Do NOT Approach This Light 

A rare instance when reality is more sinister than the fairy tale. Getting swallowed in a deep bog feels way more terrifying than being pranked by a goblin.

5:20 lol you can see the cursor, damn love this guy

Another type.of "phantom light" can be caused by types of bioluminescent fungii. These fungii often grow in damp rotting wood or plant material. The phenomenon is sometimes called "foxfire". I actually saw this once when I was walking through a dense forest after dark. I spotted a bluish-green glowing ring near the ground. On close inspection it was around the base of an old rotting tree stump and being produced by a.glowing fungus growing around the base of the stump.

6:04 "Collected swamp gas into bottles." We can never be sure that she didn't just fart into them.

Pretty amazing that some dude in 1500 figured out what it was, while in the next village down they were still burning the local witches 😂

ah yes mr slav ramblings over jazz music, perfect friday night

“In a form called fart” I’m not usually a fan of those types of jokes, but given the grammar and accent… that shit was hilarious

Marsh gas lights are just one example of this. In the USA, there's examples of what tends to get described as "phantom brakemen" along certain stretches of rail lines. And the science behind these indicates a connection between them and "earthquake lights", a similar phenomenon albeit on a much larger scale. Note the railroad connection. So, you have steel tracks which tend to be grounded. But sometimes, sections of rail can have electrical ground faults. And when you couple that with piezoelectric effects from a nearby fault, well... I've actually seen one of these, the "Chapel Hill light", about 40 miles south of Nashville, TN. It's your basic blueish-white ball of light...races up and down the tracks to the north of town. Sometimes it'll hover in place, or jump from one rail to another. And invariably, it simply vanishes. Pretty neat...with a great old ghost story about a brakeman who tried to warn a train that the tracks were out and who, in the calamity, was decapitated and he now wanders the tracks with his lantern, searching for his missing head! Which, of course, is bunk. The real cause is a geological fault that runs parallel to the tracks for a couple of miles north of...yep, you guessed it...Chapel Hill, TN. A lot of THESE types of phantom lights can be found in similar situations: faulted rock in crystal-bearing strata. And much of the time, they need a conductor nearby to discharge the piezoelectric charge. At higher altitudes, that can work in a manner similar to the initial stages of a lightning strike...albeit minus the weather needed to actually generate lightning. Pretty neat, really. Also, the weather does seem to play a part, as these lights only happen during very dry humidity levels...again, demonstrating the electrostatic nature of these lights.

"Instead of running after it like a typical peasant would, you remember that you have watched Mr. Slav video about these lights and you remain standing where you are" Damn, the ingenuity of this guy's lines is already breaking the sky limit at this pace 🕶👍 Also, loved how you included the scenes from LotR: Two Towers, "don't follow the lights" was precisely what I thought of as we got into the video 😄

This happened to me in Louisiana when I was a kid, and yes I was in a swamp, and it was right after hurricane Katrina so the methane fire might be right but I swear it looked like bright flashlight (floodlight) looking for me. I was already lost so I went to it and it did fade the closer I got to it. I didn't know it was a common phenomenon. Thank you random youtuber I subscribed to a week ago.

"The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes! That is their name. This way. don't follow the lights." _..._ "Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones, and light little candles of their own." -Gollum

that is definitely some of the odd stuff i've heard.

We have unexplained lights in North Carolina, called the Brown Mountain Lights. They've been seen for hundreds of years. These lights are more difficult to explain because they're on the side of a relatively.dry mountain and there are no swamps in that area. You can find many videos on RU-vid of the Brown Mountain lights.

I love your channel. You make vide about interesting topics, have a unique style of making your thumbnails and they really pop out from the over-saturated, cheap or clickbait thumbnails, you dont scream into the microphone and dont play sound effects every second, keep it up man!

