This morning I was checking random stuff on myspace and I came upon a profile focusing on the paranormal. Of course, it had it's load of very probably fake stuff and "my-house-is-haunted" videos, but then I came upon pictures of Orbs. For those who don't know, Orbs are white or blue circles you sometimes get in pictures. Anyway people into paranormal stuff claim it's spirit energy or whatever. What attracted my attention to orbs, is that I had seen those before, not in probably photoshoped pictures claiming to be paranormal, but on my own pictures taken in very creepy places for an orb to appear.

In my fourth year of high school I went to a field trip to Grosse Ile with my History class. (Grosse Ile is where the Irish who emigrated to Canada in the 19th century were isolated because of cholera and typhus) During this trip, I took tons of pictures about everywhere the group went and I caught some of these orbs. Spookily enough, they weren't in random locations, but only in places where it was known that people died.

When I came back from work this afternoon, I did a little research on orbs and found a variety of theories, both paranormal and perfectly scientific. The scientific views claim that they are dust particles, that a bug was in the camera lens or that it's simply the effect of the flash and of lightning. During my trip I caught 2 Orb pictures and I have to say I'm dubious of both the paranormal and scientific explanations. So here<s the background for each pictures (unfortunately, they were taken with a disposable camera -so I can't upload them here, and stayed at my parents')

My first spotty picture was taken in the Red Room, which was the room in which the patients of small pox where treated. (It was red to ease the patients' sensibility to light). Anyway when I developped my picture, it was full of white spots, some flashier than others. On the top of the picture, there is some extremely bright one that is my flash. Good. One point for science. But what of all the other spots surrounding my picture? Dust, yeah that can be possible, but why did I get spots on picture 2, which was taken in a normal day light place with nothing overwhelmingly dusty? Moving on to my camera. Yeah, it was disposable, not the best picture taking tool, I confess. That's where google comes to the rescue. Pictures taken inside the red room are very difficult to find on the net trust me. I managed to find two. One was photoshoped to make a ghost appear in the picture so that's stupid, but another was taken without photoshop involvement and surprisingly enough it is (almost) just as spotty as mine: ... 

When I took my picture I was standing at the front of the room and the very bright one on the wall is the same kind of dot I blame my flash for. And these spots are the same (In fact, even in the photoshoped pic, there were spots too). So do we all have extremely bad cameras? I admit that it could be dust particules, but I'm still suspicious because of the flashy one on the wall, which appears in both our pictures.

My next spotty picture was taken near an ambulance, where they took dead people!. The environment of the picture was quite clear (day light). And the spots don't appear randomly as in the red room one. Guess where? Mostly in the seat of the driver! A dusty coincidence or something more?

Anyone else had Orb experiences??

Science or Inexplicable??

I'm curious...