Orbs And Other Photograph "Anomalies"

Do you think modern digital cameras are more honest in capturing images than the technologists who have refined photography but only, paradoxically, to bolster the skepticism in them about anything paranormal?

Orbs, orbs, what are they?

Orbs are a recently new phenomenon that have been captured with the introduction of digital cameras in the 1990's. They were first thought to be malfunctions by the camera makers but to this day the manufacturers claim these "orbs" to be microscopic particles floating in the air. Orbs have been accepted, certainly in the psychic community, as real evidence of spirit presences whereby they are supposed to represent the essence, or soul of a departed spirit. (http://www.ghostcircle.com/_orbs.html)

Now it's hard to paraphrase that. But let me share my own picture with orbs on it, or what looked like them regardless of their authenticity. And let me tell you, I've always known I've lived in a house our home, kinda haunted and mystical. (Click link below.)

My Pet Orbs

The above photo was taken by yours truly of himself, testing my then brand new mobile phone camera while I changed into my swimming trunk at the house of a friend in Boracay, Philippines some 5 years back. It was only very recently, when I was looking at my souvenir photos, that I noticed those strange orbs (photos below at link).

But that's not all, folks.

What got me to search the internet, hence for the pic above, was also my own photo taken years back when we held a series of seminar in Bohol, Philippines, so far away from home.

This band of white light, or what I came across on the web as "vortex" has, to my surprise, been experienced by others, too, captured in their photos, again by digital cameras.

According to one local researcher on this phenomenon, Jaime Licauco, in his book Ghosts In Photos: " Although i cannot tell for sure whether these are spirits or something else, they appear more often in spiritual circles, haunted houses, sacred places and clinics of spiritual healers during healing sessions."

So let me share another picture of mine taken in Baclayon Church, also in Bohol, the oldest Church in the Philippines since the Spanish times.

The Church Can Also House The Paranormal

Okay, now you'll see me posing for the camera before the photographer saw how I lost my composure. The fact of the matter is, there is/was a "band of white light" there at the upper right hand corner of the picture.

I cannot explain those "anomalies" in the photographs away.

I hope my fellow columnists here who are adept at photography can help me dispel my superstitions, even while I should caution you that my years of yoga and meditation seem to be bearing fruits: Ghosts!:D

All pertinent pictures or images mentioned here can be seen in this link:  http://www.wikinut.com/orbs-and-other-photograph-anomalies/29fkd_yj/1l0p...

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