Man. The first time me and my family ever visited Wiseman's view, we seen the lights. It was about 30 - 40 minutes before dark. We seen our first light. It looked just like someone was welding down in the valley. It would stop for a bit and start back in the same place. Within 20 minutes there were 6 to 8 other lights across from Wiseman's view on the mountain side, not on the horizon, but just on the side of the mountain. They were all stationary. Some were brighter than others. Slightly different colors. Slightly different sizes. All were round. A couple were very dim, but you could see them. But they all seemed to be stationary and not changing. Except for the first one we seen. It looked identical to someone welding, far away. We were amazed, but we thought the lights came out like this every night. This was our first time looking for the lights. We would have stayed if we would've known how rare they can be. There was a lot of people there and one person with a really nice camera taking pictures. I've never seen a picture or video that shows the lights the way I seen them. I guess because the pictures and videos I see are always at night. I'm almost convinced I'll never see them like that again. It was in the fall. Maybe 5 years ago. Time to visit.
Yes amazing you simpletons never heard of plasma science. Makes ye seem stupid considering you are on a metallic mountain range filled with very mineral(magnetic) rich ground producing a current that is then transferred to the atmosphere like how lightning goes from the clouds to ground these lights release from the ground to the air. Get your IQ up fellas gawd damn
If you knew what you were lookin at you'd know why it's called "Wiseman's view". The wiseman is always at the top of the mountain. And the wiseman know what's up. The mountain has bands of quartz running through it. Quartz is piezoelectrtic. It also reacts with the ionosphere. Creating these earthbound auroras. You're welcome. Don't get too close. They'll kill you. Also... Free. Energy.
It’s the best when all the lightning bugs are reproducing at that time of year. They thrive up there more than anywhere else for some reason. Gotta be something natural about the trees up there that causes the lightning bugs to swarm in packs like that but yeah it’s still cool even though it hasn’t been a mystery for a long time now…
My friend, my brother and myself all camped on table rock in the middle of January like ten years ago. We climbed up to the peak and watched the lights until we basically just got used to them being there. They weaved through trees and would move against the wind. At one point they looked like car headlights driving through a mountain road except there were no roads where they were at. Amazing experience and like nothing I’ve seen since
@@TheReelAPFishing yeah, pp Clarification: someone probably mistook y'all for the brown mountain lights because they wanted to see the brown mountain lights
Wendigoon fan here…whenever I see phenomenon like this, I can’t help but think of Carl Sagan’s explanation of how 2-dimensional beings would see 3-D objects as a strange, singular plane and also how us 3-D beings would also see higher dimensional objects/beings as anomalies. Perhaps this could be connected to that theory?
i have been up there dozens of times in my younger days . i always seen small lights around shortoff mountain that seemed to move around a little bit . i always thought thats all it was til one day on wisemans view with about 10 friends this huge flashing light starting zigging and zagging on our side of the mountain . like 100 feet away . it scared everyone so bad we all took off running . dont remember much after that which is strange to me . these pictures is the closest thing to what i seen that night .
Just got home from a trout trip in Wilson creek and the gorge. Didn't get a chance to see them this time but we're going again soon. I'm only two hours east of Pisgah area
So fascinating! I now have an incredible desire to go and spend the night up on table rock so that I could get as close as possible. The Brown Mountain lights to me are a true re-connection to the feeling I'm sure our ancestors felt about the, "unknown" and I'd be ecstatic to experience it myself.
Search for articles reporting that 'Australian neuroscientist has solved the Min Min lights' for a detailed explanation and experiment recreating these extraordinary balls of dazzling light/energy. Might not be the same as these lights but does provide a fascinating read. Impressive pictures. Thanks for sharing.
The photos are excellent, but that final one is extremely weird as it does seem to show a humanoid figure on the rock face, lit up by the orbs. Could the size of the figure be calculated somehow? That would definitely be interesting to find out. Thanks for posting and sincere greetings from Germany.
@@ArkAdventures Thanks, that would be great! Unbeknown to me when I watched your video was that a discussion between viewers of David Paulides' RU-vid channel "CanAm" had begun because he discussed the Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon and then one viewer (apart from me) had mentioned and recommended your video, in particular the last photo showing the weird humanoid looking figure. I also recommended your video and channel and joined the discussion, so your footage has in a way become "viral"! Some, like me, would be highly interested in the results of your measurement of the figure, if at all possible. Thanks again for posting your photos and all the best.
