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and the second highest peak in <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> after <a href="/wiki/Ben_Nevis" title="Ben Nevis">Ben Nevis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although there have been many purported encounters with the Big Grey Man, few eyewitnesses report to have actually seen the creature. It is said to be very thin and over ten feet tall, with dark skin and hair, long arms, and broad shoulders.<sup id="cite_ref-Bane2016_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bane2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most often, the creature remains unseen in the fog of the mountain, with encounters limited to the sound of crunching gravel as it walks behind climbers and a general feeling of unease around the mountain.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunning2012-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tangible evidence of its existence is limited to a few photographs of unusual footprints, so the majority relies on the credibility of eyewitness encounters.<sup id="cite_ref-Az_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Az-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The figure has many similarities with the <a href="/wiki/Brenin_Llwyd" title="Brenin Llwyd">Brenin Llwyd</a> (English: <span lang="en">Grey King</span>) of <a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a>, this figure is also semi-corporeal, silent and uses the mists as a cloak to prey on unwary travellers. Unlike the Am Fear Liath, Brenin Llwyd is found in mountainous locations across <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, and is particularly noted to prey on children.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sightings">Sightings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sightings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg/300px-Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg/450px-Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg/600px-Summit_of_Ben_MacDui_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50972.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The summit of <a href="/wiki/Ben_Macdui" title="Ben Macdui">Ben Macdui</a></figcaption></figure><p> In 1925, <a href="/wiki/J._Norman_Collie" title="J. Norman Collie">J. Norman Collie</a> gave the first recorded account of a Grey Man encounter. A noted hiker, professor, and member of the Royal Geographical Society, Collie recounted a terrifying experience he had as he hiked alone near the summit of <a href="/wiki/Ben_Macdui" title="Ben Macdui">Ben Macdui</a> years earlier in 1891. </p><blockquote><p>"I was returning from the <a href="/wiki/Cairn" title="Cairn">cairn</a> on the summit in a mist when I began to think I heard something else than merely the noise of my own footsteps. Every few steps I took I heard a crunch, and then another crunch, as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own. I said to myself, this is all nonsense. I listened and heard it again but could see nothing in the mist. As I walked on and the eerie crunch, crunch sounded behind me, I was seized with terror and took to my heels, staggering blindly among the boulders for four or five miles nearly down to <a href="/wiki/Rothiemurchus_Forest" title="Rothiemurchus Forest">Rothiemurchus Forest</a>. Whatever you make of it, I do not know, but there is something very queer about the top of Ben Macdui and I will not go back there again."<sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Collie's account was reported in the local press, which started a debate between sceptics and believers within the community. Other climbers came forward with their own encounters, which they had previously been afraid to share. One climber, Hugh D. Welsh, said that he hiked the summit with his brother in 1904, where throughout the day and night they heard "slurring footsteps, as if someone was walking through water-saturated gravel." Both felt "frequently conscious of something near us, an eerie sense of apprehension."<sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1945, Pete Densham was participating in rescue work in the <a href="/wiki/Cairngorms" title="Cairngorms">Cairngorm mountains</a> during <a href="/wiki/European_theatre_of_World_War_II" title="European theatre of World War II">World War II</a>. One day, he reported hearing strange noises, mist closing in on his location, and increasing pressure around his neck. He fled before seeing anything concrete. A friend of his, climber Richard Frere, wrote about his sense of "a Presence, utterly abstract but intensely real" on the mountain and heard "an intensely high singing note" a few years later in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilson2015_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilson2015-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frere also presented the encounter of another mutual friend, who wished to remain anonymous, while he camped on Ben Macdui. He reported waking up feeling an inescapable feeling of dread, and looked out of his tent to see a large figure with dark hair standing in front of the moon in <a href="/wiki/Silhouette" title="Silhouette">silhouette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 1958, naturalist and mountaineer Alexander