Are Green Orbs Attracted to Smartphones?

 Photo date: October 30, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious green orb  I photographed indoors, near a smartphone. 

It is interesting that the orb is the same color and at almost the exact position where I photographed a green orb three days earlier:

A Striped Orb

 Photo date: October 28, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious striped  I photographed indoors. 

Yet Another Dream in Which I Seemed to Know Some Fact I Had Never Learned

 In my previous post "Can You Know in a Dream Some Fact You Never Learned When Awake?" I discuss two interesting cases in which I seemed to know something in a dream that I had never previously learned while awake.  In one of the dreams Betty White rejected a romantic overture from Allen Ludden, something that happened in real life, but I had not learned about before having the dream. (The two eventually married.)  In another dream someone seemed to know that a marmoset was a tree dweller, even though at the time I had the dream I did not know this fact, and could not even identify what a marmoset was upon waking from the dream.  In another post I describe a similar dream of this type. I seemed to know in the dream that pi (the ratio of the circumference and the diameter of a circle) is important in solving a particular problem, although I did not know this fact before the dream.

Last night it was a similar situation. I dreamed I had borrowed two books from the library: a novel, and a biography of the late novelist Toni Morrison. I did not know before the dream that anyone had written a biography of Toni Morrison. After awakening, I confirmed that someone (actually more than one person) had written a biography of Toni Morrison. 

A Green Orb

 Photo date: October 27, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious green orb  I photographed indoors. 

The colors I get most commonly are:

• Blue orbs (1500+ photos)
• Green orbs (275+ photos)
• Yellow orbs (190+ photos)
• Pink orbs (215 photos)
• Orange orbs (250+ photos)
• Purple orbs (487 photos)

Striped Orbs

 Photo date: October 25, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

On the same day I got the striped orb below

Orange Orb Shows Up for the Grand Central Scene

 Photo date: October 25, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

There's a rather interesting story behind this photo. The place I have had the most luck in photographing mysterious orbs is Grand Central Terminal in New York, where I have got 1000+ photos of mysterious orbs, as you can see here (keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom to see the whole series).  On the 25th  I was watching an episode of the TV series "Mr. Robot," and the episode had a scene at Grand Central. I thought to myself: why not take a few photos, maybe I'll get some more "Grand Central" magic. Sure enough, after taking a few photos of my TV screen and the wall to its left, I got this photo which has a background of the wall to my left of my TV. 

Phantom Foot?

 I have in my bathroom one of those little waste baskets with a top lid and a little foot pedal at the bottom which you can press to lift the lid. It  is very convenient, because I can dispose of paper by just pressing the little pedal with my foot. That causes the lid to rise, and as soon as I take my foot off the pedal, the lid drops, making a little sound as it finishes dropping.

A few minutes ago I used my foot to open the lid of the waste basket, and dropped a piece of paper in it. I then walked a few feet away, facing in the opposite direction, to use the toilet.  Suddenly I heard a little noise from the direction of the waste basket. It was just exactly the sound that would have been made if someone had used his foot on the pedal to open the lid of the waste basket, and then taken his foot away. But there was no one else in the bathroom, and I was facing in the opposite direction, a few feet away. 

This anomaly I can never recall witnessing in the years I have lived at my current location; and the waste  basket has been in the bathroom the entire time. 

Postscript: The next morning (October 26) I was very surprised to see the sight we see below, which I did not arrange. It is a sheet of paper I had placed on my coffee table late on the previous night, having written a line on it.  Now the sheet was "standing up" on the floor, with only the bottom of the sheet touching the floor. What are the odds against that happening accidentally? Maybe the white sheet is some kind of ghost symbolism. Around Halloween ghosts are often depicted using white sheets of cotton. 

Post-postscript: On the same day I saw the anomaly shown above, I witnessed a stove fan turning off by itself while I was cooking some spaghetti, standing in front of the stove. I have seen this anomaly a few times before, and my post here describes something exactly the same occurring on March 22, 2025, when I was also cooking spaghetti. This mysterious turning off of the stove fan also occurred on March 16, 2024, as described here, when I was also cooking spaghetti.  My wife (who uses the stove much  more often than I do) was about five meters away. I asked whether she had ever seen the stove fan turn off by itself after she had turned it on. She said no, she had not. I cook grilled cheese sandwiches and salmon burgers just as often or more as I cook spaghetti. 

There are fancy digital programmable range hoods that allow someone to program a shut off after a specified interval. But the range hood I have seems to be a simpler affair offering no such possibility. Its only control buttons are the ones shown below.

An interesting speculation is that some of these hard-to-explain events are examples of after-death communication from my late father. In all of the last three cases I have recorded of the stove fan mysteriously switching off, while also recording what I was cooking, we have a turning off of a green light on a panel while I was cooking pasta (spaghetti being a type of pasta). And the spooky note found "standing up" involved paper.  Of course, those could all just be phonics coincidences. 

(The sense of the paragraph above may be lost to those reading a non-English translation of this page. In English the word "pa" means "father," and the words "panel," "pasta" and "paper" all begin with the same syllable, which by itself means "father." But in other languages that may be different.)

