Milford Road runs straight through a rural area filled with farms and forests just east of Oxford and north of Trenton Road. For years, local residents and students at neighboring Miami University have told a tragic story about two young lovers whose ghosts appear along the road as bright burning balls of light. According to legend, a young woman once lived on Milford Road and was forbidden from seeing her boyfriend. When her father was asleep, she would drive his car down the driveway to the edge of the road, where she would flash her break lights three times. That was the signal for her boyfriend, who was hiding up the street on his motorcycle, to come over. Unfortunately, one evening a boy was peddling down the road on his bicycle and didn’t see the young man. They collided and were both killed. The young woman was so distraught that she hanged herself in the barn. Today, if you travel down this road and flash your headlights three times, bright red lights will materialize. One person describes his encounter: “Sure enough, and much to my disbelief, there it was! A single, bluish-white light seemed to actually make its way down the road. I mistook it for a car and cried out ‘Tony! Car coming! Turn your car back on, we don’t want an accident!’ Well, luckily, he knew better. This light just faded in and out from ontop of a hill, perhaps a yard away from our car, never actually coming down at us.”
The Moody Light - Francisville, Indiana
Sitting along a narrow stretch of rural road just outside the town of Francisville, observers are occasionally treated to the sight of a red, yellow, or white ball of light that appears in the distance. According to legend, if you were to flash your car headlights three times, the light will appear and move slowly towards you. There are two explanations locals have for the light. Both involve a farmer named Moody and a tragedy that befell his daughter. In one version of the tale, the farmer’s daughter was kidnapped and killed. When the farmer pursued her captors, he was killed as well. The light is his ghost continuing the search from the afterlife. In the other version, the light belongs to a lantern the farmer held while searching for his daughter. Paranormal researcher Dale Kaczmarek has an alternative explanation. He staked out the road and believes the Moody Light comes from car headlights on a parallel road. At a certain point, the road dips down and turns off at an angle, so the oncoming headlights appear to vanish into the darkness.
Elmore Rider - Elmore, Ohio
For many years, motorists travelling down Woodville Road about 15 miles southeast of Toledo encountered a strange glowing light near a bridge over the Portage River. There are two stories for the appearance of this light, both equally tragic. According to one tale, a soldier returned from the First World War to discover his fiancé was cheating on him with another man. The two had a heated argument and he took off on his motorcycle. The road was dark and he spun out, dying near the Portage River Bridge. It is the headlight from his motorcycle that pierces the darkness to this day. An alternative tale tells of a young boy who was struck and killed by a drunk driver. The driver stopped and flashed his lights three times to try to determine whether the boy was still alive. Meanwhile, the boy’s father ran onto the road carrying a lantern, but he was too late. To this day, if you stop your car on this stretch of Woodville Road and flash your headlights three times, a bright light will emerge from the woods and chase you.
Old Brewery Hill Spook Light - Le Seur, Minnesota
A set of railroad tracks run along the Minnesota River south of Le Seur. It is here that local residents say they have seen strange lights in an area known as Old Brewery Hill. The hill acquired its name from a man named George Kienzli, who built a brewery on the hill in 1875. For a while, the brewery was quite successful. Unfortunately, it was forced to close and eventually burnt down. The brewery left behind two cellars, dug deep into the hill. According to local legend, a transient took up residence in one of the cellars and the red light from his lantern could be seen from the town at night. After many years, the man died, but his light remained. Local residents continued to see his red light bobbing and weaving along the railroad tracks south of town. In one incident, a brakeman stopped his train because it looked like he was headed straight towards a man holding a lantern in the darkness. When he and the conductor got out to look around, nothing was there.
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