One Was Brighter

 Photo date: October 18, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

The previous day I got this photographic anomaly:

When a Spooky Event Occurs, Record What You Were Thinking or Saying

 Over the past 12 hours, I saw two cases of a possible connection between something I was thinking and some spooky thing I observed. 

The first event occurred in the middle of the night. While getting up to go the bathroom, and alone in a bathroom that was dark except for the tiny green light on a GFCI electrical outlet, I thought to myself about a type of observation pattern that may indicate heart trouble. "Get enough of those, and you'll go to the right destination," I thought to myself. The "right destination" I thought of was a heavenly destination of an afterlife.

Within about three seconds after thinking that thought, the light on the GFCI outlet turned off and then very quickly turned back on. 

I can't say that this was a very rare type of event. My post here records more than 70 times (since 2022) that the GFCI outlet light mysteriously turned off and then immediately turned back on, almost all occurring when the bathroom was dark at night. But the synchronicity here was striking. In this case the mysterious turning off and on of the light occurred within about three seconds after I had thought about life after death. How improbable is that?

There was another case of striking synchronicity later in the day. After showering, I thought of a dream I had last night about a planned meeting with my mother at 4:00.  My mother is deceased, but in the dream she was alive. At the very moment I was thinking of this dream, the tension bar holding up my shower curtain collapsed, with the curtain falling to the ground. I cannot recall the previous time such a rod had collapsed, and no such collapse had occurred for many months before today (it seems). 

Again we have some striking synchronicity between my thought and a spooky event, this time with a possible double death motif. When the tension rod collapsed, I was thinking of a meeting with my mother (something that might occur after death in an afterlife). And also there was a collapse of a curtain. In English "curtains" is a slang term for death (and when old people die, it often involves a collapse). 

I seem to sometimes get spooky events that coincide in a relevant way with something I am thinking or saying. For example, as recorded in my post here, just after audibly mentioning that it was my mother's 100th birthday, I was baffled to find a coin on top of a bedspread I had just laid out on a bed, without noticing any such coin.  My post here records a striking case of synchronicity, in which the flashlight on my iPhone (very hard to turn on accidentally) mysteriously turned on within a few  seconds after I mentally speculated about being protected by some supernatural power. My post here records the mysterious turning off of a circuit breaker when I lay in bed thinking of my late father (on a date that turned out to be my late father's birthday).  A case of a smoke alarm acting in a spooky manner coinciding with my thoughts of deceased parents is recorded here.  In my post here, I mention how a light mysteriously flickered at the very moment I was discussing what to do in the case of my death. Later in the same dinner conversation, I saw a different light mysteriously flicker when I mentioned the hypothetical event of my death. 

To a materialist, all such cases are meaningless coincidences. But to someone who is not a materialist, such cases may be regarded as potential evidence that some mysterious unseen power may interact in our world, a power that may be capable of reading our thoughts. 

I can suggest a principle: when you observe some spooky-seeming thing, write down somewhere exactly what happened, and also the exact date and time; and also write down what you were thinking or saying when the spooky thing happened. You may be able to note possibly meaningful or evidential cases of synchronicity. 

Postscript: When I went out for my walk around 3:45 PM, I was kind of suspecting somewhat that I might drop dead on the walk, at about 4:00 PM. After all, I had the dream today of meeting my mother at 4:00 PM, and the quickest way that could happen would be if I died at 4:00 PM today and then went to an afterlife to see her. And the dream had been strongly accentuated by the synchronicity described above. 

I did not die at 4:00 PM, but at what seemed like exactly that time there occurred an odd event of a type I strongly associate with my mother. I forgot to bring my cell phone, so I didn't know the exact time of the event. My best guess is that it occurred within 5 minutes of 4:00 PM. 

What happened was that while walking along, I found on the sidewalk right in my path what seemed like a string of purple flowers (shown below). I picked this up, thinking they were real flowers, and realizing only a few minutes later that they were artificial flowers. 

