Orbs are floating balls of light. Basic description really but I don't see the ghostly aspect of them. In my opinion all photographs of them can be simply explained, the most common cause of them is probably the flash reflecting off a dust particle in front of the lens. Look at these photo's and maybe you'll agree with my thoughts on them.
The first image is probably pollen which the flash reflected off. I'm sure that the majority of "orb" pictures occur when a flash is used. The second picture is clearly the light from the window hitting dust near the lens, notice how none of the orbs are on the right hand side of the picture. The third effect could be faked using a torch aimed at the camera or could easily be made using programs like paint or GIMP.
I don't think orbs are anything paranormal at all. They could easily be any number of non-ghostly things.
Here's a video of ghost orbs in action.
Most of these look like a laser of some sort. Although one does seem to be coming through the room towards the camera. I'm still not entirely convinced about them.
There are many reported types of ghost. In this post I aim to learn about these types and any information about how they appearand my thoughts about what they could logically be.
Ectoplasm / Mist Apparently look exactly like smoke.But the important characteristic that defines it as a "ghost" is that it has "swirls". Not entirely sure what that means. Anyone who smokes knows that the smoke is constantly swirling around. The following are photo's of ghostly mist.
Nothing much to say about these really. The first one just looks like smoke to me. The second one I'll admit does look weird but could easily have been photoshopped. And the third looks like it was taken on a bit of a foggy evening. Pictures can be easily faked these days so I'll also provide a couple of youtube videos to see this type of ghost in action.
I still don't quite see what exactly defines these as ghost mists. Maybe if on my investigations I come across something like this I'll understand but for now I'm just going to class it as overreaching for ghostly explanations.
I think that the video is a fake and if it isn't then it is very badly done. I understand that they were scared but they could have made more of an effort. Here's some notes I've made on what happens and how the video should have been made.
Part 1
1:42 - Something falls to the ground randomly.on camera. The guy filming reacts by spinning around and commenting about the ghost being there. He doesn't mention the thing falling and doesn't investigate it despite it happening right in front of him. If the video is real then why didn't he go and have a look? If it's fake then obviously he didn't go because whoever made it fall would have been caught on film.
3:20 - Despite the lights turning off and on in the room he decides not to actually look in the room. No matter how scared he was he could have at least held the camera in there to show the room. Same goes for the doors that close as he walks by them earlier in the video.
3:58 - A piece of wood falls to the ground. Two rooms are next to where it fell. He looks in one, ignores the other and then looks in the room down the hall. Just seems a bit choreographed to me.
Part 2 0:14 - Door slams and gets ignored.
0:22 - Ghost girl standing in the corner in the darkness. Things which should be done for authenticity include turning on the light, getting a good camera shot, getting closer, filming to see what happens. What he does is run away almost instantly.
2:30 - Goes to investigate some noises. Light goes on and off and he runs away.
2:48 - Ghost girl in the same room and same corner. Sees her for barely a second screams and runs away.
3:29 - You can clearly see him checking the position of the light switch then taking one step and the light suddenly goes off...
4:50 - The world record for shortest time on camera is held by this view of the ghost girl.
Part 3 1:42 - I'm not sure what happens here it's too dark. He said he was going to talk to her. The girl seems to be gone from the room but then he says something about a big f*cker and then runs away.
2:07 - Big bang and smashing noise. No investigation.
2:42 - Something falls and again the reaction is to turn away.
Part 4
1:36 - Somthing can be seen here but it violently snatches the world record out of the hands of the girl in part 2 and you can't actually tell what it is before he runs away.
2:38 - Some doors on a cupboard(?) slam. This is the only unexplainable bit in the video. Although the camera blur just before it happens and the lack of a good look inside could both be hiding something.
Obviously I haven't noted every incident of doors closing and noises but all of them are uninvestigated and any that are are done in a very unthorough way. It just seems too staged to be real. The few glimpses of the "ghost" that are there just look like a girl standing in the corner and there's nothing to prove that she is a ghost and not just the guys daughter or someone like that.
On a side note. I'm starting a couple of new blogs to showcase my writing incase anyones interested. The stories I write are usually either completely random or horror based so I'm going to start 2 blogs one for each type. I'll put the links up on my the side bar once I've got them up. I've got a few random stories that I can just copy and paste but there aren't any horror stories on my laptop so that blog will probably take a little bit longer to be made.
Hey everybody I just thought I'd make a post about my personal beliefs when it comes to paranormal things :)
Ghosts
Having never had a ghostly experience I'm not completely convinced they exist although the amount of picture evidence (from before it was easy to fake photo's) is enough to make me wonder. And hopefully when I investigate I will find something :)
UFOs I am a firm believer in aliens. In a vast universe it is highly unlikely that we are the only life. However I don't believe that aliens fly to earth just to abduct people and probe them. If anything they are merely taking pictures. Like we do with our unmanned missions to the planets in our solar system. In another few decades/centuries we'll be doing the same thing but with other systems so any alien race more advanced than us is probably doing the same thing.
Cryptids
I am completely unsure about these creatures. Thinking about how old Nessie is from the earliest sightings then logically there must be more than one of these creatures for them to breed and still be alive these days. Of course the creature could have a very long life span but you can;t be sure. But Bigfoot is a humanesque creature and it's logical that their life span is similar to ours so there must be a few of them to continually be sighted but still no good evidence for their existance.
Psychic Phenomena I'm unsure about this too. It seems that anyone with telekinetic powers or something like that would be able to strengthen them through exercising them regularly like with normal muscles and lateral thinking etc. and yet most of them are unable to do anything under proper observation.
