The Paulding Lights — Attraction in Haight Township

This is not a beam of light from car headlamp as the university students (and others) erroneously postulate.

An orb of red/green light (about 1' in diameter) approached from the north (approximately 1/4 to 1/2 mile away) and passed over our heads multiple times. (The approximate altitude/speed of the orb was 20'/15-20 mph.)

The womenfolk in the group were screaming like banshees due to genuine terror. (This level of hysterics is not a normal/logical reaction to something that is believed/perceived to be a beam of light from a car headlamp.)

Side note: The person who brought me to see the PL phenomena has been visiting this location her entire life, and for whatever (undisclosed) reason, the night we were there visibly shook her to the core. (Did the PL appear in a way she never experienced before?)

The nearby highway (the university students claim the light is originating from) runs parallel to the dirt road and approximately 1000' to the right. At no point does it intersect with the dirt road the orb egresses. That being so, there is no way photons from a car headlamp beam could produce a red/green orb (with a top, bottom, front, back and sides) on a secluded dirt road surrounded by tall brush/trees. Moreover, the highway off to the right is also surrounded by tall brush and trees.

Lastly, whatever the university students saw during their research was not the authentic "Paulding Light." And whatever images/video you currently see on Google/YouTube are not an accurate depiction of what I (and many others) saw the night we were there.

Tip: Go there with people who have experienced paranormal activity in the past. This may be a prerequisite/trigger for the orb to materialize.

My theory: This location is a lower astral portal of some type or what the old Keltics called a "thin place." (It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if something really horrific/evil took place in this area during the past; the appearance of an orb is a tell.)

Final thought: Calling this phenomena "The Paulding Light" is a really a misnomer; it should be designated as "The...

So I'm from southern Wisconsin and came up North with some friends and family and we decided to come to this place to check it out. My friends have been here before and clamied they've seen lights fly over there heads. more then likely they were under the influence at the time so I was naturally unconvinced. We arrived here some time around midnight during mid September. We waited by the barrier for a little over an hour and only saw some lights in the distance but nothing to the extent that they have witnessed. While we were waiting another group of people showed up to view the lights as well. They told us the legend of the Paulding lights which involves the death of a railroad brakeman.The legend states that the valley once contained railroad tracks and the light is the lantern of the brakeman who was killed while attempting to stop an oncoming train from colliding with railway cars stopped on the tracks. Another story claims the light is the ghost of a slain mail courier, while another says that it is the ghost of an Indian dancing on the power lines that run through the valley. Since I only saw a dim light in the distance I think the Paulding lights are nothing more then the lights of the vehicles driving on the highway in the distance. Even though I don't believe there is anything supernatural with this location it is a nice place for a...

If you love watching headlights and taillights from a long ways off, this is the place for you. If you love seeing other people try to take the obvious and make it into something supernatural, this is also the place for you.

I took my boys there last night. And, yes, we saw the lights. White lights. Red lights.

When you arrive, you'll be looking down a long power line. If you then pull up Google maps and follow that line, you'll see where the main road lines up exactly with the line of sight, a few miles to the north. It's so obvious that this is traffic on the road.

I heard people say "it's more active earlier in the evening." Well, yep, people tend to be driving on roads less the later it gets.

As we left and headed north down the road, we watched where we were on the GPS and joked about how people were seeing us and saying "there's a red one" as our car passed the point where the road lines up.

Being real, it's pretty boring and my kids were begging me to leave pretty quickly. I was really hoping it would at least look sorta weird so I could try to buy in to a little mystery. Nope. Lights on a...