Tewnion published an article in <i>The Scots</i> magazine about an encounter with the Grey Man in 1943. </p><blockquote><p>"I spent a 10-day leave climbing alone in the Cairngorms. One afternoon, just as I reached the summit cairn of Ben MacDhui, mist swirled across the <a href="/wiki/Lairig_Ghru" title="Lairig Ghru">Lairig Ghru</a> and enveloped the mountain. The atmosphere became dark and oppressive, a fierce, bitter wind whisked among the boulders, and... an odd sound echoed through the mist – a loud footstep, it seemed. Then another, and another... A strange shape loomed up, receded, came charging at me! Without hesitation I whipped out the revolver and fired three times at the figure. When it still came on I turned and hared down the path, reaching <a href="/wiki/Beinn_Bhreac_(Glen_Derry)" title="Beinn Bhreac (Glen Derry)">Glen Derry</a> in a time that I have never bettered. You may ask was it really the <i>Fear Laith Mhor</i>? Frankly, I think it was.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunning2012-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>No photographs of the Big Grey Man have ever been taken. Photographer John A. Rennie supposedly found a series of footprints in <a href="/wiki/Strathspey,_Scotland" title="Strathspey, Scotland">Spey Valley</a>, measuring 19 inches (48 centimetres) long and 14 inches (36 centimetres) wide. These were published in a book, but he later discovered that they were a natural phenomenon caused by rainfall eroding the snow.<sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanations">Explanations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Explanations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">Illusions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hallucination" title="Hallucination">hallucinations</a> or misinterpretation of natural stimulus brought on by <a href="/wiki/Fatigue" title="Fatigue">exhaustion</a> or <a href="/wiki/Solitude" title="Solitude">isolation</a> have been proposed by psychologists.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Infrasound" title="Infrasound">Infrasound</a>, which can be generated by wind, can cause feelings of uneasiness and anxiety and is possibly connected to paranormal sightings.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An optical illusion known as the <a href="/wiki/Brocken_spectre" title="Brocken spectre">Brocken spectre</a> is a plausible explanation for some visual elements of the Big Grey Man legend.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Brocken spectre, or "mountain spectre," can occur in certain atmospheric conditions when the sun is at a particular angle. The subject's shadow can be cast onto a cloud bank around them, creating the illusion of a large shadowy humanoid figure.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poet <a href="/wiki/James_Hogg" title="James Hogg">James Hogg</a> encountered a Brocken spectre on Ben MacDui as far back as 1791, describing "a giant blackamoor, at least thirty feet high, and equally proportioned, and very near me. I was actually struck powerless with astonishment and terror." Hogg's terror subsided when he observed the figure making the same gestures as his own, realizing that it was merely his own shadow when he removed his hat.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunning2012-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unsolved_Enigmas_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsolved_Enigmas-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British mountaineer <a href="/wiki/Frank_Smythe" title="Frank Smythe">Frank Smythe</a> stated he had observed his shadow cast as a Brocken spectre across the mist on Ben Macdhui as well.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brenin_Llwyd" title="Brenin Llwyd">Brenin Llwyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wild_man" title="Wild man">Wild man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubber_fiend" title="Lubber fiend">Lubber fiend</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Townsend_(writer)" title="Chris Townsend (writer)">Townsend, Chris</a>. 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McFarland. p. 124. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4766-2268-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4766-2268-2"><bdi>978-1-4766-2268-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Beasts+and+Monsters+in+Myth%2C+Legend+and+Folklore&rft.pages=124&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-1-4766-2268-2&rft.aulast=Bane&rft.aufirst=Theresa&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7PYWDAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAm+Fear+Liath+M%C3%B2r" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dunning2012-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dunning2012_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDunning2012" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)" title="Brian Dunning (author)">Dunning, Brian</a> (10 January 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4292">"Skeptoid #292: The Grey Man of Ben MacDhui"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)#Skeptoid_podcasts" title="Brian Dunning (author)">Skeptoid</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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