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brown.mountain
brown.mountain
The lights seen on Brown Mountain are the subject of a family legend which I
was told quite often when I was younger. I haven't heard it in many years,
so I may not get this quite accurate. At any rate, here goes.
My mother's family was related to the Browns who this mountain was named after.
They were a plantation family, and owned slaves. During the Civil War, one
man was a colonel in the Confederate Army. He was wounded, and came home in
1863 or thereabouts. One day he went up the mountain ( I don't remember what
for, though that was told to me) and did not return.
After a few days, they sent the man's personal servant after him. The servant's
name was Jim. This, I remember with extreme clarity, though I don't know why.
He took only a little food, some water, and two lanterns. He had grown up on
the mountain, and did not expect to look for long. Brown Mountain is not a
big place.
The servant, also, never returned. No trace of Jim or his master was ever
found, and no one knows what happened to them, to this day. Shortly after
they disappeared, two bobbing lights started to appear on the mountain.
The legend has it, that these lights are the lanterns Jim took with him,
and that he is still looking for his lost master. Another version says that
the lights are Jim and his master, and that they each carry a lantern, trying
to find their way back to the home which is no longer there.
Does anyone else have a version of these events, or a different story relating
to the lights on Brown Mountain? I would really love to hear them.
Kate Wood
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