Friday, July 4, 2025

A Colorful Orb

 Photo date: July 2, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

mysterious pink orb

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Pink Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 3)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious pink orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

 My photo below shows a pink orb I photographed, one that seems to be positioned very precisely atop the spire of the famous Chrysler Building in New York.  The cloudy brightness to the left is the moon behind some clouds.  Directly under the pink orb is a smaller purple orb. Were the two orbs playing "king of the hill" like school boys?

pink orb atop Chrysler Building

 My photo below shows a pink orb near a building. 

pink sky orb

 The photo below shows a pink sky orb that seems to be undergoing some strange union with another sky orb above the top of a building in New York.

pink sky orb

The photo below shows a pink sky orb I photographed above a building in New York. It was a moonless night.

pink sky orb


We see below a pink orb I photographed near a Manhattan tower. 

 pink orb

Below we see two pink orbs I photographed near the Met Life building in New York City. They appeared in different parts of the same photo.

pink sky orbs

The photo below shows a pink sky orb that has two rather faint stripes.

pink sky orb


Monday, June 30, 2025

An Apport?

 Last night I was lying in bed alone, with my right hand closed, when I suddenly got the suspicion that a hair had appeared in my closed hand.  I walked to the bathroom, and turned on the light, to see what was in my hand. It was a hair 14 inches long, more than twice as long as any hair on my head. The hair is shown below. 


I have a previous post describing some similar cases. You can read it here. In that post I stated this:

"As of February 4, 2020, I have seen a total of 24 cases in which I suddenly noticed a very long detached hair on my body, typically in my hand or on my arm.  The average length of such hairs has been about 14 inches, much longer than my own hair (which does not get longer than  about 6 inches). In all of these cases I was in my apartment and either at least 20 feet away from any other person or in a room by myself with the door closed."

In parapsychology they use the term "apport" to refer to objects that seem to appear "out of nowhere."  The literature includes reports of appearances more dramatic than any of my observation reports with a tag of "apport" (which you can read here), although some of my posts with a tag of "apport" involve things much heavier than hairs.  You can read about some of the more dramatic cases reported by others by reading my five posts here

One of the main type of spooky things I have observed recently is a very odd phenomenon involving rubber bands. I keep a few rubber bands on the ledge in front of my TV set. On quite a few days in the past few months (well over five different days), I have woke up, walked into the room with the TV, and was surprised to find a rubber band on the floor in front of the TV.  At such a time I will think to myself: I know that wasn't there when I went to bed.  

On June 23, at three different times of the day I noticed a rubber band on the floor near where my feet had been. Each time I was puzzled, and asked myself: how could that possibly have got there? Each band was immediately picked up and put back on the ledge where I keep such bands (I always immediately pick up any rubber band I see on the floor). Given all the photos I have taken of mysterious orbs, I wonder whether there is any relation between them and these rubber band anomalies. An open rubber band may have a circular shape like an orb. 

Saturday, June 28, 2025

When Memories of the Long-Departed Pop Up "Out of Nowhere"

 When I was a young boy my family would be visited maybe once a year by a beloved aunt, who my mother called Aunt Laura. Old and frail but still a great story teller, Aunt Laura would have a very distinctive "calling card." Whenever she arrived she would be carrying boxes of maple sugar candies. Each of the children in my mother's large family would get a separate little box of maple sugar candies. To the best of my memory, she brought the candies each and every time she visited. She died in 1979, living to her nineties. 

Today I was very busily completing a post for my philosophy of mind blog, and while typing rapidly, writing about some new scientific paper, there suddenly popped into my mind "out of nowhere" an image of a little piece of maple sugar candy, a piece just like the candies that Aunt Laura would give me as a boy. This immediately led to a fond recollection of Aunt Laura's visits.  But a few seconds later I found myself very puzzled by how this recollection had popped into my mind at the instant it did. I wasn't thinking at the time or any time today about my childhood or Aunt Laura or anyone deceased. The recollection seems to have occurred without any preceding cause. And it happened when I was typing rapidly about an entirely different subject: some new scientific paper about a survey of neuroscientists. So I was like: how on Earth did I remember at such a time those maple sugar candies from more than 50 years ago? I hadn't thought of Aunt Laura in a long time. 

In the world of computers there is a utility called "Ping" that is used to test whether a connection exists.  One computer can "ping" another computer (maybe one very far away) without sending any words, and the receiving computer can "ping" back, without sending any words. Maybe events like that I describe above are a kind of "ping" from the Great Beyond. 

Pink Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 2)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious pink orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

Below we see a pink orb I photographed near a building. 

pink sky orb

The photo below shows some colorful mysterious orbs I photographed above a building in New York City.

spook balls

Two of my photos below show pink sky orbs.

purple sky orb

 Below we see a pink sky orb that I photographed near a building in New York City. The orb has a dark stripe.

pink sky orb

The photo below shows a pink orb I photographed above a building in New York City

pink sky orb

 My photo below shows a striped pink orb that seemed to be moving fast.

 striped speeding orb

In my photo below we see three pink orbs on the left, and three purple orbs to their right. Is it some kind of "stick with your own kind" type of social segregation?

strange sky

Friday, June 27, 2025

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: June 27, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. Click here to view 245 other photos I have taken of mysterious orange orbs.