Ghost lights, mystery lights…call them what you want, but the Marfa Lights that flicker beneath the Chinati Mountains have captured the imagination of many a traveler over the decades. On many nights, the mystery seems to be whether you're actually just seeing car headlights in the distance. Try your luck at the Marfa Lights Viewing Area about 9 miles east of Marfa on Hwy 90/67.
Once there, look to the south and find the red blinking light. That's where you will (or won't) see the lights doing their ghostly thing. This phenomenon is best enjoyed if you can channel your inner pre-teen (all the better if you actually are a pre-teen) and simply choose to believe something really exciting has just happened.
There are convincing enough accounts of mysterious lights that appear and disappear on the horizon – accounts that go all the way back to before there was such a thing as cars. In fact, the cowboy who first reported seeing them in 1883 thought they were Apache signal fires.
