The Summerville Light is a local ghost story that has been around for decades. There is a new theory from a USGS researcher ...

As you might have guessed, given that Hough is a seismologist for the USGS, the study she and her team recently published in ...

Enduring folklore of “ghost lights” haunting a Lowcountry town in South Carolina may be more fact than myth, a new study suggests. However, the so-called “Summerville Light” isn’t the work of a ghost, ...

A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation.

One yarn that has stuck around for decades is the tale of the Summerville Light. In the dead of night, along a dirt road in the nearby pine forest following abandoned railroad tracks, people have ...

Susan Hough via Seismological Society of America In Summerville, South Carolina, a mysterious light has been seen hovering over old railroad tracks. Legend has it, it’s the glow of a lantern ...

But this ghost is far from the only reported rail sighting in the U.S. "There's a recurring theme. There are ghosts reported ...

The Summerville Light sightings apparently began in the 1950s and 1960s, within a few kilometers of three magnitude 3.5 to 4.4 earthquakes that took place in 1959 and 1960, she found.

Summerville Town Council is briefing Thursday evening and on the agenda is a discussion to move Dominion utilities ...

Railroad tracks and even scrap metal could have been a catalyst for the sparks identified as the Summerville Light, the report states. Facebook screengrab Enduring folklore of “ghost lights ...

Gather around, and let Susan Hough tell you the tale of the Summerville Light. Legend has it that the strange orb sometimes seen hovering over the railroad tracks in the remote area around ...