Ghost Lights during East Tennessee storm (Foxfire or Railroad Lights)

This was a video of an average night storm in East Tennessee. These storms move fast and last on average 15 to 30 minutes and usually contain 2 or 3 inches of heavy rain. They always have heavy thunder and lightening.
On August 21st, 2009 at around two a.m. one of these storms passed through. I captured a phenomenon I have only witnessed three times in my entire life. My grandfather used to call them railroad lights or foxfire. He said they might be spirits of Native Americans or perhaps lost souls of rail road workers, Gandy dancers, or chain gang workers.
Regardless, they only appear during heavy thunder storms over the lower valley where I live near the rail road tracks. No trains or vehicles are in this area during filming. The lights are around 200 yards away during this film. They appear as blue, light green, yellow, orange, and red glowing orbs about the size of a basketball or beach ball. This is the first and only time I have ever filmed the foxfire. I am very excited about this. The same phenomenon occurs in Gurdon, Arkansas (Gurdon Lights) and the Marfa lights in Marfa, Texas and several other places in the United States and Canada. These are also known as Ghost Lights.

NOTE: Do not message me for the location of this video. I will not disclose the location due to privacy reasons for every human (and entity or whatever they are) involved.

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[egyptianlily]

such a shame we are unable to see their true size, but these little balls of energy are most likely caused by the electric potential near the ground during the storm, and since the railroad tracks have metal on them the potential is greater in that area. Similar things happen in the airspace when a place goes through a storm cloud, a blue ball of energy can be seen floating on the wing of the plane, and even go through the plane itself. Also look up ball lightning very similar phenomenon.

[IrishLincoln]

@egyptianlily These are about the size of a basketball to beach ball in diameter. The camera I was using is actually a photo camera with video mode, so it is not the best, but it was all I had at the time. I think your theory is a great possibility. The only question I have is why do they move away when we approach them? It's all very fascinating to me. Thank you for your comment!

[makemoomoocow]

I live in Hawaii and we call them Hawaiian fire balls. We believe they are caused bye dead things buried for a certain amount of time that causes a natural combustion resulting in a fire ball form . We have alot of ghostly places here

[IrishLincoln]

@makemoomoocow That's interesing you see them in Hawaii too. I haven't seen them in a while now, but I always keep my eye out for them.

Thanks for your interesting comments!

[thefuturemisus]

could it be lighting bugs? I live in east TN as well and run a paranormal society and none of us have ever seen this but would like to see it and I agree with one of the comments its very relaxing it put my dogs to sleep lol

[IrishLincoln]

@thefuturemisus

Also, I was contacted by a geologist recently and she believes it has something to do with geology and the metal of the railroad tracks. Apparently she is doing research on these. The odd thing is that it is only during or after storms, at least here.

[frootball98]

scary

[GhostTech100]

you can just use the audio to make a relaxing cd

sounds very relaxing. just need a nosie filter for the wind in the mic.

[makemoomoocow]

I can guarantee u it's not from rail road tracks lol.....

[makemoomoocow]

Could be bad luck if it chases u if u want to know more write me

[makemoomoocow]

Yup seen that befor in hawaii were I'm from

[IrishLincoln]

@thefuturemisus

No, these aren't lightning bugs. These lights are about the size of a basketball. The video doesn't do these justice. I was arond 120 yards away from the globes when I filmed this.