From: WJMossJr@aol.com Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:42:19 EDT Subject: The Bragg Light To: obiwan@ghosts.org Hi Obiwan Back in 1975 My Brother, My newly wed wife, and a friend of ours climbed into a volkswagon beetle and headed for Kountze, at that time we all lived in Groves, Tx (Next to Port Arthur, Southeast on the Gulg Coast) It only took about 45 min. to get there. It was dark night around Oct-Nov. My brother had been before and convinced us to go along (I would not believe him) we drove the car off of the state highway onto a dirt road. When we first got there it was dusk and so we could still see the dirt road and the tall overhanging trees. We drove down the road until we could not see or hear the highway noise, from were we came. We parked the car and waited for the darkness. It seemed to take hours (1-2) I had suggested that we should turn our headlights on because it was so dark, but my brother said that the light would keep the "Bragg Light" from appearing. Just then my brother shouted "look down there, there it is" . At first I could not make it out, Then I saw a small yellow light that seemed to be about a half mile or more away. The more we stared at it the brighter and closer it came. Then suddenly the color changed to amber and the light started moving from side to side . Thinking that this could be a hoax and it was either a friend of my brother's or a nearby farmer that did not like people there, I suggest that we put the car in drive and move forward, to see if we could run down whoever was carrying the light. But the more we moved the light moved back at an equal distance. So we stopped the car mainly in fear that we might run into a tree or some other obstacle (since we didn't have our lights on) The light resumed its oncoming movement until it got to be about 50 yards in front of us. My wife at this time was really scared. I got out of the car along with my brother suddenly the light stopped moving it turned white and was about the diameter of a bowling ball then it stopped in front of our car about 25 yards and shot up towards the sky. This experience has made me a believer in strange (or natural) things. I've heard scientist explain it away as being swamp gas. That may be true , but it was still entertaining. WJMossJR@aol.com From (http://www.ghosts.org/ghostlights/braggmore.html)

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:18:29 -0700 (PDT) To: stories@ghosts.org yourname Ryan email Rumble360@aol.com I live only like 20 minutes from the Bragg light. It truly is a remarkable sight but i can decribe it in the way i have seen it - i have seen it dozens of times. First off do not stop on the road - keep on your running lights or use no lights if the moon allows - stopping only makes you wait longer. Just creep along at a slow pace and eventually you will see it. When you first see it it usually looks like a security light on a telephone pole does early on a foggy morning. Its nothin more than a haze white in the center and blue on the outer edges. The trees grow together in most places over the road so the light sort of makes the upper branches visible. You can slow down or stop at this point. It will usually come closer to you and the blue part of the haze will gradually fade to red as it gets closer. Then all of a sudden the entire cloud-like haze will fall in on itself and become a small light which can be as bright as a car's headlight. However it is far from being a car headlight cause it will fade on and off or just cut off and reappear. Sometimes it will last for a while sometimes it is very short. Since the road is very straight and very long it can appear to be very close - but my friends and I have ran down the road at speeds of nearly 70m.p.h. and still never have caught up to it. And yet I have also seen it very close - i have never seen it shoot into the sky but i have just seen it go out right as it got to my truck and then reappear behind my truck. I have seen it up to 6 times in one trip down the road - each time you see it you just wanna see it again - so when you get to the end of the road turn around and try again. You can see it best when traveling in the direction leading to Saratoga. At any rate it is very real and you will no be dissappointed if you follow the guidlines i have left. Also, I would not recommend speeding down the road as we did - we only did because we know it well - it is very straight but there are a few bends. One night we saw something even stranger - at about 12:45a.m. we saw the largest U-Haul truck you can rent down there. It was pulled off partly on to one of the 2 pipelines and the running lights were - but as we got behind it someone turned off the lights as if they did not want to be seen. So whatever you do be careful - it is a perfect place for suspicious activity - watch your back. Happy light hunting - good luck to all of you. (http://www.ghosts.org/ghostlights/bragglight2.html)

From: "Debbie Messner" (gdtamess@netzero.net) To: obiwan@ghosts.org Subject: Brag Road Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:06 AM This is the only way I could send this story it would not send any other way Saratoga Lights A relative sent me this site and upon reading some of the stories submitted, the Bragg road story caught my attention because I too have seen the lights of Saratoga. I am now a resident of Ohio, but lived several years in Houston Texas. I had been told of the legend and had tried to convince someone to investigate this with me. Finally I was able to convince a girlfriend to make the trip. When we arrived at the dirt road, just the sight of it scared me to death. A very narrow, one lane road. Swamp on both sides, and the trees hanging over the road like hands. My girlfriend and I took one look at each other and knowing that my car was an old beater and could break down, turned right back around and left. I then convinced my brother and his friend to come back out with me. Neither were believers and I think they did this to pass the time and satisfy my interest. It was night of course, and we traveled down the old dirt road until we could find a place to pull off. The guys got out of the truck and sat on the hood. I sat inside the truck with my two year old son on my lap, and also with the doors locked. After about 20 minutes or so, I see both of the guys heads turn to the right then they jump off the hood and both turn to the right and I can hear them saying "What is that"? and "It is moving closer"! The next thing you know both guys are beating on the truck window wanting inside, I thought they were joking and I took my time unlocking the doors. When I finally realized that they were not joking, I let them in. After getting in, they quickly locked the doors and began explained what they saw. So, we waited another 20 minutes or so for the lights to appear again and they most certainly did. We all sat very quietly as the light drifted down the road. To us, it looked like a lantern. We could even make out the flickering of the flame inside. It was a very bright light, unmistakeable. It got very close to the truck and then disappeared. We were silent all the way home. We decided that this had to be investigated again to prove we weren't crazy. So the first chance we got we went back out again and chose a different part of the road to park, much further down. Once again this very same light appeared. This time, it had been planned that when the light got almost in front of the car, my brothers friend would get out and investigate. We sat there watching the light, waiting. Our friend slowly put his hand on the door handle and slowly began to turn the handle to open up the door and just at the point of being able to open the door and jump out, the light disappeared. Of course no one would believe us and we had to make the trip back out there many times to prove ourselves, but never did we go out there and not see that mysterious lantern resembling light. This is one story we were always able to prove. This has been the ghost story that we have been able to share with others, it happened back in 1986. Debbie Messner gdtamess@netzero.net (http://www.ghosts.org/ghostlights/saratogalight.html)