Orbs!

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Richard M

I subscribe to the popular theory that "ghosts" are basically "recordings" made on natural materials in a house like stone, wood etc by strong emotions.
Basically, this means that a very strong emotion can imprint itself in your surroundings and manifest itself in the future as Poltergeist activity or other supernatural events.
When you're close to death I guess those emotions must be pretty strong so it's no wonder that we often hear of "replays" of events that happened long ago.

You can't prove it, there's no proof, science says it can't be done, blah blah blah....







....sorry, I think I was being possessed by the spirits of other forum members there for a second

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Russ D

You can't prove it, there's no proof, science says it can't be done, blah blah blah....

....sorry, I think I was being possessed by the spirits of other forum members there for a second

I think it's quite plausible when you think of what the human mind is capable of - and we only use something like 5% of it consciencely.
I once knew someone who had one of those "phantom pregnancies" where they convince themselves that they are pregnant so well that their womb actually expands and their breasts start leaking milk!

There is definitely a subconscious part of our brain that acts as a sixth sense and maybe it's this which leaves some form of message when it dies on the surroundings to warn others in some way - you know how you go into some place and you "just don't feel right" about it?
The thing is, this subconscious is at work all the time, we witness it every day - you know how you are on the bus or sitting at your desk at work and you sense that you're being watched and you look up and someone is staring at you?
Women apparently feel this more than men, try it out - look at some woman in the street who would have no reason to turn to look at you and you can bet that 99% of the time she will turn to look.

I'm glad I studied Psychology.

There's also the thing about the dressing gown on the bedroom door but that's another story...

[Matth]

The classic "orb" is dust illuminated by a camera flash, not ON the lens (that would be so dispersed that it would just lose contrast, but close to it.

It MAY be possible to get the same type of orb without flash, if the light souce is behind and close to the camera position.

[Martin]

I was watching a prog last night about a little lad who was dying of cancer! He told his mum he often saw his guardian Angel and his mum took this as being an imaginary friend, right up until he started saying he could see his Gran and Grandad (Who he never new).

Anyway one night there was a fund raiser for cancer research and loads of pics were taken on different cameras by diff people! Three cameras had these same "orbs" on them!! All the cameras were different makes with different film and all developed at different processing shops, yet all had these spots!

Now it can be argued away that it reflections or the flash BUT could it be that these were infact angels like the little lad said? Hmmmm

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

I saw a documentary on sky about rods, it was sure interesting.

Yeah and they tried to "prove" that they weren't insects by showing a hovering, in-focus bee as an example of what an insect on video would look like.
Problem is, get that bee moving and focus behind it and hey presto, you get a rod!