There is much debate about whether orbs are just dust, moisture particles, inexplicable light anomalies, or whether they really are signs that a spirit is present and trying to communicate with the physical world.

As a medium, it is my firm belief that in certain circumstances, where the likelihood of moisture and dust can be eliminated, the capturing of orbs in a photo or on a camcorder is a genuine sign of spirit energy being present at that time. True spirit orb activity is rarely visible to the naked eye, but can be caught on digital media such as digital cameras and infra red camcorders, CCTV and webcams.

Having said that, I once captured orbs with an APS camera in a haunted theme park!

Orbs usually appear as spheres of light, they can appear as tiny flashing pinpoints of light as they move sometimes. Orbs can and do move about in a random way – dust particles can be mistaken as orbs for this reason.

Of course as a medium I can "cheat" and read a photo or piece of footage to tell if a spirit was really present.. but to the untrained eye how do we tell?

True spirit orbs tend to appear to have faces or "snake" patterns within them and tend to have a nucleus of some kind. The faces however aren’t the actual faces of the spirits present, we are programmed on an instinctual level to look for faces in random patterns, and so the patterns we see in orbs can look like smilies!

Orbs are sometimes accompanied by delicate mists or smoky wisps as the physical apparition is attempted and progresses. Often a mist will be caught on camera in the same shot as a spirit orb. These mists can sometimes show the actual shape and form of the person manifesting – a good example of this is in the Orbs Gallery – look for the Native American face picture..

Why Orbs occur..

Orbs and light anomalies are a reaction produced by the expenditure of energy when a spirit is in the early stages of manifestation here in the physical world. They are part of a physical reaction created as the manifestation occurs..

Physicists tell us that action produces a reaction - hence when a spirit expends the energy required to manifest in our presence, the spirit lights we know as orbs are produced along with other phenomena.

I know that it takes a tremendous amount of energy for a spirit to materialise here in our environment. Hence the orbs, mists, localised cold or hot spots we record on our laser thermometers on investigations.. the unexplained sudden breezes, noises or lights we may experience in their presence.

Spirits aren't often successful in full materialisation, but more often than not they can create an intentional or unintentional reaction of some kind that we are able to sense, such as orbs of light, or a noise for us to prove they are there.

For believers, it is enough proof of their visit! For sceptics? Well I can only say, “Find your own personal proof!”        

I don’t see it as my role make you believe something I have experienced for myself!

Spirits – a brief explanation from a medium’s point of view..

As a medium I’ve been shown that when the body dies, the spirit lives on in another state, with all memories, personality traits, and intelligence intact, and that The Spirit World is in fact all around us occupying space at a different vibrational speed than physical matter here. 

Everything living , dead or inanimate has a vibrational speed, again, basic laws of physics..

Your spirit is the essence of life, and has no physical form, but can occupy physical form (occupying a body of flesh and bone). However, the spirit is perfectly capable of existence outside the physical form it is housed in during a lifetime here. What makes us a “mind” or conscious being, is far more than mere flesh and bone,  and my belief in life after death is backed up by the scientific knowledge that energy does not cease to exist; it simply changes form. So that part of us which is consciousness changes form when the life supporting it ceases.

When mediums communicate with spirit, the spirit often represents as remembered here on the physical plane. This means that a medium can describe him or her as they remember themselves, for example tall, blue eyes, blonde hair, distinguishing features etc, a description of the personality and character, any illnesses or complaints they had, how they died, life experiences and so on.

However, this is what the spirit remembers about their life, but is not how they actually are now, since they no longer occupy the physical plane. They simply remember what they looked like, and recreate it at will for whatever purpose, be it during a haunting, or in order that a medium can pass on the information to help recognition of them by loved ones during a sitting.