History & local legend
Hansell Road in Buckingham Township has a tradition of unusual lights in the adjoining woods. In February 1999, Thomas Roeder sent a ghost-story archive an account told to him by a female friend who had been sitting in a pickup on the road.
She described a light swinging through the trees like a carried lantern. It grew larger, reached the pavement and hovered briefly before dropping and spreading across the surface like a splash. The light then rose closer to the pickup and appeared to roll toward it. When she persuaded the driver to leave, it moved back into the trees.
Roeder distinguished that story from his own uneventful visit. Other local versions describe a green light or red eyes in the woods, but the pickup encounter is the specific report he preserved.
