Ectomist "Creature" Appears on a Night That Wasn't Cold

Photo date: January 8, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in front of a building in New York City.  The anomaly is not at all my breath, because the temperature was 47 degrees Fahrenheit. (I took two test photos blowing as hard as I could on this night, and none showed anything like mist.) It was also not smoke or atmospheric mist (it was a dry night without any fog, mist or rain, and I could not see or smell any smoke or mist nearby).

 The phenomenon of unexplained plasma-like clouds photographed at ground level is visually documented at this site, at this site, in Mya Gleny's site here,  in the book "The Orb Project" by Miceal Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D, and in the book "Beyond Photography: Encounters with Orbs, Angels and Light-Forms," by  Katie Hall and John Pickering. The photo discussed here is consistent with these reports.  These anomalies are sometimes called "light forms" or "plasma clouds," although a Google image search for "ghostly mist" or "ecto-mist" will show the most examples.  Many photographers have photographed such an anomaly.

I have photographed this type of anomaly several times before, as shown in this series of posts, consisting mainly of photos that were either taken in weather that wasn't very cold, or when I was holding my breath and pinching my nose.  Very oddly, when this strange "ecto-mist" occurs, it often seems to make shapes resembling animals. I have seen just such an effect in several photos.  The above photo almost seems to show some creature with long ears.

I may note that the most common skeptical attempt to explain away such photos ("it was your breath on a cold night") does not work in this case, and also does not even work when such photos are taken on cold nights.  The "it was your breath" explanation may have had  some weight  twenty years ago, when people would hold cameras above their noses, and look through tiny little view holes. But nowadays almost every digital camera has a fairly big view screen, and people almost always take pictures holding their digital devices seven inches or more away from their heads. Your breath on a cold night will dissipate before it gets in front of a camera that is at such a distance.