Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:18:29 -0700 (PDT)
To: stories@ghosts.org
yourname Ryan
email Rumble360@aol.com
I live only like 20 minutes from the Bragg light. It truly is a remarkable sight but i can decribe it in the way i have seen it - i have seen it dozens of times. First off do not stop on the road - keep on your running lights or use no lights if the moon allows - stopping only makes you wait longer. Just creep along at a slow pace and eventually you will see it. When you first see it it usually looks like a security light on a telephone pole does early on a foggy morning. Its nothin more than a haze white in the center and blue on the outer edges. The trees grow together in most places over the road so the light sort of makes the upper branches visible. You can slow down or stop at this point. It will usually come closer to you and the blue part of the haze will gradually fade to red as it gets closer. Then all of a sudden the entire cloud-like haze will fall in on itself and become a small light which can be as bright as a car's headlight. However it is far from being a car headlight cause it will fade on and off or just cut off and reappear. Sometimes it will last for a while sometimes it is very short. Since the road is very straight and very long it can appear to be very close - but my friends and I have ran down the road at speeds of nearly 70m.p.h. and still never have caught up to it. And yet I have also seen it very close - i have never seen it shoot into the sky but i have just seen it go out right as it got to my truck and then reappear behind my truck. I have seen it up to 6 times in one trip down the road - each time you see it you just wanna see it again - so when you get to the end of the road turn around and try again. You can see it best when traveling in the direction leading to Saratoga. At any rate it is very real and you will no be dissappointed if you follow the guidlines i have left. Also, I would not recommend speeding down the road as we did - we only did because we know it well - it is very straight but there are a few bends. One night we saw something even stranger - at about 12:45a.m. we saw the largest U-Haul truck you can rent down there. It was pulled off partly on to one of the 2 pipelines and the running lights were - but as we got behind it someone turned off the lights as if they did not want to be seen. So whatever you do be careful - it is a perfect place for suspicious activity - watch your back. Happy light hunting - good luck to all of you.
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