Subject: if not car lights, what is it then? 1,640 views

[Phil]

I notice that people who claim that the Paulding Light is not cars do not provide an alternate explanation. In scientific investigations, if you want the leading theory to be abandoned, you are supposed to provide a different and better theory.
So if it isn't car lights, what is it?

[Plucky]

Yes I and some firneds the local 420 of hanthingy michigan walked toward the light ... and eventually we got close enought ... passing the pond ... and the trees to actually find out wha it is .. if you want to know then go find out .. i promise you will be suprised and laugh you@#%&@off

[Paul]

It's really that funny? you know what it is? the answer is revealed to you when you get that close? my friends and i too of the 420 club walked down, but were stopped by the ravine... next year we plan to go past it and further into the distance, as far as we can see... is the pond way down there? along with the answer?

[runner]

No way!
you are soo lying
investigators would have known. if you really no what happened then why don't you call up Ripleys Believe it or Not and collect your $100,000 for figuring it out?
It's not a fake!!!

[Open Minded]

I would never trust someone who spells so badly that they appear to be a Ferrell child raised by monkeys. In fact, so many of the posts on here use such poor spelling and grammar that they carry absolutely no credibility. I do have a personal experience to share on the light. My family (wife, daughter, and myself) were camping in the area and picked up one of the souvenir maps of the area. Not much to do around there so the "mystery light" location on the map was intriguing enough to warrant a drive. I had never heard of the light before and had no idea what to expect as there was no information on our literature. We found the sign marking the area and were all alone. We parked and waited all alone sitting in the car. About the time we were thinking of leaving we saw a small white light and then a red light off to the side. They seemed to move around but it seriously looked like headlights and taillights cresting a hill as many have said on here. I was feeling like I was conned and trying to figure out what angle the locals had for calling this a mystery when it was car lights. Didn’t seem like a good way to make money or anything as I would never bother visiting this lame thing again and definitely would not recommend it to friends. Well that all changed shortly when the white light started to intensify and grow. No car on this planet could make a light that big and bright even if it was rigged and aiming at an optimal angle to us. Well that was just the start as the red and blue lights started to dance around in patterns that could not be confused with anything to do with a car. I am familiar with Auto kinesis and it does not come into play here because there are reference points on either side created by the tree lines. It was all very cool until the light suddenly seemed to explode towards us. The only way I can describe it is if you took every camera in the world and took a flash photo at the same time. Everything around us (trees, grass, inside and outside of the car as well as our bodies) was lit up so brilliantly white in a split second. The light just grew instantly large enough that it was all we could see in our entire field of vision and it seemed to pass right through us (i know that sounds weird). I know that a light getting brighter will seem like it is moving toward you but this seemed different than that. It actually seemed to be charging at us. It seemed to flash right through our car and bodies and give us a strange feeling. I have never seen anything close to before. After the flash it was completely gone. Well my daughter was frantic and scared as hell begging to get away (she was 15 at the time) so I had no choice but to leave at that point. My wife acted like nothing happened to her at all which I thought was strange. Come to find out when I tried to get them to go back with me the next night that she admitted what she saw and was terrified to go back. My wife is an Attorney and has never been afraid of anything but there was no way they would go back with me the next night. Here is what i find so strange about it. This light was way brighter than glancing at the sun and yet we had no problems with our eyes after. I would have expected to have blurred vision or spots left behind but there was nothing. Don't ask me why but this happened 3 years ago and i have not been back but I think about it way too often. It affected me that much. All i can say is if this is something man made it is one hell of a project. Maybe there is a relative of Tesla that lives up there, lol. Anyway, I have absolutely nothing to gain by sharing this so hopefully some of you skeptics will take note. You do have to see it to believe it but if you think you are seeing car lights then you haven’t seen the Paulding light yet.

[andy]

i was there a few weeks ago. i live like 4 or 5hours from it but stilll a local of michigan "eh" lol. but when i was there, there was a 4wheeler heading down the tracks comeing twords us, but we still could see the light. we asked the guy on it if he saw the light and he didnt so idk.. iam kinda 50/50 on eather a gost or science

[Spudz]

I dont know what it is either but it sure is cool. I dont think it is a ghost but a phenomena (sry spelling) for sure. Some mix of unknown and science would be my guess. Kind of like a time warp portal would be considered.

[stefee818]

andy said:

i was there a few weeks ago. i live like 4 or 5hours from it but stilll a local of michigan "eh" lol. but when i was there, there was a 4wheeler heading down the tracks comeing twords us, but we still could see the light. we asked the guy on it if he saw the light and he didnt so idk.. iam kinda 50/50 on eather a gost or science

[stefee818]

If you've ever been to Paulding/Watersmeet Michigan, you will know that cars do not constantly pass on the roads in this area, it is not a big city. Also, why has it been such a mystery for so long, when people can easily walk down and check it out, they can now, and they always have been able to. What motivation does one have to sit there night after night and flash headlights? I don't know anyone who would sit there, night after night and flash their lights for absolutely no reward. Paulding is a creepy town, one time, coming back from the light, a ball shaped light formed on the road in front of my car, and I hear I'm not the first that saw this other light. I don't know what the Paulding light is, but I'm convinced it's not car lights. The lights also change colors too quickly for them to be head and tail lights. I've been there many times, and plan to go again soon.

