a bit so you can't get the full effect. Definitely click on the image to view it bigger, but here is a close up of part of the picture. There's probably more than 40 of these dots everywhere.