It was about mid January, this year (2000) when a group of my friends and I went to see the Paulding light. There were two car loads with 10 of us driving 4 and a half hours up to Watersmeet Mich. My buddy used to live up there and constantly talked about it. My wife and I had been up there before with my buddy, but this time we wanted to show more people. There was more vehicles than normal up there for that time of night, in the middle of the woods. Mostly drunk and noisey kids parting away. The light is very sensitive to sound. The more sound people make the less it comes out. The six guys in the group decided to walk down the abandoned logging road to see if we could get a better view. We walked about 3/4 of mile through 6" of snow in the complete dark until we reached a small creek at the bottom of a small little valley. We sat down there, extremely cold trying to find away accross the creek. What we didn't know was that the people standing back at the barracade could see the light danceing over were we should have been, even though we could not see it. I got sick of looking for a place to cross, so i went up the little hill and lit a cigarette. I sat there for about 5 secs before I noticed a bright flash on the other hill across from the creek. I sat there, completely still as the very bright flickering light started to slowly come down the hill. I saw the shadow of it as it crossed the snow getting closer and closer to the creek. I begain whispering loudly for the others to look up. When they did we all sat staring blindly at the light as it got closer. The woods was completely silent, like i have never heard before. Then a soft moan came from the other side of the creek.
You have never, and I mean never seen 6 grown men run that fast. We all could have been Olympic champs that night. I think I made it back in half the time it took to get down there. That was truely the craziest thing I have ever expirenced.
Another night that we went up there, crazy and kind of chilling sounds were coming out of the woods. There were very few people up there other than us and the sceintist lady. she was very interesting. That night, not only did people claim that they felt Extremely weird feelings run down the base of there necks, but we also brought a camera.
Every picture we took (when developed) was completely yellow, except for where the woods could be made out on the sides. A Pepsi can that was no more than ten feet from the barracade from where we all sat disapeared without anyone walking in front of us. that all happened in a matter of seconds. What the light is? I sure haven't figured it out.
KTH & BJH
