Photo evidence of ectoplasm and ghost orbs

2007 December 2
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By Andy Kaiser
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So there I was. Just minding my own business. Thinking about whether I should have a granola bar or a cup of soup. On one hand, the soup would be tastier – I had just purchased a cream-of-something-or-other, and wanted to give it a taste. On the other hand, a granola bar would match the instant gratification our society prides itself on.

A tough choice: quality or pride. Which to pick?

I was deep in such ponderous thought, when I felt a little funny. Felt like something was in my mouth. I felt it, pushing around. Like a mouthful of irritated cotton candy.

Then I made a mistake. I opened my mouth.

It came out. It came out of my mouth and flowed into the air, hissing in front of my face. There was no smell. Just the loud, angry hissing. The brown cloud was thick, and it roiled in front of my face. I didn’t know what it was. But I knew – I KNEW – that it was alive.

I also felt two other “beings” there with me. I felt like I was being judged, or watched.

I also knew that I didn’t have much time. I was terrified that this ectoplasm had vomited its way out of my mouth. My hands were shaking, and my heart was hammering. And then I saw my camera on the counter. I fumbled for it, and still shaking and terrified, I took this picture of myself.

Photo evidence of ectoplasm and ghost orbs

This photo evidence of ectoplasm and ghost orbs is hard to ignore. How can you ignore it, when it’s right there in front of my face? You can clearly see the blob of ectoplasm hovering just after it forced its way out of my mouth. There are the other two ghosts as well, one orb brightly shining on the upper left, and a small blue orb on the right.

This photo evidence was completely untouched, except for necessary resizing and cropping.

The millisecond the camera flash went off, the ectoplasm vanished. It disappeared, and left nothing behind except – oddly – a faint musty smell. Any sense of ghost presences also vanished.

I now carry a video camera with me at all times. I know that the ectoplasm will come back. The ghost orbs will be back, too, and I want to get the orbs and ectoplasm on video evidence. I’ll use this photo and video evidence to prove that ghosts, orbs and ectoplasm are real.

It will happen. I know it will, just like I knew the ectoplasm was alive. It’ll all come back, and then I’ll have further proof of what happened to me. I saw a ghost. A blob of ectoplasm worked its way out of my mouth and hovered in front of my face. Forget the naysayers. I saw it, I know it’s true.


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11 Comments
2007 December 10
Sandra L H permalink

Sometimes I think the best way to debunk some of this nonsense is to do it yourself and then show how it’s done. James Randi is, of course, fantastic at this. When Johnny Carson was going to have Uri Gellar on, Carson consulted with Randi and then laid out special spoons for Gellar to use. Gellar, not surprisingly, declined to bend spoons other than his own. Randi has numerous times demonstrated the spoon bending and mind-reading tricks. My all time favorite disrobing of pseudoscience, however, was the Sokal affair, in which Sokal and a colleague published a nonsense paper in a postmodernist journal. Dawkins has a review here http://richarddawkins.net/article,824,Postmodernism-Disrobed,Richard-Dawkins-Nature of the book they wrote detailing what they pulled off.

Now dbskeptic just needs to learn cold reading…

2007 December 12
DB Skeptic permalink

“Sometimes I think the best way to debunk some of this nonsense is to do it yourself”

Quite true. And it’s even more fun when you’re the one with the original claim: here’s the analysis and debunk of the photo evidence of ectoplasm and ghost orbs.

2008 February 25
James Randi permalink

While I appreciate the kind kudos from Sandra L H, I must correct her. First, it’s “Geller,” not “Gellar”; always call the Devil by his oldest name. (From the novel by Sallie Bissell) The spoons supplied to Uri Geller on the Tonight show were not at all special, being exactly what he’d requested, except that he was not allowed access to them before the program, though his assistant Shipi Shtrang attempted to “examine” them… And I agree with Sandra that the best, ever, discrediting hoax was the Sokal affair. You should look that up!

2008 March 27
Simon permalink

What what what are you going on about! You are joking right…..lol. Clearly its the light reflecting on the lens!?

2008 March 27
DB Skeptic permalink

Light reflecting on the lens?! Absolutely not! It was ectoplasm. Right in front of my face.

I can’t think of any other explanation.

2008 April 9
alchobot permalink

water vapour – I’ve been interested in anomalies since a teenager in the 70′s, the biggest problem is we want to believe but I can say personaly on seeing one thing which made me go hmm but no recorded eveidence so anyone could say i was daylight dreaming which I admit I have done

2008 April 18
John Campa permalink

Man probably understand about .01% of our own world and probably about .00000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe.

There is a lot more that is “unexplained” than what is “explained” and accurately supported.

2008 April 18
DB Skeptic permalink

Hi John,

Good point (though I’d personally disagree with you on the percentages). However, if you’re going to fill in the blank and say “this little understood event was caused by X”, you’d better make sure that X makes sense itself, and that there aren’t better alternatives like Y and Z.

Specifically in this case, are you sure that ghost orbs (X) is the answer, and not just light spots on a camera lens (Y), or the photographer was actually lying (Z)? Because in this case, Y and Z are the correct answers.

2008 April 20
Nick of CriticalCritique.Com permalink

Nice satire… LOL! ;-D

2009 September 5
Laura permalink

Don’t know if all of this orb stuff is for real. I believe there are ghost or spirits and alot we can’t explain. I visited Niagara Falls, had taken alot of photos and in one of the photos there are more than 1 face showing up in the rocks. I am not making this up. Any orbs could be attributed to moisture, but not a clearly defined face. When I realized this it freaked me out, because I thought I was alone when I took that photo and someone was looking back at me. I never even knew about the orb stuff until a few weeks ago. Who is to say that there isn’t more going on that we just don’t know about. Just my 2 cents.

2009 September 5
Andy Kaiser permalink

Laura,

> in one of the photos there are more than 1 face showing up in the rocks.

Please send me the picture. I’d like to see this. If you’re comfortable, I’ll post it here for everyone to see. If not, you and I can have a private discussion about it.

> Any orbs could be attributed to moisture, but not a clearly defined face.

On  a related note, what do you think about those people who think they see a picture of Jesus on (for example) a piece of toast, or in the mold on the bark on a tree?

This is a common occurrence called apophenia. Humans are pattern-seeking animals. It’s what allows us to recognize a face, or the letters on your keyboard. Sometimes our pattern recognition gets tricked, because we see a random visual that closely matches a known pattern. This is a very basic optical illusion.

And in the case of photos (including when the photographer is sure they didn’t see the “face” until after the photo is developed), this adds another layer to the troubleshooting, because of flaws and artifacts from the camera and lens technology.

My point: I think the above possibilities I mentioned are more likely than someone actually having photographed something supernatural. Those should be ruled out before assuming you took a photo of a ghost.

Andy

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