Freaky Flicker

 Recently I was at a birthday dinner party attended by five people. I won't mention whose birthday it was because I have heard that for information security purposes, you should avoid mentioning someone's birthday. Before the event, I had the suspicion that something unusual might happen with the overhead lights on this evening. I had this suspicion because last Valentine's Day, I witnessed overhead lights mysteriously turn off and then turn back on. That incident was described in my post here. 

Just as I had suspected, something very unusual occurred with the overhead lights. The lights very noticeably flickered, dimming before going back to normal. It was a cool day, and this certainly was not a power dip caused by too many people using air conditioners. The overhead lights did not totally turn off, but seemed to briefly dim by perhaps 50% or more. The effect lasted only a second or two. 

This post was written just after observing the effect described above, but auto-scheduled for publication at a later date. 

Below is a mysterious orb I photographed indoors today.

Fast and Bright

 Photo date: September 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a photo I took indoors showing what looks like a bright speeding orb. 

Fast and Bright

 Photo date: August 20, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Sharp Fast Turn?

 Photo date: August 15, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Bright Orb

Photo date: July 12, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

 

Translucency Variations

 Photo date: May 29, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  There is a variation in translucency, with the outer part of the orb being less translucent than another part of the orb. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: May 6 2026.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors near an air conditioner. 

 In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Netflix series "High Seas" two characters start talking about life after death. I started to take some photos, hoping to get something spooky during the brief conversation mentioning life after death. I did get an orb in a photo at the exact moment a character mentioned the phrase "near death experience." At the exact moment that one character was saying that when someone dies, it may be that "their spirit remains with us," I got a very spooky-looking effect in my photo of the TV screen. It could conceivably have been caused by my hand accidentally making a sudden jerk at that moment. But my hand is almost invariably steady when I photograph, and I bet I could take 500 consecutive photos of a TV without such an effect repeating. 

Postscript: Five days later I photographed another bright orb at almost the exact same position. 

Like an Orb Grin

 Photo date April 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: April 13, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Tilt your face to the right a bit, and you may see what faintly looks like a smiling face with eyes closed. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: January 23, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious  orb I photographed indoors. 

Was It Resting Up There?

Photo date: December 23, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

I keep two smoke detectors on top of my near-the-ceiling air conditioner (and in the same room I have an additional ceiling-mounted smoke detector). In the photo below it rather seemed as if a mysterious orb was resting on the same air conditioner. 

Bright Orb Just After the Anomaly

 Photo date November 18, 2025. Photographer  Mark Mahin. 

We see below a bright orb I photographed in the first photo I took after noticing yet another example of a rubber band anomaly I have seen well over 20 previous times. When the anomaly occurs, I will suddenly notice a rubber band on the floor of my living quarters with me having no explanation as to how the rubber band got there (I always immediately clean up all small objects from the floor as soon as I see them). In this case the anomaly occurred after 5:00 PM EST, with the rubber band being in a very noticeable position only a meter in front of where I had sat for most of the day, without previously noticing such a rubber band.  The windows were all closed, ruling out any "gust of wind" explanation. 

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Postscript: A few minutes after I published the text above, while alone in the room mentioned above, I noticed another rubber band on the floor, the appearance of which I cannot account for. It is shown below (the black cord is one leading from my PlayStation machine to its controller resting on the machine about a foot above the floor).  After finding the first rubber band, I had carefully looked around to see whether there were any others, and noticed nothing in the spot shown below.  My experience here is similar to that reported in my post here, although that post describes something more dramatic, involving three rubber bands rather than just two.  We have here today in the span of a few minutes the sighting of two different rubber bands on the floor, neither of which I can explain, both in very noticeable positions, both involving  a kind of "I should have seen that if it had been there for more than a few minutes" situation. Very strange. 

An interesting speculation is that some mysterious power or invisible presence capable of moving matter may prefer to produce manifestations involving small, lightweight objects, because those objects are more easily moved. 

Post-postscript: On four of the next five days there was another similar "hard-to-explain rubber band on the floor" anomaly, each involving a single rubber band, all near the area shown above, all not far from my TV set. I have now seen an anomaly like this more than 25 times. 

Colorful Edges

 Photo date: October 15, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a bright mysterious orb with colorful edges, one orange and one purple. 

Roundness Meets Roundness

 Photo date: September 27, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors, near a black thermostat. 

A Bright Orb

Photo date: September 25, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a chest of drawers. 

Postscript: The next day I got the bright orb below.

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: August 11 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Bright Orb Aligns

 Photo date: July 26, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

The Orb Had Strange Edges and an Inner Circle

 Photo date: June 16, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Colorful Edges

 Photo date: May 19, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb With the Number 8

 Photo date: March 21, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb with an odd feature on the left, and what seems like the number 8 on the right. 

To see other photos of orbs having numbers in them, see the link here