Carolina legends, describing his own sighting of it as "like a match, the light in a kerosene lantern [...] what the source of it was I'll never know". Sightings of the light ended when the railroad removed the track in 1977 and a trestle bridge related to the legend was destroyed. A street in a nearby subdivision bears the name Joe Baldwin Drive. See also Gurdon light References American folklore Atmospheric ghost lights Weather lore Forteana Reportedly haunted locations in North Carolina