St. Elmo's Fire phenomenon was caught on camera and it is STRANGE
Hikers on a mountain in the Alberta Rockies recently had a hair-raising experience when a loud electrical buzzing sound was heard on the surface of their skin when thunderstorms were nearby.
This phenomenon is known as St. Elmo's Fire, which is a luminous plasma that is created between clouds and the ground in the vicinity of a thunderstorm's electric field, which rips molecules apart in a process called ionization.
St. Elmo's Fire has both audible (in the case of this video) and visual effects - in some instances with low light a whitish-blue ghostly glow is emitted near sharp objects.
In 1832 Charles Darwin experienced St. Elmo's Fire while onboard the HMS Beagle in Uruguay and wrote that “everything is in flames: the sky with lightning, the water with luminous particles and even the very masts are pointed with a blue flame.”
