Image Drips From TV as Time From the Cable Box Falls on the Floor

Photo date: February 13, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I have recently been taking an incredibly strange series of photos that show a very weird set of transformations of the light from my TV set.  You can see dozens of previous photos of this type by looking at this very astonishing series of photos. Below are some more authentic examples.

The first photo shows the TV image floating down from the TV.

A closeup shows some astonishing details. The image that has floated down is quite readable -- for example, we can read the words "Slam Dunk" and "Smooth Jazz."  Astonishingly, the time of 12:44 has fallen from the cable box and "landed" on the floor.

In the next photo, light from the cable box seems to fall from the cable box, and then bounce upwards, as if it had hit some mysterious invisible barrier.

In the next photo we see light rays making a candy-cane shape.

Here is a closeup showing the "candy cane" shape formed by light rays coming from the alarm clock.

Finally we see the rising levitation that more commonly occurs with this effect. The words "Smooth Jazz" can be clearly read floating above the TV. At the bottom left is an orb that joined the "paranormal party."

Below is a closeup of the orb (I used the IrfanView "Auto-adjust colors" menu option on the closeup). We see an orb that seems to have an eye-like feature.

The photos were flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings (no "Night photo" setting).

Paranormal Effect: The Many Weird Permutations of the Light Metamorphosis

The strange phenomenon I call the light metamorphosis is an effect in which light moves out of some source where we would expect it to be confined, and then often bends in strange ways. I first noticed the effect in early 2016.  In about 90% of the cases when this effect occurs, we see light rays rising up from some point of origin. In a much smaller percentage of cases, we see light rays falling from the point of origin. Very often the light from some source seems to be greatly amplified when this light metamorphosis effect occurs.

I will now list various different permutations or varieties of this effect.  After mentioning each permutation I will include one or more links to a photograph I took showing that particular permutation.

Words from a TV set rising up above the TV:  examples are here, here, here, and here.

Words from a TV set rising up above the TV, and tilting: an example is here.

An image of a face rising up above a TV:  examples are here and here.

Light rising up in a northeast direction: an example is here.

Light rays making a "candy cane" motion, in which the light rays bend back, heading back towards their point of origin:  examples are here, here, here, and here.

Light rays making a right-angle turn:  examples are here, here, here, here and here.

Double-bending of light rays in a way that includes a right-angle turn:  an example is here.

An extremely high-rising of light from its source:  examples are here and here.

Squiggly light rays:  examples are here and here.

Light traveling in a northeast direction, then turning to go straight north:  an example is here.

Light rays rising up, and then bending to the right:  examples are here and here.

Light rising up and then seeming to bend backwards:  examples are here, here, here, and here.

Light making a rising staircase effect: an example is here. 

Light traveling out of a TV set to the right: examples are here and here. 

Light traveling out of a TV set to the left: an example is here. 

Light moving down a little, before changing direction to go up: examples are here and here. 

Light moving down, then to the left, then up, making a U-shaped path:  an example is here. 

Light making a snaky path that involves 3 different changes in direction: an example is here.

Light rising in an arc-shaped path: an example is here. 

Light rising way up towards the right, before turning to the left: an example is here. 

Light rays traveling northeast, then northwest, then north: an example is here.

Light rays making a U-turn: examples are here and here.

Light rays moving west, then northeast, then northwest: an example is here. 

Light rays making an S-shape: examples are here and here.

 Light rays making a U-shape: an example is here

 Light rays making a V-shape: an example is here.

Light rays forming into an arch: an example is here.

Light rays making a spiral shape: an example is here.

Below are two photos that show the effect (less dramatic than some you will see by clicking on the links above). The first one (from February 16, 2016) shows light in Grand Central Terminal rising way up in a curved manner, bending to the right. This was a flash photo with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, with normal camera settings (no "Night photo" settings).

Below is another example (from February 11, 2016). Light from the TV protrudes dramatically out of the bottom of the TV, appearing in front of statuettes that are in front of the TV. This was a flash photo with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, with normal camera settings (no "Night photo" settings).

A closeup shows a shocking anomaly. Light rays are coming down out of the cable box clock, and then suddenly changing direction, turning to go upward. It's a U-turn of light rays.

