Have you ever stood on the train tracks and looked down the rails into the darkness, hoping to see the mysterious light everyone says sometimes appears? Have you seen the light yourself? This week, Hannah tells Katy about the Maco Light (a true Local Lore for these NC-based podcasters), and the other very similar stories featuring a gruesome train mishap, and a headless ghost wandering around with a lantern. The girls talk local geography (spoiler: there's a Maco and a Macon in NC, and a Chapel Hill in TN), swamp chemistry, which came first: the telegram or the taxi, the merits of sleep masks, and plenty of train puns! We're getting back to our roots (literally and figuratively), and we hope you'll come along for the (train) ride!
So pour your drinks, and join us for this tale of Local Lore!
Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111228012923/http://www.wilmingtonrailroadmuseum.org/content/joebaldwin.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maco_light
https://www.ncpedia.org/maco-light
https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/haunted-tennessee/ghost-light-haunts-chapel-hills-railroad-tracks/
https://lylerussell.net/2022/09/25/tn-gl-episode-2-the-headless-signalman-and-the-chapel-hill-ghost-light/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/moonlight-white-barn-owls/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0206
https://www.popsci.com/jack-o-lanterns-marsh-lights/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/light-of-saratoga
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/big-thicket-light
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