The Marfa lights are an optical phenomenon regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby, which the community has publicized to encour
A Marfa light (center) seen from the official viewing platform east of Marfa, Texas
In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, or will-o'-wisp, is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps, or marshes.
Marfa lights
…Lights" on his 2009 album A Pocket Full of Rain, and later compiled in his 2011 compilation A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire for Editions Mego Aleya (Ghost light), Bengal Aurora…
The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931)
A Japanese rendition of a Russian will-o'-the-wisp
An 1862 oil painting of a will-o'-the-wisp by Arnold Böcklin