Colorful Orbs

We see below two mysterious orbs that I photographed indoors on September 29, 2018 and September 30, 2018.

Four "Phantom Phone Calls" in One Hour

Yesterday I posted in the afternoon a post entitled "Another Day, Another Spooked Device."  Perhaps I should have waited to post until later in the day, because I then might have titled the post, "Another Day, Another Two Spooked Devices." For in the evening my cell phone started acting as if it had a mind of its own.

At 10:16 PM on September 28, 2018 (yesterday) I got a call from one of my daughters, just as I was about to enter back into my apartment building after taking a walk for the better part of an hour. My daughter said she was calling me back because I had left two messages on her phone. But I had not done that, at least not with my fingers. I told her I hadn't left any messages. Then I checked the call log on my phone.

My phone is the humble little Samsung cell phone shown below. It has few features, but one of them is a Call History feature allowing me to see a log of previous calls. I was astonished to see that according to the Call History,  my phone had twice dialed my daughter during the past forty minutes, during which I hadn't touched the phone. One call occurred at 9:43 PM, and another at 9:44 PM.  But during the whole time from 9:30 PM to 10:15 PM my cell phone was in my pocket, and I never touched it during that period. There were also two other calls in my Call History for the hour I was walking: calls to my wife at 9:57 PM and 10:00 PM.  I hadn't dialed any of these four calls.

So we have here a strange case of "phantom dialing." Looking at my cell phone's Call History, I found some other cases, such as a call to 1555 and 8888 and 6235. We can account for such four-digit calls by imagining that there was some random depressions on the front of my phone (such as could occur if something else was in my pocket along with the phone while I was walking).

But accounting for 4 cases of "phantom dialing" to two of my relatives is much harder. I have no hotkeys on my phone for dialing any of my relatives.  Below is the shortest sequence of button presses that I could make to make four such calls.

(1) First I must press the top of the right top End button to bring up the Contacts menu on my phone.
(2) Then I must press the little metal bar below the OK button twice to get the row for my daughter.
(3) Then I must press the OK button again to bring up my daughter's phone.
(4) Then I must press the OK button again to make a call to my daughter.
(5) Then I must the press the End button to end the call.
(6) Then I must press the OK button again to call again my daughter.
(7) Then I must the press the End button to end the call.
(8) Then I must press the top left metal bar next to the OK button to move to my wife's record in the Contact list.
(9) Then I must press the OK button again to dial my wife.
(10) Then I must press the End button to end the phone call.
(11) Then I must press the OK button again to dial my wife again.
(12) Then I must press the End button again to end the call.

Now, on my humble Samsung cell phone there are 21 possible button presses I can make, counting each of the possible buttons I can press. You see only 15 buttons in the photo below, but the metal square around the OK button has four bars, which each is like a separate button.  And the button on the top left and top right are "two in one" buttons. So what is the probability of getting the sequence of 13 keystrokes above by chance? It would seem to be about 1 in 21 to the thirteenth power. That is a probability of 1 in 1.5447238 X 10¹⁷, less than one chance in a quintillion. 

There might have been a higher chance if somehow my old cell phone had been infected by some type of computer virus. But the phone had no internet connectivity that I have ever used, and I don't think it has ever connected to the internet.  Also, when the phone calls occurred, I was walking far out of the range of my Internet Wi-FI. 

So we have here an astonishing case that is very hard to explain naturally.  Once again (as in these cases) I have a spooky case suggesting some invisible intelligent agency. 

My humble cell phone

Confounding Cavity

Photo date: September 28, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. We see an orb with a hole. You can see through the hole.

