Wanderer filmed a ghost piece in England

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An ultra-marathon runner in England’s Lake District recently had a rather spooky experience. While hiking the Red Pike, an 826-foot mountain in Co. Cumbria, a ghostly figure suddenly appeared next to Chris Randall in the thick fog. Behind the apparition he filmed hides a rare optical phenomenon…

While climbing the Red Pike, Randall suddenly saw something to his left that shocked him. He thought it was a ghost. Surprised and frightened, he decided to film the apparition and then realized that the faint shadow is a very rare natural phenomenon.

“My first piece of mind. It’s scary when you see it from the corner of your eye and think someone else is moving,” he wrote on Twitter (see tweet above). What Randall filmed was what’s known as a chunk ghost, an optical effect.

Such a chunk of ghost “appears” when the sun shines behind a climber and looks into a layer of fog, mist or cloud. The shadow is not projected on a solid surface, but by individual water droplets. Air movement causes the shadow to move, even when the observer is stationary. This seemingly unique creature can also float – like a ghost – without visible contact with the ground.

Natural phenomenon was first described in 1780
Incidentally, the name Brockengespenst goes back to the German theologian and naturalist Deutsche Johann Esaias Silberschlag, who observed and first described the natural phenomenon in 1780 on the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt.

For many years, numerous legends have arisen around the “mountain ghost”. Time and time again, climbers who got lost while hiking in the fog reported seeing a ghost approaching them.

Source: Krone

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