From Rutherford House

I know this is a Montessori homeschooling blog, but visiting Rutherford House is part of our 'going out' that is so strongly encouraged for Montessori elementary. :D That's my story anyhow and I'm sticking to it.

Here's a closeup of something we picked up on our first visit to Rutherford House and our first attempt at ghost hunting. It was what is called an orb. This is not like the dust/humidity orbs that many people online seem to think are something other than normal flash effects. I can't tell you how many photos I've seen of people getting all excited because 'there are orbs everywhere!' but they're just dust orbs...

Anyhow, what we learned in our studies is that dust orbs are round (meaning, almost perfect circles) and usually have a nice ring as the outside edge. They are also a single colour, white or off-white. The photo below does not have any of this:

As you can tell, it's not round, it has no ring, it's not even white or close to white and is in fact multicoloured. It even almost looks like there's a face but that could just be something with the wallpaper in behind playing in with the 'orb'. I have NEVER had any other picture, in the who-knows-how-many we've taken, on this camera do this. Looking at it now, I still get chills from it. Probably because of other things that have happened in that room and knowing that Hattie Rutherford passed on there. After discovering that when looking through the pictures at home, we absolutely had to go back!