Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Striped Orbs Both Aligned

Photo date: October 30, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show mysterious orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see three similarities in the two photos:

(1) Both orbs appeared in front of one of the ornamental windows high up at the station.
(2) Both orbs have straight stripes stretching from one side of the orb to the other.
(3) Both orbs are neatly aligned to a structural line in the station, something I have seen hundreds of times in photos I have taken at this location (as shown here).

striped orbs
These two are the 24th and 25th examples I have seen of what I call the "corner chord" pattern, one of 24 recurring patterns I have noticed in mysterious orbs I have photographed.  The post here has photographic examples of all of these patterns, which are summarized in the grid below.

spirit orbs

Striped Purple Sky Orb and Its Pink Pal

Photo date: October 30, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious purple sky orb with a stripe at its top. To its left is a pink orb.

night orbs

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Was the Blue Orb Interested in Her Cell Phone?

Photo date: October 27, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

Monday, October 30, 2017

Orb Makes the Blackness Blue

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below on a day when there were some temporary advertising posters in Grand Central Terminal. We see a mysterious orb at the top of one of the posters. There's a rather interesting color-shift effect here: the blackness behind the lower half of the orb is somehow shifted to a blue color.


Things Get Spookier as Halloween Approaches

This morning as I approached the bathroom of my apartment, I saw the light in the bathroom turn off. The door of the bathroom was open. I waited for someone to exit. No one did. I walked into the bathroom, and saw it was empty. Of course, there's a completely natural reason why this might happen: the bulb burning out. But I flicked the light on and off; there was no problem with the bulb.

Regarding the same bathroom,  I twice observed the toilet flushing by itself on October 21, 2017. The second time was particularly odd. I had just returned to my apartment, and just when I first saw the bathroom, the toilet flushed. I waited for someone to leave the bathroom, but no one did. It was empty.  I observed the same thing on Halloween of 2016: the toilet flushing by itself one time early in the day and one time in the evening. These days (October 21, 2017 and October 31, 2016) were the only days the toilet flushed by itself.  If you Google for "ghost flushing," you will hear people say that if you have a toilet with a failing flapper, ghost flushing may occur. But the type of toilet I have does not have a flapper.

The light turning off by itself was the inverse of what I observed on January 6, 2016: a light turning on by itself. The light, directly plugged into  the wall socket,  was a very sturdy and reliable lamp that requires a firm click of a switch to turn on.  I have had no difficulties with this lamp or this socket since that date.  This year I have also seen eight cases of the flashlight at the back of a Samsung tablet turning on by itself, all while the tablet was turned off and leaning against a wall.  I have also seen 15 cases of an electric toothbrush turning on by itself.

Perhaps all such incidents are similar to bright or colorful orbs appearing in photos -- maybe they're all just cases of some mysterious external reality giving us a kind of a "shout out," a kind of "hello, we are here" signal.

Evening Orbs

Photo date: October 27, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show two mysterious blue orbs I photographed near buildings in New York.

evening orbs
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Something Spooky at the Orb's Side?

Photo date: October 27, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

spooky orb
On the right side of the orb, we see something strange, which looks rather like some grinning spooky face.
spooky face

A Speeding Orb

Photo date: October 27, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a speeding orb I photographed indoors.  How can we tell that a photo like this shows a speeding orb? The effective shutter speed of my camera with a flash photo like this is about 1/1000 of a second, but the speed of drifting dust particles in only about 2 miles per hour, as you can see by raising some flour dust in the air and watching how fast it moves.  For you to see something like this in a photo suggests a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. If I photograph a thrown ball moving at 30 miles an hour, my photo will show only one position state, not two.

See here for nearly 600 similar photos of speeding orbs, many showing motion much more dramatic than we see here.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Striped Orbs in the Station

The photos below show two striped orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal on October 18, 2017 and October 27, 2017.   One has a vertical stripe, and the other has a horizontal stripe. See here for 400+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

striped orbs

Baffling Brightness

Photo date: October 25, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a fence.  The moon was only a half moon on this night.

purple green orb
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Blue Orb Near an Eerie Figure

Photo date: October 27, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was cropped from the bottom-most part of a larger photo. We see in Grand Central Terminal a mysterious blue orb next to some figure that looks very eerie, because we can't see any eyes or nose or mouth or hair in the figure's head.

eerie figure

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Not the Proverbial Blue Moon

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed near a tower in New York City.

night orb
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The moon on this night was only a thin crescent.

