Legends

The Paulding Light

Also called "Lights of Pauldimg", or "Dog Meadow light", is a light that appear in a  valley that lies outside of Paulding, Michigan.

Reports of the light have appeared since 1960s, with popular folklore ptoviding explanations as ghosts, geologic activity or swamp gas.

The legend:

- Most popular legend involves the death of a railroad brakeman. The legend states that the valley once contained tracks and the light is the lantern of the brakeman who was killed while attempting to stop an oncoming train from colliding with railway cars stopped on the tracks.

2. Kolyma Highway: the road of the bones

- The R504 Kolyma highway, part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian fas East.

- "Russia's gold rush" was different from California's. There were slaves, prisoners, worked to death, on what became known as the "Road of bones".

- Now is one of the most inhospitable places, the route from nowhere to the back of beyond, is lined with abandoned villages, ones gulag camps.

- Under Stalin hundreds of thousands of prisoners endured those expremes and more. Kolyma, the river which lents its name of the whole region, was in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "a poleof cold and cruelty".

- Armed only with pickaxes and wheelbarrows, prisoners, among them the founder of the Soviet space programme, generals and intellectuals, with common criminals, hacked and hewed at permafrost in hunt for gold.