Big Thicket Light - Ghost Light of Saratoga

Google it.

My high school years clearly predated Google - dang, they predated lots of stuff.

Anyhow we heard the rumors of the Big Thicket Light so 4 or 5 of us loaded up into one of our family cars to go check it our one night. I think we were in Guy Youngblood’s family’s station wagon and I am pretty sure Mike Brown, James Cole and Brad Norton were the other miscreants in the expedition.

Our best intelligence told us that on some back roads in the Big Thicket between Honey Island and Saratoga this light would appear and follow cars. This area is north west of Beaumont and just about due west of Kountze.

Anyhow we started driving various backroads and dirt roads, checking out pipelines and logging roads in the target area. We had been doing this for an hour or so with no success. All we saw was lots of tall pine trees, bar ditches and no Ghost Light.