Quinn’s Light is a strange ghostly phenomenon reported in Australia, similar to the corpse candles of the British Isles. Quinn’s light is said to appear as a phosphorescent light that goes round and round in circles before disappearing as mysteriously as it appeared. It is often reported in bush areas and there are a number of reports from people who have followed the lights and even fired at it-but to no effect. The Australians also have the Min-Min lights, which are said to appear in cemeteries and seem to dance around the gravestones.

Explanations for Quinn’s Lights, Min-Min Lights and other similar ghost lights are as numerous and varied as the sightings themselves. They typically fall into the following five categories:

1. Misidentifications of natural phenomena such as wind-blown mists, escaping marsh gas (considered by many to be the most likely explanation as ghost lights typically appear in marshy areas), light refraction effects, ball lightening or other electric discharge and so on.
2. An unknown natural phenomenon involving low-level air oscillations, or ionization in geophysically generated electrical fields.
3. Psychokinetic or poltergeist effects unconsciously produced by an individual.
4. Small UFOs acting as remote control probes.
5. Non-Physical apparitions/ghosts. Numerous accounts exist in folklore of the supernatural origin and appearance of ghost lights.

There are also reports of the Marfa Lights in Texas, The Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina and the Hornet Spook Lights in Missouri that remain unexplained in the United States.