Orb Information

 

 Just to warn you, This article is the opinion of the HPIR team based on our research and studies of digital photography.

 

The topic of orbs is rather controversial in the paranormal community. Each person is entitled to his or her own opinion regarding orbs, and we respect that.

However the Huntington Paranormal Investigations & Research team for the most part have a similar view on orbs, we feel that the vast majority of Orb photographs are false positives.

We do not buy into the claim that orbs are proof of a haunting or even of ghosts. And we are adamantly trying to educate the public on this not so paranormal phenomena. We feel that many paranormal researchers are misleading a lot of people by their claims that orbs are ghosts.

We know not everyone out there agrees with us on this topic, but we stand firm on our belief that most Orbs are not paranormal. For anyone who has done enough research on the subject it becomes very apparent that orbs are usually nothing more than particles from the environment such as dust, moisture and even reflections of light.

 Cameras can greatly distort the size of a particle of dust or moisture and it's brightness depending on how close to the lens it was at the time the photo was taken. Many also seem to see faces and other various images within these orbs and from that they assume it has to be a ghostly face.

We urge anyone who believes that orbs are ghosts to try to a few experiments such as this; turn off all the lights and turn on a flashlight, can you see how many particles of "stuff" is just floating around in the air? That's right pretty much anywhere you go, no matter if you are in a brand new building, outside or in a house that is 200 years old, the results are going to be very similar and you will no doubt see dust all around.

The amounts of air particles you see may greatly differ, but with all that stuff floating around us you can see how it may easily end up in a photograph. The idea of seeing faces in these orbs is also pretty simple, particles have different sizes, shapes and textures and that is often picked up in a photograph. Humans are able to pick out familiar shapes and images in everyday things orbs included, the idea of seeing faces and images in everyday objects is a term known as Matrixing.

Photographs of orbs can vary greatly, some are bright, some are very large, some look transparent, some appear to be shooting or moving, and if you think about that it makes perfect sense. Depending on what kind of particle ends up in your picture and how close it was to the camera is going to determine the size, shape, color, motion, brightness or transparency of the orb.

If you have ever noticed airborne particles of dust in the air, they are not just sitting still you will see that they are constantly in motion and that means there is a potential to get an orb in a photograph that appears to be in motion. If an airborne particle is extremely close to the camera lens at the time of the photo, the orb may appear to be very large and possibly very bright. If you capture a particle of moisture you will have a very bright white orb that almost appears to be glowing. So you can see how orbs can greatly differ from one photo to the next.

We may not know exactly what all orbs are, but there is the possibility of energy sources such as power lines and batteries and other sources of energy that produce photographic orbs. Even if these types of orbs are captured on camera they still do not represent paranormal activity. From our point of view there are too many natural causes that can produce orbs in photographs. We feel that the majority of orbs can be easily dismissed. We are in the paranormal research field not the dust in photographs research field.

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