polarisrider1
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Tell us what you know about this. http://www.backwoodswisconsin.com/paulding_light.htm
Paulding Light
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mrsrunningbear
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just gonna start with this...we became keepers of the switch when we bought the place...you decide....
polarisrider1
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just gonna start with this...we became keepers of the switch when we bought the place...you decide....
It is not car headlights, as some may say. I stumbled upon this on my way to Hurley by sled 2 yrs. ago. I had 3 others with me who saw it. The snow was deep and none of us wanted to get to close. Our minds were set on Hurley. But I did see it. if it was a house light or car light that would be easy to prove. I think it is radation from the power lines and Iron ore is in the hill. In Russia people steal electric by raising wires perpindicular to high power lines, the elec. travel thru the air into there wires. I have seen a Floresent bulb light up that was held towards a high power line also. the power lines have to have something to do with it.
mrsrunningbear
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Ok....I don't know how the power lines have anything to do with it, it (the light) is always on the other side of the power lines... the power lines are far to the right and the light is always ( at least when i have seen it) on the left and lots of space in between them ????? and no one is holding any light bulb up .....so radation how would it work????
polarisrider1
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I think we need to get frnash involved. This came up a yr. or so ago. I am a just a retired Rocket scientist who knows a lot about ceramic tile. He is an English major. lol
mrsrunningbear
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and I just live here....what a bunch...lol.....I think its 125,000.00 from unsolved mystery....Hmmm maybe Ripley’s...if you can solve it
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No he's not! He's a "mathemagician" (BS Mathematics, MTU, 1962). Also amateur linguist, philologist and geographer.
Incidentally, if you draw a straight line on a topographic map, initially along the road (Old US45) from the Paulding light viewpoint due north, and study the line of sight and land profile along that line, you will observe that the terrain drops quite abruptly from around 1500' at the viewpoint down to about 1420 ' at Bluff Creek, then rises to about 1494' at a small hill about 1100' south of Mateson Creek (Old US45 veers to the west around that hill), then abruptly drops to 1370'.
The line of sight due north from the viewpoint comes precisely into alignment with a segment of the present US45 from a point 1220' south of Bond Falls road, past Paulding, to a point 564' north of Bond Falls road (a total distance of 1784' — approximately 1/3 of a mile). This segment of the present US45 is at an elevation of 1338' - 1368'.
Continuing north along the present US45, the road deviates a short distance (about 360') to the east before drifting back to the west into precise alignment with the line of sight again about 1¼ miles further north (where the elevation rises to approximately 1420') and remains in alignment to well beyond Bruce Crossing.
This configuration is perfectly suited to cause lights on vehicles traveling along that unique 1/3 mile segment of the present US45 past Paulding to be visible, flickering through the trees, from the Paulding Light viewpoint.
Puzzle solved.
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mrsrunningbear
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This configuration is perfectly suited to cause lights on vehicles traveling along that unique 1/3 mile segment of the present US45 past Paulding to be visible, flickering through the trees, from the Paulding Light viewpoint.
Puzzle solved.
Hmmmmm......ok lets go back to the headlights....I've seen the light last for over 20 minutes and we don't have bumper to bumper traffic like that to have the lights last that long?????
mrsrunningbear
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nope...no neighbor...playing tricks. Pretty weird living here sometimes and thinking about it. It starting showing up in the late 1800s before new us45 and cars???
hamburgchf
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Does the light show up every nite? or on certain days,or by weather conditions? Do you know what is the controling factor? or is it just spooky?
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All it takes is a single vehicle, parked facing south with lights on for 20 minutes, in "beautiful downtown" Paulding.
Yooper_Bob
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It's car lights from US-45.
Drive north of Paulding until you get to Johnson Lake road...turn your vehicle back around to the south...turn off the headlights (or you'll have more people claiming to have seen lights for 20 minutes at a stretch)....watch to the south, and you will see the Paulding Light in reverse!!!!
You will see lots of bright lights as people pull into the parking lot....you will also see red lights as they leave the parking lot.
Drive north of Paulding until you get to Johnson Lake road...turn your vehicle back around to the south...turn off the headlights (or you'll have more people claiming to have seen lights for 20 minutes at a stretch)....watch to the south, and you will see the Paulding Light in reverse!!!!
You will see lots of bright lights as people pull into the parking lot....you will also see red lights as they leave the parking lot.
I've seen it. Very cool. It's been studied by many and no one has the solution yet. Car lights are the 'easy' answer for non believers I guess. From what I know, it doesn't have to be any certain weather. I was there with a big group, and we all watched it for a solid 20+ minutes. It started out as a red blinking light. It then turned to a white color, and seemed to approach us. Like a snowmobile coming from where we had just been. But no snowmobile. No noise. Just light. Then it was gone. Very cool. There is also no trick- you don't have to spin three times, flash your lights, etc- like other ghost stories. Just go there and look and you'll see it.
Thank you!
Yes, I guess Johnson Lake road might also work as well as the source of the "Paulding light", but it's a tad further north than the "sweet spot", roughly 2 miles beyond the point where the present US45 comes back into alignment with the line-of-sight, and there's probably a bit more forest for the light to penetrate.
It is 3.85 miles from the Paulding light viewpoint to "beautiful downtown" Paulding (Bond Falls road), and 6.6 miles to Johnson Lake road.
While parked at Johnson Lake road, facing to the south as you said, you will indeed be positioned to see the "Paulding Light in reverse", the vehicle lights along the 1/3 mile long "sweet spot".
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