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Western Carolinian Volume 71 Number 06

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  • see Bu ey hate ary eel | FEATURE: The Thomas Divide By Margaret Hester e WCnewsmagazine The mountains for North Carolina are filled with || stay bright, change to blue, fade, and repeat this same great stories and many mysteries only known to locals. - *. pattern. Some lights would appear as a blood red color. However, one great mystery of the Blue Ridge Mountains *. This was no eye trick, nor could these lights have been has managed to stay one of the well-kept secrets * a reflection of something else. You are completely today. That mystery is the one of the Thomas Divide. - * alone on this mountain, viewing an even more desolate The Thomas Divide is located off of 441 in = * mountain range. Cherokee, on the parkway. During the day the Thomas 3 . The most active light of our visit came around Divide is a great overlook spot for parkway travelers - 9:30 p.m. when a blue light appeared just below the to take a rest and enjoy the great views of the tree line and began to dart back and forth creating a small blue streak. After this, the lights began _to die down and become less active. Finally around = ne mountains. However, at night, the Thomas becomes more. Across the valley and on the lights began to appear, throughout the faca | appear as white or even blood r the lights are 1S nationally p set foot on the wo decided to call it a night. with a veteran of the Thomas ioned that at times he coming closer to the L experiencing more Bc ry adventure, as something camp. So what ature and lights? \ Je to our Many year i to move from ti eo A here are soldiers were ser ee id. The the new regulati 5 e the Americans, led b os M parate the movement and yneth the soldiers cap and instructed h elf in orde Upon his family, hims @ cthe.others. yL orn. The witch dector did as he was told i e to of a saving his family and the others, ho . . eem to he was tricked. Not only was the witch d family killed, the witch doctor himself was k dismembered and spread all across the area warning to all of the others that chose to defy is to soldiers. The legend goes: the lights are the \ oughts. doctors parts trying to find themselves. : Of course, there are the usual skeptics that m ome other up stories about natural gases reacting, or some o as Divide natural phenomenon. However, my first experience |; o, be sure Thomas Divide ruled out all of these natural reas we arrived around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 0O The overlooks were just like any other, and so w the ritual of flashing the lights, and honking th order to provoke the lights. Stepping out of realized that I was in the middle of no where by nothing but trees and wildlife. The cells no service and as far as a help goes, it w minutes away if something were to go wrong these eerie feelings, it was all forgottery whe began to become active. The lights stafted and scattered throughout the range. They dlife around, it Oe a ee ee
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