Name: Sandy Reshel

Age: 54

Number of witnesses: 2

Location of sighting/experience: City Point, Wisconsin. Knutes Road

Date of sighting/experience: First took place September, 2021

What do you believe the “ghostly manifestation” was: Balls of light shooting down the road

Has the phenomena reoccurred since the first sighting/experience: Yes.

Your ghost experience in your own words: “We have a camper on about 2 acres of land just past the railroad tracks on Knutes road. I like to walk out near the road at night to look at the stars. I noticed something glowing in the road, like a small ball of light. Then the light started to move and shoot straight up the road. At first I thought I was just seeing things and maybe just a lightning bug but lightning bugs aren’t that big and do not just go in a straight line and follow the road. The very next night my husband was standing in the yard close to the road and he saw it because he yelled for me to come over by him, and proceeded to tell me what he saw. The exact same orb looking ball of light that I saw the night before. We have continued to see this ball of light several times. We also have a trail cam on one of our trees facing the camper. Every night at the same time it goes off at 9:29 pm, around the same time we have seen this ball of light. We do not have the camera set to go off at that time. We can control it with our phones. There is always nothing there, no deer, squirrels, rabbits. We have captured all of these animals during the day. This has been going on for over a year now and its never missed a day. So this year we will put a camera up facing the road hoping to capture the ball of light.”

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