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A single orb in the center of the photo, at the person's knee level Main article: Spirit photography § "Orbs" Some ghost hunters have claimed that orb shaped visual artifacts appearing in photographs are spirits of the dead.
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]
Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are purportedly haunted by ... Although some ghost hunters believe orbs are of supernatural origin, ...
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 ...
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is said to have a few ghosts, including dead soldiers from the Battle of Ball's Bluff fought during the American Civil War haunting near the 33–34 mile mark, [72] a lady ghost on the 2 mile level at Catoctin (between locks 28 and 29), [72] a headless man haunting the Paw Paw Tunnel, [73] and a ghost of a robber at ...
Yūrei from the Hyakkai Zukan, c. 1737. Yūrei are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western concept of ghosts.The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".
Onibi (鬼火, "Demon Fire") is a type of atmospheric ghost light in legends of Japan. According to folklore , they are the spirits born from the corpses of humans and animals. They are also said to be resentful people that have become fire and appeared.
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.