Photos Of Frozen 'Ghost Apples' Are Going Viral. What Are They?

These amazing frozen 'ghost apples' have been found by a farmer after a particularly cold snap in Michigan, USA. While they might look like the fruity version of Cinderella's glass slipper, they're actually made out of ice! But where do they come from? Can you eat ghost apples?

Nature is certainly capable of creating some pretty amazing things, and one resident of Sparta, Michigan, just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see one of the winter's most beautiful formations. Currently going viral on Twitter, these rather striking features were spotted in West Michigan by one Andrew Sietsema, who posted the images on his Facebook page. He told me that he's not quite sure how they formed, but suspects that after some rather cold conditions and plenty of chilly rainfall, the surface of the apples froze over. The apples themselves, which are resistant to temperatures that freeze water to a greater extent, remained intact.