Case file · High strangeness
Gurdon Light
Along the railway tracks in the woods near Gurdon, Arkansas, a swinging white or orange light is reported; legend links it to the murder of railway foreman Will McClain in 1931.
1931 CE · 33.92, -93.15 · status: claim
The account
McClain was killed by a worker he had fired, and the light is said to be his lantern. A 1994 episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries' made it famous.
The sceptical view
Researchers point to headlights on Interstate 30 refracted through the trees, or to piezoelectric effects; the I-30 theory struggles with reports said to predate the road.