| Ghosts & Haunts In Missouri Farrenburg Ghost Light Stories All my family are from this area, I've been told many stories about the Farrenburg light. Many of my family members have seen this light. I have been told you could see this light of a conductors lantern walking the tracks, as you walked closer to this light it would disappear, and when you turned around to walk back from where you came from, it would reappear in front of you again. I was told it was the conductor looking for his head, I was also told once they removed the tracks it was never seen again. I have tried to see this light myself over the years but had no success. A lot of my family members have seen this. I was always told about it growing up. Everyone who saw it always described it the same way, as a small bright white lite about the size of a softball, I was also told it would be about 300 yards from you, and as you got closer, it would disappear, sometimes it would reappear behind you. I don't know of anybody that has taken a picture of it.The next time I go see my parents I'll do some asking around for any pictures and if anybody has seen it anymore. My parents live only a few miles where it has been seen in the past. If I get anymore information I'll pass it along to you. Also I really like your site, a lot of very interesting stories. MJ My grandfather told me the story of the Farrenburg light many years ago. His version was a little different--supposedly, a young man coming home after WWI was standing on the steps of the train, getting ready to jump off at the station when he slipped and fell under the train. He was decapitated but his head was never recovered, and without his head, he could not be buried in consecrated ground. The light is his father walking the tracks with a bull lantern, looking for the son's head. My older sisters went to see the light and reported that it bounced on the car. I saw it myself when I was about 13 or 14, back in 1969, 1970, and I'm pretty sure the tracks were still there. We saw the white light, which starts out the size of a baseball but gets larger as it comes closer. The white light is supposedly the train's headlight. It will come up close, then zoom backwards, then come back up again. We also saw a small red light in the opposite direction from where the white light appeared. This light looked like a small railroad lantern, and it seemed to be swinging back and forth on the tracks as if someone was signaling with it. We got interested in looking at the red light, and when we turned to look for the white light again, it was right next to the passenger side window of the car. That's when we took off. Haven't been back since, but you can't convince me it was foxfire or swamp gas. I don't know that I'll ever go back, but my daughter, who is 15, wants to go see it. It was sort of a rite of passage growing up in East Prairie. We don't live there now, but we're not too far away. As far as I can remember, the white light looked "solid" like a headlight or a large white flashlight. I couldn't see through it. One of my sisters said when they went out, it bounced across the hood of their car. The little red light also looked real, not hazy, and moved in an arc across the tracks. The white light got larger as it got closer to us. As far as noises from Farrenburg, the only noises were all of us screaming and roaring out of there! Absolutely no noises with the lights. That's what made it scary....we thought it might be people out there with flashlights just to scare kids, but we would have heard footsteps on the gravel fill I think. Can't remember cold spots either. Only cold spot I have ever experienced was at the National Military Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS in August of 1995. Did my internship there, lived in the caretakers house in the cemetery. Nothing scary there except the one cold spot. I'll see if we take a trip sometime this summer, along with a camcorder or digital camera. If my daughter decides to go, maybe she can get some pics. I also noticed something on the list of haunted places in Missouri for a headstone in Malden that glows. If it's the one I'm thinking about, it is actually in the Elder Cemetery on Highway WW closer to Campbell. The glow was caused by the light reflecting from a security light. We used to see it, but since some trees have gotten bigger and blocked the light, I don't think the headstone glows anymore. I've been fascinated by "The Light" since I was a little kid and I'm almost 50 now! CR my experience was in 2004 it was me and a guy i was dating his brother,friend,and my brother it was 10pm when we started from Sikeston to see the Farrenburg light.i had heard alot of people talking of this light as a kid,my dad wrote a song but was never able to convince the people to help put it out there.as i can remember we were not looking for the Farrenburg light we were looking for the light in east prarie but never found it some how we wound up from east prairie to farrenburg we were lost for the longest time so i called my dad he told me to come home that i was lost in the river bottom's and i was not gonna find anything we were sitting under the farrenburg water tower finally someone got mad and went down every road til we found it we came up on a bridge and all of us got out then we noticed 2 dirt roads going back on each side of the bridge so we went down the second bridge all the way down at the end was a dead end but i know it was where it happened you can see the railroad trestles ..or what used to be there is a little creek .......on the other side of the creek was a white light swinging back and forth and two of us got out they went down the road and came back and told us they seen a man walking with the light he would go into the water and come out of the water but when they went closer to him he vanished ....so we all got out and went down there there was a neon blue light almost like an orb light hovering over the place that appeared to be the trestles and there were tiny blue glowing lights on the ground all around one of us went to pick on up but it was gone so he light his cigarette lighter and it disappeared this was around 5 am we stayed the rest of the night .....we could hear a train out there and as far as i know we were no where near town or train tracks i don't remember seeing any.........really i don't know what i saw but i believe in ghosts i went back and told my mom of what i saw she told me it was swamp gas.......say what you want but i don't think it was swamp gas in fact i would like to remember where it was so i could go back with other friends sometime i wish i had pictures or a video but all i have is my story. 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