Unknowncountry.com reader Sandy Nichols discovered after
taking some photographs of his new house that he had an
unusually convincing orb photograph.
Skeptics assume that orbs, which have been photographed more
and more frequently in recent years, but rarely with
anything except digital cameras, must be distortions of some
kind caused by the photographic process. Many orbs are
photographed during periods when the air is humid, and
probably are process effects.
However, this particular object appeared inside a house and
happened by coincidence to be photographed through the
window. This means that the size of the object and its
appoximate distance from the camera lens can be determined.
This is Sandy Nichols' description of the event:
I believe that I may have made one of the best orb photos
ever taken. It has depth, measurable distance away from the
camera lens, located inside a house while I was on the
outside, and the orb is large. I took this photo Thursday
afternoon. I believe that is has everything that is needed
to dispel that orbs are nothing more than just a flying bug,
a dust particle, moisture, or an illusion.
My wife and I are building a new home, about 85% complete. I
arrived alone at the house around 6:30 pm on April 14, 2005.
I chatted with some of the workers for 30 minutes or so,
then went inside the house and locked it up after they had
departed. I checked every room in the house before I locked
the doors just to be on the safe side. There was absolutely
no one in the house when I locked the doors...
I walked slowly around the house looking at it one more
time, then I headed to my car to drive back to where we are
living now while the house is being built, then I suddenly
got a feeling to take some photos around the outside of the
house. I grabbed one of my digital cameras, a new Cannon
G-6, 7 megapixels.
I began taking photos first around the front and side of the
house, then made my way around to the back of the house. Out
of 33 total photos taken, 8 were of the back of the house
and around the back of the house and around the pool house.
After I had taken one of the eight photos I heard what
soundede like footsteps inside the house, plus what sounded
like someone moving one of the metal portable heaters across
the floor. Since I knew that no one was in the house, I
figured it was just one of my ghost buddies fooling around.
After this thought, I suddenly got the feeling to take some
photos directly of the back of the house where I heard the
noises in the hope that maybe I could catch an image of what
made the noises. I did, and when I returned home and loaded
the photos into my computer, it was then that I saw the orb...
The large window you see divided into three sections and the
door to the left, open into the family room. The back porch
you see in the photo is 16 feet deep at this point. The
yellow tape is to keep people off the back porch while the
stamped epoxy covering the subfloor concrete dries. I am
standing 2 to 3 feet away from the porch taking the photo.
The orb before zooming in is rather hard to see off hand. I
missed seeing it the first time around, then saw it a few
minutes later when I was taking a more detailed look at each
individual photo by zooming in...
Each window and door in the house is custom built. Each
piece of glass in the large window and door is a separate
pane of glass, separated by the wooden mullions. The orb is
located in the middle section of the large window between
the 1st and 2nd lateral mullion from the bottom on the lower
half of the window. The orb is large enough to be seen
through two separate panes of glass with a mullion obscuring
almost the dead center of the orb in a vertical line...
The key points for this orb not being a dust particle, a
bug, moisture or an illusion are these...
The first key point...
The distance I am standing away from the orb...16 feet depth
of back porch at this point, I am standing 2 to 3 feet away
from the back porch, the outside walls of the house is built
with 2 x 6's, then the thickness of the brick, minus the
window center to the width of the wall...places me 19 to 20
feet away from the Orb...
The second key point...
The vertical mullion dividing the orb almost dead center and
obscuring the center of the orb, places the orb without any
doubt whatsoever inside the house...
The third key point...
The AC/heating system has not been connected to any of the
three main breaker boxes. All windows are double pane and
sealed, and every window in the house was locked. Three
doors leading to three separate attic spaces were shut, as
was every outside door shut and locked. The dampers are
closed on the two wood burning fireplaces in the house, and
the vent for the gas fireplace in the kitchen is shut. I was
the last person in the house, and when I took this photo I
had been out of the house for a good 40 minutes. So all in
all, the house was shut up tighter than a drum. Any dust
particles I stirred up locking the house should have settled
by the time I took the photo...
The fourth key point...
A minute or so before I took this photo I heard the
distinctive sound of footsteps walking across the floor and
something metal being dragged across the floor...
The fifth key point...
Of the 33 photos taken around the outside of the house, 20
of the photos had orb in them, and each of these photos had
multiple orbs of various size and brilliance...
The skeptics and debunkers, no matter what proof they see in
my photo, will still say that the Orb is either a flying
bug, dust particles, moisture, or an illusion. If the Orb is
a flying bug or dust particle, then either one would have to
be about 8 to 10 inches in diameter. If it is just a drop of
moisture and it was falling because no water droplet that
big can hover in midair, then part of my hardwood floor in
the family room will be ruined. If it is just an illusion
caused by the camera, the lens, the lighting or whatever,
then I want the skeptics and the debunkers to explain to me
how a mullion separating two panes of glass can obscure the
center of an illusion.
If YOU want to photograph orbs, read
How to
Photograph the Paranormal. In this fascinating book, Leo
Sweet gives you precise instructions.
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