What Has Been Spooking Hikers For Centuries

For hundreds of years, people have looked up at the hazy peaks of California's Santa Lucia Mountains at sunset and seen tall, cloaked figures staring back. Then, within moments, the eerie silhouettes disappear. These twilight apparitions are known as the Dark Watchers — shady, sometimes 10' tall men in sinister hats and capes. Read more about the phenomenon → Science News • Videos • Explainers SUBSCRIBE to the Live Science YouTube channel → Twitter→ Facebook→ Instagram→ Community Forums→ For the science geek in everyone, breaks down the stories behind the most interesting news and photos on the Internet, while also digging up fascinating discoveries that hit on a broad range of fields, from dinosaurs and archaeology to wacky physics and astronomy to health and human history. If you want to learn something interesting every day, #LiveScience is the place for you. #DarkWatchers #BrockenSpectre