Shortly before Halloween in 2018, an administrative building at Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve in Alaska began to sprout a beard.
But the strands that composed the furry fringe weren’t fine brown hairs. They were the spindly legs of hundreds of tightly clustered daddy longlegs, letting their glorious gams dangle free.
Park officials snapped photos of the spookily well-timed growth and posted them to Facebook and Twitter, and shared them again this sinister season, terrifying onlookers anew.
The ability of Opiliones species, also known as harvestmen, to form these woolly knots has…
