A Scottish hiker captured footage of a human-shaped rainbow on the side of Ben Vorlich, Loch Lomond in Scotland.

The video, filmed on September 10, shows the unexplained figure floating just below the clouds.

The filmer told Newsflare: “I think I've been up Ben Vorlich but I don't remember seeing anything like that.”

Video of a brocken spectre l seen from the top of a mountain in Scotland. Ben Vorlich .
Filmed by a Scottish hillwalker. Interesting natural event.

A Brocken spectre (British English; American spelling: Brocken specter; German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source. The figure's head can be surrounded by a bright area called Heiligenschein, or halo-like rings of rainbow-coloured light forming a glory, which appear opposite the Sun's direction when uniformly-sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or be seen from an aircraft, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has often been recorded in literature about the region.