Brocken Spectre: a Somewhat Creepy Visual Phenomenon

by October 19, 2010 2494 Views


If you find yourself walking in the Tatra mountains in Poland, don’t be afraid if you see a dark, ghostly presence hovering above you in the sky. The phenomenon is called Brocken spectre, and it occurs when “the shadow of the observer is cast on the clouds.”

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by C. S. Magor - Oct 19, 2010

by C. S. Magor - Oct 19, 2010

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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