Weird Lights Spotted In Arkansas

The Story

By:Justin

It is said to be amazing. You can supposedly see “Spook Lights” down in an untouched, green Arkansas valley 17 miles outside of Dover, Arkansas. All you have to do is shine your car headlights and honk your horn down into the valley and you are supposed to get a response from the lights. People come from all over just to see these lights. No one knows how or why these lights occur.

Evidence For

Mysterious Reality (www.mysteriousreality.com) did a study of these lights. The chart below shows what happened while they were there.

Mysterious Reality Official Investigation of the Dover Lights
December 1, 2001
Time	Experiment	Light Activity
7:30 PM	No activity	No Activity
7:49 PM	Car horn was honked several times	A brief flutter of light on the mountainside. Light was dim with little or no movement
7:55 PM	Spotlight shined into the mountain	Three small lights appeared on the mountainside just above the stream below. Lights were further back than the stream. Lights faded away after a few moments.
8:02 PM	Car horn honked a second time	Lights appeared again, only a little brighter and seemed to be the same three lights as before (they appeared in the same spots as the previous lights faded away). There was a tiny bit of movement, as the lights appeared to move closer to one another
8:07 PM	Car horn honked a third time with spotlight shinning into the valley	The lights (still present) brightened up a bit but not with too much excitement. Movement picked up as the three lights three lights began to circle one another very slowly. Movement became less apparent after about two to three minutes.
8:12 PM	No stimulus	Lights faded away over a period of about two minutes.
8:32 PM	No stimulus	Lights briefly appeared again but with no real activity other than showing up. Faded away again after about 30 seconds.
8:35 PM	Car horn honked along with spotlight being shinned into the valley	No activity
8:58 PM	Car horn honked	Two lights appeared but remained stationary for several minutes
9:07 PM	No stimulus	The two lights were joined by a third, and then a fourth light. All four lights began to move about the mountainside
9:15 PM	No stimulus	The most dramatic event of the night took place! Two lights slowly faded away with the remaining two lights moving toward one another. The remaining two lights seemed to join, with a result of a bright, brilliant beam being shot straight up into the sky! Then all lights faded away.
9:21 PM	Spotlight was shined into the valley	No activity
9:27 PM	Car horn was honked with the spotlight being shined into the valley.	No Activity
From this point on, there was little or no activity of the lights. The Mysterious Reality crew left the area at approximately 11:00 PM
(Courtesy of mysteriousreality.com)

Evidence Against

There is no evidence against these specific lights. But, other lights have been proven wrong. They have turned out to be lights from other cars on a road or lights from houses. In some cases they are just glowing methane swamp gas. Also, sometimes they are just mirages that reflect off something, or, a fracture in the earths crust that may shift during earthquakes or tremors cause static electricity builds up as rock moves against rock. Sometimes they are just hikers in the woods with flashlights. But, a lot of the time they are just people’s imagination.

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Resources

http://www.mysteriousreality.com/myst.asp

http://www.unmuseum.org/spookl.htm