Case file · High strangeness
Crossett Light
Outside Crossett, Arkansas, a light has been seen floating along the line of an old railroad since the early 1900s.
1905 CE · 33.14, -91.96 · status: claim
The account
Legend says it is a lantern carried by a beheaded railway worker looking for his head, or by his wife searching for him.
The sceptical view
Car headlights over a rise and swamp gas are proposed, though the reports seem to predate cars.