Photo date: October 15, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Oddly inside the orb I see a shape that reminds me of a volcano shape. I hope this is not some kind of ominous omen. A volcano eruption can be like nuclear fallout, and just as deadly. I hope there is no connection between this image and a dream I had on October 4 about people gradually dying from nuclear fallout.
Below is an account from a paper dated September 10, 1959:
Brothers, Neighbor Report UFO Here Bright As Moon (From The Peoria Journal Star)
"A Peoria drug salesman reported seeing an unidentified flying object 'just about as bright as the moon but not as high' at 10:30 p m. Saturday as be went out to move his car. J. H. Baker, 2725 Renwood Ave., Hamilton Park, said he at first thought the object was an airplane, but it then appeared as 'a round large ball of white light.' The phenomenon, said Baker, could be seen moving rapidly from southwest to northeast at a height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet. Baker said the object also was seen by his brother, R. J. Baker, visiting here from Chicago, and by a neighbor, Jack Rhodes, 2724 Renwood. The brother trained a powerful pair of binoculars on it. The strange object stayed in sight from 4 to 6 minutes. 'It was moving much faster than a jet plane,' Baker reported."
The length of time the sight was observed seems to rule out a meteor (something that appears visible in the sky for less than 15 seconds). A check of a moon phase calendar suggests that on the Saturday in question (September 6, 1959) the moon looked like a mere thin crescent.
Telekinesis refers to some paranormal ability to move matter only by mind or the power of spirit. You could use the term for any inexplicable movement seen at a seance, such as the table levitations that were so widely reported. On page 294 of the document here, we have a letter by Arthur Conan Doyle, dated July 19, 1922. He records observations at a seance of the Austrian medium Frau Silbert:
"Yesterday, July 18th, I was one of six who sat with Frau Silbert, the Austrian medium, at the British College of Psychic Science....I was seated on the left of the medium. Behind her was the 'cabinet,' a curtained enclosure, partially open in front. This I examined and found empty. The red light was kept fairly high—so high that we could easily see every movement of the medium or of each other. We laid our watches upon the ground under the table, as it was said that the medium’s control was able sometimes to scratch his name, Ivel, upon them. I may say at once that this phenomenon did not take place....
Presently the medium sank into trance, and made curious movements with her hands as if she were drawing some substance from her mouth and nose. If anyone were choking with cobwebs and was trying to clear oneself, it is the movement they would have made. She then stood up, gave a sharp cry, and picked apparently out of the air behind her one of the watches which had been on the ground. We were all agreed that neither she nor any member of the company had stooped down from the moment that the watches had been placed there. It was a clear case of movement without contact or telekinesis.
The trance now deepened and the woman gave little whining cries, exactly like those which are the prelude to childbirth. Eva gives the same cries when she is about to emit ectoplasm. The actual emission is, I fancy, a relief. Presently I saw on the floor, about a foot behind the medium, and between her chair and mine, a luminous ball, like a phosphorescent sponge, rather larger than my fist. It was quite clear but it vanished in a few seconds. Further luminous patches then appeared protruding from under the curtains. The ball was exactly such as has been described by Miss Scatcherd in her observations upon Eva.....Several times the curtain of the cabinet was blown out as in a high wind, and twice I was touched by some solid body when I was quite clear of the medium. The sensation was that of a dog rubbing against my leg."
The mysterious fluttering of a curtain (as if blown by a wind) was an effect frequently reported in the seances of Eusapia Palladino. From a quality-of-evidence standpoint, a dated account like this (stating what someone saw on the same day or the previous day) is relatively good evidence, much better than someone just recalling what he saw months ago or years ago. I advise people to always immediately write down a dated signed account of any thing very unusual that they witnessed, whether it be something paranormal-seeming or something that may be a matter of investigation by a scientist or a court.
Photo date: October 11, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors.
