During the last five years as I have studied earthlights, I have been in contact with many people from across the world. I have gotten information about earthlights from their viewpoint as well as names given to earthlights as they are called in that particular area. Before I give them out I want to make a statement that will probably make me look like a broken piggy bank (no sense) having person. Though this may be true in a way, I can also tell you that I am probably one of the biggest skeptics out there, or at least was before my visual metamorphosis took hold. Though you probably will never meet me, I can honestly say that do not or never have fooled around with "BS" I am full of it, but that is in a joking sort of way and the friends, family and people that know me, know that I am very honest. I am thirty four years old and right now I am sitting at my desk during my planning period, as a special education teacher in the middle school of my hometown in Kentucky. What I am going to say is that will o wisps a.k.a. earthlights, min min lights etc.. have a consious and from my advantage point, plus the things that I have seen and heard, I believe along with a few others that they are intelligent.
First of all the will o wisp reacted to us. It is not logical from my viewpoint for it to have gotten directly in front of us and for it to seem startled by the only relatively loud noise that came from either of us in that fifteen minute span. One of the others that lives in the same area, said the same thing from her conclusion, after a will o wisp came floating at her stopped thirty feet in front of her, hovered for a few seconds and wisped off and away from her. The other factors that have brought me to my conclusion is the strange noises that have followed us around as we have mapped this area. Sounds of trees falling yards from you that never hit the ground, noises that sound like tin being beat coming from directly above you in the trees. Mimmiking noises that seem to mock your car door being shut, minutes after you start your hike inside the woods and finally the barn burner as your friend is beating on fossils in limestone only to have a echo of those taps come two to three seconds after his final blow, the same note but with a much deeper tone and loud enough to burden your ears.
Could these noises be coming from something else? Maybe, but after what I have seen, unless I am sitting on some of the most haunted woods on planet earth the answer is probably no especially considering that these noises were not made by animals or humans unless they had monster speakers hooked up to trees, three miles from the nearest gravel road in the middle of B.F.E. Paul Deveraux is a accomplished scientest who also beleives that earthlights are intelligent. He along with Dr. Michael Persinger who I have spoken with created the techtonic strain theory, which theorizes where and how these creatures exist. I know some of you skeptics are already licking your chops, but I do not care, let me have it. It will not bother me or in any way change my mind. It is kind of in a way like telling others that there is another color in the rainbow and you have seen it.
On to the info, some of you have asked me about all the places on earth where these lights have been reported. I have done some research and have found these synonyms, some with the country it came from listed as follows. These lights have been seen on every continent around the world, throughout history, even in antartica.
By the way sorry for the long post!!

Gandapati from Indonesia - a wicked spirit that can also take form of a dragon.
The Guernsey
Hitodama from Japan
Arbyrd from Missouri
Boitata from Brazil
Brown Mt. lights from North Carolina
Candileja from Columbia
Cohoke light from Virginia
Corpse Fire - name given to will o wisps found in graveyards. aka ghost orbs
Corpse Candle from Scotland and the Netherlands
Crossett Light
Dwaallicht from Denmark
Feux Fallets from French Canada
Fox Fire
Friars Lantern
Fireship from Canada
Hinkypunk Welsh
Hobby Lantern from Hertfordshire and East Anlia
Spook light
Irrlicht from Germany
Irrbloss from Sweden
Feugos Fatus from Spain
Fuoco Fatuo from Italy
Gurden Light
Ghost light
El Jacho from Puerto Rico
Hessdalen lights from Norway
Jack o Lantern from Newfoundland
Kitty with a wick from Cornish Folklore
Kollivai Pisaasu
Liderc from Hungry
Luz Mala from Argentenia
Lyktemenn from Norway and Sweden
Maco ligh
Marfa Light from Texas
Min Min light from Australia
Mekong lights from Thailand
Paasselka devil from Finland
Peg a lantern from Lanashire
Jenny with a Lantern from Yorkshire
St. Elmos Fire
St. Louis light from canada
Spunkie from the Scottish Lowlands
Surrency Spooklight
Vettelys from Norway
Virvatuli from Finland
Ken Yang Ba Shing from Tiawan
Walking fire
Gwei Huo from China
Zaltvyksle from Lithuania
Fire ghost from Africa
There are others out there. If you have a synonym that I have not listed, please give me the info and thanks......

Arbyrd from Missouri


This would not happen to be Near Rolla, MO would it?

When I was in college my friends and I would travel to Joplin..well close to Joplin to see what we in the area called the "ghost-light".

The T. V Shows, Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries even came out and did a story on it.

It was amazing, I did manage to see it a few times, but its not always there when you go to see it. There have been lots of theories as to what it could be. There is no denying its there, but lots of denying its anything other than maybe just a ball of gas.

It bounced around about 1 in front of out car, stopped and just sat in once spot as we continued to drive closer, then it just disappeared.

The light was no bigger than a large apple, but the light would pulsate, and change its strength, It would go really dim then get bright again. Pretty neat.

"Will O The Wisp" comes from "Will Of The Wisp".

In more primative times it was thought these lights were spirits trying to lure people to thier doom - trying to 'will' people to come to them.

While I have seen this phenomena in my area and it is exciting it's not paranormal.