Orange Speed?

Photo date: May 7, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orange shape I photographed indoors. It seems like a rather oval shape that seems to be moving fast. 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 15)

Below is Part 15 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

The photo below shows quite a few mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photos below show various mysterious blue orbs that I photographed near wreaths in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb that appeared near a restaurant area in Grand Central Terminal.

The photo below shows two mysterious blue orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal, both of which seem to be at the same altitude, and both near the top of a window.

The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal. The one on the right seems to be moving fast.

The photos below show four mysterious orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photos below show two mysterious orbs that I photographed near Christmas wreaths in Grand Central Terminal.

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: May 6 2026.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors near an air conditioner. 

 In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Netflix series "High Seas" two characters start talking about life after death. I started to take some photos, hoping to get something spooky during the brief conversation mentioning life after death. I did get an orb in a photo at the exact moment a character mentioned the phrase "near death experience." At the exact moment that one character was saying that when someone dies, it may be that "their spirit remains with us," I got a very spooky-looking effect in my photo of the TV screen. It could conceivably have been caused by my hand accidentally making a sudden jerk at that moment. But my hand is almost invariably steady when I photograph, and I bet I could take 500 consecutive photos of a TV without such an effect repeating. 

A Green Sky Orb

 Photo date: May 4, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed outdoors. There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The sky was clear, and the camera was pointed straight up at the sky, where no visible moon could be seen. 

A Very Long-Distance Telepathy Test

 In my "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022, which you can read here, I describe how informal telepathy tests between me and my daughters have sometimes had remarkable successes. I only very rarely do such a test, which I will casually try in the form of a guessing game. Maybe once every few months I will ask a daughter to guess what unusual thing I saw, or what thing I dreamed about. The only such test I made recently was one involving a single question, with the unusual variation of being a very long-distance test. 

While one of my daughters was thousands of miles away recently on a trip, I texted her, telling her I had a dream about a game, and asking her to guess which game it was. I got back a guess of "Skyrim," one of very many video games I have played. I texted back saying that was a good guess, but the dream I had was actually about the board game Monopoly. 

I then got back a text from this daughter saying, "Oh, wow, I was actually thinking that for a second but thought it would be hard to have a dream about Monopoly." So apparently the long distance telepathy test was a success. 

In my post here I discuss a casual method for testing telepathy between family members and friends. It involves doing a quick "what did I see?" or "what did I dream?" guessing game, in which the guesser gets three guesses. I have noticed a kind of "warmup" effect in such tests, in which the guesser often gives the correct answer on the second or third try.

My "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022 (which discusses some striking successes in such casual ESP tests) does not even discuss quite a few much earlier examples that very strongly seemed like ESP or telepathy between myself and family members,  which are discussed in my "Spookiest Observations" post here. 

The evidence for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy in humans is overwhelming, and you can read about that evidence in my series of 81 posts here (keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right to read them all).  The evidence consists of both a gigantic wealth of anecdotal reports, and also a huge body of compelling experimental evidence done in laboratory conditions. An example of the latter is the "better than a smoking gun" Riess test described here. 

You may want to test telepathy on someone who disbelieves in it, and such a person may shun participation in guessing games. An alternate technique is to pose something as a puzzle, and challenge the person to give the one-word answer to the puzzle with an answer hard to guess. One way to do such a thing is to ask a person to give the final word of a joke, one that finishes the "punchline" of the joke. I can give an example. You can tell this joke and ask the person to give the word that completes the joke.  Give the person 20 seconds to answer, and during this time think silently of the answer. 

"John was a single 35-year-old man with a very sick widower father, a father who was very rich. John expected to soon inherit the father's millions. One day John went into a bar, hoping to attract interest from a female.  He met a sexy young woman and told her about how his father was very rich, and very ill. 'I speak the truth,' said John. 'Lots of people in this town know how rich my father is.' Instead of continuing to talk with John, the woman simply said, 'Nice talking to you,' and left. John was disappointed. Three weeks later the woman became John's __________."

