A Bright Orb

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

 

Part of the EKG/ECG Formed My Initials

 I saw three strange things today. Probably the least strange thing was the appearance of my initials within an ECG/EKG reading. A while ago I bought the Kardia Mobile device which allows you to get an EKG reading (also called an ECG reading) by placing two fingers on a little metal pad that connects to your smartphone. You can use the device to get a 1-lead ECG/EKG reading. Supposedly the device alerts you if it detects atrial fibrillation. But luckily I have not got such a warning yet. 

Below is part of what came up today in the reading. We see an "MM" which matches my initials. 

Another thing that happened was even stranger. Standing six inches from a kitchen sink, I saw a pill (an orange Coenzyme Q10 pill) mysteriously fall from a cutting board to the left of the sink, falling into the sink, when both of my hands were at least six inches away from both the sink and the cutting board. I can speculate about a symbolic meaning of this strange event I can't explain, expounding from the fact that Coenzyme Q10 is mainly used for heart health. Maybe some strange heart-related warning was occurring. Or given that hearts are a symbol for love, maybe some love-related symbolism was going on, like the strange thing I witnessed last Valentine's Day. 

When I woke up, I saw something else very strange. I use a tube of white hydrocortisone to prevent night itching (it's pretty much the best thing there is to prevent itching, and you can buy it for little at any good drugstore). In the morning when I went into the bathroom there were two perfect circles of the white hydrocortisone lotion on the floor, near the sink, each about as big as a large coin. Now, it is easy to imagine me accidentally dripping some of this lotion on the floor, in a messy-looking drip, since I apply such lotion at night. But what is the chance that two perfect circles would be formed by such accidental dripping? Very low, it would seem. 

Trying to imagine some symbolic significance here, I can imagine that the two white circles symbolized circular orbs like those I sometimes photograph. Or maybe there was some time symbolism occurring. Two white circles might symbolize two full moons, or a period of 60 days. Maybe I was getting a warning about something dramatic or ominous that will occur in about 60 days.  

I continue to have dreams that seem to symbolize life after death, and I have recorded more than 555 such dreams in my frequently updated post here. In the latest such dream I dreamed of a person deep underwater, floating up through an underwater  passageway, heading towards the air and sunlight above the water.  The "floating up to the light" motif seemed to symbolize a soul floating up to the spiritual illumination of a heavenly afterlife.  

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors this evening. We see some streaks of green in an orb that is mainly white. 

Band-Baffled

Today I saw yet another case of a rubber band anomaly I have now seen more than 29 times. When the anomaly occurs I will suddenly see on the floor a rubber band, in some very noticeable position, with its appearance at such a spot being mysterious and unexplained (with me having no memory of having recently touched a rubber band). My strict policy is to always pick up small items from the floor as soon as I see them (items such as coins, rubber bands or pens); so finding unexpected rubber bands on the floor of a room where no one else was is baffling. 

Today at 10:05 PM I saw the unexpected rubber band between my TV stand and my refrigerator:

Now, as it happens I took a picture including this area only 19 minutes earlier, at 9:46 PM. Below is a cropped part of that picture, showing the same area as we see above, but no such rubber band:

How did the rubber band get on the floor? No one in the room touched any rubber bands between around 9:46 and 10:05. 

Below is a mysterious orb I photographed  indoors on this day. 

Postscript:  As of March 14, 2026 I have now seen this rubber band anomaly more than 30 times. I saw it again on the morning of March 14, 2026.  I woke up on that day and quickly noticed a rubber band on the floor, in front of my TV set. A photo of the same area I had taken just before going to bed showed no such rubber band. 

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. 

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:

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. 

A Green Orb

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

Below is a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors. 

A Striped Orb

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

I have had some rather ominous-seeming indications recently. One was a dream a few days ago of a figure looking like Death personified: a figure with a black hat, all black clothes, a black cape, and a black mask covering his face. Then there was the dream I had last night of some person talking about my curtains. In English "curtains" is a slang term meaning death. In the dream the figure said, "You must take the design seriously," although he could have been saying "You must take the d. sign seriously," with "d. sign" meaning "death sign." Then this morning I saw that a green cloth bag had been blown into my backyard. It was a bag marked "Sam Ash music stores." Ashes are a death symbol, because many people are cremated.  This year the marking of "Sam Ash music stores" on the bag may be doubly-symbolic of death, because recently the Sam Ash chain of music stores "bit the dust," closing down, with apparently only an online business remaining. 

Orb With 2 Features

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

We see below a mysterious orb with a prominent outer ring in addition to an odd mark on its top  

The Orb Synchronicity Was Afterlife-Related

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a storage chest. 

I have a tale about some afterlife-related synchronicity involving the photo above. First, I'll give some introductory comments. As I have recorded in my series of 27 posts here, I have at numerous times observed lights or other devices that seemed to mysteriously turn on "by themselves."  Many times I was there to see the light or device turn on mysteriously, as in the 50+ cases recorded in my post here. In other cases I may lock the front door of the house where I live, and go out on a walk, coming back to find the light above my front door on, although I was 99% sure that such a light was off when I locked the door.  The light can only be turned on from inside the house. This happened again today. After arriving back from a walk of about 30 minutes, I again was surprised to see the light above the front door on, as I remember it being off when I locked the door. There was someone else in the house working inside all day, but I have noticed this effect several times when there was no one else in the house.  

After returning from my walk today, I continued to work and watch on my TV the "And Just Like That" series on HBO Max, a sequel to the "Sex and the City" series. Very soon they played the final episode of Season 1. In that episode the main character (Carrie) experiences something spooky. She finds that as she is going to bed, the light above her mysteriously turns on by itself. In the series Carrie has recently been widowed. In the series she wonders whether the spooky event of the light turning on by itself is a sign from her late husband. 

I found the synchronicity between my experience today and seeing this on TV less than an hour later to be striking, as both involved someone getting the impression of a light above mysteriously turning on in a spooky way.  As the TV show depicted another example of the character Carrie seeing the light above her mysteriously turn on by itself, I got out my camera to take a photo. At the very moment my TV set showed the Carrie character being mystified by her spooky-acting light, I got the mysterious orb shown above. 

Orb With a Little Ring

 Photo date: November 17, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Bright Orb With a Touch of Green

 Photo date: August 31, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

An Orange Orb

Photo date: August 20, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: June 12, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. At the top of the orb is a triangular feature which rather resembles a face. 

A Blue-White Orb

Photo date: May 31, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: April 26, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

Slightly Pink

 Photo date: October 7, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Blue Orb

Photo date: May 12, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious blue orb I photographed indoors. 

For nearly 1500 other photos of mysterious blue orbs, see here.