We live in a strange world, one in which we don't quite understand and for the most part, we still shy away from and label findings in the paranormal world as different, not real, pseudoscience or the stuff of imagination. Humanity has a long history of not accepting certain phenomena based on the fact that it may shatter a few of our long-held and ingrained belief systems, wherever they may come from. We also have a long history of phenomena not being acknowledged to protect certain interests. The UFO issue is a great example, where suppression, although kept secret for multiple reasons, is kept due to the new energy and propulsion systems that could come from it.
The story that's the topic of this article is no different, it will definitely shatter your belief systems if you're not into this stuff, but if you are, you probably won't be surprised, especially given the fact that the experience took place at Brown Mountain, North Carolina, which is a place full of stories similar to this one.
Brown Mountain is known for what's now become known as the "Brown Mountain Lights." They represent a series of strange lights in the form of multiple colours that are often spotted near or on Brown Mountain. The lights can be seen from multiple spots, there was also help from the city of Morganton (North Carolina) via building an overlook on North Carolina highway 181. They are fairly well known...
Below is one of many pictures and pieces of footage that's been floating around out there for a very long time. Here's a good blogging website where citizens have also posted more information and resources.
A website based in North Carolina who takes interest in this lore explains it quite well:
The common theme this site doesn't seem to include is extraterrestrial or extradimensional.Brown Mountain is a low ridge in Burke County that, during dry, crisp evenings in the autumn, is host to a genuine and baffling mystery. When conditions are right, mysterious glowing orbs can be seen to rise up off the mountain, hover and wobble about fifteen feet up in the air, and then disappear. There's no denying that the lights are real. They have been observed by countless witnesses and photographed on many occasions. But what they are is still unknown.
The Brown Mountain Lights have been observed for centuries, and multiple legends have arisen around the phenomenon. The Cherokee were aware of the lights, and according to some accounts claimed that the lights were the souls of Cherokee women searching for their men who had died in a great battle between the Cherokee and the Catawba that took place on Brown Mountain. Another legend says that the lights are the the ghostly echoes of lights that appeared during a search for a murdered woman in the 19th century.
Below is a video that was taken from Scientists at Appalachian State University, who caught the phenomenon on camera as well. Researchers captured these glowing lights simultaneously by two time-lapse digital video cameras near the mountain, which is located just north of Morganton. The cameras are operated by Daniel Caton and his colleague Lee Hawkins, of the physics and astronomy department at Appalachian State.
Comment: The Youtube poster added this note:
[Title slide wrong: This is JULY, not June 16-17.] Dusk-to-dawn 30-second images. Mostly cloudy, especially early, with early lightning. Some clearing late, with stars rising at angles ** ANOMALISTIC light appears high above ridge, at ~ 0:18, 0:25, 0:34, and 0:43 in. This appears on BOTH CAMERAS and does not change position over the timer interval, meaning it is not a star. It is too high to be a town light.
The lore of Brown Mountain is filled with so many stories, real stories, from real people, that it's surprising how little well known it still is. As far as the lights go, there are many different explanations that have come forth. Everything from extraterrestrial to interdimensional, to ghosts and more. Skeptics have suggested that they are headlights from automobiles from the valley below, but the lights have been observed for more than one hundred years. If you look up pictures, videos and stories about the phenomenon, you'll see how ridiculous the headlight explanation is. Some have suggested that the lights could be a naturally-occurring electrical discharge caused by the geological fault line below the mountain.
Below is Charles Braswell Jr. (right) who shows Carl White a photo taken of the Brown Mountain Lights. White is the host of the show, Life in the Carolinas.
One Experience (out of many) On Brown Mountain
This story was shared last year by a YouTuber who has a channel called "Insane Disappearances." This man has done a lot of research into missing persons inside of National Parks. Himself and other researchers in the field describe many similar strange findings that all of these experiences have in common. He managed to conduct an interview with a person who chose to remain anonymous, due to fear. After her experience (she was also with two others), she explains how she was harassed by police as well as park authorities, asking to confiscate the pictures and the video footage she took. She kept receiving calls on a regular basis from authorities asking her about her experience, and on multiple occasions, authorities emphasized how it was a long day, she was dehydrated and simply hallucinating.
