A man pruning apple trees in an icy orchard in Michigan on Wednesday discovered a very odd phenomenon: ghost apples. A freezing rain coated the rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around ...

While most of the apples fell off of the trees — ice and all — "quite a few would leave a cool 'ghost apple' behind," he continued, joking the creations could also be called "Jona-ghosts." ...

A so-called ghost apple hangs from a tree in an orchard in western Michigan. The Great Cold Snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn’t know we needed: Frost quakes. Snow squalls. Steam ...

A so-called ghost apple hangs from a tree in an orchard in western Michigan. The Great Cold Snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn’t know we needed: Frost quakes. Snow squalls. Steam fog.

Snow squalls. Steam fog. Now we can add another one to the list: ghost apples. Andrew Sietsema was pruning apple trees in an icy orchard in western Michigan when he came across some.

"And when I pruned a tree, it would be shaken in the process, and the mush would slip out of the bottom of the ghost apple." Western Michigan has gone through a roller coaster of weather this month.

A so-called ghost apple hangs from a tree in an orchard in western Michigan. The Great Cold Snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn’t know we needed: Frost quakes. Snow squalls. Steam fog.

A so-called ghost apple hangs from a tree in an orchard in western Michigan. The Great Cold Snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn’t know we needed: Frost quakes. Snow squalls. Steam fog.

"And when I pruned a tree, it would be shaken in the process, and the mush would slip out of the bottom of the ghost apple." Western Michigan has gone through a roller coaster of weather this month.

Snow squalls. Steam fog. Now we can add another one to the list: ghost apples. Andrew Sietsema was pruning apple trees in an icy orchard in western Michigan when he came across some.

"And when I pruned a tree, it would be shaken in the process, and the mush would slip out of the bottom of the ghost apple." Western Michigan has gone through a roller coaster of weather this month.