the Fogo Island spook lights — Newfoundland fishermen don't make stuff up for fun

I grew up in Gander, not far from Fogo Island, and my dad fished those waters in the 80s. The local term was 'corpse candles' which is an old Welsh/Irish term the settlers brought over and reapplied to what they were seeing on the water. Pale blue-white lights low over the ocean surface, usually in ……