I don't usually share stories that comprise simply of witness testimony, but after listening to this woman's story, seeing the pictures and watching her videos of her experience, it really resonated with me and really came across in an extreme genuine fashion. The way she was telling it just makes me believe this is a genuine person who actually had a strange experience. What was also interesting to note was her urgency in getting the pictures as well as the videos up online for public access before they could be taken away from her.
The story starts off with the woman hiking with her friends. All of a sudden, her friends instantly disappeared from the trail, but everything else remained the same. She started to look for them and began to experience strange things, like the path shifting, noticing water streams in an area of the mountain where she was sure there were no streams. She heard strange noises, and captured shots of a strange orange glowing orb that appeared to follow her. She also claims that sometimes, this apparition took on the form of a humanoid looking being. Her friends also had unique experiences as she did, and when they eventually came out of the situation, they compared notes, pictures, footage and stories...
Here's a message from the YouTube video description:As the day progressed, I kept feeling like, almost like the forest was kind of re-arranging itself around me. I swear that I turned directly behind me but the trail would be different... I also kept hearing things and weird whooshing of air... I kept seeing what looked like these bright orange colours that were, I don't know if they were following me...
If you have an open mind this is the place to be. Join me, become intrigued as I case-read the four hundred and eleven baffling unsolved cases about hundreds of random people from clusters all over the globe who mysteriously vanish without a trace and are either never seen again or found hundreds of miles away from their last known location; deceased under weird circumstances. Todays episode is a validations interview that will answer all your questions about what happens to people who venture into our national parks to never be seen or heard from again. But with evident proof like this everyone's perception will always be different because of their own level of experiences. So with that being said I believe her because the people that weren't there to see what she saw are not going to believe her at first because those people are looking for extensive detailed analyzation, picking apart the evidence in her footage, lie detector tests, etc. at the end of the day she had an experience; an amazing yet creepy experience that answered every single question ever askedIt might be time to plan a trip to Brown Mountain ;). You can find all of the pictures, footage and interviews on his channel if you want to dive into this particular mystery a little further!
Similar to the Hessdalen Lights
Known as theKnown as the Hessdalen Interactive Observatory, scientists at the University of Ostfold, Hessdalen, Norway have captured and documented many strange anomalies that seem to plague the area. It's the only official 24 hour UFO observatory in the world. Radar and cameras have tracked and filmed numerous unexplainable phenomenon, the fastest one recorded at 30,000 km per hour. (Faster than any known air-craft today.), scientists at the University of Ostfold, Hessdalen, Norway have captured and documented many strange anomalies that seem to plague the area. It's the only official 24 hour UFO observatory in the world. Radar and cameras have tracked and filmed numerous unexplainable phenomenon, the fastest one recorded at 30,000 km per hour. (Faster than any known air-craft today.)
Below is [one of] many unexplained pictures taken from the Observatory. You can find more here.
The Takeaway
There is a simple takeaway message that goes with this article and it's the fact that it's okay to entertain an idea without accepting it. It's also important to acknowledge phenomena that are not 'officially' acknowledged within the mainstream as 'real,' simply because these realities have tremendous implications, and they are indeed real. Strange stories, occurrences, and footage coming out of this area confirm without a doubt that the phenomenon of the Brown Mountain lights are indeed real, as far as what they are, remains to be unknown.
Reader Comments
R.C.
Given your experiences, I'd suggest that you re read it!
(Sorry re the all caps. I type without looking at the screen as I'm faster that way.)Fixed, just for you.R.C.
*Famous quote re staring into darkness stares back at you... whoever. I say it applies to light/goodness, too.
P.s., also read the E.A. Poe story, ‘Ragged Mountains’, linked above? Below? Whatever. Thanks.
RC
I've heard that too; indeed, long before I decided to write the same thing.