[qphys]

The first time I heard of the Paulding Lights, I was reading a book called Other Electricities by a Michigan author whose name currently escapes me. But anyway, wasn't too impressed, I just thought it was another dumb ghost story, right? Well, me and three friends got bored about 10 ish hours ago, and decided, what the hell, let's drive to Paulding. We're from Houghton, so it wasn't a bad drive, and we, again, were bored. I wasn't at all sure what to expect. One of my friends looked up a bunch of stuff beforehand, but otherwise we were clueless. At first, there were already two cars out there, just chilling. And we saw the light, and they said "No, those are just headlights." Seemed logical, so I went with it. But we decided to hang out for a while longer and just see what happened. Most of the people that we saw out there, and there were a lot, were drunk. Lol. It was very entertaining. There were people from all over. Considering their current state, I didn't attach much significance to their stories... Until my friends and I were alone for a bit. We saw the light several times. The blinding white light that seemed to get closer and then abruptly disappear, as well as the red light that stayed for long periods of time. Which was strange in and of itself. All being natural skeptics, we decided it was likely to be headlights, but inconclusive. As soon as we got back, we went onto mapquest and pulled up aerial maps of Paulding. You guys should check it out. The road that used to be there isn't even used anymore. And the end is miles and miles ahead around some twists & turns. And the part where we stopped our car at, there is a metal guard rail. So no cars can get out there. And it's not cars passing on 45, because 45 parallels the road, so there's no possible way that lights could be shining straight down the road. I'm a natural scientist, I don't believe in a lot of things like this. However... I don't know. It's kind of bizarre. My friends and I are planning to go back during the day sometime soon and walk all the way down the road. Some observations about the lights: 1) it almost looked like the lights went around a curve... and if you look at a map, that'll explain why, 2) multi-colored lights at different, sometimes the same, time, 3) no after effects like looking in the sun as mentioned before, 4) seemed to help if we flashed our headlights then waited, 5) was waaaay more frequent when we sat in the car and watched. It was really cool and definitely worth more investigation.

[Wildkay9]

Went to see the light on Sat. We walked up the path to the point that it curves to the left. We climbed up the hill on the right and we could see it from there. It still seemed so far away. We got some good video tho. It looks really strange when you zoom way in on it. Like a static filled tv screen, and, like I saw someone else write, the red lights didn't show up through the camera. I have also checked out satellite pics of the area and try to line up roads where these lights are supposedly coming from. If these are supposed to be headlights, which road is it exactly and at which point of the road are we supposed to be seeing these lights coming from??? I stared at headlights in the distance all the way home (Suring) to see if they had the same effect, but there is no stretch of road anywhere that you can compare that great of a distance away. The people that say it's headlight, could you post a map on here which shows this road that the lights are supposedly coming from, becuz I'd like to go to THAT road and have someone else stay at the lookout and see if I can see THEIR headlights. I'm sure people have done this, if there IS a road filled with traffic that causes headlights to shine so brightly (even during the day) every day........ It just seems that there is so much forest everywhere, it would be hard for headlights to have a clear shot for such a long distance. We got there around 4:30, so we ran out of hiking time, but we will be going back again. We talked to some very nice people when we were there! No drunks. Anyway, I thought it was cool and something that people should go check out!

[Hawkju]

Wildkay, if you or anyone else could send me video that you took of this, or any other information you might have, please let me know. I'm very interested in this. A relative of mine took some very interesting video that is not similar to what I have seen on the internet. His video is of a glowing orb that when close has striking detail and dark spots/streaks in it. The red lights however did show up in the video as well.

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[wildkay9]

Hawkju,
I need to buy a cable to connect my video camera to my computer. I want to go back and take more video tho, because I just keep questioning what appeared when I zoomed way in on the light. It was like a tv screen filled with static. The only thing is, when we were driving home, I tried to focus on various headlights coming towards us, and 1 or 2 ended up looking the same way on film. So, I was wondering if maybe this was just an effect you get when you zoom in real close on a light with my camera. I want to go back and take more footage from all different distances and do some more hiking and exploring the highways to the north. I too wish more people would post video and pics, especially the ones who say the light actually came right down to their car! I know that some of the dimmer light is supposed to actually be headlights, and that's coming from the locals, but I still argue the fact that the light is way too bright and it shines way too frequently to be traffic on a road, especially at 3am or 12noon. I am also interested very much in all of this. I'll let you know when we plan to drive up again! Thanks My e-mail is [e-mail]