You should try camping on the spot and see if the lights still appear during or after your stay. Also checking the area for radiation, burn marks, or any strange patterns in the vegetation.
wow i have spent the last 10 years camping the 105 road in almost all the spots along the road facing table rock never seen a light other then campers at night, luck you nice photos
3:03 this is beautiful!! It looks like to phantasmic beings giving a light show in the woods, it seems to look like they are having fun haha. It would be pretty wholesome if these were 2 best friend ghosts playing around in the forest at night 😭😂🥹 we are just witnessing them playing the most epic game of tag in existence. In all seriousness though it’s actually really beautiful doesn’t give me a feeling of fear more intrigued if anything and it doesn’t seem to be a negative event happening either. They seem like harmless lights or energies I wish we knew what they were though, I’m gonna stick with my theory 😭😂
Great pictures i love that place of the day and the lights are such a bonus i have been over 40 times and have seen or experienced the lights or electronics malfunction, everyone should see them just once in their lives
Those lights are quite amazing! I think you have some serious E.T. visitors. They are all over the planet! Aloha from Hawaii where disks come up out of the ocean.
wow josh,man these are the best pics ive ever seen off the Brown mountain lights,Excellent work,Could you please do another vid of the mountain todays era
Has anyone been in an area of the woods at night where these lights would materalize say like right in front of you ? All pictures are from a distance. Wondering if it ever occurred right in front of someone 🤔
From what I’ve heard these things happen from afar but when you come close, they all tend to disappear and it’s always random so it doesn’t happen all the time but it will be cool for a researcher to actually capture this in real time there’s something going on that mountain
They should just put hidden camera on the trees on those mountains as well as putting small cameras on rats and place them in the brown mountain areas we are bound to eventually get close up footage of brown mountain lights with this plan
The movement looks like how things blow in the wind but Its strange that something with low enough density to float around like that would also glow that much
"High, high on the mountain, and deep in the canyon below It shines like the crown of an angel, and fades as the mists comes and goes. Way over yonder, night after night until dawn, A lonely old slave comes back from the grave, Searching, searching, searching, for his master who's long gone on." lyrics - Brown Mountain Lights, trad bluegrass
Hi, I liked your video. I live in Ukraine and I always see in the mountains here and even they cross in the skies, it is possible to see in the morning and afternoon too.
Dear Josh, I'm author of a book about APPs (aerial plasma phenomena) and a hiking tragedy caused by them. Your photos are very detailed. Do you have high resolution copies for scientific image analysis?
@@inkyboi1690 lol You're IQ is so low that in dark rooms you'd mistake a person for a lampshade, congratulations let me explain. Pareidolia is what you are seeing which is only natural (especially for low IQ individuals, Monkeys, etc). You are imagining this human figure out of looking at plasma created by the mountain. Its an atmospheric effect of a discharge of current like lightning from a storm into the ground. You are just dumb enough to not acknowledge the science and only see a humanoid figure because your tiny mind is scared of that which you know not of. PS: This is why African Americans are darker than Caucasians because they are scared inherently and over time have damned their own skin dark to hide from the predators at night and commit sin and murder each other instead of being warriors like the skin color of the Lord, or more commonly known as us Whites. A clear superior race that has harnessed this "light" from the Smokey mountains.
Can I just say that the pictures are amazing, mysterious💖l, and finally very creepy!! There hauntingly beautiful!! Awesome job,loved these pictures. Canam missing 411 on utube has just done a great video about these lights.
