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The Weather Lights

Picture of Mrs. Locke posted by Carol Conrad

In a recent video I posted a 1980s interview with a woman from Little Bay Islands named Dorothy Locke in which she speaks about her experiences growing up on the island with particular focus on life there in the 1930s. It's an amazing listen and really brings the time and place to life. But one of the things she mentions really stood out for me, it's a phenomena called "the weather lights" and it's a curious attention grabber. I'd never heard the phrase but a quick Google search turned up an article by Dale Gilbert Jarvis from March 2016 in which he lists several documented examples of the phenomena in Newfoundland. I suggest taking a look at his article, it's linked above. A quirky bit of Newfoundland folklore for sure and one I'd never heard of. But maybe you have, so I've got a request - if you have any weather light stories pass them along as I'd love to hear them, but I'm especially interested in any examples you have from Little Bay. Same goes for other spooky supernatural phenomena. If I can get a few ghostly stories I'll be sure to post about them!

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