The association between my mother and purple flowers goes way back, many years. Purple was my mother's favorite color, and she often wore purple clothes. The last conversation I had with my late sister was one in which she stated something to the effect that purple flowers she had not planted had mysteriously shown up in my sister's garden after my mother died; and my sister interpreted this as some spiritual manifestation from my late mother. For four years I have witnessed (against all odds) a strange blooming of purple flowers in the concrete backyard of where I live, flowers not corresponding to any planted flowers or seeds.  You can see examples in my post here and my post here. One of the purple flowers I saw was an amaranth plant. Since ancient times, the amaranth has been a symbol of immortality. 

 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 25)

 Below is Part 25 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

he photo below shows a transparent orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

I took the photo below at Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

My photo below shows two mysterious orbs that rather seem to be mingling with the crowd at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

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

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

My photo below shows a transparent blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. The orb seems to be behind a light. 

My photo below shows a mysterious blue orb that seems positioned near a baby stroller in Grand Central Terminal.  Let us interpret this as a sign of good fortune (or perhaps it's just orb curiosity).

Merry Mystery?

 Photo date: October 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

"String of Pearls" Orb Motion: A Retrospective (Part 5)

 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 5 of a retrospective of my photos showing such an effect.

We see below a mysterious speeding orb I photographed  in Grand Central Terminal. We see once again the "string of pearls" effect I have many times photographed, in which we seem to see multiple position states of an object speeding fast. In this case you can count at least 10 individual orb position states that the camera has captured.

I have taken hundreds of photos of speeding orbs at Grand Central Terminal..  The one I photographed below is among the most spectacular I have taken. We see a blue orb that is moving like natural things never move.  At the top we see an extremely sharp turn of about 45 degrees. The camera has captured about 12 position states of an object moving very fast, which results in the "string of pearls" effect I have photographed more than 50 times (as shown here).  

The photo below shows a speeding orb I photographed indoors. 

Below is one of the most astonishing photos I have taken of a speeding orb. The orb has made 4 sharp turns, three of which are right-angle turns. 

The photo below shows at its top a blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal, one that seems to be moving very fast. 

My photo below shows a moving orb changing direction at Grand Central Terminal in New York.  Looking closely, you can see what looks like three different position states of the moving orb, with a kind of translucent trail connecting them. 

The photo below shows an orb I photographed speeding near a window at Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

Anomalous Alarm

Today I heard a very loud alarm from my bathroom. At first I couldn't find the source, but soon I realized it was from a water leak detector I had at the floor of my bathroom, under the sink. The alarm was very loud, and could not be silenced. There was no water at all on the floor of the bathroom that could explain this event. I had bought the alarm less than a year ago. Right next to the alarm was another water leak alarm; and that alarm did not go off. The Amazon page describing the alarm that went off says it merely beeps when the battery is low.

Pressing the "Test" button on the alarm failed to silence it. I tried to get the back off, so I could take out the batteries. The back has very tiny screws that require a special screwdriver. I had quite a few tiny screwdrivers, but none of them could turn the screws on the back. Unable to pull out the batteries, I ended up burying the alarm in a bucket of sand in my tool shed. 

Below is the front and back of the water detector.  

 I recommend against buying this brand by Geevon, as its back is very hard to take off. Other water detectors of this size have a design allowing you to replace the alarm with a mere turn of the wrist. One such model is another model by Geevon, showing three water drops on its front. 

This is just the latest of very many cases I have experienced of lights or devices turning on or off mysteriously. You can read about almost all of them using the link here and pressing Older Posts when you come to the bottom of the page. 

Freaky Flicker

 Recently I was at a birthday dinner party attended by five people. I won't mention whose birthday it was because I have heard that for information security purposes, you should avoid mentioning someone's birthday. Before the event, I had the suspicion that something unusual might happen with the overhead lights on this evening. I had this suspicion because last Valentine's Day, I witnessed overhead lights mysteriously turn off and then turn back on. That incident was described in my post here. 

Just as I had suspected, something very unusual occurred with the overhead lights. The lights very noticeably flickered, dimming before going back to normal. It was a cool day, and this certainly was not a power dip caused by too many people using air conditioners. The overhead lights did not totally turn off, but seemed to briefly dim by perhaps 50% or more. The effect lasted only a second or two. 

This post was written just after observing the effect described above, but auto-scheduled for publication at a later date. 

Below is a mysterious orb I photographed indoors today.