Post by Chad Lewis on Jan 9, 2009 10:27:16 GMT -6
Weird Light This
Mysterious light which has often been seen in Beulah.
Beulah- Railroad men on the Milwaukee here have revived the mysterious light which bobs up every spring and fall and then as suddenly ceases to play its pranks, it is the famous mysterious light at Beulah, a little station on this division of the Milwaukee road near McGregor. It seems to be about a large as an engine headlight red in the middle and blue on the outer edges. It has been seen at intervals ever since the country was settled and no man has found out yet what it is. It starts somewhere near bridge 1068 on the Milwaukee road and would long ago have been put down as a headlight, but it does not stick to the railroad but takes the highway and gallops across the fields in the direction of the Schneider school house at a pace seemingly of thirty or forty miles an hour.
Its does not come out every night and is run more on an eight day clock schedule. It appears more frequently in the spring and fall and evidently hot and cold weather is not it its liking. Moonlight cuts no figure in its schedule as it is seem on bright moonlight night as well as on others. At the speed it travels it is mysterious that it never collides with any traveler but it generally keeps well above the earth. Some people think it points the way to a treasure buried by a man who died years ago and its hurry adds some weight to the ghoulish theory. This man died near where the light starts. When it gets back no one has ever discovered and it is irregular in its movements. No one has ever seem able to investigate the stranger closely and no one know what it is. If a will o’ the wisp it is certainly a pronounced specimen of these marsh lights.
Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter 4-22-1904
Mysterious light which has often been seen in Beulah.
Beulah- Railroad men on the Milwaukee here have revived the mysterious light which bobs up every spring and fall and then as suddenly ceases to play its pranks, it is the famous mysterious light at Beulah, a little station on this division of the Milwaukee road near McGregor. It seems to be about a large as an engine headlight red in the middle and blue on the outer edges. It has been seen at intervals ever since the country was settled and no man has found out yet what it is. It starts somewhere near bridge 1068 on the Milwaukee road and would long ago have been put down as a headlight, but it does not stick to the railroad but takes the highway and gallops across the fields in the direction of the Schneider school house at a pace seemingly of thirty or forty miles an hour.
Its does not come out every night and is run more on an eight day clock schedule. It appears more frequently in the spring and fall and evidently hot and cold weather is not it its liking. Moonlight cuts no figure in its schedule as it is seem on bright moonlight night as well as on others. At the speed it travels it is mysterious that it never collides with any traveler but it generally keeps well above the earth. Some people think it points the way to a treasure buried by a man who died years ago and its hurry adds some weight to the ghoulish theory. This man died near where the light starts. When it gets back no one has ever discovered and it is irregular in its movements. No one has ever seem able to investigate the stranger closely and no one know what it is. If a will o’ the wisp it is certainly a pronounced specimen of these marsh lights.
Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter 4-22-1904
