That’s not some fiery anomaly intruding on our photograph. It’s one of three photos with bright orange splashed across them, at the end of one roll of film. The auto-rewind in our new Canon camera didn’t fully rewind the film, and our photographer opened the back of the [...]

When a photo is most likely not an anomaly, we’re usually the first to indicate it, even when it’s one of our own photos, and one that we’d love to claim as a “ghost.”
Here are two photos that appear to show the abrupt appearance of a [...]

Some ‘ghost orbs’ look fake to us immediately. We’re so accustomed to looking at these photos, we don’t need to do much analysis. After years of studying real ghost photos, we can easily tell the difference between fake orbs and real [...]

When you’re hoping for real ghost photos, make sure that bugs aren’t responsible for your streaks, lines, and orbs. We see these ‘false anomalies’ online at other websites, with disappointing claims that they represent spectral energy. Here’s a good example of a bug: [...]

Real ghost photos? The photos may be real–and perhaps the ghosts–but the house probably wasn’t Marie Laveau’s.

The Photographer Says:
This photo was taken on a cool, dry evening in New Orleans (April 2005). The subject is supposed to be one of Marie Laveau’s [...]

These two photos were a huge disappointment.
In order to identify anomalies in particularly dark photos, we scan them and use one of our graphics programs to increase the contrast, brightness, and saturation. Sometimes we can see more that way. (Our photos online are not enhanced, unless [...]

Ghost hunting can be a rollercoaster ride of excitement and then crashing disappointment. That’s what happened with these two photos:
The night was chilly and dry, but not dry enough for dust to be an issue. There were no bugs and it wasn’t the right [...]

To demonstrate how humidity can create false orbs in ghost photographs, I took these photos at dawn on a dark, damp morning standing on a bridge. A stream flowed under the bridge from a large pond.
In addition, light rain was falling.
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False “ghost orbs” occur in humidity. We’ve shown that on our Ghost Hunters Guide pages, These are not ghost orbs and This is Not a Ghost Portal. However, some people think that rain should photograph as lines, not orbs. [...]

Ghost orbs can be one of the most reliable ways to tell if something odd is going on at a site that’s supposed to be haunted. However, all ghost hunters must be cautious about calling something a “ghost orb” when humidity is present.
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