Maco light

The Maco Light was a supposedly anomalous light, or "ghost light", occasionally seen between the late 19th century and 1977 along a section of railroad track near the unincorporated community of Maco, North Carolina. Said to resemble the glow from a railroad lantern, the light was associated with a folk tale describing a fatal accident, which may have inspired tales of a similar type around the country.[1] The light was never formally explained, but was often thought to be the result of marsh gas from nearby swamps or the refraction of lights from a highway wrote: