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 ...

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 ...

In a new research article, a seismologist argues that earthquakes are the reason for the mysterious lights associated with a ...

But Susan Hough, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, wonders if there might be a less ethereal but no less intriguing possibility: Is the source of the Summerville Light a phenomenon known ...

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

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

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 ...

The Summerville Town Council met Thursday evening voted on a proposal to move Dominion utilities underground. Councilwoman ...

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.

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 ...