Then, within moments, the eerie silhouettes disappear. These twilight apparitions are known as the Dark Watchers — shady, sometimes 10-foot-tall (3 meters) men bedecked in sinister hats and capes.

The Dark Watchers: Silent Guardians of the Pines The Santa Lucia mountain range runs from Monterey and down the coast of California. For hundreds of years, stories have been told about entities ...

Layering acrylic color from light to dark and from center to periphery of her canvases, Carter builds up abstractions that gently resist our temptation to see them as views into a vague ...

If you want to see a Dark Watcher, you should wait until the late afternoon. As the sun begins its descent behind the waves, look to the sharp ridges of the Santa Lucia Range, the mountains that ...

however, strongly suspect that director Adam Heathcott was inspired by the 1979 cult classic The Visitor, although I could be entirely wrong about that. Left, a shot from the 1979 film The Visitor; ...

The Dark Watchers, as they’re called, appear between late afternoon and twilight to visitors to the rural Santa Lucia Mountains. Witnesses from Native Americans to American writers have reported ...