Case file · High strangeness
Atsi'la-wa'i, the fire ball of Rattlesnake Knob
A peak about 2 miles north-east of Cherokee was named 'Fire's relative' because a ball of fire was seen to fly through the air from the direction of Highlands and land on it.
1900 CE · 35.50, -83.29 · status: legend
The account
The Cherokee took it for an ulunsuti, a sacred crystal of the Uktena, which its dead owner had hidden on the summit and which came out each night looking for him: in effect a Cherokee ghost light.