I saw the lights its not along the ridge. Listen I didnt hear about them until the day i Showed up at the gorge and I was extremely scepticle. What I witnessed was a plasma orb form from flouresent cloud below the trees. At appears to be a headlamps someone is wearing white. But I witnessed this orb come out from the top of the trees about 100ft below us. Itt was extremely bright white. Slit in half and arced it really resemembed what i would describe to be a plasma ball. I witnessed it "explode" into a white mist then a red orb violently orbited the cloud, shot into fog from the river and illuminated it. I witnessed the entire mountain glow in a wave pattern like northern lights. There is something else going on here that is nott easily dismissed as car lights or normal lights. One orb flew down the mountain side about a quarter mile above trees. Im telling you its not manmade, its not a drone, its not headlamps, I dont know what it is. BUt I want to research it. I drew what i saw with other people and i made them confirm they saw the same thing. National Geographic has a video that shows one that lasted for a very short time. I want to share with other people who have witnessed the same thing. Somone point me in the right direction please. I am willing to go back out there I need to see this closer and understand it.
me and my wife and some freinds from work were camped out at the headwater 4-7 spot by the fish hatchery this past week, on saturday night i seen suacers with different orb type lights , zooming all over the cloudy sky wondering if anyone else had seen them to
I witnessed this from the west side of the gorge two years ago.. we had never been to the east side so we just figured there was a road along the east ridge and we were seeing cars.. nope.. we went to the area where we saw the lights the next day.. we thought we were going crazy.. we all swore we saw headlights driving through the night before but there is no road over there and the ridge trail is so rough, no way anything could drive that..
Wondering if the area has magnetic particles spreaded out throughout the region.Do they produce electrical types of lights?Has anyone done any soil samples or taken samples from the rocks.Very interesting.
I’m 55. As a child my family traveled across Jonas Ridge every weekend. I saw the lights a lot. The lights were white back then. They didn’t have the color they have now.
The lights are static electrical discharge. Mostly seen in late summer when the air is more dense. There deposits of rock in the area combined with atmospheric conditions produce static electricity. When the air is heated with the electricity it’s changed into plasma. Nitrogen converting into plasma glows purple.
There’s definitely something strange in the Brown Mountains are. There’s no obvious object or natural phenomena causing this. According to their testimony the entire area went dead silent until the lights vanished.
I been on table rock at night and people would be shooting lasers at me from wisemen view lol you can see head lamps easily from the other side of gorge, their is a trail on the wisemen view side of table rock ridge and a parking lot in the saddle of ridge
I've seen them many times but never like that! Most times I've seen them they went up off the mountain many feet in the air! I've camped many times around table rock and never seen any in that area! Hwy181 area is were I've seen them....
@garyfun2drum I have lived in the area 48 years and have seen them in person. I even have pictures, but I also know what hikers headlamps look like in the woods.
There's another place in southeast kentucky where, whatever this is that causes the lights occurs too. I really wish I knew what it was. The ones I have seen don't appear to be as large as the ones in your video. But they are there nonetheless. Sometimes they're just a quick blink or a flash, similar to a lightning bug but much larger of course. And sometimes, they stay illuminated and move much like the ones you were able to document. Though, again, not as large, but there all the same. Thanks for sharing these videos.
@@Rhosk44 Putney kentucky. The lights have even been shown during season 2 of Expedition Bigfoot. Don't recall the episode, and I don't think it's related to bigfoot, but they were able to document the lights on that show nonetheless.
I've watched video like this n4 .. Not nowhere near this Place. It should be on RU-vid. Think it was caught on a game cam in B.C Canada. The sane bright lights. Now I'm going to have to go find that vid again.. Great..
I just watched a documentary and am fascinated by these things. Do you think they would be hard to see if I ever planned a week trip to try and see them?
Deeper research into this reveals that its triboluminescence. When quartz crystals are agitated the vibrations inside the crystal causes the crystal lattice structures to squeeze together, through this friction of the lattice structure a charge of resistivity is produced, thus charging the electrons within the quartz which gets you piezoelectric effects, we then see the light produced from this process. Now the real mystery here is where is the vibrations coming from in that mountain to excite the bands of quartz found within it. Another user commented that its because of the height in which is located, the higher you get to the troposphere the higher the ionic charge in the atmosphere. It makes sense that the high ionic charge at such heights would somehow produce agitation through voltage resistivity inside the quartz lattice structures producing piezoelectric/triboluminescence effects. But if that was the case, why is the phenomena so rare, wouldn't it produce it all day long? Perhaps its certain conditions of weather, where the ionic sphere is more highly charged then other times is when you get this to occur, like windy, stormy days. or it could be an entrance to hell, where demons are coming in and out. lol either one i would believe.
