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Josiah Lafayette "Fate" Wiseman (1842–1932) was the great uncle of Scotty Wiseman, whose song, The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights (1961), greatly popularized the Brown Mountain lights, making them the most popular ghost story in North Carolina. His is also the oldest report of a strange light near Brown Mountain, though it wasn't well ...
Brown Mountain [1] is a low-lying ridge, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, in the Pisgah National Forest near Morganton, in western North Carolina, [2] on the border of Burke and Caldwell Counties. [3] [4] Since at least the early 20th century, mysterious illuminations known as the Brown Mountain lights have been seen there. [5]
Tommy Faile (September 15, 1928 – August 2, 1998) was an American songwriter and singer best known for composing "Phantom 309", singing "The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights", his deep voice and comic onstage banter.
The South Caroline baritone is best-known for his 1967 hit “Phantom 309” and the comic song “The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights.” His popular and self-named show aired on WBTV in ...
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Riley Morris, an autistic boy, keeps a video journal while on a family camping trip in Brown Mountain, North Carolina with his father Peter, his mother Katie and his siblings Corey and Jillian. On the last night of their trip, Riley is startled by flashes of light outside of the tent. The children see lights in the sky that promptly vanish.
The Paulding Light is a similar phenomenon in Michigan. Scientific investigation revealed both to be caused by distant car headlights. The Marfa lights are a reported atmospheric light phenomenon in Texas. The Brown Mountain lights are purported ghost lights near Brown Mountain in North Carolina.