Added August 8, 2003
Spillway Light
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Brian Peck, Cave Run Lake, East Kentucky, March
2000,
info@ghostvillage.com
One night after a fraternity formal, a frat brother and I decided to
go do a little fishing at the Cave Run Lake (Rowan County/Bath County
Kentucky) spillway. It was a warm evening, with virtually no clouds in
the sky. After fishing for a couple of hours, I looked towards the
spillway and saw that there was a light focused on it. Thinking we were
alone here, I began looking around for the source of the light, but
found none. When I looked back at the light it was beginning to spread
out, sort of like a mag light, but not losing any intensity. After
roughly 30 seconds, the light encompassed the whole of the spillway, the
light was so bright that even from 200 feet away, we were literally able
to see the water coming out. This lasted for what seemed like an
eternity, but in actuality probably 60 seconds from the beginning to the
end. A few minutes after the light on the spillway, I noticed someone
carrying a lantern on the hill above us. We watched them walk toward the
sidewalk leading to the path over the spillway. When it reached the
little maintenance shack (for lack of better word) at the spillway, it
disappeared. We thought that this person was probably the source of the
light that we had seen and was probably just doing some checking of
gauges or something. But, things didn't add up -- especially since we
could not see where the source of the light came from. Mustering all the
courage that I could, I decided to walk up the hill to confront whomever
when I saw him leave the shack. I timed it so that he should pass right
in front of me when I topped the hill, but when I got to the top, there
was no one... and I mean no one there. No one up or down the sidewalk
from me, no additional cars in the parking lot, nor anywhere around.
Since then, I have talked to others about this experience and while no
one knows what the origin may have been, many people have drowned there,
and several of the people that I have spoken with about this have
experienced some sort of "odd" encounters.