@@ArkAdventures Yeah thats why it doesn't make too much sense to me if it were just a simple case of triboluminescence from quartz being agitated. I've seen other videos where the light seems to be floating well above the ground, have you? I beginning to think it really is an unsolved mystery still. It could also be HAARP related activity, which is known to produce all sorts of light phenomenas at ground and sky level. Do you see any radio or electrical towers up or near there?
I have a question: Are the lights like move in that way or they just seem like that in real life as shown in picture? I mean are the photos showing the movement of the lights that is how the seem in real life? Thank you for answering my question.
What are the streaks in the sky? Only a couple photos had them. Thank you for sharing your photos. I have been wanting to visit this site for a while now!
@JaydreamerZ @ 6:26 min mark i thought of your logo and wondered if you had seen these? Probably have, but figured id ask. I live only a few hrs from that spot an am planning a trip soon! Godspeed
just found 105 and wisemans view lived in mcdowell county my whole life never knew i coukd access it so easily past the state park anyways fell in love with the place and plan on riding my sxs a lot there about what time of year did u experience these lights i mean im wanting to go soon like tom night is there any special times or specific time of year u see them best
lol You're IQ is so low that in dark rooms you'd mistake a person for a lampshade, congratulations let me explain. Pareidolia is what you are seeing which is only natural (especially for low IQ individuals, Monkeys, etc). You are imagining this human figure out of looking at plasma created by the mountain. Its an atmospheric effect of a discharge of current like lightning from a storm into the ground. You are just dumb enough to not acknowledge the science and only see a humanoid figure because your tiny mind is scared of that which you know not of. PS: This is why African Americans are darker than Caucasians because they are scared inherently and over time have damned their own skin dark to hide from the predators at night and commit sin and murder each other instead of being warriors like the skin color of the Lord, or more commonly known as us Whites. A clear superior race that has harnessed this "light" from the Smokey mountains.
They have many names - spook lights, mystery lights, phantom lights,will o' the wisp, fool fire - and have also been seen in Missouri, Oklahoma, and of course Marfa in Texas...
Section hiking Nov. 2009 in N.C. was spending the night at the Hog Back Ridge Shelter. Sun had already gone down, I was sitting on sleeping platform cooking dinner when out of nowhere the forest around me began to illuminate. To me it looked like a campfire. Like when the flames sort of jump up out of the fire 🔥. They finally died out. This happened two more times. What was crazy was the light was so bright that I could make out the bark patterns on the trees in back of the ball of light. It spooked me. When I got up the next morning, I sat in the same spot and looked up to where the balls of lights were, and realized they were about 100 feet in the air. Can't explain it. I've have told some people about that experience. Some think I am crazy, some don't. But with God as my witness, they are real, very real!!!!!! Erik Lloyd. Trail name "Cheesewhiz".
@@ArkAdventures excellent very interesting series of photos Ark Adventures. I think I'm seeing the same phenomena in Scotland. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W9l4RNxPQOg.html
@@ArkAdventures Ohhhh, thank you, good to know.Those lights are crazy. I was just in GSMNP last week and if I knew about the lights I would have drove over to try to see them, how crazy, you got some good pics there. I was just watching Canam missing 411 with Dave Paulides and he just made a video talking about the strange lights.
No I have not contacted Professor Nolan or anyone else regarding the Brown Mountain Lights. I believe he has his hands pretty full lately with all the UAP things going on. I'd be more than happy to talk to anyone from the Sol Foundation though.
How far back do the reports of sightings of these lights go? Do they pre-date drones? Could they be folks on Quad Bikes? It seems like the light follow the terrain, almost like a surface vehicle, IF its natural gas, whats causing it to ignite? Why arent there fires caused from this? Ball Lightning COULD be what it is, but also wouldnt that cause electrical discharge into the nearby foliage? Has anyone ever listened to the sounds made when the lights appear, so any bikes or other ATV can be ruled out?
My dad's great uncle basically got it going. He lived to where he could look down on Wilson's creek where the lights are. He had a shrubbery business and he wanted people to come up there and maybe drum up some business. As for the lights, he didn't know what was causing them.
