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Daily Advertiser de Boston (Massachusetts), 16 août 1883 s1 Clark, J. E.: "ghost light, New York, 1883", Magonia Exchange, 15 avril 2008

A mysterious light on a railroad track near Amsterdam, N.Y., occasions grand, gloomy and peculiar emotions. The light ordinarily keeps nearly three feet above the track, but occasionally is thirty feet in the air, or on the rails. It is reported that fifty citizens, politics not mentioned, hid behind a fence to see what the appearance was, but their testimony is conflicting and inconclusive, though the fact that this body of freemen was careful to have a fence between it and this elusive luminary, shows that the observers agreed in thinking it something dangerous. Politicians sometimes solve problems by being on the fence, but Amsterdam people must come out from behind the fence, or their investigations will be fruitless. Doubtless some democratic editors will connect this alarming appearance with "republican corruption."