One Was Brighter

 Photo date: October 18, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

The previous day I got this photographic anomaly:

When a Spooky Event Occurs, Record What You Were Thinking or Saying

 Over the past 12 hours, I saw two cases of a possible connection between something I was thinking and some spooky thing I observed. 

The first event occurred in the middle of the night. While getting up to go the bathroom, and alone in a bathroom that was dark except for the tiny green light on a GFCI electrical outlet, I thought to myself about a type of observation pattern that may indicate heart trouble. "Get enough of those, and you'll go to the right destination," I thought to myself. The "right destination" I thought of was a heavenly destination of an afterlife.

Within about three seconds after thinking that thought, the light on the GFCI outlet turned off and then very quickly turned back on. 

I can't say that this was a very rare type of event. My post here records more than 70 times (since 2022) that the GFCI outlet light mysteriously turned off and then immediately turned back on, almost all occurring when the bathroom was dark at night. But the synchronicity here was striking. In this case the mysterious turning off and on of the light occurred within about three seconds after I had thought about life after death. How improbable is that?

There was another case of striking synchronicity later in the day. After showering, I thought of a dream I had last night about a planned meeting with my mother at 4:00.  My mother is deceased, but in the dream she was alive. At the very moment I was thinking of this dream, the tension bar holding up my shower curtain collapsed, with the curtain falling to the ground. I cannot recall the previous time such a rod had collapsed, and no such collapse had occurred for many months before today (it seems). 

Again we have some striking synchronicity between my thought and a spooky event, this time with a possible double death motif. When the tension rod collapsed, I was thinking of a meeting with my mother (something that might occur after death in an afterlife). And also there was a collapse of a curtain. In English "curtains" is a slang term for death (and when old people die, it often involves a collapse). 

I seem to sometimes get spooky events that coincide in a relevant way with something I am thinking or saying. For example, as recorded in my post here, just after audibly mentioning that it was my mother's 100th birthday, I was baffled to find a coin on top of a bedspread I had just laid out on a bed, without noticing any such coin.  My post here records a striking case of synchronicity, in which the flashlight on my iPhone (very hard to turn on accidentally) mysteriously turned on within a few  seconds after I mentally speculated about being protected by some supernatural power. My post here records the mysterious turning off of a circuit breaker when I lay in bed thinking of my late father (on a date that turned out to be my late father's birthday).  A case of a smoke alarm acting in a spooky manner coinciding with my thoughts of deceased parents is recorded here.  In my post here, I mention how a light mysteriously flickered at the very moment I was discussing what to do in the case of my death. Later in the same dinner conversation, I saw a different light mysteriously flicker when I mentioned the hypothetical event of my death. 

To a materialist, all such cases are meaningless coincidences. But to someone who is not a materialist, such cases may be regarded as potential evidence that some mysterious unseen power may interact in our world, a power that may be capable of reading our thoughts. 

I can suggest a principle: when you observe some spooky-seeming thing, write down somewhere exactly what happened, and also the exact date and time; and also write down what you were thinking or saying when the spooky thing happened. You may be able to note possibly meaningful or evidential cases of synchronicity. 

Postscript: When I went out for my walk around 3:45 PM, I was kind of suspecting somewhat that I might drop dead on the walk, at about 4:00 PM. After all, I had the dream today of meeting my mother at 4:00 PM, and the quickest way that could happen would be if I died at 4:00 PM today and then went to an afterlife to see her. And the dream had been strongly accentuated by the synchronicity described above. 

I did not die at 4:00 PM, but at what seemed like exactly that time there occurred an odd event of a type I strongly associate with my mother. I forgot to bring my cell phone, so I didn't know the exact time of the event. My best guess is that it occurred within 5 minutes of 4:00 PM. 

What happened was that while walking along, I found on the sidewalk right in my path what seemed like a string of purple flowers (shown below). I picked this up, thinking they were real flowers, and realizing only a few minutes later that they were artificial flowers. 

The association between my mother and purple flowers goes way back, many years. Purple was my mother's favorite color, and she often wore purple clothes. The last conversation I had with my late sister was one in which she stated something to the effect that purple flowers she had not planted had mysteriously shown up in my sister's garden after my mother died; and my sister interpreted this as some spiritual manifestation from my late mother. For four years I have witnessed (against all odds) a strange blooming of purple flowers in the concrete backyard of where I live, flowers not corresponding to any planted flowers or seeds.  You can see examples in my post here and my post here. One of the purple flowers I saw was an amaranth plant. Since ancient times, the amaranth has been a symbol of immortality. 

