From deadhead842@... Sun Mar 17 17:47:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: deadhead842@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 18 Mar 2002 01:47:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 8853 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2002 01:47:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2002 01:47:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web14901.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.225.53) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 01:47:04 -0000 Message-ID: <20020318014704.11087.qmail@...> Received: from [67.81.22.82] by web14901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:47:04 PST Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:47:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: will 'o the wisps To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Riccobono X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=97903038 When I brought up the subject my dad told me he once had an encounter with will 'o the wisps - that seems to prove what is their cause. It goes like this: " I was voluntarily working at Nobe Bosco (a nearby boy scout camp in NY)on the sewage system. They've been having a lot of problems with it so i decided to go fix it myself. I was a pretty crappy night, on-off storms. I had several man hole covers off, and was partly in one of them fixing some plumbing. Suddenly, about 50 feet away lightening struck a tree. Immediately several large, bluish, waving "flames" sort of danced by the tree for a couple seconds. The largest was about half the hight of the tree. Immediately I left (he's terrified of lightning)." He believes the methane, coming out of one of the open manhole covers, was ignited by the lightning strike. Methane does also commonly form in swamps, proving why most sightings occur in them. But this theory cannot explain why they are said to receed as they are approached, but lights do seem that way, and of course stories always have a little extra added on. Also, i dont beleive lightning usually strikes before a will 'o the wisp sighting, so there must be some other for of ignition. Does this make any sense? Or is what he saw unrelated? -Mike Riccobono __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/