Brown Mountain Lights

04/10/2024

Atlas Obscura just interviewed Dr. Dan Caton from Appalachian State University discussing the Brown Mountain Lights. Give it a listen and tell us what you think-- are they real?

In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we head to the mountains of western North Carolina, where, for more than a century, people have witnessed unusual displays of shimmering and sometimes even exploding lights.

04/01/2024

Maybe they are connected to the Brown Mountain Lights? 👀 👽

We recently captured this photo of a UFO flying over the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you happen to have contact with this ship or any of its passengers, be sure to welcome them to the Parkway and remind them to .



NPS Image: A woman facing a sprawling morning landscape in front of mountains with a UFO in the sky. 📷 E. Smith

04/03/2023

The history and mystery behind the famous Brown Mountain lights of Morganton NC, including tips on when and where to see them.

02/01/2023

Thanks to Smoky Mountain Living Magazine for the great story- Are the Brown Mountain Lights a myth, aliens, or natural phenomenon? What do you think?

Near Marion, North Carolina, there is a gravel track that makes an unlikely claim of being a state highway. If you are brave enough to bump along to the end of the narrow ridge, you will dead end at the beginning of a ghost story.

04/18/2022

Check out this new story on the Brown Mountain Lights from WLOS out of Asheville. Have you seen them?

People have reported seeing mysterious lights in the Linville Gorge area for decades. They are known as the Brown Mountain Lights. Some people say they look like fireworks coming off the mountain. Other reports say they look like hovering orbs of bright light. Caption: Have you seen them? Fascinatio...

03/11/2022

Go vote for Brown Mountain Lights as North Carolina's best !

Hello and welcome to the 2022 Strange Carolinas Best Of NC Awards!!! Please vote for your favorites from the categories in the form belo...

07/14/2021

Recorded Brown Mountain Light viewings as early as 1897 as well as a connection to Jules Verne-- Just some of the things mention in this fascinating article in Mysterious Universe.

Is it possible that there could be a connection between beliefs about the Brown Mountain Lights—appearances of which have been said to persist now for decades—and the mysterious airships of the 1890s?

10/27/2020

Check out this fun video on the Brown Mountain Lights from WCCB Charlotte. They are doing a series called supernatural CLT about all sorts of supernatural phenomena around North Carolina.

Airplanes or Aliens? Brown Mountain, located near Linville Gorge, NC, is famous for various ghostly orbs of light seeming to appear at random and without explanation.

10/26/2020

Brown Mountain Light during the day? What do you think?

The round, irregular object plummeted 30,000 feet before soaring back up at times, the pilot says.

10/06/2020

Brown Mountain Lights are getting attention down the mountain! We love that High Point Public Library is doing a series on Haunted NC and chose to include us! Now that it is fall the lights are more visible than other times of the year. Try your chances and see if you can catch them!

Haunted NC: Day 5

The Brown Mountain Lights were first spotted by Native Americans and have been at the center of great debate ever since. The strange, unexplained lights appear after sunset and they rise above the mountain peak and usually change size, shape, and color.

The best spots to view them are Linville, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Wiseman’s Gap. The U.S. Geological Survey has dismissed the phenomena as marsh gas, despite the fact that there are no known marshes in the area.

There have been various different suggestions made to explain the lights including everything from ghosts to aliens!

In terms of the ghostly explanations, there are two main stories that are often put forward. The first suggests that the lights are Native American maidens who are searching for their lost warriors who died in the great battle between the Cherokee and the Catawba tribes.

The other tale suggests that the light is actually a lantern carried by a slave who is searching the mountain for his lost master, an explorer who went missing on the mountain.