Orb caught after road accident

[AndrewTheSinger]

These are images I found on a website. The website has nothing to do with ghosts or anything, I just happened to notice this orb on the scene of the accident. I actually cropped the image because it was too gruesome, they might have been taken just a few seconds after the accident took place, the man was knocked unconscious.

I don't know if he died, but there's an orb appearing floating above his body, and on the next picture it shows the orb taking some distance. You can't see his body on the image but the white on the bottom right of the picture is his t-shirt. I don't think anyone wants to see the full picture, but if you really really do I can pm you the address.

[jub jub]

Interesting but...haven't orbs been explained as just dust being photographed out of focus?

I have several pictures that show orbs but I've never really given them much thought as being anything relating to spirits. It seems if they were real, you could see them with the naked eye, especially at night.

[Sentinal]

AndrewTheSinger - It could be a reflection in the lens, something on the lens, or a spec of dust just in front of the lens. To really eliminate those possibilities you would need to capture it in the same place from two different cameras simultaneously. The paralax difference between the cameras would give a true range and size for the object. For dust, debris or reflections it would appear on one camera and not the other.

jub jub - Not everything the camera sees is visable to the human eye. They pick up light outside our visual spectrum. I have had cases were the camera was able to see blemishes through certain type of makeup, or make a models dress appear more transparent that it was to my eye.

[AndrewTheSinger]

Yes, I believe most orb pictures can be explained that way, dust or moisture. It can be the case here, but since it shows a single sphere, in different positions, right above the unconscious wounded man, I thought it was too much coincidence to be a simple particle.

People who undergo road accidents often relate floating above the scene, watching their bodies and then going somewhere else, it's seems it's exactly what the orb is doing.

There are not few NDE's accounts of people that recognize their children as being spheres of light, maybe there's something to it. It is known that when a person dies there is a sudden weight loss to the body, so the 'thing that leaves' might not be so intangible, and perhaps can be photographed as some kind of effluvium.

I don't defend that orb pictures are spirits, they are very likely not to be. Not all large round structures in the space are planets, but on rare occasions they can be.

jub jub - There are certain things to look for, I'm not an expert but became very interested in the subject after a personal experience. Analyse the density and the aura of the orb, do you notice anything very special? Take some pictures of the rain and dust and compare.

Sentinal - That's a very good idea. People who study the phenomena should probably do that in order to collect important evidences.

[Sentinal]

It is known that when a person dies there is a sudden weight loss to the body

How do you know that? Many things get accepted simply because they are heard multiple times so I looked it up. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=343392
The experiment was done a hundred years ago and has been debated since. Some tests have shown a weight gain, some a weight loss, others nothing at all. If you think about all the variables involved, temperature, air, water, etc., it is not surprising. The original experiment supposedly showed a weight loss in humans, but none in dogs. Someone else showed a weight loss in sheep. So the conclusions would be that humans and sheep have souls, but dogs don't. It would appear that the people doing the experiments slanted it to fit their own beliefs. So I think the conclusion would have to wait for a more modern, controlled experiment, probably using a sealed environment.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe that people are more than just the body, but I also think the search for the truth is hindered by the introduction of questionable evidence. We have to be careful to validate the evidence on it's own merit rather than on our belief. There is a popular saying that the camera does not lie. It's not true, as a photographer I can make women look slimmer, empty cities, floating heads, and I created a picture once that someone insisted was an orb even when I told them it wasn't.

[AndrewTheSinger]

Oh, I didn't know there was debate over that. Thought it was scientific fact, something that one read on a list of curiosities along with 'People can't sneeze and keep their eyes open at the same time'. Thanks for offering more information on this.

Cool, could you analyze my picture? When it happened I didn't even know what it was, had no interest/belief in paranormal pictures whatsoever. I have taken pictures of rain and dust for comparison and still haven't been able to get one as special as that one. Not even searching the internet have I found one that looked similar.

[AndrewTheSinger]

Sentinal, if you agree I can pm you the image so that you can tell me what you think.

[Sentinal]

Sure, I'll take a look at it.

[AndrewTheSinger]

Nodes - Hehe, on the first picture, right? After you said it I saw it, I wasn't seeing it that way though. The second picture is beautiful, it's full of colours and has a peculiar shape. Here is the optimized version of the orb from the original picture.



Sentinal, ok, I'm sending it to your Personal Messages box.