The word that completes the joke is hard to guess. It is "stepmother."  

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. 

Spooky Trifecta

 Tonight I was alone in the house where I normally enjoy the splendid company of my wife and one or more of my daughters. As I ate I enjoyed watching a youtube.com video entitled Twilight Zone (1959): 15 Weird Facts You Didn't Know. Before, during and after my watching of the video about the weird, spooky world of TV's Twilight Zone, I saw some weird, spooky things. Specifically:

(1) Upon walking up to the kitchen, I was surprised to see a light was on on the floor above the kitchen. No such light had been on when I had lunch using that kitchen, and no one else had entered the house since that time. 

(2) While I was cooking some spaghetti, the exhaust fan above the stove (and its green indicator light) mysteriously turned off. 

(3) Later in the evening a protective hat/helmet that was hanging very securely on a hook rack was mysteriously dislodged, with the hat/helmet crashing to the ground with a loud noise (while there was no change in the hook rack that had held the hat/helmet). No one was in the room where this occurred, and no one had been in it for quite a few minutes. I heard the sound of the hat/helmet crashing to the ground as I sat on a couch several meters away in the adjacent room. The hat/helmet had been hung on two hooks of the hook rack several hours earlier, and had not been touched for hours. 

All of these types of events I have seen before. As discussed here, I have seen three times before (in 2025 and 2024) the fan above the stove mysteriously turn off, always when I was cooking spaghetti. The hat/helmet has mysteriously crashed to the ground one previous time. I have seen many cases of lights mysteriously turning on or off, as you can read about in the series of 35+ posts here. 

Below we see what the hat/helmet looked like when it was on the hook rack that held it. 

And below we see what the hook rack looked like after the black hat/helmet had fallen to the ground. 

You can see from this side view how far out these hooks protrude, making a "just naturally fell off the hooks" explanation seemingly untenable. No breeze would have ever caused a heavy plastic hat/helmet to fall off hooks protruding out this far. 

I cannot imagine any natural explanation of what would have caused such a fall. No one was in the room that had the hook rack shown above. The room's door was closed, and its windows also closed. 

All I can do is chuckle, and say, "It's a Twilight Zone kind of evening."

I can think of one optimistic interpretation here. The mysteriously fallen hat/helmet symbolized protection. It's a hat/helmet like baseball first-base coaches wear to protect themselves from foul balls. I bought the hat a few months ago to protect my head from injury if I ever slip and fall to the ground while walking outside, as people my age sometimes do. So maybe an inexplicable mysterious event involving a symbol of protection is a supernatural sign that I have some degree of protection from a mysterious power, conceivably  some power rather like a guardian angel. 

Postscript: The event of a light above me seeming to have mysteriously turned on was repeated the next Tuesday. I left for a not very long walk in full daylight, locking the front door that is underneath a bright light inhabitants turn on only at night (using an indoor hallway switch). When I returned I was surprised to see that light was on. No one else was in the house. The light is sufficiently bright that failing to notice it being on when you lock the door is all-but-impossible, even during daytime. 

A Pink Orb

 Photo date: April 16, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Skeptic Would Say, "It Must Have Just Fallen Out of Your Deep Pocket"

 A few minutes ago I had a fond thought of my late father. A few seconds later I went into the bathroom. Standing, I was surprised to hear the sound of a pen falling to my left, landing on the ground.

How to explain this strange event? I had used the pen earlier to mark on a calendar that I had taken a pill. After I do that, I normally put the pen back in my pen holder cup on the living room table. Conceivably I could have failed to follow my normal habit, and left the pen in my pocket. And conceivably the pen could have fallen out of my deep jeans pocket that is about six inches deep, the same size as the six-inch pen.

But what is the chance of both of those things happening? I'm reminded of when I was questioned as a young boy for walking in the halls during classes without a hall pass you were supposed to get before doing such walking. I claimed that I had got such a pass, but that it "must have fallen out of my pocket."  Some school authority made a skeptical face, saying something like, "Come on -- things don't just fall out of your pocket." 

