From: markjones41@HOTMAIL.COM
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Ghost Light at Crossett, Arkansas
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:28:34 -0600
I have always heard my friends talk of going across the border to Crossett, Arkansas to see the "ghost light." The legend is that a railroad worker was beheaded in an accident many years ago. He is supposed to be swinging an old-fashioned railroad lantern in a futile search for his severed head. I have never gone "parking to see the light" myself, but have listened to many credible accounts of people who parked along the old railroad tracks at night and saw the light. I have even heard of folks who came almost within arm's reach of the glowing orb, only to have it disappear and reappear several yards down the track. I've not heard anyone lately tell of seeing the light, but at one time it was a regular Saturday night pastime. Cars lined up along the roads intersecting the tracks and waited for a glimpse of the poor railway worker's ghost swinging his lantern.
Mark
markhadley9@hotmail.com
This page (http://www.ghosts.org/ghostlights/crossettlight3.html) last updated April 5, 2006.