My Land Glows in the dark II- Evidence!!

Tonester · Nov 4, 2003

LSmith wrote about his amazing glowing land recently, well here's some hard evidence to support the story! I was working late tonite, and as I left the maintenance shed - Lo & Behold!! An eerie glow covers the newly cleared "back forty"! Looked like someone had a car out there, but no car can get there without going thru me or a swamp... Look at the picture - the tree line in the distance is barely visible and about two thirds up from the bottom - well above the glowing area! Pretty darn cool, I didn't know we got this kind of effect in New hampshire.....the whole area (about forty acres) was glowing!

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Slamfire · Nov 4, 2003

If there isn't a town back of those trees, I'd get a radon gas test. It is suprisingly common, but still radioactive. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Tonester · Nov 4, 2003

I hope it's an optical illusion with the fog and I'm just nuts! Don't like that Radon stuff! Still looks cool tho'!! I'll have to take a picture from the same spot in daylight and see where the trees are in relation to the glow...

MossRoad · Nov 4, 2003

All I see is a break in the clouds on a stormy sky. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Junkman · Nov 4, 2003

It is just as beautiful today in NH as when I lived there in the early 1960's. Thanks for the memory jog....

DocHeb · Nov 4, 2003

Northern lights coming through a break in the clouds?

PhilNH5 · Nov 5, 2003

Cool picture. I wouldn't worry about Radon. It is an odorless and colorless gas. While it does emit ionizing energy I don't think there is enough to make something else glow.

I have read about certain fungi that live in the soil and glow. Maybe you stirred that up.

Phil

Gatorboy · Nov 5, 2003

Isn't that called sunset?

MossRoad · Nov 5, 2003

Swamp gas?

Anyone remember War of the Worlds... It's aliems!

Pesky Russian weather machine!

And finally...

It's the big one! Duck and cover!!!

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LSmith · Nov 5, 2003

My glow was from wood scraps that were turned over by the box blade. It was a dull blue and looked like a chem-lite. I researched the effect and it is known as "Foxfire". Just to be sure I went over the area with a radiation survey meter(Geiger counter) and found no levels above background. Just a cool natural effect.

L Smith