My friends Jalynn Venis and Rich Gorey recently launched a website featuring info about their soon to be hopefully published novel, Ghost Island. Ghost Island is a fantastically well-written story and explores ghosts, orbs and other frighteningly fun stuff throughout. Jalynn, an intuitive who has had more than her fair share of seeing and sensing ghosts and incredible ectoplasmic otherworldly energies, wanted to give readers the skinny on what the paranormal is all about. There will also be a supplemental field guide, written by Ghost Island’s fictional character Cassandra O’Shaughnessy, the island’s resident psychic. Once it’s available, be sure to check-out Cassandra’s exploration of the non-physical Universe. It’s very informative.
GHOST ISLAND BOOK TRAILER
Recently, I came across a blog, Can You Explain These Photographs? which features possible ghosts in photos sent in by average folks like you and me. With things such as Photoshop, it can be challenging to determine what’s been tampered with and what is real. Though I’m skeptical about photos with images of people as ghosts, orbs are another matter.
Orbs (also known as “ghost orbs” or “spirit orbs”) are often thought to be “balls of light” apparently floating or moving in a photograph. However, no one knows what this energy is, for sure. According to some websites, plasma balls of light or ghost lights (orbs) have been proven to be electrically charged. Spirit (or ghost) orbs will normally have a more solid center, without any spokes radiating from the center.
I received a promotional copy of the DVD, Orbs, the Veil is Lifting from the publishing company awhile back, but I haven’t had a chance to look at it. In fact, I can’t find it, but I know it’s around my disastrously messy desk somewhere. If I ever get a chance to take a peek at it, I’ll let you know.
But here’s a video of the trailer for more info:
Some folks claim that orbs show up traditionally in haunted places like hotels and cemeteries, but I saw them for myself at a belly dancing performance last year. Yes, I used to take belly dancing lessons, and you can stop laughing now. My friend Fern had her digital camera, and she took lots of shots of women performing in a small restaurant in Denver. She handed me the camera when it was her turn to dance, and afterward, asked me if I’d seen the orbs. Obs, what orbs? She scrolled through the shots, and pointed out the orbs in many pictures. Little balls of light were toward the bottom of the dancers in several frames. If I hadn’t seen them for myself, I’d think this was all crap.
I asked her how they got there, and she said she invites the orbs to show up. They usually like to hang around happy people, thus dancing with music is a good environment to attract these little balls of whatever they are. Fern said they also show up lots when she’s around kids that exude happy, happy, joy, joy. I asked her how come the orbs show up on her camera, and not mine, and she simply remarked that asking for them to appear when her camera was near her (like on a strap around her neck) was key. It didn’t happen over night, but they did begin to appear over time. Ask and ye shall receive.
Since Fern noticed orbs tend to like joyful environments (such as dancing and music), I wonder if anyone has pictures at a rock concert that seem to contain orbs. If you’ve got any, let me know. D0 orbs dig certain concerts more than others? What would an orbs favorite band be? The Grateful Dead? HA! What are your thoughts about orbs?