The Light of Saratoga is a legend located in the Big Thicket of Southeast Texas.
Located on a dirt road, it is a light that may appear and disappear at random during the dark of night without explanation.
The most popular story surrounding this legend is that a railroad worker was decapitated in a railway accident, and the light is that of his lantern as his ghost searches endlessly for his head.
Coincidentally, the same story of a headless railroad conductor also is offered as the explanation for these mysterious lights.
In 1902, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway hacked a survey line from Bragg to Saratoga, bought right-of-way and opened the Big Thicket forest with a railroad, and the Saratoga train began its daily trips to Beaumont, carrying people, cattle, oil and logs.