Anyway that concludes a look into my beliefes on the subject :) Maybe I'll do another post like this after I've done some investigating and maybe my beliefs will have changed. There are many more paranormal phenomena I could have talked about but as they are pretty rare and I'm unsure about them all I figured I'd stick with the four major topics :)
Hey everybody. Seeing as my investigating is pretty much on hold until I can at least get a video camera I thought I'd start looking into the other things I want to investigate. So if anyone knows of some good UK based locations for any of the following let me know. And if you can think of anything else that I could look into let me know about them :)
UFO's - Any hotspots would be appreciated.
Creatures - Any local legends or well known monsters. Except Nessie because everybody has heard of it.
Hmmmm. I was hoping for a longer list lol. But I guess that's all there really is and a quick google search has just confirmed it. I will eventually look into other paranormal things like summoning demons, telekinesis etc. but for now any infromation on those will be helpful :)
I just thought I'd make a list of equipment I will require for when I head out investigating places.
Firstly if I'm in an old abandoned building I would obviously need basic provisions of food, drink and warm clothing or a blanket. But they will not produce results so I only list them as a reminder to myself for when I'm getting everything ready.
I intend to buy a good HD video camera to record every moment of my investigations to share with the world via youtube. I would also like to buy a good camera to have some photographic evidence of my investigations.
I will need a sensitive recording device to record any sounds that occur and maybe record some EVP which wouldn't prove anything but would be interesting to hear.
There are some other small things that I think I should bring as potential for proving certain events are occuring.
If a door were to close on it's own then I'd need some way of proving that there is no draft. This can easily be done by simply suspending a piece of paper or a feather on a string.
Obviously I wouldn't be able to prove any strange smells but if I have a quick acting thermometer device then I could show any changes in temperature.
That's all I can think of right now. If anyone can think of anything else let me know :D
I've been reading up on locations for my first ghost hunting trip. I'm mainly looking at areas that are close to where I live for this first trip. The locations also have to allow for me to spend the night for a full investigation. Here's my shortlist: http://www.haunted-britain.com/Haunted_Wales.htm#Maes-y-Neuadd. : A hotel with a haunted bedroom that hosts a friendly ghost. Would be a good idea for my first potential first encounter with a ghost to be a good one.
Hey eveybody just a short update today. Selling things on Amazon is going well so hopefully I'll be able to get a good HD camera with all the needed extras like night vision.
http://pulynyaleg.neonblade.com/ghosts.html - Found on wikipedia. As I live in Wales this is a potential site for investigating, although access to the castle is hard to get.
Before I begin I'm just letting you all know that I'm seeling a bunch of old games and stuff on amazon to hopefully earn money to buy a camera to film my explorings :)
Now on to the topic of this post. I'm now beginning my research into ghosts. I'll start off with a short post to share what I know about them off the top of my head, and if anything I post is incorrect or anything like that you can leave me a comment to correct me. Also if you know of any sites/books that provide good information on ghosts or haunted locations let me know and I'll look into them.
Ghosts are the manifestation of a dead person/animal. They can range from invisible forces that can move objects (Poltergeists) to semi-translucent shapes (most commonly the shape of their previous body). They are generally stuck haunting a certain place either because they died there or it was a place that was an important part of their life. Most ghost activity goes unnoticed by people and ghosts can appear in the background of photographs even though nothing was seen at the time. Many people attempt to contact ghosts through seances or necromancy.
I really thought I knew more than that about ghosts lol. I think they are the basic facts that most people know about ghosts. I shall start proper research tomorrow and will hopefully have a more interesting read for you all.
Hi everyone. I'm Nick and I've been wanting to create a blog for years, so, here it is.
I've always been a paranormal agnostic. I don't want to just put faith in stuff like ghosts etc. without ever actually having seen anything to prove it, but I also don't want to be a skeptic who just outright dismisses everything he sees as fake. So I decided to finally create a blog and to use it as a journal of sorts to chronicle my explorations into the paranormal. This will be an unbiased look into all things paranormal. Anything that happens to me will be documented in these posts. There will be no exaggerations and anything I do find will be looked at in both paranormal and scientific ways.
Before I begin describing how I will go about my investigations I will first tell you a little about myself. I'm 24 and have very recently turned single again (so I have free time to do this stuff now). I work in a supermarket as I can't find a new job since finishing university and find it to be a highly boring job. I live in the UK, North Wales to be more precise. That's all you basically need to know about me. I'm sure that during the rest of my posts you will learn more about me but for now that's it.
So how am I going to go about these investigations?
Firsty when I decide to investigate something I will do as much research as I possibly can. I will scour the net and library for relevant sources and will relay the info back to my readers through these posts.
After that I will look into methods of investigating the phenomena and details of any local places which are of intrest.
Then I will go to these places and do whatevers necesary to investigate it all. I intend to buy a HD camera to record these investigations (most paranormal phenomena are recorded in black and white and are all fuzzy so they instantly look fake) and will be creating a youtube account to post videos of my explorations. It may take me a while to buy one at my rate of pay but I will keep you posted on that.
After investigating an area I will review any evidence I found. And willl investigate more similar areas.
My first research topic will obviously be ghosts. They are possibly the oldest documented of all things paranormal and are a good starting point for me. Other things I will look into are, in no particular order:
UFO's
Demons
Local Legends (most counties have their own legends of some creature or being)
Magic
Psychic phenomena
Anything that I have missed out I will probably learn about during my research. But if anyone who reads this thinks of anything I missed out feel free to let me know.