In the book you can read for free using this link, author Edward T. Bennett has some impressive-sounding claims to make about the medium David Duguid and the medium Mrs. Everitt. In the seances of David Duguid very impressive artwork would be produced while the medium was in a trance. At the seances of Mrs. Everitt, there would reportedly occur writing at inexplicable speeds. We have a citation of page 507 of the document here, where we have a witness claim that 280 words were written in only ten or twelve seconds; and the page includes a quotation of such words, which make up reasonable text. We also have a citation of page 14 of the periodical here, where we have this claim:
"The following message was given by direct writing—that is, without physical contact—at a séance at which Mrs. Everitt was the medium. The circle was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Everitt, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pearce, Mr. Morell Theobald, and Mr. R. Gale. Though the message consists of more than five hundred and fifty words it was written, as nearly as could be estimated, in about five seconds."
The passage is quoted, and it sounds reasonable enough. The Bennett book has quite a few of the mysteriously arising drawings that occurred in the Duguid seances, and some are very impressive artwork.
In another book on page 43 the author Jas Robertson reports his first attendance at what apparently was a seance of David Duguid (the wording is a little unclear about which medium was involved):
"At my first sitting I witnessed phenomena which I have never forgotten, and I can recollect saying to myself, when I saw a globe of light travelling from the end of the room, and assuming the form of a human hand when it reached the table, 'There never can come to me in all the future years anything which will weaken or make me deny what I am now witnessing.' "
Note: www.archive.org is down today October 10, in an event possibly related to the Hurricane Milton power outage. As soon as it comes back online, the last of my three links should work.
When I started to get face-like structures when photographing falling water drops years ago, I called that extremely startling effect "the water face effect." Below is a retrospective of some of the most startling examples I got of this astonishing phenomenon. I took all of the photos when photographing only pure, clean water drops falling.
On this day in 2019 I got very many photos like the one below while photographing only pure, clean water drops falling.
On this day in 2021 I got more than 1000 face-like orbs like the ones below, all appearing while I photographed only pure, clean drops of falling water.
On this day in 2020 I got many photos showing what looked like surprised faces, all appearing while I photographed only pure, clean drops of falling water.
The ones below I photographed in 2019 rather seem to have features resembling eyes, a nose and a mouth. Again, they appeared while I photographed only pure, clean drops of falling water.
To help demonstrate the authenticity of this astonishing phenomenon, I took a video of my camera's viewfinder as I was photographing these mysterious "orb faces." The video is shown below. In the video, you can clearly see the face-like details appear many times in the camera's viewfinder as I was photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background.
I have quite a few other viewfinder videos like the one above, showing my camera viewfinder as I photographed massively repeating orb patterns appearing during the photography of ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling. You can view such viewfinder videos using the link here.
To see the complete series of photos showing this effect of mysterious face-like structures appearing during the photography of pure, clean falling water drops, use the link here and keep pressing "Older Posts" at the bottom right.
This "water face effect" is only a small fraction of the much larger phenomenon under which I got for years dramatically repeating patterns of many different types while photographing falling drops of pure clean water, with there typically being a persistence of some distinctive pattern over many different consecutive photos, with multiple instances (up to ten or more) of the pattern in individual photos. You can see the full extent of that phenomenon by viewing the 700+ photos in the series here, continuing to press Older Posts at the bottom right.
Below is an account from page 10 of the November 1962 Psychic Observer which you can read here.
"Another frightening UFO encounter—a thirty mile chase—was reported by Mr. and Mrs. Richard DuBois, 13481 Shirley Street, Westminister, California. On the night of October 21, returning from a vacation, they were driving along Route 60 in New Mexico. Except for their car, the highway was deserted. It was about 2 a.m., when a 'brilliant ball of white light' flashed down across the car, slowed, then turned back and followed alongside. 'At first, I thought it was an airplane making an emergency landing,' said Mrs. DuBois. But the strange 'ball ’ streaked back into the sky. DuBois’ conjecture that it might be an odd moonlight reflection was quickly disproved. For the bright object again flashed down, raced ahead of the car, then flowed to let them catch up. 'We were really frightened by this time.' Mrs. DuBois reported. And their alarm increased when the strange device pacing them suddenly separated into four smaller, glowing objects. Flying alongside, the formation kept pace with the car until a service station appeared ahead. When DuBois slowed down, the four UFO's flashed upward and went out of sight. 'We were so terrified.' said Mrs. DuBois, 'That my husband drove at 100 miles an hour to the next town. We asked if there had been any reports of flying objects, but people only laughed. They thought was it was funny, bur. we were plenty scared.' "
The account includes this artist's drawing:
