What happened
The first recorded sighting was reported to the local sheriff in 1966 by a group of teenagers. The light appears after dark over a valley viewed from the end of Robbins Pond Road, a forest road: a white or reddish patch grows, dims, and disappears, sometimes flickering. According to the most popular legend, it is the lantern of the ghost of a brakeman who was killed on an old railroad line that ran through the valley. The spot has become a local attraction – on clear evenings dozens of curious visitors gather there, and the light has been featured on television programs about unexplained phenomena. In 2010 students from Michigan Technological University took up the case.
Witnesses
Local young people, residents, and tourists; in 2010 students from Michigan Technological University observed the light through a telescope.
Explanations and hypotheses
In 2010 students from Michigan Technological University observed the light through a telescope and identified it as the headlights and taillights of cars. They reproduced the phenomenon by driving a car along a specific stretch of U.S. Route 45, which lies in a straight line with the valley. The explanation is now widely accepted, although the legend still draws visitors.
Explained The phenomenon has a widely accepted, down-to-earth explanation.
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