The tale associated the light with Joe Baldwin, a train conductor who was said to have been decapitated in a collision between a runaway passenger car and a locomotive at Maco, along the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, in the late 1800s.
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Author Bland Simpson, interviewed on North Carolina Public Radio in 2005, called the Maco Light "one of his favourite" North 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".
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