A Strange Triad

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. We see three orbs that each have an identical-looking vertical stripe. Very strange.

On the same day I photographed this strange orb with what looks a big hole in it.


Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A Bright Speeding Orb

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a speeding orb I photographed near the Met Life building in New York.

bright speeding orb
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Confounding Cavities

The photos below show two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal on October 21, 2017 and October 23, 2017. In both orbs we seem to see a hole in the upper right area.

orb holes

A Triangle in the Orb

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  The stripes create a triangle shape in the lower part of the orb. See here for two similar cases.

triangle in orb
A photo taken two days later (today) shows almost exactly the same look, although this time we don't quite see a complete triangle.


Tuesday, October 24, 2017

A Presence Above Them?

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

presence

A Medium on Orbs

Medium Diana Palm has written a very interesting new book entitled "Mediumship Scrying and Transfiguration." On page 107 she says the following:

While some indicate the color of the orb has differential meanings, others look for spirit faces that appear within the ball of light to identify the spirit present. I have had ample experience photographing spirit orbs and have come to believe that they may represent any spiritual being. It may be the spirit presence of a loved one, a ghost, angel or nature spirit. Orbs seem to be the vehicle in which spiritual beings travel. 

In the book Diana makes an astonishing claim.  She says that she has performed a technique called scrying in which two people sit in the dark with a candle between them. She says that she can see "transfigurations" in which the face of the person across her temporarily is transformed to take on a totally different look, perhaps looking like the face of a deceased relative or a face corresponding to a past life.  She says quite a few other people have had this experience.

I cannot vouch for these astonishing claims about scrying. But having had many surprising paranormal experiences of my own, I never immediately dismiss other people's written claims of paranormal experience, no matter how outlandish they may sound.

Orbs and the Blue Sky Blob

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show some orbs I photographed near a strange blue glow in the sky.

blue sky blob
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Was the Orb Expanding as it Sped?

Photo date: October 23, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious thing I photographed indoors. It looks rather like an orb expanding as it moved.

expanding orb
This reminds me of a photo I took on December 26, 2015, one that also looks rather like an orb expanding as it moves:

expanding orb

A Ringed Orb

Photo date: September 14, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The previously unpublished photo (excavated from my photographic backlog) shows a mysterious orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see quite clearly the outer ring that often is visible in orbs. You can see many other examples here.


ringed orb

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Green Orb Near the Waldorf

Photo date: October 21, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows some orbs I photographed near the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.  See here for 158 other mysterious green orbs I have photographed.

green orb
 There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Baffling Banner

Photo date: October 21, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

They put up some new temporary advertising banners in Grand Central Terminal, banners showing human faces.  Above one, we see a mysterious orb.

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Striped Orbs

The grid below shows various mysterious striped orbs that I have photographed over the past few months. See herehere, here, here, here, here, here, and here to see eight other similar posters of striped orbs.

striped orbs

A Spooky Event While I Photographed an Orb

Today while I was taking a photograph of a mysterious orb indoors, I heard my toilet flushing. There was no one else in my apartment, and I wasn't in the bathroom.

If you do a Google search for "ghost flushing," you will find that it seems all explanations for this are the same: "ghost flushing" can be caused by your toilet flapper wearing out.  But the toilet in my apartment has never had a flapper. It's one of those one-piece toilets (shown here) in which there is no box behind the toilet bowl, and no flapper.

The toilet has flushed by itself only two previous times in the 7+ years I have lived at my apartment. Both times were on Halloween in 2016.

I will add this to my list of spooky things that I have observed around my apartment this year, which include 15 cases of an electric toothbrush turning on by itself, and seven cases of my tablet flashlight turning on by itself while the tablet was turned off and lying against the wall (as shown here).