R.C.
For but one of my crazy but true, yet otherworldly strange, stories, see my reply to HFL infra.
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Merry 'impending' Christmas, and best wishes for a somehow better 2020 than 2019 - though that's a rather low standard.
R.C.
RC
If my idea on this is true then the argument of; well it's all just the result of an overactive imagination
It sort of dovetails with the biblical passage of Genesis 11:6 and the fact that yesterday's science fiction is now today's science fact.
Therefore the reason the so called supernatural or new discoveries are guarded by the authorities is because knowledge is power and that they cover greatly.
So I'll try to simplify I believe anything that comes to a persons mind is possible both in this dimension and in the higher ones so the argument of being just the result of imagination is really not valid at all but just an attempt to keep our abilities limited through causing doubt.
Core beliefs and self definitions thus act as filtering rules that serve our unfolding experience.
Doorways between levels of Consciousness can be anywhere - but of course are associated with various association that reverberate with personal and collective resonances. A key fact being that a 'door' is a shift of focus within Consciousness.
Belief that we are in a mind in a body in a world is itself a ruleset associated with identity investment.
Identity at the level of worldview learned what to see or not see in infancy.
If our worldview is radically challenged we no longer 'know who we are' or rather - we realise that we do not know who we are and so become moved to discover - or - if fear and conflict are given priority, forced back into a version of the old model but set in active defence of it to seek to hide or cover and lid over the fact that we know it is a model or self-concept but not who we are.
There is a lot of the latter occurring as a result of an ongoing and emergent Disclosure.
There is also a capacity to see and ask from a new curiosity - that includes the electric Universe as the expansion of the closed mind-system of an object-modelled world - which brings Everything 'back' into Communication in the fullest possible sense.
Self-alienation operates a dissociated and coercive sense of struggle, threat and defence - that all comes under the Need Not to know!
Revisiting ancient denials so as to be undone of them, may be served by signs of wonder - for the latter when soberly appreciated, vibrate us to wholeness of receptive embrace - that we recognise worthy and align in - and grow the consciousness of the willingness to pass through fears that otherwise would dispossess us of the little that we have.
If anyone wishes to read an E.A. Poe story about this phenomenon (in general) try 'A Tale of the Ragged Mountains' free at: [Link]
R.C.
Unfortunately Burke county is full of dope heads. It use to be pills, but since the crackdown on prescriptions, they turned to crack.
So any light in the sky to them is the swat chopper coming to take them away and to the authorities they would not be turning to tell their story.
No sir crack heads are not seeking attention so to attribute the volume of reports to a county that has somehow ended up with more than their share of crack heads is just plan slanderous to Burke county.
These are the kind of attitudes that keep people from coming forward I know I wouldn't I don't want to be labeled as kooky or a crack head because I seen something that was out of the ordinary.
If you are a professional government desinformation agent job well done, if by chance you are just naive "that is understandable" but be careful if you meant no harm.
I rather detect (as best I can tell) that O.M. is yet another younger SOTTite who has 'come to his senses' (which, granted, takes time), and the poor kid, (like all of us) has a way to go and that 30 years from now he'll be more aware than he is now, while, most likely, we'll both be irrelevant.
I hate the fact that I've not 'been able to save the world'; which I have long since realized is a programmed dream that has nada to do with reality.
Folks younger than us had to fight to get out of some 'imposed reality'; (maybe all humans have that; maybe us too; but to come out of the imposed reality for folks 20 years younger than us is quite a feat!) NRN
R.C.
*Straight to being #2 in hell; which is no different than being # infinity.
RC
The programming has been going on as you know a lot longer than you or I have been around but they are doubling down so fast now days that they've tipped their hand.
But for those that are less than half our age haven't got the years of prospective we do to measure things by.
Yet having said that I have met those 20 and 30 year old kids that intuitively know something is seriously wrong with the world so I have hope we can get out of this without having to be knocked back to a hunter gather society, which I guess wouldn't be all that bad after a hundred or so years of reacclimation.
Merry Christmas