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Podcast: Hometown Ghost Stories
Episode: The Gurdon Light | Gurdon, AR
Description: Nestled in the shadowy pine woods of Gurdon, Arkansas, the Gurdon Light has haunted the imagination of locals and thrill-seekers for nearly a century. First spotted in the 1930s along abandoned railroad tracks, this eerie orb—glowing white, blue, orange, or green—floats and sways like a lantern bobbing on an invisible cord, sometimes swelling to the size of a basketball before vanishing into the night.
Legend ties it to tragedy: In 1931, railroad foreman William McClain was brutally murdered with a spike maul by coworker Louis McBride during a heated brawl. McBride was executed months later, but McCl...