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Spirit Orbs are Dead, God save the Spirit orbs!

Yep! Orbs are dust particles reflecting light. Just a matter of time before everyone jumps off the sinking ship. I hope it goes down without a fight, so it doesn't hurt any reputations.

I've been fighting that stupid thing from the forward trenches, and these friggin orb zealots have been driving me nuts! The irony being that I have a decent orb shot that any of them would swear was a real orb, yet I can't prove what naturally occuring object created the orb.

Photos of spirits were first used to prove that a ghost COULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED! Photos included ghostly floating candles, etc.. Then later, it became a way of capturing their image, showing surprised folks wearing baking flour and poorly double exposed into another frame of film. Last, but not least, it's now a way of spotting orbs that can't be seen with the human eye. I wonder if the next revelation will be folks exclaiming: "I took it's photograph, but it didn't show up!?" Trend of the past few months has been away from orbs and towards EVP anyways, which will go through a similar debunking process as folks start faking their EVP's and make it bad for the rest of the "society". THe ORB thing got it's deathblow when EVERYONE got digital cameras, and were finally coaxed into filming fake orbs to teach them what "real orbs" look like.

Suddenly, those that had preached: "orbs are real spirits, look how many I can get at a local haunted graveyard", switched to: "some orbs are real spirits", switched to: "Damn those fools for pushing digital camera dust reflections as if they were real orbs", switched to: "digital Cameras ROCK!", switched to: "never take pictures in the spring or Fall, or you'll get fake orbs", evolved into: "Headstones have small shiny stonepieces in them that will create orbs,.. don't film them, ghost aren't attached to corpses anyway, they attach themselves to events." evolved into: "the spirits in graveyards are travellers from a spirit vortex", evolved into: "Wow, look at all the idiots out there with dust orb photos.. what you REALLY need to do is get some EVP¹ recordings.. I can get A LOT at the local graveyard.."

Spiraling demise.. It's ok though, I'm staying low, and biding my time now. Eventually folks will realize there's still ghost happenings going on independently of the EVP, and Orb thing.

I believe that EVP is legit evidence, and possibly very useful, but no one will trust anyone else's EVP recording soon, as the imitators that want the attention will scream into their mirocphones and claim that a spirit did it. The irony being that EVP's are often beleived to be messages from spirit orbs.

Sign-o-the-times, I guess. Now with 9/11 coming up, it'll be another rash of haunted happenings, and then October / November will be a heyday for the nay sayers.

Better just to keep my head down for now... maybe I can get some sleep.

--Mike

¹Electronic Voice Phenomenon

This just in! Deadguy has set up shop online and is selling skeletons and skulls from his new website at www.skullshop.com. Hey, just in time to plan for Halloween!