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?

William Shoemaker, a retired fruit and vegetable horticulturalist from the University of Illinois, pointed out that those apples, leftover from harvest, just went through a week of "exceptionally cold weather" due to the polar vortex. "Besides being somewhat mummified, they could also be rotten," he explained. "It happens a lot with apples left on the tree. They maintain their form, but their substance gets closer to applesauce."