paulding light-michigan UP

[pauldinglight1]

I was in northern Wisconsin and a local said we should go to see the Paulding Light north of Watersmeet in the central Upper Peninsula.

There is a light that appears in the woods down an abandoned roadway in the middle of nowhere and a bright light appears several times an hour which is visible all night. The local said it looks like a 727 aircraft landing light coming at you sometimes and it turns colors to red and sometimes blue or green.

We went there expecting a tourist spot. When we drove back into the woods I could not believe my eyes as there was a very bright white light at the spot I was told about. Now, this light was maybe a mile away by appearance and looked as bright as a 727 headlight at times. It bounced around and I took a few digital pictures as did one of the people there.

One of the pictures had a redish center dot with a whitish larger area around it along with a corona flaring from that area.

A person there at the same timetook some digital photos with a more powerfull camera zoom and there was a red dot movement in several directions within the shutter time. There was a corona around the dot movement.

We watched for 1.5 hours, talked to the people there and left. The internet has a bunch of anecdotal information as does this web site which indicates this is thought to be car lights from 4-5 miles away to the northeast. Believe me this light gets so bright and focused at times that it would
take a high intemsity beam to duplicate it. Unless there is a magnifying device focusing something this is not car light reflections from miles away. According to the local who was there, supposely the Highway nearby was closed down in the past to see if some reflection phenomenon was going on and the light still ocurred. The adjacent power line grid was also supposedly shut off at one time to check that effect.
This phenomenon has been going on for at least 40 years and maybe 100 years per the local people.
There is something going on here.....

Any comments or questions are welcome.

There is definitely someting going on here

[U.P. Investigators]

Hey,
The Paulding Light is quite possibly one of the most well known phenomena in the region. Both Unsolved Mysteries and Ripley's Belive It or Not have done investigations into the site as well as many local and national research teams. You were fortunate to see the actual light right off the bat. Typically people do see head/tail lights the first time they are there and from then on assume that what they are seeing is the Light. It isn't until they see the actual thing that they realize how wrong they were.

In addition to the Light itself, there have been many other strange happenings in the area. Things from Shadow People, to strange "creatures" being seen, to UFO's. Since places like this are often breeding grounds for stories of the paranormal, one should always take everything heard with a grain of salt. However, there have been some very reputable sources realying these stories, as well as strange photos of the things mentioned.

The strangest thing that I have ever seen in relation to the Paulding Light was a photo shown to me by a fellow researcher. In her picture, there appears to be a small brownish humanoid figure with three-toed clawed feet. That picture is still burned into my mind.

Our website features more stories on the Light, and the strange occurences there.

Happy Hunting,
Joel Polkinghorne
~U.P. Investigators~

[bigcitybrian]

I was there last summer. What I witnessed looked like headlights and tail lights from distant vehicles on Hwy 45.
My theory based on what I saw is that the powerline right of way gives a straight and clear view of distant night traffic on Hwy 45. The Hwy 45 to the north, lines up with the treeless powerline path, so the observer, in complete darkness, will witness dim red(tail lights of vehicles driving away from him) and brighter white light(headlights of vehicles driving twards him) which sometimes suddenly get very bright(switched from low beam to high beam after meeting the oncoming vehicle).
I am beginning to wonder if I was in the right spot though. The place I watched from was a gravel road to nowhere that ended at the twisted guardrail at a power line right of way. According to what I've read you should view the light from Robbins Pond Road. The road I was on didn't have any kind of a road sign stating the name of the road. The only purpose I could see for the road was to drive to the guardrail and watch the lights. Perhaps it's original puspose was for construction of the powerline? Maybe it's all that remains of an old abandoned road?
When I look at a map it looks like Robbins Pond Road actually goes somewhere. The road where I, and about 50 other people, were seeing the light was a dead end road to nowhere. I looked pretty hard and couldn't find any road marked "Robbins Pond Road".

[swigs]

We went up there and had a blast. we stayed at the Pioneer Inn and went to Bond Falls. then spent the whole night by the light. it was great!