Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...

Flashes of microlightning between microscopic bubbles of methane in water may ignite the eerie blue flames of will-o’-the wisps, new research suggests.

Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that fly between bubbles in water ...

In doing so, moreover, he may also have stumbled across part of the answer to a far bigger mystery: the origin of life on Earth. Water, en masse, has no electric charge. But droplets of it do.

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?

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Scientists solved the mystery of will-o'-the-wisps by discovering that methane bubbles in marshes create lightning sparks when they touch.

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