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Post by xXSpookyXx on Apr 30, 2008 16:58:04 GMT -11
This is a very controversial subject among believers and non-believers. There are people that think that every orb is a ghost, meanwhile others believe that some are from ghosts, others are not. Then you have people that agree that an orb can be anormally but without from calling it a ghost.
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Post by chrissy on Apr 30, 2008 17:01:57 GMT -11
I dont know how i feel about orbs or shadows in photos tbh (to be honest), especially in the digital world where everything is "self-focusing", "internal flashing", etc. I think there is too much question do to mechanical interferance to be able to say yes or no definitively. Dont get me wrong there are certain exceptions that would sway me to believe, for example. If it was a person in a photo with say and orb to the left shoulder, then with another camera and a different location the orb is there again , and so on and so for through out a sequence of shots, cams and locations, I would be more inclined to lean toward the yes orb=spirit argument.
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Post by carson on May 1, 2008 8:23:33 GMT -11
Even after reading that book, The Orb Project, I still don't know for sure. I like to think they are spirits. The one thing that sticks in my head, though, is that for the most part (and this was in the book) no one had orbs in their pictures until the last ten years or so. That baffles me... along with why TAPS hired Kris. But that's another subject.
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Post by chrissy on May 1, 2008 9:40:41 GMT -11
Even after reading that book, The Orb Project, I still don't know for sure. I like to think they are spirits. The one thing that sticks in my head, though, is that for the most part (and this was in the book) no one had orbs in their pictures until the last ten years or so. That baffles me... along with why TAPS hired Kris. But that's another subject. All about the sex appeal.. she gets some of the skiffy geeks antsy in the panty and that ups ratings Why do you think hey have gullible Tango there ? He to me is the equvilant of the male Kris, there , willing but kinda well.. not the best
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Post by amara1369 on May 5, 2008 4:58:46 GMT -11
One of the groups I hunt with, sees every orb as a ghost. Personally, a *rare* few I haven't been able to explain, but for the most part it's either been dust, a bug, or water droplets. I'm still waiting for the evidence from last month's hunt... (gotta love pple who take their time LOL) I don't think an orb actually denotes a "ghost" more than it does energy. Then again, my belief on what happens when you die is very far from mainstream beliefs, but hey lol, I'm just a nutter I guess
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Post by mexicanghostsquash on May 9, 2008 8:19:32 GMT -11
just my two cents ... think about how bright a ghostly orb would have to be in order for it to cancel out the flash from your digital camera ... personally i dont beleive in the orb thing, but i understand why people do. one other thing to think about ... if an orb (captured on a camera) is really a ghost or a spirit ... how would it know to make itself bright enough at the exact moment the flash and shutter on your camera fire/open? and one more thing ... if ghosts/ spirits make themselves known by turning themselves into visable orbs on photos ... why dont we see them with our naked eyeball? if the orb is truly giving off enough energy to over power your flash dont you think we would see them in pitch black rooms? please dont misread my intentions with this comment, but i just cant really get behind orbs ... not my thing.
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Post by hoobsmom on May 9, 2008 8:47:38 GMT -11
just my two cents ... think about how bright a ghostly orb would have to be in order for it to cancel out the flash from your digital camera ... personally i dont beleive in the orb thing, but i understand why people do. one other thing to think about ... if an orb (captured on a camera) is really a ghost or a spirit ... how would it know to make itself bright enough at the exact moment the flash and shutter on your camera fire/open? and one more thing ... if ghosts/ spirits make themselves known by turning themselves into visable orbs on photos ... why dont we see them with our naked eyeball? if the orb is truly giving off enough energy to over power your flash dont you think we would see them in pitch black rooms? please dont misread my intentions with this comment, but i just cant really get behind orbs ... not my thing. Every opinion is welcome here Mex. I don't really believe in orbs either. I do think that once in a while balls of energy sometimes show up in pictures but I don't think it is energy of a ghost. But that is just my opinion also.
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Post by stick28 on May 9, 2008 9:09:34 GMT -11
just my two cents ... think about how bright a ghostly orb would have to be in order for it to cancel out the flash from your digital camera ... personally i dont beleive in the orb thing, but i understand why people do. one other thing to think about ... if an orb (captured on a camera) is really a ghost or a spirit ... how would it know to make itself bright enough at the exact moment the flash and shutter on your camera fire/open? and one more thing ... if ghosts/ spirits make themselves known by turning themselves into visable orbs on photos ... why dont we see them with our naked eyeball? if the orb is truly giving off enough energy to over power your flash dont you think we would see them in pitch black rooms? please dont misread my intentions with this comment, but i just cant really get behind orbs ... not my thing. I agree Mex, and I've always wondered: why do you need the flash if the orb is more than just reflected light? And I think I recall Jason Hawes dismissing an orb because, he said, orbs generate their own light. Still, they always use a flash (or IR light source) when they look for them I did have a really wild Orb experience myself. Last June I went to Laconia NH for bike week. I stayed at a place called StonyBrook Inn and Lodge (We had a room in the lodge with other couples in my group). It was a very nice mini-vacation. One of the members of our group fell asleep with his TV on, and some stupid "songs of the 70's" infomercial was on, and it woke me up. While I was lying in bed deciding if I should go next door and get the racket shut off, I caught a glimpse of a light that floated across the room. It was slow moving, bright, but lasted only a few seconds. I watched for a while, but didn't see it again, until I decided to get out of bed. Just as I sat up, I spotted it out of the corner of my eye, floating diagonally across the room. It wasn't shining on a surface - it was free floating. I finally tracked it down - it was a lightening bug. But it had me going for a couple minutes.
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Post by mexicanghostsquash on May 9, 2008 9:42:26 GMT -11
lightening bug ... i think the TAPS crew would have declared your room haunted! ok i had to get that out of me ... now since i've made the transition from a regular point and shoot camera (nikon cool pix & sony cybershot) to a Digital SLR (Nikon D40) with an sb400 bounce flash and using a defuser ... i've had -0- orbs in photos ... except when shooting flying insects or super dusty rooms, but that's to be expected.
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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 9, 2008 11:41:17 GMT -11
Hey Mexicanghostsquash, Welcome to the board! You, stick, Hoobsmom and I all seem to view orbs the same way. I am just quite skeptical of these things actually being the result of a deceased person. I do, however, think that orbs on rare occasions can be anormalies, but not necessarily a spirit anormaly.
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Post by LCellini on May 10, 2008 11:52:38 GMT -11
Thanks another thing I don't understand about the cameras. They are based off of the human eye, right? What do they see that we don't? How come you can be looking at something and not see anything and then take a picture and bam there's something.
Why is it there? Why don't we see it? So many questions... And i think orbes are sketchy, I've read a lot of pretty good websites debunking a lot of orbes so i tend to be VERY skeptical of them
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