Stan;
There was a place in a neighboring town wher a rural road crossed a railroad in a swampy area & one night several teenagers tried to beat the train, didn't make it. Train knocked the car over in the muck killing all the kids. Sometime later someone made up the tale you could drive out there & see their headlights glowing dimly out where the kids died. It was of course these gasses of which you speak, but scared many kids to death. Another tale was started very near to where i live where "Supposedly" an old man got mad at his wife & chased her with a hatchet, catching up with her in the woods down a hollow from there house & he chopped her head off. A load of kids would be carried out there & the window cracked a little & they could here the faint "Thump" of an old hydraulic water ram pumping water from a spring up the hill to a distant house. Lots of old Southeren tales floting around. Used to be a Country Song entitled "The Brown Mountain Light" which I am sure derived from a Foxfire tale. There is however, & I feel sure very closely related, a type which you see glowing on old rotting logs on the ground which is what I have always heard referred to as Foxfire, but this probably varies according to area.