An Orb With the Letter "Y"

 Photo date: October 23, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Striped Orbs

 Photo date: October 22, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: October 20, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

Mysterious Green Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 1)

 Below is Part 1 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious green orbs.

We see below a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors.

Below we see a mysterious green orb I photographed in front of some books.

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

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

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

Below we see a mysterious green orb that appeared in front of a white chair.

Below we see some mysterious green orbs that I photographed indoors.

Sunday Speed

 Photo date: October 19, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below what looks like a fast-moving orb I photographed indoors. It looks like it was making a fast turn. 

Ghosts in the News, Part 8

 Here is the latest in a series of videos I am making, a series of videos showing newspaper accounts of apparition reports. 

If you have any difficulty using the embedded video above, use the link here. 

To see the previous videos in this "Ghosts in the News" series, use the links below.

Ghosts in the News, Part 7

Ghosts in the News, Part 6

Ghosts in the News, Part 5

Ghosts in the News, Part 4

Ghosts in the News, Part 3

Ghosts in the News, Part 2

Ghosts in the News, Part 1

Colorful Edges

 Photo date: October 15, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a bright mysterious orb with colorful edges, one orange and one purple. 

Paranormal Portent?

Portent (noun): a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.

Before I had my current smartphone, I had an old-fashioned cell phone, and I used to get an issue of "phantom dialing," in which some random number might be called. The phenomenon can be explained by random presses of the keys of the cell phone, caused by random contacts of the elevated key buttons with my clothes. But I've used an Apple smartphone for many months, and never seemed to get (prior to this week) any such issue of unexpected activity on the phone, even though for many months I have carried my smartphone in my pocket during a daily walk. Part of the reason is that my smartphone locks me out after a short interval, throwing up a login screen requiring a password before accepting inputs. 

But yesterday very oddly after returning from my walk while carrying my smartphone, I was very surprised to see on my smartphone the screen below, which I had not knowingly summoned. It is an "Alarms" screen I can never recall seeing before on the smartphone. 

Searching for how to reach this screen, I see that it requires special activity from my smartphone startup screen. To reach the screen above, you have to open a Clock app, one I can never recall previously using.  I do not have that app on my smartphone startup screen.  So for someone from my smartphone to accidentally get the Alarm screen above, he would have to first press a small slot at the bottom of my phone, and then press a small Clock icon (a combination of events that would be extremely improbable to occur by accident). And since the default tab on this Clock app is the World Clock tab and not the Alarms tab, it would seem to require an additional click in just the right place, to get the Alarms screen from the Clock app. And it seems that no accident would allow that, as my phone's login screen would block such presses from occurring accidentally. 

Given the great improbability of accidentally reaching the screen shown above while having no intention of doing so, I must therefore consider a spooky possibility: that the hard-to-explain appearance of the Alarms screen that I saw was a kind of paranormal omen, harbinger or portent, a vague warning that presages some future event that is a cause for alarm. On the same day this happened, I had a dream about a very alarming event that might happen in the future. I won't mention what that event was, to avoid alarming the reader. 

Postscript: This morning I had another dream that may have been a warning of a future calamity. The dream was vivid.  High up in some tall tower, I could see far away three raging fires, and huge columns of black smoke rising up from these distant fires. Then in the dream there was a huge shower of rocks that I could see from the tower windows, rocks falling upon the building I was in and the surrounding area, rocks falling from the sky. 

Post-postscript: On the 17th (a few days after publishing this post) the Alarm screen anomaly recurred. This time I did not notice it after a walk. A few minutes after viewing a text from someone on my phone, while in my home, I was surprised again to see the Alarms screen shown as above (I having made no conscious attempt to access the Clock app producing the screen). On this phone there is no feature automatically causing an app you previously accessed to be more readily accessible. For the Alarms screen to have shown up on this day, there again would have had to have occurred (within a very short time, maybe two minutes) some two accidental touches of the phone which both would have an improbability of about 1 in 100, there being about 1 chance in 10,000 of their combined occurrence.  

An Orb With Two Letters

 Photo date: October 10, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a black TV screen which had only the message "To turn the screen back on, press any button except for the power button." Strangely the orb seems to have both the letter L and the letter S. 

A few minutes before taking this photo of my TV screen, I saw an object mysteriously fall from the ledge in front of the TV, at a moment when I was about two meters away. The windows of the room were closed,  and no fan was running. The object that fell was symbolically meaningful, in a way I won't explain at this time. 

A Striped Green Orb

Photo date: October 11, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. This is the 50th time I have photographed a mysterious orb with this type of diagonal slash stripe. To see 49 other examples of this pattern, see the "Diagonal Slash Pattern" section of my post here. 

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: October 8, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

An Orb With Two Stripes

 Photo date: October 5, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

He Said He Recently Saw a Spooky Foot-Sized Orb in His House

 The site "Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone" recently gave this account from a witness who told it to Stan, telling him it occurred on August 25, 2025:

"That is when the witness observed a round ball of light, about ten to twelve inches in diameter, about 8-10 feet distance from him. The object was motionless and hovering about three to four feet above the floor near the window.

