I Caught An Orb, Is It A Ghost?
October 7, 2010 (via our website contact form)

Question: my friends and i did an amateur investigation at a cemetery and i took some pictures that appear to have
some orbs but i would like to get a professional investigators opinion.

also, at one point we found a grave of a child who died when he was only 2 1/2 and out of curiosity i crouched by it  
and asked "would you like to hold my hand?" and i held it out, and after a minute, my hand got a lot warmer and i felt
a tingling, tickling sensation moving back and forth against the back of my hand. think that might have been the
child?

Answer: Since we were not at the investigation, we really couldn't say if what you experienced in your hand was
paranormal or not. If it were our investigation, we would probably be skeptical unless there were some other
corroborating evidence. For example, if an EMF meter went off, or we got an EVP at that time, or there was a
verifiable temperature drop along with the personal experience, we woiuld be more likely to present it as possibly
paranormal. Otherwise, it's interesting and anomalous but not evidence of a ghost.

Your picture shows dust or other air particles. Sorry to say, but unfortunately a lot of people, especially new
investigators, really want to believe that orbs are ghosts but from our perspective (and from the perspective of many
other experience, reputable investigators), they are light refractions. My mother was a professional photographer,
she is the one who first clued me in. Did you view our video on youtube? We can recreate the orbs in your picture
easily. If something can be so easily recreated via reasonable, non-paranormal means, any reputable investigator
would throw it out.
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