Jason Sandford
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Here’s the big story from the Charlotte Observer. Joshua Warren, who lives in Asheville, is well known around town for his ghost tours, his books about local ghost legend, and his ongoing research into the mysterious unknown.
A man who has devoted several years of study to the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights in northwest North Carolina claims a possible breakthrough in his research.
Joshua Warren said in a nationally broadcast radio interview early Thursday that his team of researchers might have captured on camera one of the lights — almost.
Warren was a guest from 4 to 5 a.m. on “Coast to Coast AM,” broadcast in Charlotte on WBT. The show focuses on topics such as UFOs, ghosts and paranormal activities, and Warren, of the Asheville area, is a regular on the program.
He said he and a team of researchers set up a camera last month in the Brown Mountain area, along the Burke-Caldwell county line, and the camera captured what appeared to be a bright light. But the light was not directly on the camera.
For more than a century, there have been reports of strange lights in the area. A number of studies, including some conducted by Warren, have failed to answer the mystery.
In his interview early Thursday, Warren said the camera – hidden in a remote area, he said – picked up a bright light shortly after 1 a.m. Nov. 20.
“This was a top-secret project,” Warren told host George Noory. “The camera was in a remote area. We didn’t want anyone to mess with it.”
He said that in reviewing the video coverage, his team discovered a short span of time when a very bright light was a short distance to the right of the camera.
“The light is so bright,” he said. “It is bouncing off the lens of the camera. There is no other light source out there. This was in a very remote area.”
