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NORTH CAROLINA GHOST LIGHTS AND LEGENDS. Charles F. Gritzner. Gritzner—a geography professor, prolific author, and longtime “spook lights” investigator—turns his sights to various “unexplained” luminescent phenomena in North Carolina. These are not UFOs but instead various odd lights in the sky that blink, dance, float, and shine. Some are described as “balls of fire,” while others are a more classic hazy glow associated with, for example, a will-o-the-wisp. Over the course of seven chapters, “Fritz” Gritzner examines dozens of these ghost lights through the lenses of folklore, history, science, and of course skeptical (that is, answer-seeking instead of mystery-mongering) investigation. The book offers detailed directions so that intrepid ghost light investigators can visit many of the areas themselves. Reports of ghost lights are common in books about mysteries and hauntings, but rarely are the topics given such substantive research. Blair Publications, 2019, 192 pp., $15.95.