Smoke Alarm Acts Spooky Just When I Think of Deceased Parents

 Last night something spooky happened, something I have never seen before. To explain the anomaly, I must first explain the behavior of my Google Nest smoke detector as I have observed it for every night prior to last night, for four years. 

The Google Nest smoke detector in my bedroom has a ring-shaped dim light and a motion detector. Whenever I get up from my bed to go to the bathroom, the dim light of the smoke detector lights up. When I return to my bed, the dim light of the smoke detector goes off within a few seconds of me returning to the bed. I presume that this is some feature designed to provide a little light for anyone trying to exit a room at night, when there is a fire. I think a better design might have been to only show the dim light when the smoke detector goes off.  The light of the smoke detector does not show during daytime, unless the alarm goes off. Below we see the Google Nest smoke detector. The first photo shows the dim light on, and the second photo shows the light off. 

Last night I awoke around 2:00, and began to have some vivid thoughts of my deceased parents. Just then I noticed something very strange, that I had never seen before. While lying in bed motionless, I noticed that the light on the smoke detector was still on for quite some time. Lying completely motionless in bed, I counted slowly from 1 to 120. During this whole two minutes, the smoke detector's light was on. I had never seen this behavior before from this smoke detector, not once in four years. Prior to today, its dim light always went off a few seconds after some motion caused it to turn on.  This Google Nest smoke detector is powered by a direct electrical current, and has no dependency on a battery. 

Wondering whether some insect might have caused this unprecedented behavior from the smoke detector, I turned on the regular light in the room, and looked for an insect. I saw none.  I then went back to sleep. 

Later around 4:00 AM I woke up again, and observed something similar. While lying motionless in bed, I noticed the anomaly that the smoke detector's light was on. I lay motionless in bed for five minutes, slowly counting from 1 to 300. During this whole time, the smoke detector's light was on. 

Again, I got up, turned on the regular light, and looked around for an insect that could conceivably have caused this unprecedented behavior from the smoke detector. I did not discover any such insect, and never felt or saw an insect that night. 

Why did the smoke detector act in this unprecedented way, which I have never seen in four previous years I have had this smoke detector in my bedroom? An interesting speculation is that the night's incidents were triggered by my vivid thoughts of my deceased parents. The unprecedented behavior of the smoke detector started while I was having such thoughts. See here for another spooky smoke alarm anomaly causing me to wonder whether some paranormal effect was involved. The 19th century provided very many reported anomalies (such as mysterious rap sounds and table levitations) in which people seemed to get signs from the Great Beyond. You can read about such anomalies here. 

It would make an interesting experiment for others with Google Nest smoke detectors to see whether they observe the same anomaly after having vivid thoughts of their deceased loved ones. 

Postscript: The next evening the Google Nest smoke detector in my bedroom returned to behaving as it had behaved for the past four years before this day, with its light always turning off a few seconds after the cessation of any recent motion nearby it. But there was on that evening the anomaly below, not looking like anything that showed up in the next photo of this window curtain from the exact same position.

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: June 10, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Postscript: The next day I was walking outdoors, and saw an empty can rolling rather rapidly across the street, about two meters away from me. I could see  no people, moving cars or animals nearby, and the wind was only 9 mph on a sunny day. The can (holding no food) had a plastic cover, and looking through that I could see the words "Another Level." Was this a symbolic hint of some "other level" of  existence awaiting us after death?

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 17)

Below is Part 17 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

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

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

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.

My photo below 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.

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

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

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see the letter "Y" inside the orb.

Today (June 9, 2026) I observed another of frequent spooky-seeming events around my living quarters. A bottle containing about eight ounces of detergent mysteriously fell into my sink, at a time many minutes after anyone had touched anything near the sink. The bottle had been a few inches from the side of the sink, and I had not touched the bottle in a long time.  The sink is not near any open window, and at the time there was no noticeable wind. 

