Do NOT Approach This Light

This is real cryptid which can be explained with science.
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0:00 - intro
0:21 - Dangerous walk
1:29 - Phantom light
3:08 - Old explanation
6:13 - New explanation
7:24 - Why dangerous
9:02 - Real monster

#mrslav #cryptids #science

[glorytoukraine]

A rare instance when reality is more sinister than the fairy tale. Getting swallowed in a deep bog feels way more terrifying than being pranked by a goblin.

[WitchidWitchid]

Another type.of "phantom light" can be caused by types of bioluminescent fungii. These fungii often grow in damp rotting wood or plant material. The phenomenon is sometimes called "foxfire". I actually saw this once when I was walking through a dense forest after dark. I spotted a bluish-green glowing ring near the ground. On close inspection it was around the base of an old rotting tree stump and being produced by a.glowing fungus growing around the base of the stump.

[doodlebro.]

5:20 lol you can see the cursor, damn love this guy

[halfbakedmedia]

6:04 "Collected swamp gas into bottles." We can never be sure that she didn't just fart into them.

[OriginalCatfish]

Pretty amazing that some dude in 1500 figured out what it was, while in the next village down they were still burning the local witches 😂

[daccrowell]

Marsh gas lights are just one example of this. In the USA, there's examples of what tends to get described as "phantom brakemen" along certain stretches of rail lines. And the science behind these indicates a connection between them and "earthquake lights", a similar phenomenon albeit on a much larger scale.

Note the railroad connection. So, you have steel tracks which tend to be grounded. But sometimes, sections of rail can have electrical ground faults. And when you couple that with piezoelectric effects from a nearby fault, well...

I've actually seen one of these, the "Chapel Hill light", about 40 miles south of Nashville, TN. It's your basic blueish-white ball of light...races up and down the tracks to the north of town. Sometimes it'll hover in place, or jump from one rail to another. And invariably, it simply vanishes. Pretty neat...with a great old ghost story about a brakeman who tried to warn a train that the tracks were out and who, in the calamity, was decapitated and he now wanders the tracks with his lantern, searching for his missing head!

Which, of course, is bunk. The real cause is a geological fault that runs parallel to the tracks for a couple of miles north of...yep, you guessed it...Chapel Hill, TN.

A lot of THESE types of phantom lights can be found in similar situations: faulted rock in crystal-bearing strata. And much of the time, they need a conductor nearby to discharge the piezoelectric charge. At higher altitudes, that can work in a manner similar to the initial stages of a lightning strike...albeit minus the weather needed to actually generate lightning. Pretty neat, really. Also, the weather does seem to play a part, as these lights only happen during very dry humidity levels...again, demonstrating the electrostatic nature of these lights.

[Sniperboy]

“In a form called fart”

I’m not usually a fan of those types of jokes, but given the grammar and accent… that shit was hilarious

[megadooki]

ah yes mr slav ramblings over jazz music, perfect friday night

[miaow]

"Instead of running after it like a typical peasant would, you remember that you have watched Mr. Slav video about these lights and you remain standing where you are"

Damn, the ingenuity of this guy's lines is already breaking the sky limit at this pace 🕶👍

Also, loved how you included the scenes from LotR: Two Towers, "don't follow the lights" was precisely what I thought of as we got into the video 😄

[Ditchhead]

This happened to me in Louisiana when I was a kid, and yes I was in a swamp, and it was right after hurricane Katrina so the methane fire might be right but I swear it looked like bright flashlight (floodlight) looking for me. I was already lost so I went to it and it did fade the closer I got to it. I didn't know it was a common phenomenon. Thank you random youtuber I subscribed to a week ago.

[Drax-iss]

"The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes! That is their name. This way. don't follow the lights." _..._ "Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones, and light little candles of their own." -Gollum

[mauveferret]

The way this guy adds a purr when saying the word "fart" with that accent. 😂

"FARHDDDRHT.."

[Atlaspower]

Where I live the river floodplains transition into swamps. There's a 2 lane road with lakes at both sides, but the forest has warning signs everywhere. It looks like grassy forest but you'll get stuck up to your hips 2 meters in. Breaking the surface (by anything) causes methane to escape. Sometimes it smells like farts or rotten eggs. When ignited sometimes a flame will shoot up. We were always told not to go in, and certainly not to light the gas (you'd be standing in a methane cloud doing so)

[kirkhere]

We have unexplained lights in North Carolina, called the Brown Mountain Lights. They've been seen for hundreds of years. These lights are more difficult to explain because they're on the side of a relatively.dry mountain and there are no swamps in that area. You can find many videos on YouTube of the Brown Mountain lights.

[marzkilljoy]

This just reminds me of that scene in LOTR where Frodo, Sam and Gollum were traveling through the boggy marshes before Mordor. Gollum warns Frodo "Don't follow the lights!" after he notices dead people staring up through the water with glowing eyes. Right before he locks eye contact with one, and goes into a trance planting face first into the water. Edit: commented before i saw a selection from the exact part i mean!!

[AH-EApacheGuardianHelicopter]

I love your channel.
You make vide about interesting topics, have a unique style of making your thumbnails and they really pop out from the over-saturated, cheap or clickbait thumbnails, you dont scream into the microphone and dont play sound effects every second, keep it up man!

[Felisoni]

Here in Argentina we call it Luz Mala (Bad Light), in the northern part of the country. With humid conditions, a lot of rivers and creeks and also marshes and swapms. its said that its a demon who watches the horizon to warn people from floods in the marshes or fires in the woods. Someones think it like an advertisement to don't cross, because someone made it and didn't made it back.

In more southern parts of the country with less water in surface (also less swamps) its a sign of caution, because the light is the refracting of bacteria, quemicals and bones of animals. Meaning a hunter (human or not) who was in the zone recently killing the cattle.

Also in the province of Santiago del Estero they said that it is a demon which, if touchs a young womans shoulder. She may get pregnant by the demon
(Its told that its just incest, its very common in that province)

[isxsmry]

I just found your channel and I love it. As soon as I saw the LotR scene at the end, I subbed. Love your accent, your presentation style, edition, thumbnails, and the atmosphere of your videos. Keep it up!

[nmm]

Keep grinding bro, you’re an exceptionally great creator. I love how you’ve adapted your method on delivering your videos through the years.

[okzoomer]

I remember visiting the town of Centralia about a decade ago and seeing all the smoke coming out of the ground. I was surprised that tourists were even allowed to visit that site given that the ground could be unstable. Reminded me of this story a little bit.