Our Ghostly Guests Weblog

I thought that this comment is so great, I wanted to answer it in a post.

I was going to ask you what you thought about orbs.  I used to walk around my house and snap pictures all the time, after my first ghostly encounter, to see if I could catch an orb especially if I got a   freezing cold   sensation. I got a new digital camera last July and noticed that it doesn’t pick up the orbs like the other camera I had.  I wonder if it had to do with the mega pixels or something like that.  I still snap a picture when something out of the ordinary happens.  When my husband heard my daughter’s radio come on and he heard  a young voice singing along I snapped several pictures and caught one orb in only one of the pictures and it was right after he heard the radio and the voice. The orb always seems to appear in the picture after or at the time of the  experience.

My husband, kids and I like to watch TAPS, Paranormal state, Ghost Hunters International and another that I can’t remember the name of… sometimes we wonder  if they are making stuff up . We also talked about the 3 am thing and the turning out the lights …we thought it was silly, because our ghost or ghosts like to make themselves know anytime of the day not just at night in the dark. I’ve never used any equipment so I don’t know anything about it…and I’m not psychic.

Cheryl and I have both seen orbs of light floating around our home, with our naked eyes. We have taken pictures in which we had numerous orbs in one, and none in the next, or vice versa. When I first started doing investigations I was taught that orbs were “ghosts.” And I believed it. After so many years of doing investigations, I came to the conclusion that while they were some sort of energy, I started wondering who came to the conclusion that they were spirits, and why? As far as I’m concerned, the jury’s still out on that one.

A few years ago I was in the Whaley House, in San Diego, California, and I felt a “presence” around me so I took two pictures with my Sony Digital (it was top of the line for about 5 minutes after I bought it!). When I looked at them later I realized that in the first one there was nothing there, but in the second one you could see a full figure of a man who appears to be Thomas Whaley from behind! Even my very skeptical brother said it’s the “best” picture he had ever seen.

Still, I tell everyone that it’s not a picture of a “ghost.” If it was, I would have seen it when I took the picture, which I didn’t. It’s an image place on the memory stic by a “disembodied consciousness (which is what I believe an apparition is).” In other words, I believe it’s a picture of a “thought” or memory. I’d post it but even the staff of the Whaley House hasn’t seen it yet.

As far as some of the shows you mentioned, well, there is a website devoted to debunking them. I don’t understand why they turn off the lights to do their investigations, but a lot of so-called “ghost hunting teams” do the same thing – essentially following their example. If I did turn the lights off, it would have been because the people who claimed to be experiencing paranormal activity said it happened when the lights were off.

But why would anyone do an investigation at night with the lights off if they were told that the “ghost” showed up at one in the afternoon? I’m sorry, I’ll get off of my soapbox.

Sorry about the rambling … I’m up way past my bedtime. I’ll share my thoughts on equipment, and being psychic in another post.