30 Times People Spotted Weird Or Confusing Shadows And Just Had To Snap A Pic

Sometimes our eyes end up playing tricks on us and what we though to be a spooky silhouette of a man in a dark alley turns out to be nothing more than a weird shadow of a tree. And even though these accidental optical illusions can be pretty scary, they can also be absolutely fascinating.

#1 Shadows Cast From A Tree During An Eclipse

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#2 The Way These Shadows Line Up With The Windows

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#3 A Rare Optic Sight, The “Brocken Spectre,” Occurs When A Person Stands At A Higher Altitude In The Mountains And Sees His Shadow Cast On A Cloud At A Lower Altitude

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#4 Even The Shadows In Scotland Are Plaid

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#5 This Shadow From Two Different Trees In My Parking Lot

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#6 This Unicorn Shadow

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#7 Crumpled Paper Shadow Faces

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#8 The Horses Were Standing So Still That Their Shadows Still Have Frost

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#9 Shadow And Slope Makes It Look Like He’s Floating

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#10 The Way The Light Shines Through The Bookcase Making A Cityscape Shadow

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#11 The Shadow Of My Chimney Makes Me Look Like Lord Farquad

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#12 This Shadow That Perfectly Lined Up With The Light Pole

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#13 Shadow Cast By My Light Looks Like The Gingerbread Man Hanged Himself

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#14 The Shadow On The Stairs Looks Like Another Set Of Stairs

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#15 Baby Deer Chilling On A Chair

#16 A Long Boi With A Shadow Of A Mandog

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#17 Spider Floating On Water Made A Unique Shadow

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#18 The Shadow From A Rivet Makes It Look Like Sacajawea’s Smoking A Blunt

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#19 A Tree’s Shadow Stopped The Snow Underneath It From Melting

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#20 This Restaurant Uses Shadows To Show Men And Women Restrooms

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#21 The Shadows From These Window Cages Create A 3D Effect

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#22 The Way The Shadows Look Between My Coffee Mugs

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#23 I Genuinely Thought My Car Was Hovering Over The Parking. The Shadow Makes It Look Like It’s Floating

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#24 Lahaina Noon In Hawaii Right Now – The Sun Passes Directly Overhead, So Anything That Isn’t Top-Heavy Doesn’t Cast A Shadow

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#25 Shadow Looks Like Painting

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#26 Only 3 Spiral Ornaments And The Rest Are The Shadows They Cast

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#27 Straight Ladder Has A Crooked Shadow

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#28 K-Pop Shadow Is Coming For You

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#29 Shadows Of Birds Perched Atop A Tent

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#30 The Personless Shadow

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