Redding Paranormal Investigations RPI

Created deliberately, as a hoax for this site, to illustrate how other so-called investigators deliberately hoax images. This is nothing more than a dirty bathroom mirror with some smudges, strategically aimed to create the illusion of light rays on fog. Add some cigarette smoke, and it looks more convincing.

Another deliberate attempt, illustrates how dried snot, sweat or food could smear on a lens to create an effect just short of a paranormal photo.  Many graveyard photos show mists, which are breath, cigarette smoke and dirty lenses, smeared with sneezes that dried and were improperly wiped off.

A blue mist adorns a tree, in the dark, appearing like a phantom in the night is finally caught. Winding, wisps and tendrils carress the trunk of the tree and there is no doubt this is paranormal - but it's not.  I made this with Photoshop.  It's really simple.  A neat grunge brush, half strength and it took less than a minute to fake.

This one took less than 2 minutes to create. If I had done it in black, it would have looked like a dark mist caught on film by the unsuspecting investigator, but it's not.  I left it blue to illustrate how simple it is for people to claim that something is a mist, when it is not.

 

Plastic wrap over the lens and light reflecting off a hand which is close to the flash.

This is a plastic bag, near, but not completely over the lens.  Some light reflection can be seen and it causes a glowing mist.

Again, a fog is created by a plastic bag put over the lens.  Can you imagine what a cool effect this gets if the bag is wrinkled and also dirty with dried spots and smudges?  It looks like etherial mist with lines and spots in it.

A UFO?  No.  Chanelle took this at a graveyard.  It's a streetlight, against the darkness.  This is how a digital camera often focuses after dark on objects that are lit.  The aperature cannot decide where to go, so it goes in and out and then, when it thinks it focused, it shoots, and often creates a halo effect.

 

A moving orb, which, at first, can make you look twice, however is a typical bug orb.

A lot of small orbs can look interesting at first. This is moisture, after a light sprinkle, and can also mimic dust.

This is typical dust. Rainbow colors, yellow, facial shaped, dust comes in a few forms which are often mistaken for real evidence.

Yellow: A common dust color.



 

This orb appeared to move every minute during timelaps, a hair further everytime. This, folks, is the MOON.  :)

Something falling while the shutter on the camera was open, streaking as it goes toward the ground.

Flare on a mirror. Not an orb.  Caused by camera flash reflection.


 

Looks like a streak of etherial light. Actually a flare off of something plastic in the room reflecting.

A flashlight aimed at someone's arim illustrates what can happen if it's near a body.  What a pretty etherial glow that makes.

A house in Platina, Ca., which was not cared for by the landlord, once a former school yielded very interesting results when we got these strange vortexes, but...
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we have now been able to debunk these images, as nothing more than camera straps in front of the lens.
 

This is why you never point a camera at your face in the dark.  The flash went off and well, it's self explanatory.  Oh the pain!

This is not paranormal. It is what happens when a person holding the camera moves during the time the shutter is open. Shutters stay open longer in less-lit areas.

Movement of the camera combined with low light and electronic interference from the "fear cage" to the right.

A fear cage is an area of high EMF.

This rolling orb is what dust or lint looks like as it blows out of a cieling vent.  This is caught with a digital camera.

Not anything paranormal.

This is typical of dust.

This fog is actually created by team members to show that some mists are not of paranormal nature.  This is created by breath.  Sometimes it's cigarette smoke or fog from humidity.

This is just a moth or leaf, caught in the dark.

Flashlights moving in darkness, with the shutter open, cause light streaks that may appear to be paranormal to the untrained eye.

Flashlight play on a dark, misty night.

More flashlight fun.  This is not a vortex or a ghost.  It is a flashlight, illuminating, while moving.

Again, flashlight fun.

More flashlight fun.  Isn't it intriguing how it casts a greenish tint?

This is why you wear a sportsbra if you wear thin clothing.  IR cameras pick up things through clothing, very well, and are often referred to as XRay technology.

A purple orb? A spirit? No.  A lens flare that moves with the photographer.  Notice the flare in the mirror from the flash bounces back to the lens on the camera, reflecting purple to itself.  This is called a Matrixed Flare.

This is not a spirit or black entity.  This is the man's thumb, who took the photo in the dark.

A seemingly spiritual mist in the distance graces the landscape, but two investigators are smoking in a light breeze.  This mist has colors, if you look, and can be attributed to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.

Another strange, glowing mist (brightened so you can see it) graces the area.  Again, membes of the team are smoking.

Bright orbs, dim orbs, crystal shaped orbs, and many colored orbs can be seen, but this is adjascent to the Knauff Plant, and so it is possibly an effect from fiberglass fallout.  Either way, this is absolutely not of paranormal nature and is easily explainable.

A crystal-shaped orb, caused by the inner shutters of a camera.  The lens inside has many facets which open the aperature and because they are crystal-shaped, and this bug or particle was bright, they could not focus into a circle, and so this is a camera anomale and is absolutely not of paranormal nature.

Many colored particles fall into Newtown Cemetery, adjascent to the Knauff Plant.

Isn't this awesome?  This, however, is probably not of real energy.  Very few orbs actually are.

The red haze cast to the left is not an entity.  It is the color reflected off of skin that isn't quite close enough to be in the photo, but where the light hits it in the darkness, it causes a radiation of the red into the photo.

Bug, moving.

You see a glowing pair of eyes with a big orb over them.  Those are reflectors or lights in the distance, permiating the darkness.  The orb is humidity.

Eyeball orbs are often humidity, as water is luminous and forms a circular skin around itself while drifting.

This is not an etherial life form, mist, or orb inside a tomb.  This is a lens flare, a humidity or dust particle and a haze, cast by the light, hitting the bright object in complete darkness, flashing back off of it.

Another interesting orb, probably dust or humidity.

NOT evidence, even though it is moving.  This is a TO (Travelling Orb) and it happens when dust is moving or humidity is moving in an air stream.

This team member put her camera behind her back to take a photo, and as you see, her shirt is caught in the flash, causing an etherial glow.  Close objects in flash notoriously cause this effect.

Eyeball orb. Dust or humidity.

A smiley face with big eyes. Another anomaly created by dust or humidity.

Look at all the pretty colors dust and humidity create.  Forms of lint, fiberglass, dirt, and particles of unknown metals often form other colors and shapes and sizes.

An orb possibly caused by the following: smudge on lens, dust, lint, hair on lens, open shutter attempting to focus with a lens flare bouncing back on it.

Moving lights create all sorts of colors and artifacts.

An illuminating light, moved slowly can even create an anomaly in total darkness.