  Virtual particles expected to occur in microscopic processes as they are
introduced, for instance by Feynman in the Quantum Electro Dynamics, as photons
performing in an anonymous way in the interaction between two electrons. This
note describes macroscopic virtual particles as they appear in classical
evanescent modes and in quantum mechanical tunneling particles. Remarkably,
these large virtual particles are present in wave mechanics of elastic,
electromagnetic, and Schr\"odinger fields.
