According to the fairly reliable Snopes, this Christmas light lawn show is the handiwork of one "Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that control the 25,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular." Created by Williams last year, the show's lights are coordinated with music Williams broadcast over a low-power radio station, "so that the Carsons' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise."
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