Brown Mountain Lights

Inexplicable lights hover over a mountain ridge in the Pisgah National Forest. Some say they're caused by atmospheric reflection of electricity from nearby towns . . . but according to Cherokee legend, these lights have been around for 800 years.

Learn more about this spooky site by reading Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina by Janet Barnett and Randy Russell.


When the lights go down in the city . . . what causes the mysterious flickering glow on the mountain?