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Shine Your Lantern Three Times

Anson, Texas

Local legend says that one December night more than a hundred years ago, a mother sent her son into the woods to retrieve a Christmas tree for the family. Reportedly, the mother told her son to flash his lantern three times if he got into any trouble. When the boy did not return, his mother searched for him until she herself died. Near the woman’s burial site, there is a crossroads. It is said that if one parks his car and flashes the headlights three times, a mysterious light will rise and traverse across the road. One will then hear a voice yelling, “Mommy they got me. I’m over here.” The light then turns red and flies toward the voice.

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Lou says:

July 1, 2009, 5:10 pm

i am 37 yr’s old and the first time i saw it i was 13 yr’s old,i lived in a small town about 15 miles from there and it is real it does change color’s i have seen it bright red before..ive probably seen the lights about 10 or more times..each time it does something different…sometimes it will just glow white at other times it splits up into more than one light..and if you drive go up to it, it disappears…you flash your headlight 3 times and then turn them off..oh and that story about it being pranks or whatever is ****..someone would have to stay out there all night every night(for years and years) just to play a prank..and people have been seeing it since before i was born…its no prank…i dont know what it is but its no prank..

FallenSky says:

July 12, 2009, 3:29 pm

Hey i have never been to anson nor lived near it but with what i have read it sounds pretty promising to go see. But i am a little doubtful cuz if there are a lot of cops how do you know its a ghost at all what if its just a cop or some kid witha flashlight. i read the thing bout figure eights and !5 feet in tha air and stuff but sereously anyone can walk in a figure eight and throw a flashlight fifteen feet in tha air.and then turn it off giving the illusion of the “figure” going back into the ground.i mean Come On people. But i still wanna try it. does it work if your out o9f the car??? like maybe if your holding a flashlight yourself and you turning it on and off three times?? that way you know it wasnt a fluke of the car?? Comment so i can get an answer . Thanks for reading my sensless rambling

TsuTexan19 says:

October 12, 2009, 11:29 pm

Anson Lights……haha Oh a great weekend in Anson. I had a good friend that grew up in Anson. When we were in college we went out there for a concert in Abilene and that Friday night after the concert we went to see both the Anson Lights and The Haunted Bridge.

The story on the Bridge is that a school bus went off of it because it’s close to a curve. So to warn people when you drive over the bridge slowly the kids beat on your car to warn you. The bridge is a metal bridge….and the beating sound is your tires going over the metal coils.

As for the lights…..it’s reflection of lights on the tall grave markers from the highway. White lights from when the lights coming toward the cemetery, red from the lights going away.

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