Postscript: Later that day the toilet again flushed by itself. This occurred just after I had returned to the apartment from outside, at the moment the bathroom first came into my view.  There was no further unexplained flushing in the next six days.

Bright Sky Orbs on a Moonless Night

Photo date: October 20, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed at the same spot.  The moon on this night was invisible, not even a crescent.

bright sky orbs
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Friday, October 20, 2017

A Nice Spot for a Sky Orb to Rest

Photo date: October 18, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below is one of more than 25 photos I have taken showing a mysterious orb that looks like it is perched on the roof of a building.

orb on roof
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night, and the moon was only a thin crescent.

Night of the Vivid Blue Sky Orbs

Photo date: October 18, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show two vivid blue sky orbs I photographed near buildings in New York City.

blue sky orbs
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

An Orange-Green Sky Orb

Photo date: October 18, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows an orange-green orb I photographed next to a building in New York.

orange green orb
 There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

The Bright Orb Wasn't the Moon

Photo date: October 18, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a bright orb I photographed above 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, which was lit up on this night with some strange blue lighting.  The orb wasn't the moon, which was merely the thinnest crescent on this night.

bright orb

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Window Weirdness

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious transparent blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

transparent orb

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

A Striped Orange Sky Orb

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed in the sky, one of more than 400 mysterious striped orbs I have photographed (see here for examples).

striped orange sky orb

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Double-Striped and Dumbfounding

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We see two parallel stripes of the same height.

double striped orb

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Orb Inside the Orb

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near the top of Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We can see a smaller orb inside the orb, and the right edges of the orbs align with each other exactly.  The image almost suggests the idea of a pregnant orb about to give birth to a child orb.

orb inside orb

Sky Orbs

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows some colorful sky orbs I photographed near the Met Life building in New York.

sky orbs
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Like a Sky Cracker

Photo date: October 13, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows an orange orb I photographed near a building in New York. It wasn't the moon, which was only a half moon on this night.

orange sky orb
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Six Had the Same Ring in the Same Place

Photo date: October 12, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. We see 6 orbs with the same little dark ring inside them. In each of these orbs, the ring is located on the same spot on the orb (near the right edge, halfway between the top and the bottom).  See here for six similar photos. 

orbs with rings

Blue Orbs in the Station

Photo date: October 12, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show two mysterious blue orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

blue orbs

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Orb Gives a New Type of "Table Tipping"

Photo date: October 13, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In the nineteenth century in the United States, a practice called table-tipping became extremely popular.  A group of people would sit at a table, and put their hands on the table. They would ask for a sign from the spirit world. Very often the table under their hands would tilt, and many witnesses said the table would rise above the floor. Some people still perform table tipping. You can see many interesting examples of table tipping on www.youtube.com, by searching for "table tipping."

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We see stripes that look just like a tilted table.

table tipping orb

A Purple-Blue Sky Orb

Photo date: October 12, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in midtown Manhattan.

purple blue orb
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

A Number 7 in a Mysterious Orb

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors on October 11, 2017.

number in orb
Note the number 7.  If you do a Google image search for "number 7" you will see several examples of fancy number 7's that look like this, with 3 lines segments rather than 2.

This is the third time I have got a number 7 in a mysterious orb I photographed. Below is a photo I took on September 6, 2017.

seven in orb
Below is a photo I took on July 9, 2016, as posted here:

number in orb
The repeated "7" pattern is one of of 24 recurring patterns I have noticed in mysterious orbs I have photographed. The grid below summarizes each of these patterns, and how many times each have been photographed. Click here to see multiple examples of each of these patterns.

orb pattern

The Same Little Ring in 4 Orbs

Photo date: October 12, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. We see 4 orbs with the same little dark ring inside them.  It is the same strange thing seen in this series of photos.

orbs with rings
The same "little rings inside the orbs" can be seen in the photo below from the same day:

Friday, October 13, 2017

Intersecting Orb Stripes

Photo date: October 12, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show three mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. In each we see intersecting stripes.

orb stripes

The Weirdness Near Their Window

Photo date: October 10, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed near a building in New York.

weirdness
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.