 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 25)

 Below is Part 25 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

he photo below shows a transparent orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

I took the photo below at Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

My photo below shows two mysterious orbs that rather seem to be mingling with the crowd at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

My photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photo below shows a bright transparent blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

My photo below shows a transparent blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. The orb seems to be behind a light. 

My photo below shows a mysterious blue orb that seems positioned near a baby stroller in Grand Central Terminal.  Let us interpret this as a sign of good fortune (or perhaps it's just orb curiosity).

Merry Mystery?

 Photo date: October 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

"String of Pearls" Orb Motion: A Retrospective (Part 5)

 What I call the "string of pearls" effect is an effect in which a photo seems to show multiple position states of an orb traveling very fast. Below is Part 5 of a retrospective of my photos showing such an effect.

We see below a mysterious speeding orb I photographed  in Grand Central Terminal. We see once again the "string of pearls" effect I have many times photographed, in which we seem to see multiple position states of an object speeding fast. In this case you can count at least 10 individual orb position states that the camera has captured.

I have taken hundreds of photos of speeding orbs at Grand Central Terminal..  The one I photographed below is among the most spectacular I have taken. We see a blue orb that is moving like natural things never move.  At the top we see an extremely sharp turn of about 45 degrees. The camera has captured about 12 position states of an object moving very fast, which results in the "string of pearls" effect I have photographed more than 50 times (as shown here).  

The photo below shows a speeding orb I photographed indoors. 

Below is one of the most astonishing photos I have taken of a speeding orb. The orb has made 4 sharp turns, three of which are right-angle turns. 

The photo below shows at its top a blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal, one that seems to be moving very fast. 

My photo below shows a moving orb changing direction at Grand Central Terminal in New York.  Looking closely, you can see what looks like three different position states of the moving orb, with a kind of translucent trail connecting them. 

The photo below shows an orb I photographed speeding near a window at Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

Anomalous Alarm

Today I heard a very loud alarm from my bathroom. At first I couldn't find the source, but soon I realized it was from a water leak detector I had at the floor of my bathroom, under the sink. The alarm was very loud, and could not be silenced. There was no water at all on the floor of the bathroom that could explain this event. I had bought the alarm less than a year ago. Right next to the alarm was another water leak alarm; and that alarm did not go off. The Amazon page describing the alarm that went off says it merely beeps when the battery is low.

Pressing the "Test" button on the alarm failed to silence it. I tried to get the back off, so I could take out the batteries. The back has very tiny screws that require a special screwdriver. I had quite a few tiny screwdrivers, but none of them could turn the screws on the back. Unable to pull out the batteries, I ended up burying the alarm in a bucket of sand in my tool shed. 

Below is the front and back of the water detector.  

 I recommend against buying this brand by Geevon, as its back is very hard to take off. Other water detectors of this size have a design allowing you to replace the alarm with a mere turn of the wrist. One such model is another model by Geevon, showing three water drops on its front. 

This is just the latest of very many cases I have experienced of lights or devices turning on or off mysteriously. You can read about almost all of them using the link here and pressing Older Posts when you come to the bottom of the page. 

Freaky Flicker

 Recently I was at a birthday dinner party attended by five people. I won't mention whose birthday it was because I have heard that for information security purposes, you should avoid mentioning someone's birthday. Before the event, I had the suspicion that something unusual might happen with the overhead lights on this evening. I had this suspicion because last Valentine's Day, I witnessed overhead lights mysteriously turn off and then turn back on. That incident was described in my post here. 

Just as I had suspected, something very unusual occurred with the overhead lights. The lights very noticeably flickered, dimming before going back to normal. It was a cool day, and this certainly was not a power dip caused by too many people using air conditioners. The overhead lights did not totally turn off, but seemed to briefly dim by perhaps 50% or more. The effect lasted only a second or two. 

This post was written just after observing the effect described above, but auto-scheduled for publication at a later date. 

Below is a mysterious orb I photographed indoors today.

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 24)

Below is Part 24 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

My photo below shows an entrance of Grand Central Terminal in New York. The strange blue orb floating about is highly transparent.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal. We can rather seem to faintly see an eerie face tilted to the left, a face including two big eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

The photo below shows a blue orb I photographed near a window at the top of Grand Central Terminal. The orb seems to be doing some odd pulsation.  See here for 5 other photos of pulsating orbs.

The photo below shows two mysterious blue orbs that I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

I took the two photos below about 40 seconds apart at Grand Central Terminal in New York. They both show a mysterious blue orb at the same sign.  There were about 8 intervening photos that showed no such orb in front of the sign.  See here for similar cases of orbs reappearing at the same spot.

In my photo below we see two orbs next to a temporary advertising sign in Grand Central Terminal. It looks as if one of the orbs is inside the other.

I took the photos below at Grand Central Terminal in New York on January 9, 2017 and January 11, 2017. They both show the same little spot in the station.  In both we see a mysterious blue orb underneath the red light. Are blue orbs attracted to red lights?

Synchronicity When the Light Mysteriously Turned On

I just returned from a trip to the local library. I followed my usual habit of borrowing almost entirely books written by people who teach things I disbelieve in and who mostly have viewpoints the opposite of mine. This is a big difference between the reading habits of myself and the typical materialist or scientist, who seems to limit himself to studying things written by people with the same worldview as himself.  I typically spend at least an hour a day reading articles or papers by those with viewpoints the opposite of my own. 

When I returned back to my living quarters, I put on a hook a plastic baseball hat/helmet like the ones that baseball first base coaches wear to protect their heads from foul balls. Doing that, I remembered the interesting incident described here, in which such a hat/helmet mysteriously fell off of a hook that should have held it very securely. 

I had interpreted the event as some possible spiritual manifestation that symbolized protection, as such a hat/helmet is used for head protection. Remembering the event, I thought to myself, "He's got me covered," using an English phrase that refers to protection. I was thinking of some mysterious power that might be acting as a force of protection. In the thought, my use of "he" was vague. I was engaging in cheerful speculation, merely in my own mind. 

Within five seconds after thinking such a thought, I noticed something very strange. I was holding my iPhone, and I was very surprised to see that the flashlight at the back of my iPhone was now on. I never use that flashlight; I did not intentionally turn it on, and did not previously know how to turn it on. I had to query my phone for information on how to turn off that flashlight on the back of my iPhone. 

There is on my iPhone no physical button that turns on the phone's flashlight. And there is on my iPhone startup screen no icon that turns on the phone's flashlight. My iPhone's startup screen look like this:

According to an Apple page, you can supposedly turn on the flashlight by clicking on one of the icons on the bottom row, and audibly asking "Siri" to turn on the flashlight. I did not do that to turn on the flashlight, and did not know until after this event that you could do that. The same page says that you can turn on the flashlight by doing these steps:

"1. Swipe down from the upper-right corner to open Control Center on your iPhone ..

2. Tap the Flashlight button."

I did not know that you could do this. When I tried it, it worked to turn on the flashlight. The required direction of the finger swipe is shown by the red arrow below:

The method above requires a special combination of two finger actions, each acting very precisely in a specific way. It seems all but impossible that any accidental movements of an iPhone would ever produce the combination of these two effects to turn on the flashlight. 

I've had this phone for years, and have long taken it with me on my daily walks. I can't recall ever finding before today the flashlight of the phone turned on mysteriously. 

The light mysteriously turning on seemingly within a few seconds after my thought of "he's got me covered" (referring to some mysterious protective power) is a striking example of synchronicity, and possible evidence that my upbeat speculative thought was correct. 

Postscript: My wife has used the iPhone for years. I asked her whether she had ever seen the flashlight on the iPhone accidentally turn on. She said no. 

Mysterious Green Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 7)

 Below is Part 7 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious green orbs.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We see features that rather bring to mind the idea of a winking face. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious green orb I photographed in front of some furniture.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  Its color seems to be different on the bottom part. 

We see below a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors, in front of a wooden chest. 

Spooky Screen

 Photo date: September 22, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a TV set that was turned off. 

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: September 20, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb Moving at 500 Miles an Hour?

 The US government has just released Tranche Six of its disclosure efforts related to UFOs and UAPs. Part of the release is the video you can see using the link here. We see a video showing what looks like a little white ball that is moving at extraordinary speeds. We read this: "An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D107, described the UAP as “look[ing] like a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.”

The little white ball appears quite small in the video. But it seems to be moving at amazing speeds.  I won't provide a screen shot (which will look unimpressive). But if you watch the video using the link above, you may say: "Wow." 