The way this guy adds a purr when saying the word "fart" with that accent. 😂 "FARHDDDRHT.."

nature is scary

"quite cold" "400°C".....💀

This just reminds me of that scene in LOTR where Frodo, Sam and Gollum were traveling through the boggy marshes before Mordor. Gollum warns Frodo "Don't follow the lights!" after he notices dead people staring up through the water with glowing eyes. Right before he locks eye contact with one, and goes into a trance planting face first into the water. Edit: commented before i saw a selection from the exact part i mean!!

"burning bog fart" sounds much less intimidating than "ghost light"

Where I live the river floodplains transition into swamps. There's a 2 lane road with lakes at both sides, but the forest has warning signs everywhere. It looks like grassy forest but you'll get stuck up to your hips 2 meters in. Breaking the surface (by anything) causes methane to escape. Sometimes it smells like farts or rotten eggs. When ignited sometimes a flame will shoot up. We were always told not to go in, and certainly not to light the gas (you'd be standing in a methane cloud doing so)

Keep grinding bro, you’re an exceptionally great creator. I love how you’ve adapted your method on delivering your videos through the years.

I just found your channel and I love it. As soon as I saw the LotR scene at the end, I subbed. Love your accent, your presentation style, edition, thumbnails, and the atmosphere of your videos. Keep it up!

“just like chicks at the club” 💀💀💀

Here in Argentina we call it Luz Mala (Bad Light), in the northern part of the country. With humid conditions, a lot of rivers and creeks and also marshes and swapms. its said that its a demon who watches the horizon to warn people from floods in the marshes or fires in the woods. Someones think it like an advertisement to don't cross, because someone made it and didn't made it back. In more southern parts of the country with less water in surface (also less swamps) its a sign of caution, because the light is the refracting of bacteria, quemicals and bones of animals. Meaning a hunter (human or not) who was in the zone recently killing the cattle. Also in the province of Santiago del Estero they said that it is a demon which, if touchs a young womans shoulder. She may get pregnant by the demon (Its told that its just incest, its very common in that province)

Your videos are fantastic! Please keep them coming 🙏👍

In first chapter of Dracula by Bram Stoker, phantoms lights appear, when Jonathan travels to Castle

That fire reminds me of the ending in God of War 3, where Kratos was following a similar fire but once he was getting closer it would get away again waiting for him to reach it again

I remember visiting the town of Centralia about a decade ago and seeing all the smoke coming out of the ground. I was surprised that tourists were even allowed to visit that site given that the ground could be unstable. Reminded me of this story a little bit.

Dude I think your channel is my favorite. Your accent and acting together with the topics are just top notch!! You always have one or two more hilarious things in every video hahahahaha I love it bro!!!

I’m loving two Mr. Slav videos in two weeks! ❤

We appreciate how well you’ve articulated your insights on this matter. Keep working hard.

There is a legend in arabian gulf countries that states that a jinni or a spirit called "holder of the lantern" shines his lantern on people who are in the desert (highways or camping trips) so they follow the light and get lost in the desert eventually dying. It's almost identical to this legend

Mr. Slav, It's always nice to see you my friend! I hope you have been well. Thank you for another amazing upload. We appreciate you✌🏻

Excellent advice Mr Slav.

We have a similar thing in upstate New York. In this case it is Ironwood trees that have faint glowing spots on them that can only be seen on an unusually dark night.

I've only ever seen one confirmed video of them. From a distance in the video it looked like some kind of party going on in the distance; greenish blue lights dancing around like a tiny rave. Thankfully the person filming it was aware the location it was happening over was a swampy bog area and didn't go towards it; knew that it was swamp gases. It still gets shared around as 'footage of a ghost' or some kind of fae ritual on the internet with clickbait headlines. So I guess humans never change.

Hey Slav, you gained sub awesome video sir take care of yourself…

Nice GeoWizard reference, he's a great guy. I've seen these ghost lights, in Sweden. The area was somewhat swamp-like, but the ground was solid. I tried to chase the lights several times but never caught them. I was in a group of 5 people, everyone saw it.

