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. 

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. 

Postscript: Five days later I photographed another bright orb at almost the exact same position. 

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 Pink Orb

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

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. 

Green and Translucent

 Photo date: March 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb With an Inner Ring

 Photo date: March 24, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoor (near two smoke detectors resting atop an air conditioner).  The orb has a ring-like feature. 

Saturday Smile?

 Photo date: March 21, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We get a bit of a suggestion of a grinning face. 

Blue Orbs

 Photo dates: February 23 and February 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

Was It Ghost Symbolism?

 I wear an eye shade while I sleep. Last night around midnight I tried to find the shade, and it was nowhere to be found. I thoroughly inspected all the sheets and a blanket and a pillow on the bed, but could not find the eye shade I normally keep near my pillow. I checked in the crack between the bed and the wall, but still could not find the eye shade. I was the only one sleeping in the room (my wife is on a trip). 

After searching for at least five minutes (and probably ten minutes) for the missing eye shade, looking all over the room, I gave up, and got a spare eye shade from my bed stand. During the night I made several trips to the bed stand shown in the diagram below. In the early morning (in early daylight) I looked out the window, to see whether there was snow accumulation. I then went back to bed and got more sleep. 

Finally my alarm clock went off, and I arose. I was very surprised to then discover the missing eye shade, which was in about the most noticeable position it could be: on the floor, at the foot of the bed. This was not my replacement eye shade, which I could see was still on the bed, near the pillow.  

We see below the layout of the room, and where I found the eye shade in the morning, marked by the X mark. When I get up at night, the room is dimly lit by a Google Nest smoke detector which has a motion detector and a dim light that activates when you walk around in the darkness. 

I realized there may be some symbolic significance to the spooky event involving the eye shade. "Shade" was a term used in nineteenth century English to mean "ghost or disembodied spirit." And in the English language "eye" sounds just like "I." So an eye shade may symbolize the phrase "I shade," which may be equivalent to "I ghost" or "I disembodied spirit" or "I am a ghost" or "I am a disembodied spirit."  

Below we see how the Merriam-Webster dictionary has "a disembodied spirit: ghost" as one of its definitions of "shade."

The event described here is similar to an equally spooky event involving an eye shade, one I describe here. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed on this day. 

Postscript: Something very similar happened on April 11 2026. My wife was at her mother's place, and I was sleeping alone in my bedroom. Awaking about 1:00AM, I took off my eye shade, and went to the bathroom. Returning to the bed, I could not find the eye shade. After thoroughly searching the white sheets and a light blue blanket on the bed, I stood up and turned on the bedroom light, and in the full light thoroughly examined the bed and everything on it. The eye shade was nowhere to be seen. Removing one by one the three bed sheets and the blanket, and shaking each, I could not find the missing eye shade. So I got my replacement eye shade from the bed stand. 

In the morning I woke up and again thoroughly searched the bed and everything on it for the missing eye shade, seeing nothing but the replacement eye shade I had brought from the bed stand. Again, I shook each of the three sheets and the blanket, without any eye shade turning up.  After making such a search and failing to find the missing eye shade, suddenly I saw it, in the most noticeable spot it could be, right in the middle of the bed. There were now two eye shades on the bed. 

It was just as if the eye shade had been teleported away, and then nine hours teleported back to the bed. 

A Precognitive Dream?

You probably know how Youtube.com works. Somehow it presents video clip choices that are good guesses for what you might want to see, based on whichever videos you have previously clicked on or searched for (particularly recent clicks and searches). I remember something odd a few months ago. I was telling someone that one of the videos YouTube had presented in my list of suggested video choices was one that matched the very specific content of some dream I had that day (I think it was a performance of the same song I had heard in my dream that morning). I joked with the person, saying, "What, can YouTube read my mind now?"

Today something similar happened. This morning I dreamed of the rooftop dance scene in the 1961 movie West Side Story. This evening I saw in my list of suggested YouTube video choices a video of exactly that scene, a very good musical number you can watch here. Now, you might rather easily explain this coincidence if I had in recent months searched for songs from that musical, or clicked on songs from that musical. But I have not done that in more than a year, searching instead for other things on YouTube almost every day.  

One hypothesis to explain the coincidence is precognition. I should keep an eye open on whether there are any further strange matches of this type. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed today. It's kind of semi-green. 

A Blue Orb

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. If you see the top left circular features as eyes, and the bottom curved feature as a mouth, you may start to see a faint face in the image. 

Hint of a Grin?

 Photo date: February 2, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  We get what some might call a faint suggestion of a grinning face. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: January 23, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious  orb I photographed indoors. 

Orange Orb Shows Up for the Fairy Magic Scene

 Photo date: January 9, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

I was watching the Netflix fantasy series "Fate: The Winx Saga," a series about fairies with magical powers. A scene showed one of the fairies doing some magic with her hands, as blue energy pulsed between them. I thought it was a good moment to take a snap. The picture showed the mysterious orange orb in the top right of the photo below.

This is the first orb photo I have published with my new Kodak Pixpro FZ55 camera. It seems to be a good camera for orb photography, for anyone with a PC with a USB port. The inexpensive camera lacks any interface for wi-fi connection, so you need to transfer photos using the same USB port cable you use for recharging the camera. That works fine if you have a PC with a USB port. 

I have now on this site published orb photos taken with many different types of cameras:

• Olympus FE-100 camera (CCD sensor)
•  Sony DSC-W830 camera (CCD sensor)
•  Sony Alpha a5000 (CMOS sensor)
•  Sony Alpha a6000 (CMOS sensor)
•  Sony Alpha a6100 (CMOS sensor)
•  Sony Alpha a6400 camera (CMOS sensor)
•  Nikon Coolpix L28 (CCD sensor)
•  Kodak Pixpro FZ55 camera (CCD sensor)

I don't always use a tag to identify the camera type. But my very many posts with a tag of "full spectrum camera" were all taken with the Nikon Coolpix L28; and my photos with tags such as "A6000 photo" or "A6100 photo" were taken with the corresponding Sony camera type listed above. Most of my photos first published in the past few years (outside of retrospective series) were taken with the Sony DSC-W830, a camera I have had to retire after quite a few years of good service.