Rob Riggs is a journalist and the former publisher of a series of award-winning community newspapers in Texas. His interest in “ghost lights,” “wild man” sightings, and related paranormal phenomena began as a child when he heard tales about them in his hometown in Big Thicket country. Riggs began writing about the subject more than twenty years ago while working as a reporter for the Kountze News. His studies of the phenomena, which have taken him to West Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, and as far abroad as India, have been featured in the Houston Chronicle and the Beaumont Enterprise. Riggs was a consultant on a ghost lights research project conducted by Professor Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki of Waseda University in Tokyo, which was featured on the Nippon television network in Japan; he has also consulted on the subject for the Harvard College Observatory.
