The History of Sightings

1980	I made a least five trips there between 1975 and 1980 hoping to see it at least one more time, without satisfaction.
1977	But in 1977 the railroad tracks were removed and the swamp reclaimed his haunting grounds, Joe seems to have lost interest in Maco. At least, he has not been seen there lately. The tracks were taken up back in 1977, and Joe's light hasn't been seen since! In 1977, railroad workers replaced the worn out tracks near Maco Station. The ghostly light was never seen there again.
1960s	The light rarely (if ever) appeared following the construction on 74/76 in the late 1960's.
1950s	Life magazine published an article on the light back in the mid-1950's.
ca 1943	. A soldier home on leave during World War II swore he had to flee for his life when a series of ``ghostly lights'' pursued him down a railroad track.
1925	. In 1925, two farm boys claimed that the light chased them several miles through the woods.
1894	There are reports and speech of president of USA about these light in October 1894. Fog shrouded the North Carolina mountains one dark night in October 1894, when President Grover Cleveland saw a strange light flickering in the woods off to the right of his Pullman.
1889	In 1889 President Grover Cleveland, on politcal campaign, saw the mysterious light, as have hundreds of people throughtout the years.
1886	In 1886, an earthquake stopped the light for a short time but when it came back there were 2 lights for a short time.
1873	. It has been reported here since 1873 and has been seen by literally thousands of people since that date.
1867	It is today much as it must have looked to Joe Baldwin more than one hundred years ago. Joe was conductor of a train headed toward Wilmington that rainy spring night of 1867. The story of the light dates back to 1867 and involves a railroad man named Joe Baldwin. In that year, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was rebuilt and now included a small station that had once been called Farmer's Turnout and was now Maco.