Signs Of Ghosts -- Our Take On Orbs

We here at SOG would like to clarify our position on the highly controversial paranormal subject of Orbs.  Having captured orbs in every form and color for the past thirty five years, we have seen about every type of Orb imagined.  Roll camera film has been used, and digital film also.  the staggering amount of orbs we have captured have been thrown out as nothing but particulate, be it either from dust, rain particles, humidity, pollen, grass, wheat (in fields) snow,  or anything you might be able to see in the air if you know what to look for.  In this regard, we feel that most Orbs are NOT paranormal in nature.

Indoors,  orbs can come from carpeted flooring that has been disrupted.  In abandoned buildings it can come from dust, or general construction debris on the floor.  Some disturbed dust in the air can float around for hours, and I mean many hours. Anyone smoking on an investigation can put floating particulate into the air, and this can give false photographic evidence.  If you are doing an investigation in a place where numerous people are,  you will more than likely have a great deal of photos with orbs in them.  Orbs can and most of the time will be in a photo where a human has been moving around. 

Now that you know we do not feel most orbs are a true measure of most paranormal situations,  we also want to state that we feel some specific orbs do tell a story, and will be considered paranormal when all manner of human contamination can be ruled out.  In our Ghost Tour office in Bluefield, WV, we post photos from our tours and investigations, all over our walls.  Of all the photos we can see every day on the walls, less than one percent of them will be of an orb.  

One thing we look for to make an orb photo more legitimate, are mass, distance, and movement.  Some orbs will appear to peek around a corner, wall, or a tree or other object.  If we see this, we can judge general distance.  That is a good starting point.  We then see if the orb can be qualified or quantified for size, in relation to its position.  Keep in mind that there is NO SCIENTIFIC METHOD for judging or measuring an orb.  We try to use normal logic, in relation to the living.  If we can judge distance, and weight, we have a much better idea of the legitimacy of an orb.  Does it form a pattern, in a set of photos?  Does it seem to follow a person, or thing?  Are there any characteristics of the orb at all that make you feel it is repeating itself, for a specific purpose.  Many factors are involved in our attempt to quantify or qualify only the orbs that we feel above all others might be legitimate. 

There are many more things to take into account for orb legitimacy.  These are just a few of the methods we use.  We will not write a thesis on this topic, we just wanted you to know how we stand within our organization.  We feel we have captured more evidence of the paranormal than a lot of other groups, but do not speak loudly of this.  We have our evidence up on our walls, and our pages.  You will rarely if ever see us post a photo of an orb, even though we believe in the smallest one percent of all orbs being possibly other than normal.  

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