An alternate explanation here is a Potential Spiritual Manifestation involving some power with the ability to make mysterious movements of matter, with the event being related to the thought of my late father. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: April 13, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Tilt your face to the right a bit, and you may see what faintly looks like a smiling face with eyes closed. 

None of Us Seeded or Planted These Purple Flowers

 My late mother's favorite color was purple, and she was very fond of wearing purple clothes. The last conversation I had with the first born of my sisters (occurring quite a few years ago, shortly before she died) was one involving the paranormal and a purple flower. I asked my sister whether she had ever experienced something paranormal or something she could not explain. She told me she had some experience involving a purple flower she could not explain. It seems that after my mother's death there were some purple flowers that had appeared  unexpectedly in my sister's garden, and a purple flower that had survived way longer than expected. I cannot recall precisely all the details, but I remember my sister saying that a purple flower from her garden had survived for years in her refrigerator. My sister seemed to think that such things may have been some supernatural or paranormal sign related to my mother.

On June 1, 2022 I had the 67th dream I have had of my mother since mid-November 2020, when I started recording my dreams.  (By now I have had 167 dreams of her.) The dream was a realistic one. In the dream I was in a store, talking to some woman named Yolande. In the dream, after pointing to some Christmas decorations, I accurately described my mother's Christmas decoration habits, which were to fill the house with Christmas decorations during the time from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day.  How very strange that the name "Yolande" should appear in my dream. Prior to the dream, I had (as best I can recall) never spoken that name, and could not identify anyone (fictional or real) who had that name. Not knowing what the name meant, I looked up the meaning of the name Yolande, and found that it is a name meaning "violet flower."  

I thought it strange that again we should have an association between my mother and purple flowers. On July 11, 2022 I had another dream about my mother. I dreamed that I found unlocked both the front door and front gate of the house where I now live. In the dream I looked around and found my mother kneeling in the back yard, as if she was gardening. Remembering the previous association with purple flowers and my mother, I made in my mind around that time a prediction. I predicted that purple flowers would mysteriously appear in my back yard, even though no one had planted any flowers in the back yard. 

Purple flowers did mysteriously start growing in my back yard, which is all concrete, except for two planters on one side. In 2022 the flowers started to appear on the left edge of the back yard. You can see photos of the flowers in my post here from 2022 and my post here from 2025. It was an astonishing affair of purple flowers kind of "rising up through the little concrete crack." 

This year I see no such purple flowers on the left edge of my concrete back yard. But the two planters on the right side of the yard are now entirely filled with little purple flowers -- purple flowers that arose mysteriously, and were not  planted or seeded by any of the house's residents.  We see some of the flowers below.  The planters have a total area of about 12 square feet. 

I can imagine how unplanted purple flowers might naturally arise in the soil of someone's backyard. Maybe somehow purple flower seeds might get blown by the wind, across the yard, from somewhere else. But in this case we have two planter surfaces that are about a meter above the ground. It would seem very, very difficult for purple flower seeds to rise up so high and land in both of two separated planters. 

Below from my previous posts are some of the purple flowers that I got in previous years in my back yard. None of them were planted or seeded by any of the house's residents. In the first photo we see an amaranth plant. Since ancient times the amaranth plant has been a symbol of immortality. This symbolism arose because the plant was famous for maintaining a vibrant color for very long after it had been cut from the ground. 

Mysterious Yellow Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 3)

 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. 

My photo below from 2019 shows a large mysterious yellow orb.

My photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in 2019. 

My photo below from 2019 shows a transparent yellow orb near a light switch. 

My photo below from 2019 shows  a transparent yellow orb.

 My two photos below from 2019 (taken on the same day) show a mysterious yellow orb with stripes. 

My photo below from 2019 shows  a transparent yellow orb.

Below we see some mysterious orbs I photographed indoors one pink, one yellow, and one green.