Please make a video on Strange phenomenon of Quantum Mechanics and Sub-atomic particles.

Javanese people called the strange light "Banaspati".

MrSlav , You are the prefect kind of youtuber for me , your content always makes me stop on what i am doing to watch your videos!

I really wish you'd list what music you use on these, you have such a good selection but I have no idea what they are.

Slav face expresion on this video is just absolute amazing, keep it slavic

Any other culture folclore: It all began a long time ago.. Slav explaining culture folclore: I had to go outside to laryek town shop

Great Content!

Yep, my cousins used to own property where it would happen and my uncle called the smell "Dinosaur farts " never saw them ignite, but my cousins said you would get dark purple flashes without noise.

Nice job on this one

great video slav

Real Life Ghost Light from Cars toon. So Mater, I feel you.

That was interesting thank Mr Slav

Your map ..😂 👍🏼 the 1st one ❤

Another great Mr Slave video as always !

I always look forward to your videos. Between your awesome accent, the stories you tell and concealing your identity, I am always watching for your latest work. Appreciate you, God bless you and yours.

This guy makes some of the most interesting videos subbed

Methane seeps are relatively common, especially biogenic (swamp). But since BC times thermogenic seeps have been used for light, heat, and cooking, with camps, and even religious altars, built around them from the Middle East to North America. I mapped and sampled many of these, especially while doing Coal Bed Methane exploration. You can still see the biggest area I found in Wyoming between the towns of Baggs and Creston on the east side of Rt. 789. On old stage coach maps it’s shows a couple as “bubbling springs”, though the water is too salty to drink. But there are many old cowboy campsites that used some of the smaller ground seeps as a instant camp fires. It’s like the Yellowstone geysers and mud pots, but methane instead of steam, though most are smaller. But no smoking because it’s odorless and colorless. A little static spark, or after a storm, and you can sometimes see some of them flaring blue at night. Spooky but hypnotic.

The tri-county spook light near Joplin, MO would like a word.

Will 'O' The Wisp. Absolutely beautiful phenomenons 😊

I'm glad mr slav is posting regularly again

It reminds me of Metro Exodus electric anomalies although different from the flames but they’re just as creepy lol

Ahh yess Bengal Lights.....even if you escape the Royal Bengal Tiger you will meet your maker while you are in Sunderbans

Gotta love some spooky stories that could be true

Crazy that this was just 6 hours ago and the views keep going up! Hope you get 1M subs one day! 🔥🔥🔥

you make my day MR.SLAV you the best youtuber you give info about anything and everything

Even if you believe in spooky things and cryptids, it’s important to remember that most things have a natural explanation and some of those things can be dangerous. Excellent video.

It's only ignited methane. On its own, that's indicative of decaying plantmatter underground or underwater, which usually means swampy or marshy terrain. The danger lies in both the terrain and the gas - methane is toxic in high enough concentrations to self-combust, which could asphyxiate you; or you could step into a sump and drown or into a mudhole and become stuck or submerged, like quicksand. There's nothing more mysterious or sinister to it, and the dangers are entirely mundane and explicable.

Best youtuber

I always find myself wanting his voice somehow!!! 😂

That "however"

In germany we call it "Irrlicht" (can be translated as "mad light", "wrong light", "roam around light" or "get lost light")

My gas stove is legit giving that kind of fire everytime opening the gas stove to cook

Want to be a fossil? Better than the alternative? Hiking through a bog looks like a game of fates.

Thanks for the content man you are always entertaining as well as teaching us something. Keep it up .

Your voice is perfect for a story narration

I like your accent, Mr Slav. It's very polite and distinct 😊👍🙏

I have seen it once when I was a kid and heard many more stories about it from elders.

Here in Argentina Gauchos call it ''La Luz Mala' 'The Evil Light', or 'Farol de Mandinga' 'devil's lantern'. And folklore says that they hide treasures too, but you need to first extinguish the flame with a big knife swinging through the air, or else, when you pull out the treasure from the shallow water, you will be burned alive. I believe this might have happened due to those very same gases being released, many people have found ancient artifacts and indigenous tools beneath the place where these lights appear, and some have died burned when trying to pull it out of the marsh.