Another Day, Another "Spooked" Device

I get spooky things happening with devices around my house. They include the following:

(1) Sixteen cases of the flashlight on the back of my Samsung tablet device turning on even though the tablet was turned off (I know of no way to turn on the flashlight at the back of the tablet when the tablet is turned off); and also a case yesterday of the tablet turning itself off by itself.
(2) Fifteen cases of an electric toothbrush turning on mysteriously when I was far away from it, and no one else was touching it.
(3) Four cases of a toilet flushing by itself, twice on October 31, 2016, and twice on October 21, 2017 (the toilet is a type with no tank and no float, the two things needed for naturally occurring "ghost flushing," and the toilet requires a very firm hand movement to flush).
(4) One case of a lamp turning on by itself many months ago (the lamp is a very sturdy type of lamp that was directly plugged into the wall, and the lamp requires a firm press of a switch to turn on). The lamp and socket have worked flawlessly since then.
 (5) More than ten cases in which it seemed as if a TV remote was being pressed when my body wasn't touching it, including this  astonishing case in which a television remote several feet to my left (face-up) somehow acted as if a sequence of 14 different buttons had been pressed on the remote.

Yesterday another device in my home was acting spooky, as if some invisible force was playing with it. The device is a sound machine I have, a device that can make various types of soothing sounds that may help you fall asleep. I leave the machine running all day to help drown out traffic noise. Yesterday during waking hours the machine would repeatedly turn off by itself, and in such cases I would see that the "Power" button in the middle was no longer lit. Now, normally if you turn off the power button, the machine will remember which of the "sound channels" you had last used. So if you switch to the "Waterfall" sound channel, and then turn off the power, the machine will keep making the "Waterfall" sound when you turn back on the power. But yesterday I twice observed the sound machine both turning off and switching channels all by itself.  I never use the "Rainforest" channel, but two times yesterday (while I was on the "Waterfall" channel)  the machine turned off by itself and also switched to the "Rainforest" channel, so that I got the "Rainforest" channel when pressing only the "Power" button to turn the machine back on. After seeing this, I tested whether the machine would still remember the last "sound channel" that was playing after you turn the power off and on; and it did so for each of the six sound channels.  I was alone in my apartment when this happened.

First 1 Orb Hole, Then 2, Then 3, Then 2, Then 1

Photo date: September 28, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Today I was photographing ordinary pure, clean water falling against a dark background. At first I saw nothing unusual, except for the orb shapes I almost always get when photographing water drops. But after a few such ordinary photos, I noticed that the orbs now had one hole in them.  I took this picture at 11:39 AM.

A few seconds later, I started to get orbs with two holes. Below is one of the photos, taken at 11:39 AM:

Then at 11:40 I started to get orbs with three holes, as shown below:

But by 11:42 there were only two holes in the orbs, as shown below:

By 11:44 the orbs had only one hole as shown below:

A few minutes later the photos showed no more holes in the orbs.

We see here an interesting effect in which the number of holes in each orb rises, and then falls.

A Striped Sky Orb

Photo date: September 23, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a striped orb I photographed in the sky.

There was no fog mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Video: 500 Mysterious Striped Orbs

I have just added to youtube.com a 25-minute video compiling more than 500 photos I have taken of mysterious striped orbs between 2015 and 2018.  You can watch the video using the link below. I suggest clicking on the icon at the lower right to watch the video in full screen, and I also suggest turning up your sound to hear the music by Lee Rosevere.

Press the arrow button above to play the video.

The photos are all authentic and unaltered photos I took myself, like all content on this blog. Except for a small fraction of the photos which were taken while photographing pure, clean water drops falling, the photos were taken in ordinary clean, dry air indoors and outdoors.  You can see the original posts describing these photos by using this link and this link, while continuing to press the "Older Posts" link at the bottom right.

A Double-Striped Orb

Photo date: September 17, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. See here for other photos I have taken of mysterious orbs with two stripes.

A Striped Sky Orb

Photo date: September 14, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky, one of nearly 600 mysterious striped orbs I have photographed as shown here.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

It's Like Some Invisible Presence Is Pressing My TV Remotes

I get many types of inexplicable occurrences other than mysterious orbs that show up in my photos. My series of 18 posts here lists some of these strange events. One of the types of strange things I see happening involves my television set. I will repeatedly get the television acting as if one or more buttons on a TV remote was pressed, even though no such button was pressed by me. Here are some examples. I may note that I have two remotes, a black remote and a gray remote. The examples below all occurred while I was alone in my living room. 

