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This 3 page paper considers one of the legends of Tennessee, the Chapel Hill Ghost Lights. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Chapel Hill, Tennessee, is home to the Chapel Hill Ghost Lights, which are perhaps the second most well-known "ghost light" phenomenon in the South, second only "to the Brown Mountain
lights of North Carolina" (Brown). Chapel Hill is located south of Nashville, and is the burial place of Nathan Bedford Forrest, perhaps the most able cavalry commander in the Confederacy,
though the lights have nothing to do with the Civil War. Instead, they are very localized, appearing on or above the railroad tracks that cut through the town. According to
the legend, one stormy night a railroad signalman was killed. He carried a bright lantern, which could be seen for miles, but on this night he slipped in the rain,
fell and hit his head; he wound up lying across the tracks with his head on the rail, unconscious (Brown). A train came along a few minutes later and didnt
see the light, or the lantern had gone out-the legend doesnt say-at any rate, the engineer ran over the unconscious signalman and decapitated him (Brown). When his body was discovered,
it was "still mostly intact" but his head was "never found. To this day, according to legend, he still walks the tracks, carrying his lantern, as he searches for his
lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; others claim that there are "ghost trains" on the tracks at times: they can
hear the train and feel the ground shake as it approaches, but there is no train there (Brown). No one has been able to explain these phenomena. Brown reports that
he "personally visited Chapel Hill on February 27, 2002," arriving during daylight and taking numerous photos of the town itself (Brown). Accompanied by a friend, he located the railroad crossing
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