Record #:

15732

Author(s):

Brown, Bob

Abstract:

The Brown Mountain Lights in Burke County is one of the unexplained and unsolved mysteries that have occurred in North Carolina over the centuries. The lights are balls of fire which seem to rise over the top of the mountain. Brown lists several of the theories offered for their origin. His own theory is that the lights are from towns miles beyond the mountain tops, distorted by heat generated air turbulence rising from two great chasms below the line of sight of the lights.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 23, Apr 1955, p8-9, il

Subject(s):

Brown Mountain Lights (Burke County)