Oh my goodness erasmus, this post gives me the chills!! I live in an old house, and I can't even imagine what cameras would "detect" if I had them at night. I agree, orbs of light floating around and over the bed do not sound like dust motes. I don't know anything about cameras. I hope someone chimes in who can shed some light on this subject!

Our house was built in 1919, and every person who has lived here has seen ghosts, including me. In fact, someone was visiting me on Friday evening and we were chatting in the living room and he said he felt a presence next to him while he was sitting on the couch! This is a new friend...I had never discussed our ghosts with him at all!

What really shocked me was talking with my neighbour...a career military man in his 70's...not the type of person you would think would see ghosts. He said that he saw a ghost in his bedroom. all of my neighbours have seen them. And a man who came to build a stone wall for me worked here for six months and he told me afterwards that he frequently saw the ghost outside!

Here is a picture of my "haunted house"

Now I want to set up a camera...but I'm too afraid!! :))

Don't worry. Those "globes" are not ghosts. They're lens flare. If you change your position relative to the source of bright light, you can often eliminate them.

Also insects. Our security camera triggers on little bitty things sometimes because they are close to the camera and therefore look bigger and further back. A teenie moth caught in some light does look weird if you're not sure what it is.

rosylady, your house is drop dead gorgeous. I think I'd put up with a ghost or two just to live there. When multiple people have seen ghosts then one would have to seriously wonder. I haven't seen any but many things have disappeared and reappeared in our house, including my husband's leather jacket, which disappeared from our car and reappeared one month later. I blame my husband because it was only after we married that these things began to happen. Perhaps the veil between this world and the next is thinner than we may think.

But Jeri, what if the camera is in a fixed position and the "orb" moves?

I like your house too, roselady, and your garden has matured so beautifully. Our house was built in the 1890's and was vacant for some time. People in our town say that the funeral home kept dead bodies under the house as the owners were partners with them. My daughter feels strongly that there are ghosts here. For years she has heard knocking, seen lights come on on their own, and water come on on its own. I have never had a feeling there are ghosts here or seen anything strange. I never worry about it.

How can an orb be seen through a crack in a door and then see it come through the door?

This thread us giving me chills too lol. I have had some very strange encounters with 'ghosts' or what have you over the years. I'm not saying I believe in all that but sometimes things would be hard to explain otherwise. Here's one: My husband's father passed away a yr after we got married. He never got to see my hubby graduate. We lived in Phx, Az at the time. Hubby had changed careers and went to college during this time. I was also in college. 4 yrs later, after I graduated, we moved to a very small town in the NE and we both had started jobs in a hospital there.

One evening, we came home from work and on our *brand new* answering machine, was a message. .. My husband's father's voice exactly!! He said...."(insert my hubby's name) this is dad. I am really pround of you son. I'm sorry I wasn't there for your graduation but I just want you to know that I love you and and I am really proud of you." I mean this was his dad's voice exactly. How weird is that?? There's no one else in his family who sounds like that and could or would randomly do something like leave some weird message like that. We were both really freaked out.

My grandfather saw a UFO in Phx, sitting on his back patio in the 1970's. It moved in such a way that would not be explainable at the time. He was ex military (WWll) and very familiar with all kinds of aircraft and weapons in the military. This was a man who didn't prior, believe in any such nonsense (his words) and I had never heard him make up stories or exaggerate facts. I believe what he saw.

We recently moved onto our new farm. A few months later, the elderly gentleman from the next farm over, told my husband, that the lady who owned it before had 3 husbands die in a row. Wth? So far no ghosts here *yet* though lol.

sultry....That phone message is unbelievable!!! Did you keep the message?

erasmus....I know what you mean...if there's this whole other dimension, wouldn't it be more obvious? Maybe it is to some people. After seeing the ghost at my house, I didn't want to pursue it any further. He was talking to me, and I don't want to talk to spirits! It's too overwhelming.

That is a very sweet story about your mother :)

Ha...I can understand not particularly wanting to talk to a ghost. I have had a few very vivid dreams of people who have passed on. I have talked to them in dreams. People I love I don't mind talking to in a dream.

It does seem like there's such a thing as ESP. I've had a few instances of intuition that turned out to be true. I don't know how you explain these things.

I think that there definitely IS a "whole other dimension", but not everybody is able to sense it, or if they can, they don't know that they are doing so. Since we're on a rose forum, I'll use the metaphor of rose scents. Some people are extremely sensitive to, and aware of the scent of a rose,whilst others are not. Another example: taste. I myself could never in a million years be a gourmand or a chef or anything like that ; I just don't have a very refined palate, I don't taste all these subtle nuances that some people do. But just because I can't percieve them doesn't mean they don't exist.

Sounds plausible. I think there are genetic variations in taste. I mean, you can look at a person's DNA and see which flavors a person will be sensitive to .

Rosy Lady we did keep the message for several years. We switched out the message machine and had the one with the message stored for maybe 10 yrs and eventually lost track of it through our moves and a few natural disasters.

My father in law had a very distinctive voice and no one else we knew had that same voice so I don't really know what to make of it lol. We played the message, at the time it occurred, to some other family members and they thought it had to be him!

sultry...that is amazing!