April  9, 2018: On this day there occurred the very inexplicable event described in this post, in which a screen came up on my TV that required 14 different presses on my black remote, a remote I wasn't even touching at the time.  

April 21, 2018: I was watching TV with the black remote about a foot from my leg, and suddenly the TV picture is lost – it's just how the screen would look if someone pressed the button 2 on the black remote.

May 26, 2018: I was holding the black remote, and my finger was on the volume decrease button. At this instant the TV switches so the picture is lost. The TV now shows just what I would have seen if I had pressed the 8 button. That button is several buttons away on the control from the volume decrease button.

May 31, 2018: I see the “Scene Select” menu come up on my TV, just as it would if I had pressed the “Scene” button on my black remote. I had not pressed the button, and the remote was not in my hand.

June 26, 2018: When I came back from going to the bathroom, I found the TV was on the “Light Classical” station, channel 1950. I never switch to that station. The last channel I had chosen was  channel 1943, “Soundscapes.” An accidental switch to this station would have required an accidental 7 pushes of the Next button on the remote (or a pushing of the 1, 9, 5, and 0 buttons).

July 6, 2018: The channel changed from 80 to 1 while I was not touching any remote.

August 16, 2018: The “Settings” menu comes up on the TV. I was not holding the remote that has a button that can bring up this menu.

August 20, 2018: I turn to channel 1943 on the TV, the instrumental “Soundscapes” channel, so I can finish a blog post with minimal distraction. After spending about an hour on the post, without touching any remote, I look up at the TV, and it is now on channel 1947 “Singers and Swing.” 

August 31, 2018: I was holding the gray remote, with the TV on channel 83, and suddenly the channel changes to channel 1. My finger wasn't next to any of the buttons that could have been used to make such a change.

September 5, 2018: I pick up the black remote but did not press any of its buttons. I then look at the TV, and see that it has changed from channel 82 to channel 1000. I can only change channels with the gray remote.

September 14, 2018: I was standing while pointing the gray remote at the TV with my finger on the volume button. Suddenly the TV changes so that there is a blank screen with 1 in the right corner. This is what I will get only if I press the 1 button on the black remote. But the black remote was three feet behind me, on the sofa. 

Postscript: I read online various cases of people who experienced TV channels switching when they didn't press the remote. The explanations suggested seem to be all just speculations.  One explanation is an infrared signal from a passing truck. I live on the seventh floor, so that doesn't work as an explanation here. Another explanation is a remote signal from some other apartment passing through the wall. But it seems the signals from remotes cannot pass through thick walls. The diagram below shows a test I tried. When I was in the position marked by the green circle, the remote would change the channel. But when I was in the position marked by the red circle, the remote would not change the channel, regardless of which direction I pressed the remote. 

Additional incident:  On September 26, 2018 when I was playing a video game, using the TV as the video display screen, I held the video game controller in my hands, and the black remote was on the sofa six inches to the right of me. Suddenly the TV turned off. I hadn't touched the remote. There's no way of turning off the TV using the video game controller. When I play a game using the TV there's no reliance on cable TV, and the cable TV box didn't look like it does when there's a cable TV outage.

Sky Strangeness

Photo date: September 4, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed near a building in New York.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Orb Nuzzling Spire?

Photo date: July 8, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near the top of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Indoor Anomalies

Photo date: September 9, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. In the one on the right, we see an alignment between the wall edge and the orb's stripe on the left side.

Baffling Bands

Photo date: September 7, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious striped orbs I photographed indoors.

Pellucid Enigma

Photo date: September 4, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.

Spooky Stripe

Photo date: September 3, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors, one of 500+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

Swift Somethings

Below we see speeding orbs that I photographed today and on August 29, 2018.