A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: May 31, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

The Yellow Orb's Sidekick

Photo date: May 15, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious greenish-yellow orb I photographed indoors. 

A Yellow Striped Orb

 Photo date: December 26, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Striped Orb

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orbs of Different Colors

 Photo date: August 26, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

Orb Behind the Fan Handle

 Photo date: June 20, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The fan in the foreground was about two meters away from the camera.  We have an interesting "other side" motif here, possibly symbolizing an Other Side of an afterlife. 

See-Through Something

 Photo date: June 9, 2025.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Diameter Diversity

Photo date: May 13, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below some mysterious orbs I photographed indoors 

Bright and Rather Yellow

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: December 11, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: November 1, 2024. Photographer Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Earlier in the day while alone in my home there was another of very many times in which I noticed a coin that seemed to have appeared mysteriously. I saw a quarter lying atop the middle of the middle cushion of a sofa, very noticeable against a dark blue background. I had been two meters away a few minutes earlier to empty a trash basket, without noticing any such quarter.  I was wearing tight jeans, and there seemed to be no chance that such a quarter might have dropped out of my pockets. 

Orange Orb and a Yellow Orb

 Photo date: September 29, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors.  The yellow orb has a strange feature.

Blue-Green Orb and a Yellow Orb

 Photo date: September 9, 2024  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below two orbs I photographed indoors. 

Today I was thinking of an interesting hypothetical explanation of orbs. Let us imagine some crustacean or octopus at the bottom of some pond or sea, not far from the shore.  Such creatures could never conceive of life on the land such as humans enjoy.  But humans could make little manifestations that a crustacean or octopus at the bottom of the water might notice. A human, for example, could drop pebbles in the sea that might sink down to the bottom of the water. To a crustacean or octopus, a pebble sinking down to the bottom of the water would be a strange anomaly it could not understand.

Just as humans can toss pebbles into the sea that sink to the bottom to puzzle creatures at the bottom, souls or spirits in some higher realm of existence might be able rather easily to make fleeting little manifestations in our earthly realm. One type of such manifestations might be orbs. It might be easy for such souls or spirits to make orbs that appear as fleeting blips in photos. An effort or energy a hundred  times greater might be required to produce an orb visible to the naked eye, such as are often reported; and an effort or energy 1000 times greater might be required to make something reported as an apparition or ghost.  In this analogy, humans are like the creatures at the bottom of the sea, receiving  occasional anomalies we do not understand from beings far more powerful, beings that may want to send signs of their existence. Of course, such ideas are speculation, and the causes of  photos like the ones above are still a mystery. But  the strong pattern repetition effect I have documented here may suggest some intelligent agency at work, with much more pattern repetition than we would expect by chance. 

A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: December 10, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious yellow orb I photographed indoors. 

Colorful Orbs

 We see below some colorful mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: August 23, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious yellow orb I photographed indoors.

Colorful Orbs

 Photo date: June 18, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below mysterious orbs that I photographed indoors. This is the first orange orb I have got in quite a while. 

Orb Colors

 We see below a mysterious blue orb and a yellow orb that I photographed in early February 2023.

Puzzling Playstation

 Photo date: October 20, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Like a Winking Face

 Photo date: August 15, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

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