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il Entertainment ssAREA SPOILIGHTses: Destination Cullowhee: Brown Mountain lights By Joel Gerber * WCnewsmagazine You know that feeling you get when you first get the notion that youre not alone in a dark room that you thought was empty? That sensation that feels like cold breath on the back of your neck, that makes you breathe a little harder and your heart beat a little faster. In light of the Halloween issue, this weeks excursion aims to offer you that feeling. This week were headed to Morganton, NC for a phenomenon that has baffled scientists and awed onlookers for centuries. It was a cold but clear mid-October night. The stars were so clear and so bright it looked like someone had punched pin- sized holes in a blanket of darkness. In the distance, the town of Morganton slept peacefully under the cool autumn night. We had been waiting for fifteen minutes without seeing anything unusual or spectacular. The silence was as serene as it was maddening. My date was cold and probably beginning to think | was crazy for taking her thirty minutes out of the way to stare at a mountain. | was about to call it quits, laugh it off as being a naive kid who heard one too many campfire ghost stories, when we saw it. Asmall green light appeared out of nowhere, directly in our line of sight and right beneath the Brown Mountain ridgeline. The light lingered for a few seconds before disappearing as quickly as it had come. | looked over to her and she just nodded without saying a word. From then on it was like we were witnessing a silent lightning storm, as several lights at a time would sporadically appear and disappear. My story, like countless others from people who have witnessed the Brown Mountain Lights firsthand, is completely true. The first documented sighting of the lights was recorded over 200 years ago by German immigrants in 1771. To establish my credibility, | was not on drugs nor was | drinking that night. These lights are real, and clearly not part of any manmade structure as they appear around a completely uninhabited Brown Mountain ridgeline. They can be seen from as far as twenty miles away. The lights are surrounded by local legend. One such legend involves a woman who disappeared around 1850. _ It was believed that she was murdered by her husband even though her body was never found. Its said that she came back as the lights to haunt her husband and to help her family find her body. Cherokee legend dates the lights back as early as 1200. According to Native American legend, a great battle was fought between the Cherokee and Catawba near the brown mountains. The Cherokee believed the lights were the spirits of Indian women, forever searching for their husbands and lovers who were slain in the battle. Of course, people also throw around the term UFO. There are several theories as to the mysterious origin of the lights, but none of them have been proven. Two U.S. geological surveys were dispatched to determine what causes the lights, but both came back inconclusive. Geologists suggested possible radioactive uranium could exist in the area, though radiation tests yielded no results. Another theory points to an abundance of phosphorous, but that mineral is not found around these parts. Brown Mountain is part of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The mountain is easily accessible through Morganton, right off of I-40 just before Hickory. Exit off of 105 and follow signs to Highway 181 about 20 miles to a big overlook on the right. Another vantage point is on the Blue Ridge Parkway, mile marker 310. The lights have been seen on clear as well as rainy nights; but since you might be out there a while, go when its dry. Morganton is about an hour and half ride from Cullowhee. So what are these lights? A mixture of natural forces resulting in nothing more than an insignificant occurrence? Or is there something simply unexplainable at work here? Whatever you want to call it, the Brown Mountain Lights are a truly breathtaking sight seeing for yourself.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2007-11-08
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.5"
  - Pages: 32
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_2007-11-08_Vol72_No07
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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