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The Brown Mountain Lights: 100 Years of Lights Over a Ridge in North Carolina

2026-11-08 · · Nature Defying Explanation · 9 min read

In September 1913, a newspaper in Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina, in the south-east of the United States, printed a strange report from the mountains.

About 110 km north-west of the city, it said, people were seeing a light.

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