Summerville, northwest of Charlston, South Carolina, has a ghost story share. One of the decades that has been standing up for decades is the story of the light of the summer building.
At midnight, following the abandoned railway tracks, along the unpaved road of a nearby pine forest, people observe mysterious light, shake up and down, pulsate in pale blue, green, or orange shades. I am.
As the story progressed along the truck, the woman, the husband, was waiting for the railway worker to return. However, he died and lost his head in an accident. To date, the widow has been searching for his body. She continued -Even after her own death, all her lanterns remained.
It is a description like a gango of light of summer building. The remote path of the story has become known as light road to locals. This is a place where the viewer's searchers reported orb and rare noise in the 1960s.
Susan Huff, a seismologist in the US geological survey, believes that this supernatural story can be explained by natural phenomena. While studying local seismics, Dr. Huff scrutinized historic descriptions, old newspaper articles, letters, and diaries to the earthquake. Haunted Summerville, she found, mentioned a major tremor in 1886. Is there a connection between the earthquake and the story of the ghost in the region?
Several reports of summer buildings also stated that the car shook violently. “Well, for seismologists, Dr. Huff said such a shouting” shallow earthquake. “
She thought that some of the activities of the paranormal phenomenon could be explained by the earthquake. In a house where the tea room and the antique shop were hosted, the owner explained the objects on the second floor, the doors hit and moved. These observations reflect how seismologists explain the results of specific low -level seismic activities.
“Basically, it's shaking in the perceived threshold,” she said.
Although it is far from the end of the structural plate, the summer building has seen a large -scale shaking. Dr. Huff said that the 1886 earthquake caused serious damage in Charleston. But she said that the Temblor's epicenter was close to Summerville. To better understand the risks of earthquakes in the area, Dr. Huff and her colleagues have studied their shortcomings.
The historic source of information provides hints. The 1886 event explained how the southern railway in the summer building was pulled on the right, about 15 feet. Dr. Huff said that the disability had to pass through it. The area is still low at a low level and is active, but has risen compared to other places along the East Coast.
But what about a ghost -like light?
Summerville shook at least three earthquakes in 1959 and 1960. The rubber lings of the earthquake can create a mysterious shine known as earthquake lighting.
In 2014, researchers examined dozens of earthquakes and their bright shine, and found some trends. The earthquake lighting tended to occur in a place with a relatively abundant rock, an earthquake far from the edge of the plate, an extended area, and an iron and magnesium. The Charleston area checks these boxes. “All the ingredients are there,” said WiLL Levandowski,, a global physicist at Tetra Tech, a consulting company Tetra Tech, which was not part of the research. He added that it was “an attractive explanation of these ghost stories.”
Researchers came up with several hypotheses for seismic lighting. Until the tremor, the minerals in the earth have released the charge and released the charge. These charges can move to the surface, where the air shine creates a power field with sufficient strength to make molecules.
Another explanation includes gas like a methane released by an earthquake. Founding, YUJI ENOMOTO, who was studying earthquake science and disaster prevention at Shimizu University in Japan that friction from the movement of the earthquake could create static electricity, said Yuji Enomoto, who was not involved in work. Masu. The accumulation of charge provides sparks for burning methane and produces light of color that contains blue and orange shades. Radon gas, which is released along the active fault, can also play a role.
In the summer building, Dr. Huff published a paper last week last week that the old railway lines or debris remaining around the truck may have rubbed them together to blow sparks into the lights. I mentioned.
“I'm hanging together in the sense that ghosts are hanging near the summer building,” said Dr. Huff. “And due to all the signs, the summer building was a kind of ground zero. The strongest shaking occurred.”
The widow of the summer building is not an unforgettable railway line alone.
“When I started looking around, I found out that there were quite a few ghosts while wandering on the railway track,” said Dr. Huff.
The story from Maco, North Carolina, may be ahead of summer building. It looks like a strange thing. It is about another railway worker who searches for his lost head. Mako near Wilminton, North Carolina is located in an area similar to Charleston. Perhaps the place where the illusion has appeared may reveal a low -level seismic activity that has not been noticed.
The highway off lamp blocks the light road stretched by the light. However, probably when the ground is trembling, the ghost -like shine still visits the pine forest.
