The Brocken Ghost a shadow

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1934
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 41 KB
• Volume: 218
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(34)90345-8

✦ Synopsis

The Brocken Ghost a Shadow.--The famous "Brocken Ghost" which had been "captured" for the first time last year by Dr. A. Brack, photographer of Zurich, Switzerland, was observed and photographed anew by a Mr. L6rtscher. This intrepid cameraman "laid" the spectre in its various phases from a mountain known as the Birre, 8218 feet above sea level, near Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland. The apparition remained visible for thirty minutes and consisted of a perfectly outlined, but much elongated shadow of the photographer himself, surrounded by a rainbowcolored halo.

A low sun and fog below the summit of the mountain, also certain atmospheric conditions which prevail only at rare intervals are said to be responsible for this highly interesting phenomenon. The name "Brocken Ghost" is derived from the Brocken, the peak in the Hartz mountains, where for many years its appearance terrified the superstitious peasants of that region.

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