The object itself looked whitish gray in color and seemed translucent especially in the outer edge area. In the center area of the object there what looked like pulses of static electricity, or lightning bolts that were whitish blue in color.

Seconds later the object just vanished. The witness thought this was possibly due to the object sensing that he was close by. Moments later from outside by the window there was a bright glow illuminating that area. There were blinds on the window so he could not see the source.

The witness quickly opened the back door and looked out. There were no cars in that area, and the glow had vanished. The sighting only lasted a few seconds. No odd smell or sound reported."

The article includes a sketch by the witness, showing a foot-sized sphere with little pulses of energy coming from it, rather like the little spikes that protrude from a lightning bolt.  Stan says this:

"These mystery orbs also have a history of being observed by researchers and witnesses in wooded locations that have a history of Bigfoot activity. I have been receiving reports for years on similar occurrences taking place around the country from Bigfoot investigators."

A Speeding Blue Orb

 Photo date: October 5, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below what looks like a blue orb traveling very fast. The camera seems to have captured three position states of a single orb moving at a high velocity.  It is another example of the "orb string of pearls" effect I have photographed 100 previous times, as you can see here. 

Ghost or Wi-fi?

 This morning I had the latest of more than 500 dreams I have had suggesting life after death.  The dream was of some person suggesting that electronic devices should be used to get evidence of ghosts. 

I remembered I had an old milligauss reader that can read very low levels of magnetism. The device is sometimes sold as a "ghost detector." I turned on the device, and got a reading of 4 milligauss, which persisted whenever I used the device on the first floor, although the reading would sometimes very briefly drop back to 0. 

But could this be caused by my wi-fi? A Google search on the topic ("Does Wifi produce milligauss?) tells us that a wi-fi router will produce only .5 milligauss at a distance of one meter from the router. 

I tried taking the reading in my backyard, and the reading drops to 0 milligauss. Walking up to the second and third floors of the house I live in, I also got a reading of 0 milligauss, even though I often make use of wi-fi on the second floor, as does someone on the third floor. On a second try I verified that on both the 2nd and 3rd floors today you can use wi-fi, even though the reading on both floors was 0 milligauss. 

I am left with the puzzling anomaly of why the first floor is producing a reading of 4 milligauss different from the 0 milligauss on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Wi-fi does not seem to be the answer. Turning on or turning off the wi-fi router on the 1st floor seemed to have no effect on the milligauss readings. 

Last night I saw another example of what I have seen before at night. The very thick window curtains blocking the back window of my bedroom had mysteriously slightly parted a bit in their middle, causing a beam of light to fall to the left of my bed, one I do not normally see. No human had  parted the curtains in their middle, and the window behind the curtain was closed, with no fan running.  

Postscript: In the week after writing this post, I took daily readings with the device shown above. The readings on the first floor showed a dropping from 4 milligauss to about 3 milligauss, with 3 milligauss being the reading on October 11, even when the wi-fi router was off on the first floor. In the next week the reading gradually declined to about 2 milligauss, and the reading on October 18 was 2 milligauss,  even when the wi-fi router was off on the first floor.

The reading of the device has stayed in the "red zone/" slightly above 2 milligauss, throughout October and November 2025. 

Another Green Orb

  Photo date: October 1, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below is a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors. 

A Mysterious Green Orb

 Photo date: September 30, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below is a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors. 

A Green Orb

 Photo date: September 30, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below is a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors. 

Many of My Dreams Cause Me to Suspect They Have an Afterlife Source

I noticed that  my post "12 Possible Ways the Deceased Might Signal or Communicate With the Living" has recently got heavy readership. Examining the post (which you can read here), I realized I had failed to describe one way such signaling or communication might occur. So I updated the title to "13 Possible Ways..." and added this paragraph as item 13:

"13. Dreams Symbolizing the Idea of Life After Death

Since I started recording my dreams in 2021, I have had more than 500 dreams that seemed to symbolize life after death. A full numbered list of these dreams (including a description of each of them) is found in my long post 'I Keep Dreaming of Danger, Death and Life After Death,' which you can read here. What is the source of such dreams? A reasonable guess is that they come telepathically from one or more deceased persons. Imagine you had died, and found yourself in an afterlife, where you had a weak power to telepathically communicate with your family members still living on Earth,  with the communication occurring best during dreams. You might use that power to cause such persons to have dreams that seemed to symbolize life after death. That would be a way that you could provide hints of the good news that the soul survives death." 

Besides 170+ dreams in which my late father appeared, and 150+ dreams in which my late mother appeared, I have had very many dreams that seemed to be kind of subtle symbolic suggestions from one or more of my deceased relatives. 

 A recent dream I had seemed to vividly suggest the idea of life after death.  In the dream I walked up to the second floor of the house I live in, and someone announced that my deceased eldest sister was here, with a tone of voice suggesting that this was something spooky or supernatural. In the dream I saw my deceased sister on the other side of a living room, standing in a corner of the room; and. I walked up to her and hugged her. In the dream I seemed to have an understanding that she had previously died, and in the dream I was thinking thoughts such as "It's so amazing that you were able to visit us."