Seems as though I read somewhere that there was an actual mysterious light in North Carolina which Scott Wiseman wrote about. In my home county in Virginia, along the railroad tracks near a community called Black Creek there was also such a light. It only appeared on occasion and I spent many a night with friends hoping to spot it, but was never successful. This was supposed to be the lantern of the ghost of a railroad fireman killed in a train wreck, as best I remember. Folks of a more practical nature suggested it was some type of gas, but nothing was ever proven scientifically to my knowlege.