Stunning Accounts of the Orb Seers (Part 3)

 The near-death experience site www.nderf.org now has a search feature allowing you to search for particular keywords in their collection of accounts.. When I tried using the search page with a search phrase of "orb" I get these statements on the third and fourth pages of results: 

• Joseph S.: "There were also souls leaving their human bodies (earthly death) and returning to the Light. I didn't see them actually entering or leaving their earthly bodies. I just knew this to be true. They appeared as orbs of light. The best way to describe it is blips on a radar screen. There were hundreds, if not thousands moving in a constant stream out of the Light and into the Light. I knew as I watched this that we existed as part of the Light before we were born as humans."
• Enrique: "I remember being so disappointed in myself for dying an addict. For a short time, I looked down at myself, lying in the tub with my eyes open. Suddenly, a white, almost blue, sphere/orb appeared. It seemed to speak to me telepathically, saying, 'It's okay, we can go now.'."
• Oliver V.: "I could see, in the distance, a tiny point of light that grew quickly into a glowing disc, or orb. It was emanating an incredible milky white color, yet was very brilliant at the same time, without hurting the eye. This light was radiating an indescribable reassuring calm. All my pain was gone and my only desire was to reach the light."
• David N.: "A bright orb-shaped sphere came from behind me on my right side, and then moved in front of me. The Spirit /Light changed its shape and appeared before me as a genderless Angel."
• Alex A: "During that flashback, I saw two radiant orbs in the sky from which numerous tall beings were rapidly descending and surrounding both our truck and the road in front of us all the way to the hospital."
• Michael G. "Then I saw this large, golden orb in front of me, suspended in the blue. It was close enough to touch, but I didn't. Its surface undulated, like the sea - rising and falling. Immediately, I thought, 'This is the sun,' but then remember saying, 'I am so sorry.' Instantly, without word, I was corrected. This 'orb' in front of me was no 'thing,' it was a personality."
• Carol L: "I see auras and orbs."
• Vicki P.: "I had a severe cold and my mom was 'greasing me up' with Vicks Vaporub. I began to hear a buzzing sound that grew louder and louder. The next thing I knew, I was going rapidly through a tunnel toward a light. I saw small, bright orbs of light accompanying me and I said to myself, 'Angels!' "
• Lou F.: "Structures and landscapes sprung from everywhere all in a crystalline state, all inhabited by these lesser light beings. Some were winged, most not. Some fully formed, others not. Yet even others that appeared only as glowing orbs of light and color, bounced, as would bubbles in a glass of carbonated water."

Orb With an Eerie Feature

 Photo date: June 3, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Mysteriously Displaced

 Below we see two photos of the same spot of my TV stand. The photos were taken about two hours apart on June 2, 2026. Both show a wooden comb on the right. The top photo is the earlier photo, and it shows a blue rubber band on the left. That rubber band is not seen in the lower photo, taken about two hours later. 

What is very strange is that I have no memory of doing anything to move the blue rubber band shown in the top photo. Instead, I was surprised this evening (June 2)  to see that blue rubber band on the middle of the floor, about two meters away from the spot shown above. This is the latest in a set of more than 33 mysterious observations I have made of rubber bands, which almost always involve me suddenly noticing a rubber band on the floor, while having no explanation of how it got there. 

My long-standing policy is to immediately pick up from the floor any small objects such as rubber bands, coins and pens, as soon as I see them. So how could the rubber band have got to the position I saw it at tonight, in the middle of the floor? No windows in the room were open, no fan was running, and no one else was in the room. Once again, I am baffled. I have now seen an effect like this more than 33 times. You can read about other baffling occurrences of this effect in my series of posts here.

The "Super-Hot" Orb Was Faster Than a Helicopter

 The US government has just released a trove of information related to UFOs and UAPs. The information can be found at the site https://www.war.gov/ufo/. On the page here we read this account:

"USPER relayed to FBI agents that he and other federal and state personnel conducted searches to where orbs had been previously seen. After searching the area with a helicopter, they found a 'super-hot' orb hovering over the ground. The orb is reported to have travelled for 20 miles at a speed too fast for the helicopter in pursuit. An additional 'swarm' of lights were seen moving in all directions. A total of four or five additional orbs were seen shortly thereafter for a short time, flaring up and then down. This pattern of four or five orbs flaring up, then down continued over the next thirty minutes across the area."