He was trekking up a mountain and filmed a ghost of Brocken a few meters away from him: “It was creepy”

A few days ago, he ultramarathon runner Chris Randall He went mountain climbing in Wasdale, Lake District, Cumbria, UK and had a terrifying time.

He was hiking the Red Pike alone and suddenly saw something to his left that shocked him. He thought it was a ghost. Amazed and frightened, he decided to film it and immediately understood that it was a very rare natural phenomenon.

“My first ‘Brocken Spectre’. It’s creepy to watch out of the corner of my eye and I think it was someone else who moved,” he said on his Twitter account.

What he saw was blurry shadow above the clouds with a halo of light around you. It looks like some kind of ghost emerging from the fog.

“This is the first time I have witnessed this strange effect. My shadow seemed to measure several miles above the valley,” she said of what is known as “The Specter of Brocken” or “mountain specter”

East peculiar phenomenon occurs when there is fog and the Sun it shines behind a person, creating a kind of reflection or shadow on the fog.

Also, due to diffraction of lightaround the silhouette appears a sort of aura which is produced when the sunlight reflects on the suspended drops of water.

German Johann Esaias Silberschlag He was the first to explain this phenomenon in 1780. For many years they have been forming numerous legends around the “spectre of the mountain”. Many climbers have reported sightings at ghost that brought them closer when they got lost in their travels.

Silberschlag witnessed this on Brocken Peak, hence the name of the phenomenon, a point that has a height of 1,142 meters above sea level and where it was common to see this optical effect.

There are many people who have also pointed out that the “mountainous spectrum” also usually appears on the slopes of Teide.