The Brocken Spectre: The Ghost on the Mountain That Is Your Own Shadow
About 5 min readHigh on a fog-draped mountain in Germany, climbers have reported a giant ghostly figure with a halo, looming out of the mist and moving as they move. The figure is real, the halo is real — and both of them are you. The Brocken spectre is your own shadow, magnified by the fog and ringed by a rainbow.