One story about the light is that it is a mystical phenomenon that frequents areas where treasure is buried and that Spanish conquistadores are looking for the golden treasure. (From Sam Houstons Electric Cooperative page http://www.samhouston.net/who%20we%20are/sites_to_see_hardin.asp)

 Another story is that the light is a little bit of fire never extinguished after another famous historical spot in the county, the Kaiser Burnout, or it could be the ghost of a man shot during the Burnout. (From Sam Houstons Electric Cooperative page http://www.samhouston.net/who%20we%20are/sites_to_see_hardin.asp)

 Yet another explanation of the phenomenon is about a railroad man who was decapitated in a train wreck when the railroad was still in place. The light is the body of the man looking for his head which was never found. (REF 1: From Sam Houstons Electric Cooperative page http://www.samhouston.net/who%20we%20are/sites_to_see_hardin.asp) ( REF 2: Houston Chronicle: From the Houston Chronicle 1999: (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/evergreen.hts/travel/tx/piney/411611) Nature's heaven just a few miles up the road By JEANNIE KEVER Copyright 1999 Houston Chronicle Dec. 26, 1999

 The light could also be the night hunter who got lost in the Big Thicket decades ago. The hunter still wanders, searching for a way out of the Thicket. (From Sam Houstons Electric Cooperative page http://www.samhouston.net/who%20we%20are/sites_to_see_hardin.asp)

 The light was a mystical phenomenon that typically frequented areas where treasure was buried, and some early Spanish conquistadors had cached a golden hoard in the thicket but had failed to return for it. The light was a little bit of fire that never was extinguished after the Kaiser Burnout or the ghost of a man shot during the burnout, when the Confederate soldiers fired part of the thicket to flush out Jayhawkers who did not choose to fight for the South. (From the Handbook of Texas web site (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/lxb1.html):

 Another story tells of a railroad man who was decapitated in a train wreck on this part of the Saratoga line; they found his body but never could locate his head, and the body continues to roam up and down the right-of-way looking for the lost member. And one tale tells that the light comes from a spectral fire pan carried by a night hunter who got lost in the Big Thicket years ago. He still wanders, never stopping to rest, always futilely searching for a way out of the mud and briars. (From the Handbook of Texas web site (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/lxb1.html):

 The story of the Mexican cemetery tells of a crew of Mexicans who were hired to help cut the right-of-way and lay the tracks. But, rumor has it that the foreman of the road gang, rather than pay them a large amount of accumulated wages, killed the men and kept the money. They were hurriedly interred in the dense woods nearby, from whence come their restless, uneasy souls, clouded in ghostly light to haunt that piece of ground that cost them their lives. (From the Handbook of Texas web site (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/lxb1.html):

 And there is the story of a man who sold his farm and parted with everything that he couldn't pack in a suitcase, to work on the railroad. He was devoted to the line and became a brakeman on the "Saratoga." When the Santa Fe began to cut down on its runs, he found himself without a job or prospects. He died soon after, and his lonesome and troubled spirit still walks the road bed with its brakeman's lantern, the Big Thicket light, looking for the life that left him behind. (From the Handbook of Texas web site (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/lxb1.html):