![]() ![]() Illustration by The New York Times Photos: Cirque du Soleil All attempts to shed light on such a multifarious and mercurial phenomenon remain, as yet, satisfyingly unsatisfying.Credit. Scientists continue to offer explanations of swamp gas, fireflies, headlights, self-igniting plasma balls and even owls with a fondness for ingesting bioluminescent fungi. ![]() The “Min Min Lights” are most often encountered on the 225-mile road between Winton and Boulia, where drivers often mistake them for approaching headlights until they pass and either vanish or bounce across the road. They can appear out of nowhere, split in two and allegedly interact “intelligently” with observers. Located in Western Queensland, the lights are described as airborne fiery orbs with a tendency to follow rather than to lead. ![]() Drawing on Aboriginal folklore, country star Slim Dusty’s 1968 Min Min Light is the ballad of a boy who follows a light “far into the night”, never to return. In a recent episode of the Monster Talk podcast, researcher Jerry Drake and his wife describe a close-up encounter with a floating ball of light at a roadside in Iceland.Īustralia’s most celebrated will-o’-the-wisp has its own visitors’ centre, “Encounter Show” and song. In a valley in central Norway, the Hessdalen Lights – multicoloured clusters of glowing orbs that dart across the landscape – have been witnessed for decades. North Carolina’s Brown Mountains remain a hotspot for lights that hover, move erratically and change colour. Urbanisation and light pollution may explain a lack of evidence for will-o’-the-wisps in countries like the UK, yet sightings persist across remoter parts of the world. In South America they are simply luz mala: “evil light”. To Indigenous Australians they are “corpse campfires” for Mexicans the spritely bruja is believed to be the soul of a witch. ![]()
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