Ghost city appears out of the chinese fog

rossie1977 · 27-06-2011 1:39pm #1

one of the strangest stories i have seen in the last while

Residents in the eastern Chinese city of Huanshan were mystified when an enormous city rose over the city's skyline on a misty evening earlier this month.

The giant mirage complete with tall buildings, mountains and trees appeared across the skyline after heavy downpour and humid conditions along the Xin'an River.

As mist settled over the river, the life-size city appeared from nowhere, leading residents to wonder if the vision was a "vortex" to a lost civilisation.

"It's really amazing, it looks like a scene in a movie, in a fairlyland," one resident was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.

She said that a number of similar sights had been seen recently although this one was the most spectacular.

The mysterious city vanished just as quickly as it had appeared. Scientists have since rejected the vortex theory and say the incredible sight was a mirage.

A mirage is an optical illusion in which distant objects are reflected by a layer of hot air just above ground level.
Mirages occur naturally when moisture in the air rises above the temperature of water below.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/9714679/ghost-city-rises-over-china-skyline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsMmef04qGs

NTMK · 27-06-2011 1:42pm

TBH it just looks like low lying fog over the river unless im missing something

Seachmall · 27-06-2011 1:44pm

That's where the Chinese Dissident Reporters are kept.

Full.Duck · 27-06-2011 1:45pm

What the hell, how is that a mirage? Mind=blown

mikemac · 27-06-2011 1:45pm

You're missing nothing NTMK, it's just fog over the river

From youtube

To clarify; those buildings are actually there, in those exact spots. The fog is just making the buildings, mountains, and trees, look as though they are floating on the river. That is the 'mirage' that CCTV was talking about. Not the buildings, mountains, or trees themselves. ITN took it the wrong way.

Orando Broom · 27-06-2011 1:48pm

Blast them with mist!!!!!

Logical Fallacy · 27-06-2011 1:55pm

Yeah, something that was so amazing the majority of people were just walking past it not giving a ****.

I blame Avatar for this demand that awesome **** in reality be even more awesome than "ghost cities".

orourkeda · 27-06-2011 1:58pm

Seachmall · 27-06-2011 2:02pm

orourkeda wrote: »

I read the title and I still clicked play

Yahew · 27-06-2011 2:06pm

So basically fog in a channel, with the taller buildings of a city visible. A city they would see every day, with or without fog. And all this rumpus.

Mad bastards the Chinese.