Orbs

The topic of orbs is a hot button in the paranormal world.  Many investigators - and novice thrill seekers - get excited when they see a ball of light showing up in a picture or video feed.  Quite frankly, I'm a little torn on this subject.  Britt Griffith will say with confidence, "That is NOT AN ORB!"  And, in most cases, I think that is true.  Dust and tiny bugs are everywhere and easily captured on film.  You wouldn't necessarily know it was there until you snapped a picture, making it seem supernatural.  But I've also seen pictures that were taken because someone felt a presence in the room and load and behold, there is an orb.  Coincidence or proof of an entity?

For example, here is a photo from my last post, the picture I took during our investigation in the Stanley Hotel tunnels:

As we were supposedly communicating with "Bill," an orb is right there among the equipment.  I'm not saying it can't be dust because obviously the tunnel has its fair share of it (notice the orb chaos in other pics in the tunnels) but it does seem strange to see a fairly large orb where it is.  And that is the only one in the photo.  If there was dust, wouldn't we be seeing more than just that one?  Maybe..maybe not. 

I've also seen pictures of orbs that were enlarged in order to see a "face" staring back at you.  I'm pretty skeptical about this.  I think we are easily fooled by shadows and easily convinced that whatever we think we see is what we are seeing.  Have you ever looked an image, didn't see anything, someone says, "it looks like ____!" and suddenly that is all you can see?  Optical illusions are a funny thing and I really think that these photos of faces in orbs are just illusions of which we are convinced.  I've fallen victim myself.  Um...Fact or Faked show? I think so!  wink wink

Unfortunately, right now, there is no way to prove this orb theory either way.  I would say you either believe they are proof of entities or not but then there is people like me.  I'm a skeptical believer.  This goes for most of my views in the paranormal.  I think most of the time there is an explaination, discounting the proof of the supernatural.  But there are some things you just can't explain or, as in my example above, there is a possibility that it could actually be supernatural.  Its the possibility that keeps me excited, that keeps my interest, that keeps me writing.