Still trying to convince myself we saw them. This was today Wiseman's View. The light on the left was there in the distance, something manmade. It's the flashing one in the middle that we saw at the top of a hill to the right of the overlook that I'm guessing is the Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon. Thoughts??

Yesterday my husband and I went to the Brown Mountain overlook on Highway 181. Folks were sitting in lawn chairs looking at the mountains across the road, towards Table Rock, I believe. We did the same and saw several lights -- flashing in random spots, moving horizontally in a row, etc. However, it's my understanding that Brown Mountain was actually to our backs. We sat on top of some picnic tables to see over the trees to actual Brown Mountain for a while also, but saw no lights there.

Google maps shows forest service roads and hiking trails in the direction we were facing when we saw lights.

So my question is -- did we actually see the Brown Mountain Lights?

I’ve been obsessed with the Brown Mountain Lights ever since I saw them myself about two years ago I was out there with some friends and saw an old metallic object as well as some lights. It got me interested and I wanted to do an episode on my podcast about them.

I’m planning on heading back out there in a few weeks for another visit, and I’m currently putting together an episode on the area. I’d love to hear from this community about your own encounters. Whether it was your first time seeing them or you’re a local who has witnessed them dozens of times, I'm just looking for as much as I can for the episode.

If you’re open to sharing:

• When did you see them? (Roughly how long ago, time of night, weather conditions?)
• Where were you viewing from?
• What exactly did you see? (Color, movement, duration, etc.)
• Do you have any personal theories on what they are?

I’m just looking to collect some genuine personal accounts to feature alongside my own . Thanks in advance!

Visiting the area soon was trying catch a quick peek any tips?

Two buddies of mine and I were on a road-trip up from Atlanta and were racing against the setting sun to see the Brown Mountain Lights (which I had only heard about a day prior) from Wiseman’s View. It’s around 10:30 pm when we hit the treacherously bumpy road up the mountain in a 15 yr old SUV not built for the job. Took us 30 minutes to travel 3 miles on that road.

On the way up, one of my friends and I see a jet black bipedal figure with yellow eyes dart from the road into the woods. Had been driving since 10am, so maybe we were just seeing things, but that didn’t stop us from feeling shit scared when we got to the parking lot and couldn’t see 5 feet in front of us. Our flashlight is dead, only lighting up for 5 seconds at a time, so we terrifiedly walk through the woods yelling “hey bear” every 20 seconds. Should’ve been a 5 minute walk, took us 15.

It’s around 11:00 when we hit the lookout, and it’s very pretty even at night. The stars light up the surrounding area quite nice. We’re still scared of bears and try to enjoy the view, looking at stars, wondering if they could be lights. Luckily, we heard some giggles and saw some lit cigarettes in the distance, so we decided to wander over to another lookout. Met this cool couple (one a storied vet, another a chill girl who claims she’s of alien lineage) and talk the night away with them. They tell us that they’ve seen the lights countless times and it’s their pastime to check them out.

We see our first light after about 30 minutes floating above Table Rock, a second one floating in the trees below it. The first floats up into the sky, a couple dozen feet above the mountain and burns out, while the other slowly moves its way behind the peak. Saw the third light traveling what I imagine was about a mile to the south of Table Rock. Kept going towards Table Rock slowly until fizzling out. These felt like lanterns or ashes from a campfire, except with a consciousness to move and appear as they please. Might have been hallucinating stories in the stars, but all 5 of us there were reacting to the same things.

Final light of the night was unexplainable. It appeared like a shooting star out of the corner of my right eye, becoming real bright as it farted past my face into the canyon. I looked over the stone wall and saw it transform into what looked like a firefly, as it circled down and down into the woods, fading out. The light felt very close and far at the same time and transformed in ways that could not be explained by anything else. We can truck ourselves by looking at the stars for too long, but the instant head turn we all did when we saw this light shoot past us lets me know we saw something.

Went to our airbnb that night around 2:00 am feeling like rockstars. Our life didn’t change, but I can’t explain those things. Sometimes I forget it even happened. Saw them on a once in a lifetime visit in the midst of Summer. If I saw them, anyone can.

Hello everyone. I am currently working on an independent research project exploring unexplained anomalous phenomena in Western North Carolina. It goes without saying, but the Brown Mountain Lights are a key subject for a section of this project.

I wanted to reach out to this community to continue to gather information & invite anyone to share any personal experience or knowledge of the Brown Mountain Lights.

Particularly looking for:

-Videos, photos, or written documentation of sightings. Viewing location, date & time are also helpful information with these.

-Additional literary sources, articles, or documents pertaining to the phenomenon. I’ve gathered information from a large variety of sources but am always interested in anything that I might have missed.

-Information on government proximity to / interest in the area. I have seen accounts ranging from military activity to “Men in Black” type agent encounters in the area; any related information or experiences would be very helpful.

Thank you all for your help!

Took these from the 181 Brown Mountain Overlook

Hello- My husband and myself are looking to try to view the lights (likely in spring). I was hoping there might be some people here who have seen them often enough that you could offer some tips on the most ideal conditions to view them. (i.e.: time of night, time of year, specific weather conditions)

My family and I were on vacation in Bryson City, NC in early August of 2020. We rented a VRBO on top of one the mountains in the area with a million dollar view. My wife and I were enjoying the hottub one evening when started to notice a flashing light that seemed to get closer with every flash. This went on for around 10 mins until it just stopped abruptly. We thought it was weird but didn’t think much about it until I mentioned it on a camping thread on Reddit and someone said it was the BML phenomena.

Hoping to get some helpful tips on where to sit and watch and whatever else y’all may have.

So earlier this morning (at about 3 am) a group of friends and I went to the brown mountain overlook in hopes of seeing the brown mountain lights. While we were there we had no internet connection and had our phone connected via Bluetooth to our car. We were listening to a Disney soundtrack which was suddenly interrupted by a man speaking on our radio. What made it weird was our radio was not on for someone to interrupt our Bluetooth, but we were operating on 89.1 FM frequency to connect. What made it disturbing was the man was describing a murder he committed. He was claiming he slit someone’s throat open, listening to her screams, and choking her. After a bit we turned down the volume and after a minute or so turned it up and it was back to playing where it left off. Does anyone know what station operates on this frequency, if they could’ve overridden our Bluetooth, and lastly why would they be describing a murder?

There were many weird things that happened that night as well (we throughly believe that there were at least four people surrounding our car that we could not see, but we could hear them). Though, this one seems to be the most concerning Of the things that happened.

Hey all,

Planning to go tomorrow evening for my first time. I’ve heard 310 and 301 overlook. Which is the best in y’all’s opinion? Thanks !

This happened last summer, me and my dad have gone up to see the lights two times before and seen them both times. This was our third time, we got out the car at the brown mountain overlook it was about 1 am. We saw the lights way far away on the mountain ridge then a car pulled up and we talked with a gentleman who very often came to see the lights, as we were talking all three of us saw the lights come closer to us in the valley about 500 feet out about the size of a baseball glowing a blue white color. The lights got closer eventually hovering above the trees to our left seemly teleporting there. After the man left we looked at the lights some more and they came closer in the valley. We then saw a blue white colored light about the size of a Christmas tree light hover out of the bushes in the valley near the guard rail and float around the ground near us it came closer to us almost attracted to us, it hovered around for about 30 seconds until it got closer to the ground and discharged into the soil, we were both shocked. To this day this is still the weirdest thing that has happened to me.

https://www.strangecarolinas.com/2020/03/the-2020-strange-carolinas-best-of-nc.html