Wildly Curious

The Hessdalen Lights: Science’s Strangest Unexplained Glow


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In this Nature Mysteries Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole investigate one of the most baffling natural light shows on Earth—the Hessdalen Lights of Norway. For over a century, glowing orbs have danced through a remote valley, pulsing, hovering, and splitting apart with no clear cause. Scientists have studied them for decades… and still, no one really knows what they are.

✨ What are the Hessdalen Lights, and how long have they been appearing?
 📡 What did researchers discover using radar, magnetometers, and lasers?
 🧲 Are they ball lightning, plasma, or something stranger?
 👽 And what happens when you shine a laser at one (spoiler: it blinks back)

From magnetic anomalies to possible plasma reactions underground, this episode explores one of nature’s most haunting unsolved mysteries—where science meets the supernatural.

🎧 This is part of our Nature Mysteries series—short, weird, and scientifically unexplainable (for now).

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