Trick 5 steps
A Blue Lantern on Mater's Towing Cable Becomes the Ghostlight
Lightning and Guido attached a blue lantern to Mater's towing cable so that the light trailed him wherever he moved, producing the illusion of a pursuing orb. The legend Sheriff had just recounted gave Mater the ready-made interpretation of that trailing light as the paranormal Ghostlight.
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Sheriff tells the Ghostlight legend
Sheriff · Mater · Lightning McQueen
After Mater teases Lightning about the Ghostlight, Sheriff insists the tale is true and describes it as a blue paranormal orb haunting Radiator Springs that hates the sound of clanking metal and could be anywhere, which frightens Mater.
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Mater is left alone in the dark
Mater
The residents say goodnight and turn off the store lights, leaving Mater nervous and alone in the darkness.
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Lantern is attached to Mater's towing cable
Lightning McQueen · Guido
Lightning and Guido set up a blue lantern attached to Mater's towing cable, so that the light trails behind Mater as he moves.
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Mater panics, believing the Ghostlight pursues him
Mater
What it looked like: Mater appears to be pursued by the blue paranormal orb from the legend, when the light is actually the lantern trailing from his own towing cable.
Mater races around in mayhem with what he takes to be the Ghostlight on his tail, waking Frank and his tractors and racing through Willy's Butte as the town watches, until he tires.
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The lantern is exposed as a prank
Lightning McQueen · Mater
The group reveals that the blue lantern trailing Mater was attached to his own towing cable by Lightning and Guido, and that the whole thing was a prank to pay back Mater's own trickster ways.
