The Oxford Light

There are many stories of the activity surrounding "The Oxford Light" on Oxford Milford Rd. near the Miami University campus in Oxford, OH.

From ohioexploration.com:
"This haunting comes from just outside of Oxford. The story goes that two forbidden lovers would meet up a certain driveway along the road. The girl take her father's car and pull out to the end of the road and flash her lights three times to signal to her boyfriend to come over. One night as he began down the road, a young boy was riding his bicycle in the road. The boyfriend, riding a motorcycle, didn't see the boy until it was too late. Both the boy and the boyfriend died. The girl later hang herself in the barn, of which, on remnants remain. It is said that if you go to the spot where the girl would flash her lights, and flash your lights three times towards the road, you can see small flashing red lights (the reflectors off the bicycle) and then a motorcycle headlight coming down the road. Some have even reported seeing many flashing lights, like at the scene of an accident, after the headlight disappears."

This summary fails to mention that you must park in front of the abandoned house in order for this phenomenon to occur. Additionally, if you park in this spot and see the lights, there have been reports that people saw a shadow of a woman walking behind the vehicle. Some people report seeing a hanging girl in the nearby tree. And others report a young boy approaching the car with an angry look on his face. Some hear the sounds of a revving motorcycle. The most consistent part of all of these stories is that when people drive after the light, they cannot catch it or see any source of the light.

Here are a few accounts of the mysterious light:
http://yourghoststories.com
Miami Student
http://fullhalloween.com

Here are some YouTube videos of people who have checked it out:



Clearly, there are all kinds of speculations about what may cause this light to appear. People report sometimes seeing a car or truck later come down that road so it could possibly be due to a reflection. Other potential debunking theories include a reflection from a porch light (although there are no nearby lights on the houses surrounding this area) and the old Scooby Doo trick of the bored old man running up and down the road with a flashlight. But my question is, how and why is it so consistent?

Last week, our lead investigator and an investigator-in-training went to scope this out. I'll let them respond to this post with their experiences but I will report that the light appeared for them and there were NO cars or bright lights on the road and the shadow figure appeared behind the vehicle after the light passed. So, we are going to investigate this more thoroughly and have a couple tricks up our sleeves to see if we can debunk "the light." Should be fun!