Photo date: November 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. To see other examples of the same pattern, and also other repeating orb patterns I have photographed, see my post here.
I have got this pattern 11 previous times while photographing in clean dry air, as you can see here. Below are some of the times that happened:
What I call the "string of pearls" effect is an effect in which a photo seems to show multiple position states of an orb traveling very fast. Below is Part 7 of a retrospective of my photos showing such an effect.
My photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York, and is one of the most dramatic moving orb photos I have ever taken.
Photo date: November 8, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin .
Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The photo was taken with an old camera that I rarely use these days, because its flash only works about half of the time. The photo was taken in darkness, and it was one of the roughly 50% of the times in which this old camera fails to flash. The background was not a black surface, but a white wall. The photo showed nothing but this orb, with the whole rest of the photo (more than 100 times bigger) being black.
The year 2024 book "Paranormal Ranger" by Stanley Milford Jr. was published by the well-known publisher William Morrow. The subtitle is "A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained." According to the dust jacket, the book is written by a person who "worked continuously as a sworn law enforcement office for over twenty-three years." We read of Stanley's police work in the Southwest USA, often including places that have a reputation as paranormal hotspots.
The highlight of the book is Chapter 9, entitled "The Window Rock Haunting." On page 186 Stanley says that in November, 2010 he went to investigate after a woman "said that nearly all of her employees -- ten to fifteen individuals -- had experienced paranormal phenomena that were deeply disruptive and making it difficult for everyone to do their jobs." On the same page we read this: "The employees had heard disembodied voices, felt unseen hands touch them, saw office supplies move across the room, and witnessed many other strange incidents."
Stanley says on page 189, "I felt an invisible finger touch my upper lip." On the same page he says, "I heard two distinct male voices, apparently in conversation, only about three feet to my left," even though "there was no one there."
On page 191 Stanley reports the first of numerous apports -- objects that seem to appear out of nowhere. He says, "I felt a small, hard object hit my shoulder and plunk to the ground behind me." Looking on the ground he found a quarter, saying, "It had apparently fallen out of the sky." Then things got weirder. On page 192, Stanley says this:
"As we waited in the darkness, the sound of coins hitting the ground began. One of us quickly turned the lights back on just in time to see more coins raining down. There were eight in total, of varying denominations: quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. They were all heads up. Coins continued to apport, or appear from thin air, for the duration of our time investigating the government building....There were sixty-five coins that fell over the two-day period....With at least ten of the coins, I saw the moment of their apporting, as they appeared from thin air right in front of my eyes."
In a photo in the book, we see all these coins, and the caption says they all landed heads up. On page 193 Stanley says he saw a chair move across a stage, "rolling twelve to fifteen feet." On the same page and the next page, Stanley says he took some photos, and that one of them showed that "in the air over the cubicles hung hundreds of orbs, three-dimensional in appearance with different sizes and hues, like what you would see if a bubble-making machine were pumping soap bubbles into the air." On page 194 Stanley says this:
"Then I used photo software to zoom in. All of the orbs had human faces."
He says on the same page that "several consecutive photos showed the same," and that "he felt sure that each of these faces represented a human soul that had died."
On pages 195 to 196 Stanley claims that he asked "is anyone here" and eventually got a mysterious voice saying "yes, I'm here," one captured in a recording. On page 199 he says that his camera "clearly captured a disembodied hand floating behind Dusty's head."
On page 200 Stanley says that the haunting "followed me back to my home," and that there "the coins continued to fall, each of them heads up." On page 202 Stanley says this:
"Years later, I am still experiencing the ongoing effects of the haunting. Coins appear throughout my home and sometimes even fall near when I'm out in public -- in broad daylight."
The average reader may dismiss these accounts as fiction, but I do not. I have had too many similar experiences myself. My post "Spookiest Observations: A Deluxe Narrative" (which you can read here) discusses my own experiences in which I sometimes seemed to observe apports -- small objects that rather seemed to appear "out of nowhere." I have never seen a coin that seemed to fall from above my head, but I have seen (while alone in an apartment) a coin mysteriously roll up from behind me, the coin rolling on its edge. This was in an apartment that I had just finished double-checking for it to have a complete absence of loose coins, a double-checking because I was trying to methodically investigate what seemed like a phenomenon of coins mysteriously appearing. I have also experienced an event in which a set of keys (not belonging to me) rather seemed to appear out of thin air right in front of me, with the keys falling down every one of a long set of concrete stairs I was sitting at the top of. I still have those keys.
As for single photos showing quite a few faces within orbs, I have sometimes got that effect while photographing falling drops of pure, clean water, with the effect repeating for many consecutive photos. You can see some examples here and here and here and here. My post here includes two videos of my camera viewfinder while I was photographing such marvels.
I have had no luck in getting paranormal voices in any of a few attempts I have tried that with recording devices. As for mysterious phenomena called "spirit hands," they were listed by the leading 19th century physicist Sir William Crookes as one of several types of paranormal phenomena that he observed. The link here takes you to a page in a book by Crookes, in which he describes witnessing such a phenomenon. You can read about other reports of witnessing spirit hands using the link here.
Below is Part 8 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious green orbs.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
The two orbs below appeared in the same photo I took indoors.
The photo shows four mysterious orbs I photographed indoors, three of which were green. They all have rings near their outer circumferences, something often seen in such orbs.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. As in these photos, we see two different rings near the circumference of the orb.
The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors.
The photos below show some colorful mysterious orbs I photographed. The one at bottom was in front of an air filter that has no green color at all.
In the photos below, we see two mysterious orbs I photographed near my TV, one green and one blue.
Photo date: October 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
I have quite a few times on this blog discussed remarkable cases of synchronicity I have observed, often cases that seemed to be a potential spiritual manifestation. The latest such case happened just a few minutes ago.
I sometimes amuse myself thinking about the fantasy of a mind-reading polyglot who dazzles people in a subway car, by going from person to person and speaking in each of the diverse languages used by those sitting in a New York City subway car. In this fantasy I also imagine this person being able to read the minds of those sitting in the subway car, so that he knows their names, though they have never before met.
This time I thought of the fantasy with a twist involving a deceased sibling. I imagined the mind reader knowing a pet name occasionally used by my deceased mother when referring to one of my two deceased sisters. I imagined the polyglot mind-reader encountering this sister and saying, "Aha, it's V___ J____ R____. " When I imagined that, I used the full name(s) or word(s).
Within 1 or 2 seconds after thinking of that V___ J____ R___ referring to a deceased sibling, the light in front of me (from the window in back of me) mysteriously flickered quite noticeably, causing the wall shown on the right half of the photo below to briefly look different for a moment.
There were no electric lights on. Here was the view in front of me:
