From: "Avis Stansell" (dragonlady1111@msn.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Crossett, Arkansas ghost light
Date: Saturday, February 09, 2002 4:35 PM
It has been a while (about 25 years) since my nephew told me this story. When he was in his twenties, he and a few of his friends decided to go take a look at what they believed was just a story about something that didn't exist.
He said that you can ask anywhere in Crossett and someone will tell you where to go to see the ghost light.
So off they went in two cars. He said there were two roads that cross the tracks and the light appears on the tracks between the roads.
They parked both cars aross the tracks, one on each road. Then they got out of the cars and started walking toward each other along the tracks. (They thought they wanted to get it between them and get a good look at it; oh yeah!)
He said that he took a few steps forward and suddenly saw a ball of light rising from the tracks ahead of him and (to use his terms) he had to argue with his feet because they wanted to carry him away from there.
The description that he gave me was of a round semi-opaque ball of light about two to two-and-a-half feet in diameter that was somewhat ragged on the bottom, as if it had sort of pulled itself loose. It floated above the tracks in place, and he watched it for a few seconds and then the fools from the other car started shooting at it and he did have to run then to get out of the line of fire.
He said he asked those guys if they thought they could kill it, but he was ready to leave anyway!
I believe this story because this person is pretty much a cynic about just about everything (he believes it if he sees it) and he probably never told it to anyone except me.
I laughed at him for a long time about it, because he finally found something that could scare him.
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