Comments on: Orbs – the overlooked question

By: Believer1

Believer1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:49:14 +0000

My colleague and I tried to take photos in my mudroom, which I believe to be haunted. I have seen the door slowly close by itself (No open doors or windows in the house) and my dog, whose food and water are in this room, refuses to go in there and often shakes and barks at the entrance to the room. When we took the photos we had one particular photo that contained a small but prominent white orb by one of the other doors out of the room. At first we thought it was just a reflection but after taking more photos in the exact same spot, we ruled that out because there was no orb in any of the other photos. It would be great to have your input on whether the orb was legitimate or not. Thank you!

By: Nora Mae Smith

Nora Mae Smith — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:21:33 +0000

I had in the last few months since coming back to Washington taken some photos for the find a grave site.. this requires a lot of walking if there is no office for the Cemetery. AT this one in search I walked all over the place finally finding the stones I was looking for I started to take the photos. What happened is the screen became cloudy and out of focus… but i still took the shots walked on down the row and came back to shot some more… this time it was not cloudy…. and had gotten some clear shots… once home I found the cloudy out of focus shots once I had them scanned to the computer storage… I found that the photo has images of three or more people in period dress of the like of the times this family was alive… I feel that any that has passed can hear our thoughts and have means of telling us that they are near…. They visit me often and I know they are not going to hurt me in any way at all that they are there for me in the way of making me secure and to protect me form the harm that this life brings in its day and age… Bless those that understand where I am coming from and lets keep working together in gaining the best out come of what really is even though there are those that do not believe in the afterlife or spirit manifestations…. Nora Mae Smith “A self claim Medium since day one”

By: Nora Mae Smith

Nora Mae Smith — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:50:57 +0000

Perhaps its what some have believes in at time of death… ie: in the the way the Bible says dust you will go for you were made of dust! or perhaps maybe they are thinking of they will go to hell.. or perhaps they are on the facts of really believing they will live for ever for they have done no wrong… or may be they will even split their own energies to enjoy many at one time! We all just have to believe in some thing !

By: BrianC

BrianC — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:14:31 +0000

The folks over at ghostgadgets.com have a great essay about the physical reasons orbs usually appear: http://www.ghostgadgets.com/_knowledge/orbs.html

If a spirit is using dust to make itself known I think it might be an idea to see if the same spirit could be induced to make itself known in a more clearly identifiable way… kind of like in a noisy room when you ask someone to speak up or if someone doesn’t know your language well, you might ask to resort to gestures.

My personal preference is that if a spirit is having trouble communicating, a sensitive EMF meter might do the trick in fostering better communications. The people over at TAPS have this pretty much down to a science. Their research in this direction looks like it’s getting some great results.

By: Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:46:22 +0000

We often notice that batteries go flat when we notice anomalies. Perhaps the spirits draw that energy so that they can manifest as orbs. We don’t know, but it seems a reasonable explanation.

I’d like to think that your orbs represent energy from the dog that you lost. I’ve heard reports like this from other pet owners, and it makes sense that a lost pet would return to let us know that he or she is still alive… just on a different plane right now.

By: loriannecarson

loriannecarson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:48:52 +0000

I just took some photos of my new German Shepherd puppy. There are one or more orbs with him in most of the photos. We lost one of our German Shepherds about a month ago, so I think the orbs may be him in some way. The last photo was most amazing in that while I was taking the photo, my camera battery went dead right after taking what is the last photo. The battery indicator light was red and showed the battery to be depleted of power. I commented about it at that time to my husband. Then I went in the house and put the memory card in the computer to look at the photos. As I looked at this last photo, there are two very distinct orbs in the photo: one large orb covering my puppy’s head and one smaller and much brighter orb with what appears to be a small trail of light behind it. When I made the connection between my battery dying and the orbs appearing in the photo I was taking at that time, I attempted to turn my camera back on. Surprisingly, the camera came on immediately and indicated the battery was around two-thirds charged. Could the presence of a “spirit” in the form of an orb drain the battery from my camera?

By: Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:22:52 +0000

Rich, thanks for asking! Just once, I’ve seen an orb seem to emit light in a photo. Until it happens again, I’m reserving judgment on that photo, which appears near the foot of the page, http://hollowhill.com/ghosts-of-haunted-texas/ . However, it’s important to rule out hair in photos. Even a single hair can create very strange effect. I’ve written a few articles about this, and recommend reading http://hollowhill.com/fake-ghost-pictures-hair/ as well as some of the related articles linked at the foot of that page. Meanwhile, if future photos show the same phenomena and all natural effects can be ruled out… well, that could be a very exciting breakthrough. Thanks for telling me about it!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:11:52 +0000

Fiona. Some people e-mail our team photos to get our oppinion. “orbs” are still a little hard for us. We had a photo sent recently that kind of bothered me a little bit. The photo shows an orb. But the wierd thing is this orb is emitting light beams like a UFO’s search lights that scan the ground. The second photo was either the same orb or a different one doing the same thing, but a second one above it acting in the same matter. Samantha couldn’t make anything of it so we showed these photos to the rest of our team. One theory is tiny UFO’s. I don’t think so. Is it possible for a ghost orb to act in such a way? I haven’t read anything such as documents or anything published to back this up. Could it be an action that orbs can do that has never been photographed before?

By: raven

raven — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:38:42 +0000

Fiona, sorry, i left you the e-mail address. this is our web site. http://www.rcparanormalresearchsociety.webs.com. hope you can visit us.

thanks, raven

By: raven

raven — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:20:50 +0000

Fiona, i love taking pics, and i know the history around this area. when i first moved to the area, my parents bought some land that belonged to a lady named “Ivy Lamb”. she was well into her eighties when i met her, and that was in 1976. we hit it off right away. i would sit on her front porch, which was the 2nd log house to be on the property, and she would tell me so many stories. it would take me a week or more to write all of it down. she would tell me “ghost stories”. i thought they were just that! she told me one, that kind of gave me the creeps. it was a true story about her sister and her brother. seems her sister killed her parents, and in return, her brother hunted her down and killed her. in Ivy’s words, she said,”the police came and took my brother away , and i never saw him again”. wellll, i found out that they had taken him to Richmond, Va, to be executed. my point is, that there is alot of history out here. anything from indian fights, civil war, to bootlegging i catch what i think are orbs, and have also gotten some EVPS. me and my sister, are starting our own web site. it’s not quite finished yet, but i would love for you to take alook at it. i have some pics on there. would love to get your thoughts. by the way we both took your course and i think it helped us alot.
thanks, raven
it is: R.C.ParanormalResearchSociety@msn.com