Spooky Stop

Today I  witnessed a stove fan turning off by itself while I was cooking some spaghetti, standing a few feet from the stove, with no one else near it. I have seen this anomaly at least five times before, and my post here describes something exactly the same occurring on March 22, 2025, when I was also cooking spaghetti, and on October 6, 2025. This mysterious turning off of the stove fan also occurred on March 16, 2024, as described here, when I was also cooking spaghetti, and on October 25, 2025, as described here, when I was also cooking spaghetti, and on April 18, 2026, as recorded here, when I was also cooking spaghetti.  My wife (who uses the stove many times  more often than I do) has never reported such an effect, and I have never seen it happen when she was cooking. 

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 five of the last six cases I have recorded of the stove fan mysteriously switching off,  we have a mysterious turning off of a green light on a panel while I was cooking pasta (spaghetti being a type of pasta).  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" and "pasta"  all begin with the same syllable, which by itself means "father." But in other languages that may be different.)

Opening the links above, I find that one of those has my account of me having "out-of-nowhere" thoughts about two people I had not thought of in many years, with me then soon learning that such persons had died hours before I had such thoughts. 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 23)

Below is Part 23 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

The photo below shows a speeding blue orb I photographed in front of a window at Grand Central Terminal in New York. The camera seems to have captured two position states of a hurtling orb, and in both parts we can see the same curved stripe.  

The photo below shows a blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  Notice how the edge of the orb is aligned with the edge of two different heads. Was the orb reading both of their thoughts?

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York,  while my camera had jerked. We see that everything in the photo has that streaked-blur look, except for one thing: the mysterious blue orb in the top left corner, which shows no sign of blurring. I have noticed this tendency in six other photos shown here: even when everything in the photo is blurred because the camera had jerked, an orb may still appear sharp and non-blurred. It is as the mysterious orbs are ignoring the laws of optics, and playing by their own rules.

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

I took the photos below on January 11, 2017 and January 13, 2017. They both show blue orbs at Grand Central Terminal. Note that both orbs have a dark spot. Was this some type of orb eye?

 

I have more than 50 times previously photographed mysterious orbs aligned with the edge of a US flag, as you can see in this series of photos.  Below is one example of such an orb. I took the photo at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photos below show two mysterious blue orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal. The one on the left has an odd look in which the lower half is brighter than the top.

Phantom Presses?

 In my 2018 post "It's Like Some Invisible Presence Is Pressing My TV Remotes," which you can read here, I documented quite a few cases in which my TV remote seemed to act as if some invisible presence had pressed a button on it. I have occasionally seemed to get such an effect during the years since 2018. 

In the past two days I seem to have got three new examples of such an effect.  Yesterday I was watching Netflix, in the middle of an episode, when suddenly Netflix disappeared, and my TV screen switched to a startup screen that I get when starting up my television, before choosing to watch Netflix. At the time I was alone in a room, with the TV remote inches away from my body. The exact same thing happened twenty minutes ago, with the TV remote an arm's length from my body. While watching Netflix, Netflix suddenly vanished, and my TV went back to its startup screen.  Then the exact same thing happened again for the second time today when I was writing this post. While watching Netflix, with the remote an arm's length away, Netflix suddenly vanished, and my TV went back to its startup screen.

This is the first time I can recall a spooky type of event happen when I was in the very process of writing a post about that type of spooky event. 

By experimenting, I figured out exactly which button on my TV remote can be pressed to produce this effect. It is the Home button, which has a little "House" icon on it. 

There is some possible metaphysical symbolism here. In near-death experiences people who report out-of-body experiences may have what seems like brief trips to some otherworldly realm. During such a sojourn a person will often report feeling that the visited realm is his or her "real home" or "true home." According to one theory, we all come from some nonearthly place that is our true home, and we lived in such a place before coming to Earth. 

So if some spirit from such a realm of existence were trying to signal someone on Earth, that spirit might choose some type of symbolism involving a Home symbol. 

Postscript: The same type of event happened on September 18, 2026.  Alone in a room, and sitting on the middle of a couch,  I was in the middle of watching a Halo episode on Netflix, with the remote an arm's length away from my body. Suddenly Netflix vanished, and my TV showed a startup screen that I get when I press the Home button on my TV remote. But I pressed no such button. The startup screen looks like the one below. 

Fast and Bright

 Photo date: September 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a photo I took indoors showing what looks like a bright speeding orb.