What Are Orbs In Digital Pictures
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One of the more common emails and letters I receive has to do with photographs of anomalous shapes and lights on film and digital media. People want (sometimes demand) that I and my colleagues review photos and explain what the images are – naturally they want us to identify the images as “ghosts.” In almost all such cases, people present did not see, hear or otherwise experience anything paranormal – which means they did not know the photo had anything “unusual” on it until later. In many of the cases, they were not even in a location with any current (or even past) witnesses saying the place was haunted.
We have yet to figure out exactly what they are. Theories abound, and some say they are souls who have learned a fast way to travel by shedding their "human life" image. I think this is a good theory. The other part of this is that they are traveling through our dimension. This is important becasue video of orbs it means if they are just "passing through" they may have nothing at all to do with the activity in the place. The activity maybe just made them more visible! Others say they are vehicles for a large amount of souls to be transported quickly, a little metaphysical airbus so to speak.
By claiming to have taken photographs of orbs , you are basically admitting you took pictures of dust. This not only reflects badly on a team in the eyes of a client (or potential client) but on the wide network of those involved in paranormal research as a whole. If you are willing to take pictures of dust and share it with the world, you are calling all evidence you gather into question. I know a lot of researchers that will look at a groups online presence just to see if they have posted any orb photographs.
The light we see with our eyes is really a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to a person's eye ranges from 400 to 700 nanometers. This is a mere slice of the massive electromagnetic spectrum. Wavelengths are measured in nanometers, which is one-billionth of a meter. Each wave is described by its wavelength - the length from wave crest to adjacent wave crest. We use many of the invisible waves beyond the visible spectrum in other ways - from short wavelength x-rays, to the broad wavelengths that are picked up by our radios and televisions.
For many of them, the orb photos could constitute the bulk of their evidence and they are simply unwilling to erase the majority of what has made them who they see themselves as. This is similar to teams that have the words Ghost Hunters in their name. Most claim to be too well established under that name. When I first started I called myself Portland Paranormal Investigations. I had a domain name, email address and a lot of other things tied to that name. Once I decided to change it to Portland Ghosts I just did it. In hindsight it wasn’t a big deal and happened very quickly.
Truth be told most orbs in pictures and videos are nothing more than dust contamination and pesky little flying insects. These elements cause such problems for analyzing evidence that they are more often than not discarded as nothing more than "dust". A true orb will generate its own light not reflect it, meaning your video or camera would pick it up without the use of flash or it appears in an area not affected by the flash or infrared devices. They also move erratically and swiftly leaving behind a trail or "tail" in their wake.
