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will-o'-the-wisp

Light sometimes seen over marshy ground, believed to be burning gas containing methane from decaying organic matter.

An Australian scientist put forward the hypothesis in 1995 that the phenomenon may be caused by barn owls, which sometimes develop a ghostly glow due to a light-emitting honey fungus that they pick up from rotting trees.
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