This reminds me of another true, rare physical phenomena known as St. Elmo's Fire, AKA "Witchfire".

mr. slav, how about ghost fire that floating 1-3 meters above the ground? i've seen once, and it's silverish flame, is it dangerous?

Yup. This is the kind of crap that would get me killed. I can totally see myself walking into a bog.

Strange as it may seem, a Victorian gent did manage to get near to one of these lights. They are indeed glowing gas, and very, very susceptible to being extinguished by air currents. They always occur over marshes, and as such can drown the unwary. Never go out onto moors like Dartmoor by night, or if you do stop still and sit out the night somewhere with a bit of shelter. If caught on the moor, get to a stream or watercourse and walk with the current IN the water until you get off the moor. Note I say IN the water; you can't easily drown in a stream but you can drown in a peat bog.

In Japan, the "phantom fire" in mythology is generally a lot safer and friendlier than most mythical creatures. If I remember correctly, they are called "hitodama", which roughly means "(a) person('s) soul/spirit." According to myth, they are apparently rather cool to the touch and wander mostly aimlessly, and doesn't have any negative implications for a person who stumbles upon one. They're essentially just a pretty sight to see, which I always found to be quite comforting to imagine a peaceful, friendly little flame just floating alongside you as you travel whatever path you're going.

Idk if anyone keeps up with physics but there is a new theory out of non caporal sentient plasma possibly higher dimensional entities coming from 5 or more dimensions into the 3rd thru some kinda technology that allows them to use plasma or something as a kinda drone. Swamp gas goes exist and happen but I’ve personally witnessed this at the Missouri ghost light road when one came and went across the hood of our car and the light from it reflected and I was only 4-5 feet away from it and it absolulty was a floating orb light. I all so have captured orbs on IR ring camera that are not bugs on the CMOSS sensor. Cause you could tell distance from it passed behind and from around walls and other one was a 3 light string with others that causes electromagnetic interference on the ring camera mic and kept messing with the day light sensor switching between night and dark and that is ran with a switch that once voltage drops resistance drops letting the switch close across this little thing that’s like a small solar cell and in the light voltage opens as resistance rises and becomes like a resistor only allowing a small voltage to trigger the switch.

"Louis was also dismade when the flames ran away from him, everytime he tried to approach them. Just like chicks at the club" bruh 😂

Imagine being in ancient times seeing a phenomenon like ball lightning, or even just methane gas eruptions. Probably inspiration for alot of mythos and legendary stories

I have actually been to several marshes in Germany and it seems very plausible that a tiny flame burns in blue light. additionally I have observed flames at night in these moors as well. they werent blue though.

The blue fire is in Bram Stokers Dracula.

I haven't seen any videos of this phenomena.

Can you talk about those floating plasma balls that appear out of nowhere as well? If you hadn't

Here in England, they used to be called 'will o' the wisps'.

This guy sounds just like Colossus from the Deadpool movies 😂😂😂😂 "You are not X-Men material"

Nah, that light is basically Snape conjuring a patronus spell.

Man you should do a horror story podcast. I will definitely listen 👌

“You have to TRY!”

Love from Kenya love the vids and the accent 😭

I did approach the light. Anarchy baby.

It remembers me to SCP 2316

I have yet to be a peasant in Medieval Times... ugh... have yet to go there, I assume it is a little pricey. But, someday maybe, I'll get to that restaurant...

I've read a story about this on the Internet years ago, sometime in the 1800's a guy was walking home in the total darkness when he saw this light, when he walked towards it he fell into a marsh! It's caused by burning swamp gas or methane

Helo, I'm from Poland and we have these trickster lights in our folklore. They are called false flames. Love from Poland❤

I’m a typical peasant and I’m insulted that you correctly predicted that I’ll run directly to it.