Have you ever photographed spirit orbs?

Question

I went to Gettysburg and captured quite a few pics and am wondering if anyone else has ever gotten pictures like that.

Answer 1

I have one. It was a picture taken of me. I was walking away from the camera at work & right next to my leg is an orb. I keep it in my desk drawer

Answer 2

Yes I have, quite a lot of photos but I concluded that not all of them were orbs. A single photo I took 4 years ago, inspired me to experiment on orbs a bit (well, not ORBS but experimentation with the camera - which is a digital).

From my experimentation, I concluded that not all orbs WERE orbs because dust, rain, lighting and oil also created the same effected of orbs. In total, I only have about 6 photos that are truly unexplainable – the rest have been easily mistaken ones produced by the environment I’ve been taking photos in.

I'll just suggest being careful when you try to note down orbs, their shape is really important when it comes to distinguishing between real orbs and fake ones. Digital cameras capture a lot of them because their shutter speed is greater, and result in crisper photos. But they are also prone to capturing/reflecting the flash light off dust, raindrops, oil, water, metal and even sunflares/lightflares.

Answer 3

Yep. Tons.  I also have some interesting footage on camera that I filmed over a month time span.

Answer 4

yea they are like dis white round orbs. WHen i take pictures at night of my mom's car just for fun. There are like thousands of them. well hundreds of them but according to this site on the sources they are dust. you shoud check it out and then c if they are really spirit orbs or dust oh yea and one day i was on my backyard and i took a picture towards the neighboors house and there was this white thing that looked like a skull. it was pretty freaky too bad my mom erased the pic because she thought i was something bad

Answer 5

Yes...they are photographic artifacts and nothing to do with spirits.

Answer 6

Absolutely.  In a restaurant in Savannah, GA called the Moon River Brewery.

Answer 7

Yes, I have tons of photos of orbs that surround my family.  Most of the time they are captured during the holidays.  These were the only times that all of got together.  I have since found out that these orbs were those of my deceased parents.  They were present at all of my sisters and I weddings, and now I get them around my daughter when I take her picture.  I love to capture them, and share them with others in the family.  It is reassuring to us, to know that our loved ones are still around us.

Answer 8

yes i have, only a couple of months ago, my friend died, and i went to his house a couple of days later at night, and starting taking photos. I captured a beautiful large glowing orb full of energy with a tail behind it, zooming all around his back yard..ive even blown it up on my screen and its just pure light

Answer 9

Yes, but they're just dust balls

Answer 10

Most (almost all) orbs are just light refraction off of dust particals. No paranormal there.

Answer 11

I used to get them a lot. But my favorite camera has a lens hood and I cant seem to get orbs with it.

Orbs are caused by particles close to the lens. The lens hood shades the particles, preventing the sun or flash from reflecting off them.

About 8 years ago when I started photography I noticed orbs, before I knew they were supposed to be spirits. I experimented and noticed that the flash was illuminating the dust very close to the lens. I could actually see the pattern of the orbs in the photo if i looked there.

Answer 12

"Spirit orbs" have permanently ruined the credibility of the paranormal community for me.

Answer 13

Yes in fact I have, but they are not considered to be "actual orbs"  depending on what paranormal expert you are talking to.

I have caught pictures with orbs in them that started at the top center of a picture and slowly move to  the dead center of the picture, and then right in front of the camera, and then right through me. I have the picture of right before the "ORB" passed right through me and it looks nothing like an orb, it is a mist here is the link: http://www.rockislandparanormal.com/modu...

We have Orb pics in our gallery on our paranormal website only because they are different than "DUST ORBS" that almost everybody catches, and our opinion is different than most on this even though people could probably pick the pics apart!

Answer 14

Yes, but I don't believe in ghosts.

I had two digital cameras. One broke for no reason, the other took a picture of the "spirit orb."

That orb owes me $600 bucks!

Seriously, I've taken over a thousand pictures and I only had it happen once. I have no idea what caused it.

Answer 15

Yes I have. I've gotten them with film cameras, but I seem to get them more with digital cameras. That is because of the greater depth of field of digital cameras, making it more likely to capture diffuse reflectance off a microscopic water drop or dust particles.

Why would a ghost be spherical, anyway? We've got claims of "shadow people", claims of human-like apparitions, and lots of photographs (of dubious integrity) purporting to show human-like figures of ghosts, but now we have other paranormalists claiming that spirits are not human shaped but spherical like a beachball! Which is it? Pick one and go with it!

Answer 16

I have tons of pictures with orbs.  For some reason I seem to get a lot of them in my attic or right after I've dusted.