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Dear Merrily,

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I think the videos you are sharing are a great start, since, anomalous Spirit Lights and Orbs do indeed exist. The ones in the videos your friends sent you on your website are pretty interesting … It's hard to tell whether they're anomalous or not. I think they could be, but it depends on many things.

 

Here are two ways to make sure to differentiate dust particles with the genuine article, as well as offer an experiment for those readers who wish to ‘go the extra mile’. Also, consider that some genuine orbs could be dust particles that could be created and/or manipulated by various energetic entities.

 

To be sure, the next step would be to set up your camera and light source so that legitimate ‘spirit lights’ are not confused with, or obscured by, "particulate orbs."

 

These are a common phenomenon to which many modern digital cameras are prone, and which are often confused with genuine paranormal manifestations. Sadly, these "false positives" have given certain paranormal photography a bad rap, because they can be explained away in ordinary terms by someone who has expertise in photography and such matters.

 

Ruling out or eliminating these false positives is actually very easy to do. I describe how to do it below. But first, let me explain the problem in simple terms:

 

 Surveillance cameras, mobile-phone cameras, and many common point-and-shoot cameras tend to have very wide-angle lenses. One of the characteristics of such lenses is great depth of field, which means that the camera can be in fairly sharp focus from infinity down to a few centimeters from the surface of the lens.

 

 The second factor is the proximity of the light source to the lens. The closer the light is to the lens, the more likely it is to illuminate tiny dust particles floating within centimeters, or even millimeters, of the lens surface -- literally hundreds of times more brightly than objects six feet away. Unfortunately, the compact size of modern cameras tends to constrain the light source (flash or LED) to being very close to the lens. So, in effect, the camera is acting like a powerful microscope that makes visible any minuscule dust particles (and/or moisture droplets outdoors) that pass through this small zone, floating on micro-currents of air.  We're normally unaware of these particles or air currents, partly because they're too small for our senses to register them.

 

With that said, let me suggest two ways and one experimental idea to evaluate with this phenomenon.

 

1. One way is to rule it out by using two cameras spaced several feet apart, and comparing their results. Since the false positives will be unique to a particular camera, any lights or Orbs seen by both cameras cannot be explained as above, and thus, are more likely to be paranormal. Separating the cameras will also let you determine stereoscopically the actual spatial positions of any spirit lights that manifest in the room.

 

2. The other way is to use a single camera, but to eliminate the possibility of false positives entirely by separating the light source from the camera. If you can completely block or disable the camera's built-in LED and use a separate light source - that should do the trick. Just be sure that the light source is pointing out into the room and that there is a solid, opaque object between the light source and the camera, preventing any of the light from falling directly on the camera.

If you can achieve either of these conditions, I think you can be confident that any anomalous lights you pick up will be more solidly evidential and, skeptic-proof!

 

3. Here’s another idea for photographing including another witness in the room as well. I understand that most ‘spirit lights’ tend to be visible to those in the room. So, a way to increase the evidential value of videos, would be for you to roll the camera while participant(s) sitting in the same room as one camera within view of the other camera, raise their hands when they see lights or other manifestations. That would be a fun, valid experiment for you to do.

 

Also, let me know the exact make and model of your various friend’s security cameras or digital cameras that are capturing these Orbs. That will give me additional information in which to assist you further if needed.

 

Best wishes Merrily, and keep up the good work!

= Dan

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