Rob Riggs. Journalist and former publisher of community news papers in Texas and an avid 'chaser' of supernatural phenomena. His new book is ' In the Big Thicket: On the trail of the woild man"

"The photo on the left was taken without a flash. The same shot, right, with flash. You can read all about this in In the Big Thicket: On the Trail of the Wild Man. "Rob Riggs's new book takes the reader on a wild tour through one of America's weirdest wonderlands. Riggs has produced a great collection on such mysterious Texan wonders as the Marfa and Bragg Road ghost lights, and the Big Thicket's Wild Man, including one delightfully named Ol' Mossyback. This shamanistic journey is well-worth the price of the ticket." - Loren Coleman, author Mysterious America: The Revised Edition

Rob Riggs is a journalist and the former publisher of award-winning community newspapers in Texas. His interest in "ghost lights," "wild man" sightings, and related paranormal phenomena began as a child when he heard tales about them in his hometown in Big Thicket country. Riggs began writing about the subject more than twenty years ago while working as a reporter for the Kountze News. His studies of the phenomena, which have taken him to West Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, and as far abroad as India, have been featured in the Houston Chronicle and the Beaumont Enterprise. Riggs was a consultant on a ghost lights research project conducted by Professor Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki of Waseda University in Tokyo, which was featured on the Nippon television network in Japan; he has also consulted on the subject for the Harvard College Observatory." (http://www.mysteriousdimension.com/introduction/thebook.htm)

Archer Fullingim,qv editor and publisher of the Kountze News, published a series of articles on what the lights were and this started a flood of visitors to the road to watch for them.

Bill Brett...mentioned in the 1974 National Geographic article as the postmaster, but whose true calling is as the historian and conservator of Thicket lore.