View Full Version : 'Dark Watchers' on the trail
I was exposed to this webpage by total accident. Has anyone even heard of a phenomenon called Dark Watchers?
https://www.livescience.com/dark-watchers-california-optical-illusion.html
Interesting:
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If you want to see a Dark Watcher, you should wait until the late afternoon.
As the sun begins its descent behind the waves, look to the sharp ridges of the Santa Lucia Range, the mountains that rise up from the shores of Monterey and down the Central California coast. If you are lucky, you might see figures silhouetted against them. Some say the watchers are 10 feet tall, made taller or wider by hats or capes. They may turn to look at you. But they always move away quickly and disappear.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php
Gambit McCrae
03-16-2021, 10:18
They were last seen giving the Easter bunny a high five while skipping along the yellow brick road
SoaknWet
03-16-2021, 10:27
Nope California, good pot.
It's like the sundog effect of optical illusions when the sunsets.
Not familiar Google sundogs.
And alot of what was last mentioned :p ......
Some weird stuff out there along the trails.
http://instagr.am/p/BiMxAXalARt/
Some weird stuff out there along the trails.
http://instagr.am/p/BiMxAXalARt/
Hey, I resemble that remark.
mark schofield
03-19-2021, 06:35
Carlos Casteneda and friends
Traveler
03-19-2021, 06:50
"hold my beer while I see if these mushrooms are edible"
stephanD
03-19-2021, 08:24
Carlos Casteneda and friends
You mean Carlos Castaneda. I read his books when I was a teenager. Dang it bring memories......
NY HIKER 50
03-19-2021, 08:38
Judging from the picture it may have to do with haze or clouds. However, I have heard stories of "shadow people. but I think these things are more of a myth. I'll believe all of this when when I get kidnapped or one of them talks to me. That will NEVER happen.
The illusion is also known as one's "Glory" I've seen it once when on a ridgetop near sunset, with clear skies to the west, and a bowl of clouds to the east, right up to the ridge. With the sun to my back, my shadow was cast on the cloud tops to the east, with a halo of refracted light all around it, just like the picture. Very cool phenomenon.
gpburdelljr
03-19-2021, 14:04
Various atmospheric conditions can create all kinds f strange illusions, like this hovering ship.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719
FreeGoldRush
03-19-2021, 14:53
You will see and hear many unexplained things on a long hike. Days, weeks and months in the woods teach you to say, “No idea what that sound was. Now go to sleep.”