In the dead of night, they look like ghostly blue flames, flaring into the air above marshes. Stories and folklore have been told about them for centuries across the entire world, with different cultures finding meaning in their glimmering presence.
Some call them ghostly lights that are meant to lure travellers into bogs. While others say they are the spirits of dead unbaptized children floating in purgatory. But whether they are fairy lights, goblin fire or ghost lights, the will-o’-the-wisps have been captivating people around the world with the mystery of the phenomenon.
Now, that mystery might be solved. New research suggests that tiny electrical sparks between bubbles of methane and air in water could be to blame for their blue ghostly flame.
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