I first started observing this effect in January 2016. Most photos I have taken showing the effect were taken using an old point-and-click Olympus FE-100 digital camera, using no special settings. I have also observed this effect (rarely) using a Sony point-and-click camera.

Almost all of the photos I have taken showing this light metamorphosis effect are flash photos taken with no special camera settings (no "Night photo" settings).  The EXIF information on such photos shows an exposure speed of only 1/30 of a second, although the effective shutter speed may be much shorter than that, because of the flash (which may make the effective shutter speed as 1/1000 of a second).  See my photos labeled "light metamorphosis flash photos" for these photos. I also see this strange effect when I do not use a flash. See my photos labeled "light metamorphosis non-flash photos" for such photos.   We absolutely cannot explain this effect as being a result of long exposure times, since in the great majority of cases the exposure is 1/30 of a second or less. We also cannot explain this effect as being a result of "Night photo" camera settings, since in the great majority of cases no such setting was used.

I do not understand the meaning of this strange light metamorphosis effect. I have speculated that it may be some kind of symbolic message. The light rising from a spot where it should be confined may symbolize the light of our consciousness (the soul) rising out of the body at the hour of death. But such an interpretation is just a guess.

Postscript:  Very strangely, I started to notice a diminishing of this strange "light metamorphosis" effect less than two months after I first noticed it.  By April of 2016 it seemed I could no longer get the effect (or at least not anywhere near as strongly as I once did). I was never able to resolve what caused the effect, or why it seemed to stop occurring. I may contrast the impermanence of this effect with my experience with photographing orbs, which I have photographed almost every day for two years.

The Meandering Levitations and the U-Turn of the Light Rays

Photo date: February 10, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I have recently been taking an incredibly strange series of photos that show a very weird set of transformations of the light from my TV set.  You can see dozens of previous photos of this type by looking at this very astonishing series of photos. Below are some more authentic examples.

The first one shows a yellow rectangle from the TV levitating way over to the right.

Below is a color-adjusted closeup. We see that the light rays from the cable box clock have levitated way up and "landed" on the wall. Meanwhile, the red light rays have bent backwards, making a kind of "candy cane" shape.

The next photo shows the TV light meandering way over to the right.

In the next astonishing photo, we actually see light rays making a U-turn. If you look at the red light rays from the alarm clock, you can see the light rays bending in a curved manner, returning back towards where they came from.

Finally we see some ads from the TV levitated far above the TV.

You can read at least four of the levitated lines quite clearly.

The photos were flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings (no "Night photo" setting).

The Light Rays Made a U-Turn

Photo date: January 20, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In this series of  posts I have shown an incredibly strange photographic anomaly in which light seems to rise up like drifting smoke: the effect I call the light metamorphosis. Below are some more examples of this most wondrous effect.  Below is a photo of my TV set. The camera was not moving when the photo was taken, as you can see from the fact that all of the details look sharp, except for the emitted light.

Below is a closeup of the light from the clock on the cable box. Look closely to see something most astonishing.  The light from the clock is making a kind of U-turn, turning sharply to return back toward the point it started out.

Below is another photo showing the astonishing light metamorphosis.

A closeup of the cable box clock shows the light-rays making a kind of S-shape.

 The photos were flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings (no "Night picture" setting). The photo was taken by an old point-and-click Olympus camera.  Most photos taken with this camera show no such effect.

Grand Central Radiantly Transfigured by the Light Metamorphosis

Photo date: January 13, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In two previous posts (here and here) I had photos showing a most astonishing effect in which light seems to rise up from a light source like drifting smoke: an inexplicable effect I call the light metamorphosis. Those photos were taken in front of a TV, but I wondered: could the effect appear in a grander setting? Below are some wondrous examples of this effect occurring in Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

Open the photo up in a separate tab to see it at higher resolution.

