THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Situated near the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, this green-yellow spook light famously chases cars when drivers flash their headlights at the woods. Local legends say the mysterious glow is a lantern held by a trainman searching for his decapitated head or the restless spirits of two forbidden lovers.
The Cogdell Light appears near the Okefenokee swamp late at night. Drivers go into the woods and turn off the car, then flash their headlights to call the “ghost.” Then, a greenish-yellow glow seems to come out of the woods and head straight for the car. Some say this is the ghost of a man who was decapitated in a train accident, carrying a lantern and looking for his head. Others say it is the lantern carried by the ghosts of two lovers who sneaked away together after they were forbidden to meet, and were shot by one of their fathers who mistook them for robbers.