From: Steve Lalanne (slalanne@stirlingdouglas.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Re. The Ghost of Scugog Island

I too have seen the phenomenon on several occasions over the past couple of years. The likeliest explanation? There is a road on the mainland that forms the same "line" with the "haunted" road. Although they are separated by a field (and water? I haven't looked at a map recently), they are parallel and in line with each other. Although I haven't conducted any real investigative work, I imagine that the light is in fact traffic as it moves along the other road.

I do plan to test this hypothesis one day. A trustworthy cohort with a phone would stand at the point where the other road begins, and I'd wait on the haunted road.

I have seen a book on Ontario folklore/ghosts at a Chapters that mentioned the college that carried out a field study, and which took some video footage of a light, but I can't remember its title. A photo from the footage is reproduced in the book--it shows a blob of light that has a vague humanoid form. It's not very convincing, in my opinion, for the reason that it doesn't exhibit proper human proportions. It's more of a blob with "limb-like" bulges, if memory serves.

Steve Lalanne
Whitby, ON

P.S. I have an LS1-powered Camaro SS that may be able to spectre where the Nova failed!