The Paulding Light

Mysterious Place of Michigan State

The Paulding Light is one of the mysterious and paranormal activity of the Michigan State. It is a light that appears outside of Paulding, Michigan. Earlier reports said that the light have appeared since 1960s. Its presence is explained as a Railroad Brakeman's ghost, destined to remain forever at the sight of his untimely death. He continually waves his signal lantern as a warning to all who come to visit.

The Paulding light observed during nights

Many explanations came into existence for this behavior of the light as ghosts, geological activity, or swamp gas. Also in 2010, Syfy Channel's Fact or Faked : Paranormal Files conducted a paranormal investigation and they failed to explain for this behavior.

Informational boarding at the Paulding Light

To observe this light, we need to stop near Watersmeet off US 45 near Robins Pond Road. This place belongs to Ontonagon county of Michigan State in USA. This light is first observed in 1966 by a group of teenagers. The most familiar story of this light is that, once the valley contained a railroad tracks and the light is the lantern of the brakeman who was killed in an attempt to stop a train colliding from railway cars. Apart from that, some other stories are also in existence that the light is the ghost of slain mail courier, while some others say that it is the ghost of Indian dancing on the power lines that run through the valley.

The location of the paulding light occurrence.

Paulding Light Mystery Solved:

In 2010, students from Michigan Technological University, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers named as SPIE used a telescope to observe the light and they found that the lights are from the highway, and they are clearly able to see the vehicles and also 'Adopt a Highway' sign. Also they recreated the same lighting pattern by driving a car through a specific location on US 45. And they checked it with the multicolored patterns (police flashers). They theorized that the stability of an inversion layer allowed the lights to visible the lights from a stretch of highway 4.5 miles away.

Paulding light observation point to source

Sources : 
http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2010/october/just-time-for-halloween-michigan-tech-students-solve-mystery-paulding-light.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_Light