Claimed photographs of ghosts take many forms, but one of the most common types depict

what believers call orbs or spirit orbs, white circular blobs appearing in the air

in photographs when there was nothing there at the time photograph was taken.

Today, we're going to explore the orb phenomenon and see how the photographic explanation compares

with the paranormal belief. Orbs are today unskeptoid.

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program. Orbs. The Ghost in the Camera. Next time you pick up a camera, watch out. You're

holding in your hand the very device responsible for tens of thousands of the most bizarre and

unexplainable type of ghost photographs. Orbs. Orbs, formerly called spirit orbs, are

those semi-transparent white balls seen floating around in many photographs taken in ghostly

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