Case file · High strangeness

Saratoga Light (Bragg Road)

On Bragg Road, a straight dirt track through the Big Thicket of east Texas, drivers report a light that bobs ahead of them and vanishes; it has been talked of since the 1940s.

1940 CE · 30.38, -94.56 · status: claim

The account

The road follows an old railway bed. Legends make the light a beheaded railwayman's lantern or the ghost of a Spanish conquistador guarding gold.

The sceptical view

Researchers have suggested headlights from Highway 787 and marsh gas.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Light of Saratoga (Bragg Road)
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