Upon first looking at this photo, you might think that it is rather like some photo you have seen before outside of this blog. But let me explain why such an idea is not correct.  There are two types of photos that you might recall when seeing a photo like this. The first type of photo is a photo taken while the camera is moving in a way that causes light to appear as streaks. But when that happens, every element in the photo becomes a blurry streak; and that is not what we see here. Here we see that the architectural elements and the people are not streaks. The only streaks are those coming from light sources in the station.  There is no way to get such a photo by merely moving the camera when you take a photo. In fact, my camera was not moving when any of the photos in this post were taken.

Another type of photo that you might recall when seeing this photo is one of those long-exposure photos that shows little streaks of light at the bottom (caused by people moving about), while the area above the bottom does not look streaked. But this is not such a photo. The streaks do not come from any moving objects, but only from stationary objects: the lights of the station. The photo above had an exposure time of less than a second (.68 second), so it was not a long exposure photo.

Notice the squiggly motion of the light in the photo above.  You could never get that from moving the camera within a single second, because you couldn't make so many changes of direction so quickly.

Below is another photo from the same day.

Now the direction of the wondrous "light drift" has changed. The light now seems to rise up like smoke, but it drifts toward the left. The centrally located circular information desk looks almost as if it is on fire, but it is not.  The EXIF data on this photo shows the exposure time was only 1/30 of a second.

Below is another photo from the same day. The exposure time was less than a second.

Now the preternatural "light drift" has changed direction again -- the light drifts to the right. Notice the very strange part at the end of these light streaks, where the streak does a little "U-turn" thing, changing direction back to the left.

Below is another photo from the same day. The exposure time was less than a second.

Below is another photo from the same day. The exposure time was 1/30 of a second. Notice how in this photo the light seems to fall down, like water dripping down from a fountain.

Below is another photo from the same day. The exposure time was only 1/30 of a second.

Below is another photo from the same day. The exposure time was only 1/30 of a second.

These photos are all entirely authentic unaltered photos that have been uploaded directly from the camera without any modification at all. You can be sure they are authentic, because there is simply no way to fake a photo series like this, and end up with photos like those I have provided here. You cannot create an effect like this by moving your camera, because if you do that everything in the photo will appear streaky and blurry -- but in these photos nothing appears streaky except streaks coming from the existing lights. You cannot create photos like this by using a long exposure, because a long exposure will show lights like those we see here completely normal (since lights here don't move), and will show the crowd looking all streaky. But that's the opposite of what we see here. You also could not fake photos like this using software, because no software has a function or feature that produces this effect.

What we see here is the same paranormal effect involved in the photo below I published earlier. If you zoom in to the photo, you will see that every letter in the phrase "Music Choice" has its own little streak of light rising up from it.

I may note that the camera producing these photos is an old point-and-click Olympus camera. It only produces this strange effect occasionally, taking normal photos most of the time. The effect only can be seen in photos, and I do not see it with my eyes.

Encountering this manifestation, I can only feel the same type of awe shown in that lunar monolith excavation scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the scene where an awe-filled Dr. Heywood Floyd touches the monolith, encountering a manifestation of a power utterly beyond his understanding.

The photos in this post were are all flash photos taken with normal camera settings (no "Night photo" settings). 

Mystifying Marvel of the Light Metamorphosis

Photo date: January 12, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

On this day I photographed a most astonishing marvel I have never previously described.  Rather than first trying to describe it, let me just show an example. The camera was not moving when this photo was taken.

Notice how the light from the TV seemed to rise up above the television set. Another photo showed the same thing. In both of these photos, the camera was stable, as you can see from other details. Only the light from the TV looks strange.

Below is a closeup. Notice the incredibly strange thing that seems to be happening to the light from the digital clock.  The light seems to be drifting up like smoke.

Here is another photo. Now the light seems to be drifting up like smoke, to the right.

In the photo below, the light seems to be drifting off to the left.

Below is a closeup that shows the digital clock numbers undergoing a weird transformation.

Below is a similar photo.

I then took a "control" photo to see whether this could be some camera malfunction. The photo looked unremarkable.

The weird anomaly continued in a later photo.

A closeup shows high weirdness with the light from the digital clock.

These photos are completely authentic, as are all photos on this site. I very much doubt that there is any software program that allows you to duplicate the things we see here, in a way that would exactly match what we see here.

The photos were flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal photo settings
(no "Night picture" setting).