We have seen a growing trend of paranormal anomalies in pictures taken by many people as they intentionally or unintentionally pointed their cameras toward reflective surfaces, especially mirrors.
On many ghost-hunting websites that offer pointers or advice on ghost photography, they always advise never to point your camera, when using a flash, toward a mirror or other reflective surfaces.
In general, this is good advice. It's common for those with less experience to mistaken "lens-flare" and illuminated lens artifacts as genuine orbs and/or other anomalies.
Smudges and dirt on a mirror will also tend to produce what appear to be fogs and other mist-like anomalies that will appear to be paranormal in nature.
After examining many photos taken toward mirrors and windows sent to us by visitors, and even many of our own photos, we began to see things other than lens-flare orbs and dirt produced anomalies. We started to notice that actual faces and human looking figures were showing up as well.
Here are some examples from our own photos showing some very interesting anomalies.
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Now many of you may disagree with this method of ghost photography, but we have developed a theory that we have come to call, "Visual White Noise".
If you are familiar with "Trans-Instrumental Communication", otherwise know as, Electronic Voice Phenomena or EVP's, you may know that it's common for researchers to use "white noise" as a background to pick up voices. Most EVP's are captured if there is some type of noise in the background. Rarely, if ever, are they captured in a completely silent surrounding. Visit any ghost hunting website and listen to their EVP's. Even when they are recorded in a quiet location, they are usually heard close to or within the investigators voices heard on the recording. It's theorized by many researchers that ghosts/spirits, instead of leaving their actual voice imprints on the recording device, will actually pull together the background noise to form their voices.
You may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with capturing images in a mirror?
Well, sound is a form of energy, and so is light. Why couldn't ghosts/spirits use light energy from a camera flash materialize their images?
Our theory coincides with our belief that ghosts/spirits will use the natural energy of trees and bushes to materialize their images within the same. This is why one may get faces in photos taken of trees and bushes. We don't believe these anomalies are just random patterns that our brains have to transform to recognizable images as some deep-down instinctive urge.
Some of the best anomalies in pictures that we have seen, and have taken ourselves, have been captured in or around the camera flashes in mirrors, windows, and other reflective surfaces.
We had to ask ourselves why this is so.
The conclusion we came to is, since light is a form of energy, and ghosts are known to use any available energy in the immediate locale to materialize, then why can't they use the energy of the camera flash for the same thing?
We intend to conduct more experiments in the immediate future.
We will of course post the results of our experiments on this page.
