Mysterious Orange Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 4)

 Below is Part 4 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious orange orbs.

Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors,

My photo below shows what looks like a speeding orb near a bookcase.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb orange I photographed indoors.  It loomed large in the photo, appearing as 10 percent of the original photo height.

Below we two mysterious orange orbs that I photographed indoors.

The photos below show two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors, one orange and one orange-green. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb that I photographed indoors.

Orbs More Popular Than UFOs?

Using the Google Trends web page, and comparing the popularity of searches for the term "orbs" and the term "ufos," I was surprised to get the result below, showing the term "orbs" beating the term "ufos."

Changing the query to the singular tense (comparing the popularity of "orb" versus "ufo") produces this graph, which show the term "ufo" as generally more popular than "orb," except for a recent surge in which the term "orb" was more popular. 

The same tool suggests that interest in ghosts is steady, far exceeding interest in either orbs or UFOs. I am not surprised, as I know that my posts documenting reports of apparition sightings by others are some of my most popular posts. 

The Words Under the Orb

 Photo date: April 28, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

When I get an orb appearing with words behind it, I sometimes wonder whether my attention is being called to the words underneath the orb. The words on the air conditioner label under the orb include the words "electric" and "voltage."  Conceivably this could be an indication of an electrical nature of orbs.  

It would make an interesting experiment to tape up on a wall some pieces of paper with letters or words, and to then take some photos, to see whether orbs might appear next to the pieces of paper in a way that would form a message. 

Highlights of a New Study on Dreams of the Deceased

 There was recently published the paper "Dreams of the deceased: A scoping and mixed-methods systematic review" by Zulkayda Mamat and others.  Here are some highlights: 

• "Liang & He [38] reported that the theme  'a person now dead as alive' ranked among the top three most common dream types across Naxi (82.1 %) and Han (49.7 %) Chinese college students. Similarly, Yoshioka [39] found this theme to be the third most frequent in a Japanese sample (n = 559), with higher prevalence among women. In Germany, Kunzendorf and colleagues [40] found that 44 % of subjects reported at least one dream of a deceased relative or friend."
• "Yoshioka [39] found an increasing prevalence with age, rising from 0 % among youth (18–25 years) to 15 % among those aged 65 and above. Maggiolini and colleagues [41] corroborated these findings in a larger study (n = 1546), reporting higher frequencies of such dreams among older participants...Among participants aged 60+, prevalence ranged from 39.6 % to 56.1 %, compared to 8.9 %–29.5 % in those aged 18–59 [42]."
• "In Canadian nursing homes, 64 % of staff observed residents reporting vivid dreams of deceased people or pets [19]. Among Canadian hospice volunteers, 44 % reported witnessing similar dreams [18]. In India, 50 % of terminally ill patients reported seeing deceased relatives, friends, or acquaintances in dreams [20]. In U.S. hospice patients, 46 % reported dreams or visions of deceased relatives or friends, making them the most frequent end-of-life experience in this sample [55]. In Moldova, caregivers reported that deceased mothers were the most common figures in deathbed visions, with a median of two deceased visitors per patient [35]."
• "Most respondents’ dreams of the deceased were pleasant (55.3 %) or a mix of pleasant and disturbing (31.1 %), while fewer were only disturbing (6.8 %); common themes included pleasant past memories (65.2 %), the deceased appearing free of illness (40.4 %), memories of their illness (34.8 %), seeing them peaceful in the afterlife (26.7 %), or the deceased communicating a message (25.5 %)."

My frequently updated post here may well be the longest post ever published about one person's dreams of the deceased and dreams that seemed to symbolize or reference life after death. In the post I describe 555 dreams I have had that seemed to symbolize or refer to life after death. In the same post I list well over 800 dreams I have had about more than 300 deceased persons. 

Like an Orb Grin

 Photo date April 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

Mysterious Yellow Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 4)

 I have done two previous retrospective posts on mysterious yellow sky orbs, which you can see below (the photos were all taken at night, after the sun had set): 

Yellow Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 1)

Yellow Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 2)

Below is Part 3 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious yellow orbs.  Part 2 can be seen here.

I took the photo below in 2021. We seem to have a speeding yellow orb. 

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors with a reverse 7 inside it.

The photos below show mysterious yellow orbs I photographed indoors.

Below is a mysterious yellow orb I photographed at Grand Central.

The photo below shows a bright yellow orb I photographed indoors.  It looks as if the orb has cast a yellow glow on the steel underneath it.

The photos below show four mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York, one yellow and three blue. They were all photographed on the same day in 2019. 

My photo below from 2019 shows  a mysterious orb near a plant.

Mysterious Orange Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 3)

 Below is Part 3 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious orange orbs.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed near a bookcase.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors in front of the edge of a book case.

Below we see some mysterious orbs I  photographed indoors, one of them orange.

Below we see a mysterious orange orb I photographed near a scale. My guess is that the photo shows two position states of an orb moving very fast. 

My photo below shows two orange orbs, one of which seemed to be moving fast:

In my photo below we see what seems to be a speeding orange orb.

We see below my TV set while an episode of Star Trek Enterprise was airing. The character on the right is supposed to be an extraterrestrial with bluish skin and two little antennae coming out of its head.  Right in front of that is a mysterious orange orb that was not part of the TV image.  It wasn't my camera flash, which never looks orange if it is reflected when I photograph the TV screen.

The photo below shows a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors.