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Fake ‘ghost orbs’ and pollen

Jul 27th, 2005 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Insects, dust, pollen

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 ones. Here’s a good example:

large flat-looking orb in ghost photos
The lower photo features a very large, flat-looking orb. The shape is a little irregular and it looks too flat to be a real ghost orb. When a ghost orb is real, we see far more dimension to it. We would have thrown this photo out, but a National Geographic TV show tried to say that ghost orbs are often pollen. They’re not. If you know what you’re looking for–and we do–you won’t confuse an orb caused by pollen, bugs, or dust with real ghost orbs.

Here’s a closeup of the orb in our photo. On the right, the orb has been enhanced to show details; the left photo is “as is” from our printed picture.

unenhanced orb enhanced pollen orb

In the enhanced image on the right, the orb has a slightly concentric pattern similar to a fingerprint. You can also see the dot of yellow–probably the pollen–slightly off-center in the picture. Now that you know what to look for, you can probably spot it in the photo on the left as well.

As you can see, this orb created by pollen is very different from real ghost orbs. While a new ghost researcher might be confused, anyone with experience with genuine ghosts is not likely to mistake a pollen orb for a ghost orb.

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