The following story appeared in Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s The Union Republican in 1917. Read it here.

“While reading of the Brown Mountain mystery is called to my memory two other mysteries that I read and heard of that I had almost forgotten.

One was the Muckalee Wonder in Georgia that was seen a good many years ago. It was like a man floating in the air from a town, (I have forgotten name of town) to Muckalee Creek about a mile distant. I read of this much while it was going on.

About five years ago, a relative of ours came in who had spent most of his life preaching in the state of Georgina, and I asked him if he had ever heard of the Muckalee wonder, and he replied:

‘I was living in the town at the time and have seen it many times. I would go almost every night to look at it. It was just like a man floating slowly in the air and a little higher than a telegraph pole from the town to Muckalee Creek. It was a great mystery to everybody, and people came in on the trains from most all over the South to see it. Some would climb telegraph poles to see if they could tell what it was, and no one was able to solve the mystery. So they just named it the Muckalee Wonder, and let it go.’

His wife told the same thing. She said that she had seen it often, and it looked just like a man floating in the air from the town to the creek.”