Orbs!
Next time you pick up a camera, watch out. You’re holding in your hand the
very device responsible for tens of thousands of the most bizarre and unexplainable
type of ghost photographs: Orbs.
Orbs, formally called Spirit Orbs, are those semi-transparent white balls
seen floating around in many photographs taken in ghostly locations. Orbs are
among the class of paranormal phenomena that are visible only to cameras, and
not to the naked eye.
The usual hypothesis presented by believers is that orbs represent spirits
of dead people, though some support variations on that. The science behind
this hypothesis is not clear. For example, there are no plausible hypotheses
that describe the mechanism by which a person who dies will become a hovering
ball of light that appears on film but is invisible to the eye. There are lots
of other things that a d… (Read the rest at http://skep.us/4029)
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