Orbs 'r' Us

Happy Halloween...countdown to Halloween is 32 days!
This is my first blog...and hopefully I can keep it updated daily.
I decided to call my blog "Orbs 'r' Us" and it will pertain to my entrance into the world of the unknown.
All my life I have had the usual dejavu momments and even had a dream about my mother dying and then to have it come true the next morning was very scary! I was 10 yrs old and never knew how sick she really was!
Over the years I had a few other odd things happen but generally life was normal and so were my photos. It could be even my move to Dodge that has brought my enlightenment to the world of the unknown.
Halloween has always been my love!
Ever since I can remember it has been the only holiday that my family never got drunk in and ruined it by fighting. I grew up in a very large household that had adults that liked to drink at all holidays and couldn't hold their liquor[one reason I don't like to drink]! Except for Halloween! Maybe it was the letting loose of the inner demons by playing tricks on each other and just having fun...or the excessive sugar...who knows, at least everyone had fun!
I was always the creative one and loved taking old items and making them into costumes that even my friends wouldn't recognize us. My stepmother was forever trying to find that one thing that I couldn't build and it was because of her pushing me to do better that I come up with some of my strangest ideas.
My two younger sisters were great at putting up with my weirdness. They always had the best costumes. We didn't decorate the house up too much in my younger days. We were in it for the loot!
Decorating to the extreme started in 1998. One chick had left the nest and the other was leaving the next year. All through their growning up years the decorations were mostly cutesy. So as they leave I was left with all these costumes/masks! So I displayed them and for the last week leading up to Halloween we had creatures living with us! I loved it! The kids loved it! The X didn't! I do have to admit it was hard at the end to live with the neighbors wanting to see all of my collections and the last home haunt was in 2000. Laws were laid down and my beloved halloween was never to be displayed again until a bright idea from our local theater group!
Dodge has a Court House and the local towns people had labled it as haunted. So why don't I take my collection and haunt the basement of this building. So the courthouse and I were introduced to each other.
One warm and calm evening in Sept/01 I took some digital photos of the outside of the building and downloaded them into my computer. I have taken many a photo with this camera and never had any of the pics had spots on them. The ones of the courthouse were covered in them! Some even showed the spots BEHIND the windows.
I later [through internet research] found that others call these spots "Orbs" and some profess them to be lost souls waiting to be reborn or go on to a higher plane. Some even call them UFOs. Some even call them dust motes.
My daughter and I have had personal contact with a paranaormal group that have recorded these "Orbs" moving around us on film [in the courthouse]. After seeing and experience the unknown I have become a believer. After all...seeing is believing! What about feeling?
We started building the haunt in the basement Sept. 29. Right from the beginning I told her that even if we never experience anything in there we will lie and say that we did.
We've never had to lie!
She had only gone 20' into the basement area, that night after work, when she began to freak out and we had to leave. The next night she felt better. The basement of the building is the worst place of all of the experiences and the paranormal group agreed with us. They find the courthouse creepier than their haunted sanitarium! I've been driven out of the basement many times and we've had to quit for the evening and return at a later date to continue.
The "Orbs" are not just connected to the courthouse in this town! I have taken other photos of other buildings and some have them and some don't. My shop even has them...although I have higher activity the closer it gets to Nov. Weird things happen in my place around that time and have been seen and heard by others.
So do I believe in "Orbs"? Yes I do! I believe they are lost souls, spirits, essence....whatever and they are all around us. The more you believe the more you are able to see and feel. The paranormal group has opened me up to the awareness of the unknown and what the darkness holds for us. I has had its scary moments and I swear I'll never go back in there but I find myself returning.
So my daughter and I will return to the unknown and start this years Halloween decor Sept 29 and hopefully be let alone until Halloween Haunt 2006 starts.
Orbing out.....QoH