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  2. Backscatter (photography) - Wikipedia

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    The backscatter of the camera's flash by motes of dust causes unfocused orb-shaped photographic artifacts. In photography , backscatter (also called near-camera reflection [ 1 ] ) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to the camera's flash being reflected from unfocused motes of dust , water ...

  3. Ghost hunting - Wikipedia

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    Orbs of light that show up on photos, he says, are often particles of dust or moisture. " Voices " picked up by tape recorders can be radio signals or noise from the recorder, EMF detectors can be set off by faulty wiring, microwave towers, [ 14 ] iron, recording equipment, or cell phones, and heat sensors can pick up reflections off of mirrors ...

  4. Spirit photography - Wikipedia

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    In more modern times, cameras with built in flashes produced what some believed to be ectoplasm, or "orbs". [4] Most ghost photos fall into one of two categories. They are either hazy, indistinct shapes that look human or orbs that are usually white and round. Both can easily be purposefully or accidentally created. [13] [14]

  5. Backscatter - Wikipedia

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    Photographic backscatter can result from snowflakes, rain or mist, or airborne dust. Due to the size limitations of the modern compact and ultra-compact cameras, especially digital cameras, the distance between the lens and the built-in flash has decreased, thereby decreasing the angle of light reflection to the lens and increasing the ...

  6. Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia

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    The swampy area of Massachusetts known as the Bridgewater Triangle has folklore of ghostly orbs of light, and there have been modern observations of these ghost-lights in this area as well. The fifollet (or feu-follet) of Louisiana derives from the French. The legend says that the fifollet is a soul sent back from the dead to do God's penance ...

  7. UFO sightings in outer space - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong claimed he saw two blue pale glowing orbs. [10] An explanation was that the sightings could have been attributed to jettisoned components. Additional stories were accredited to a hoax spread by science fiction writer Otto Binder. [1] Buzz Aldrin says his words were taken out of context from an interview in 2005 about the incident. [3]

  8. Bhoota (ghost) - Wikipedia

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    Instead, they unwittingly accept the bhoota's companionship (e.g., keep the ghost company as he/she walks through a forest, or (if a man) picks up the ghost in his car because it looks like an attractive woman waiting by the roadside at night). They become progressively aware that their companion is dressed entirely in white and has a strangely ...

  9. Contest of Chaos - Wikipedia

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    Ghost-Spider is trapped in a medieval fantasy world where she is a knight fighting off an invasion led by White Fox. While fighting, White Fox realizes that the "dream" is actually a haikyo, and when several animatronics steal an orb that Ghost-Spider was supposed to protect, the two team up to recover the orb. They walk into a tunnel where ...