PAULDING — “I can see it right now!” Bob Anderson said excitedly, staring into the trees.
It
was a cool summer evening, and the 61-year-old from L’Anse had brought a
few of his fishing buddies down a dead-end road into the Ottawa
National Forest to see the famous, mysterious phenomenon known as the
Paulding Light, which is said to appear frequently at a remote spot in
the woods of the western Upper Peninsula.
Those who’ve seen it say
it’s a bright white light, glowing deep inside the woods, changing size
and shape before fading into the darkness.
“Right now, down at
the bottom of the gap — see it?” he asked. The other three guys craned
their necks and tried to spot it, but didn’t. They looked unconvinced.
Anderson wasn’t deterred. “I took a lot of skeptics down here, made them believers” he said.
For
half a century, the Paulding Light has been a legend in the Upper
Peninsula. But it’s not easy to find. You have to take narrow U.S.-45 to
Paulding, which is a tiny speck of a town near the Wisconsin border.
Then turn down unmarked Robbins Pond Road — also known as the remnant of
old U.S.-45 — which is now little more than a gravel road encroached on
its sides by the creeping forest. About a half mile in, it dead ends at
a guardrail overlooking a tree-filled valley where the former highway
vanishes into the woods.
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