Photo evidence of ectoplasm and ghost orbs
By Andy Kaiser
Article ID: 118
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.
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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Sandra L H:
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…
10 December 2007, 2:59 pmDB Skeptic:
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.
James Randi:
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!
25 February 2008, 9:34 amSimon:
What what what are you going on about! You are joking right…..lol. Clearly its the light reflecting on the lens!?
27 March 2008, 8:08 pmDB Skeptic:
I can’t think of any other explanation.
alchobot:
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
9 April 2008, 7:19 pmJohn Campa:
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.
18 April 2008, 8:40 amDB Skeptic:
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.
Nick of CriticalCritique.Com:
Nice satire… LOL! ;-D
20 April 2008, 3:28 am