My first and so far "only" experience with orbs occurred last year during the Trinway CW reenactment at Prospect Place. I was set up under "the" tree nearest the house adjacent to the field where the battle was being portrayed. Most oc the spectators were toward the end of the field nearest the house to my left and in front of my location. I was trying to catch as much of the cannon fire as possible as I usually stand fire watch in camp during reenactiments and don't get to see much action. What I believed to be a soap bubble entered my field of vision above and just in front of me at a height of about twenty feet heading almost straight in front of the spectators at the end of the house and across the field. It was about five inches in diameter and looked exactly like a large soap bubble. I looked through the reenactors, spectators, and venders over my left shoulder and although I could not see anyone who was blowing bubbles got the impression that it was coming from the direction of the old stables or that general direction. By the time I looked back toward the battle it was gone. I thought no more about it until I was looking at the pictures on the web site where I discovered that what I had actually seen was probably an orb. If it was, it was my first. When I related the incident to George he told me that sighting one with the naked eye was unusual but not unheard of.

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Phil Foreman
aka Pawclaws or QMSgt Kass Irons
Mosby's Raiders Light Artillery CSA

Thank you for giving me more detail on that. Your description of it looking like a soap bubble is what caught my eye. It's reassuring to know that someone else has seen something like that. Most people I've talked to who've seen orbs described them more like being balls of light. In my case, there have been a couple of times when I've woken up in the morning to see a "soap bubble" about 5 inches in diameter hovering about a foot of so over me. That sounds exactly like what you've seen. There's also a Civil War connection there, as the ghost of a young man who was killed in the Civil War likes to come visit me at my home. I had specifically asked him to come talk to me in my dreams. It makes sense that he would be there when I woke up. Or maybe we are both being haunted by Glinda the Good Witch.

The only other time I've seen orbs was when I was tending some graves in the Victorian section at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus on a cold, dreary March afternoon. I looked up and saw 10 - 12 grey spots swarming around about 30 feet away from me. At first I thought I just had floaters in my eyes until they changed into bright lights and blipped out. The lights were so bright that they left burnout in my eyes, like you get when you look at a lit lightbulb. The sun was not out, and there were no reflective surfaces around to explain what could have caused that naturally. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Fascinating! This is not the first apparition I have seen. From the age of four or so I scared my parents to death by talking to folk who weren't there and so on. I've seen some very unusual things and have had some very weird experiences. I have not a clue what orbs are; but, like you I have had visitations in my dreams that I know for certain are more than just simple personal thought patterns. I also experience a lot of preminition things usually through smells (odors and scents) . I will smell something and quickly relate it to a person or place then will visualize an event, usually a dangerous event. Probably the weirdest thing I have seen is what appeared to be a pencil outline of a man wearing a hat which was walking toward myself and my younger brother. Sammy and I looked azt one another and still in our underwear ran across the court to the laundry house where Mom was washing clothes. I guess Sam and I were 5 and 7 respectively. We both saw the same thing at the same time and without a word started running for Mom. Later that day we found out that a neighbor man had died at about the same time we saw the "pencil sketch". Recently I am experiencing visits from departed family members who appear to be providing attentive care and comfort to me. Most are visible apparitions but some are brushing my hair, massaging my shoulders, or patting my hands and arms.

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Phil Foreman
aka Pawclaws or QMSgt Kass Irons
Mosby's Raiders Light Artillery CSA

It must be particularly interesting being psychically sensitive with all the battlegrounds you've visited. Any good tales from that? Reenactors kind of fascinate me, anyway, as I suspect that most of you are reincarnated soldiers yourselves (no offence intended if that goes against your religious beliefs!).

I've been mildly psychic since I was a kid, but grew up in a highly skeptic family. Now that I know I wasn't just imagining things, I've been making an effort to develop it more. The weirdest experience I've ever had was when I was 4, and is the first experience I ever remember. I was at my grandmother's house and saw a little coal black man maybe 2 feet tall under a chest of drawers. He looked at me with mild curiousity, like he was puzzled that I could see him. Maybe he was a shadow man? I'm not sure. He definitely looked real and solid, but I didn't get any sense of menace off of him.

I don't know what a shadow man is but I got a powerful sense of "caution" when reading your experience as a child. Reincarnation? Offense? The Bible I read says that "It is appointed unto man but once to die, and then the judgement." The structure may indeed be such that after having lived once that our spirits/souls may be given the option of additional lifetimes or reincarnation. I do not know and have no opinion. I do feel a kinship with the Victorian age for no specific reason as well as the early 1920s through 30s. If reincarnation does exist and I were there, I would definitely have been a soldier assuming that the soul is a direct reflection and composite of beliefs, personality, etc. I have had no paranormal experiences on any of the battlefields I have visited nor have I ever sought them . I'll tell you this, if you have any sensitivity to spiritual beings /phenomenon you will have paranormal experiences in that old Prospect Place mansion.

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Phil Foreman
aka Pawclaws or QMSgt Kass Irons
Mosby's Raiders Light Artillery CSA

I agree, all you need is sensitivity to spiritual beings and paranormal and the willingness to give george $60.00.

	Canadian wrote:
	I agree, all you need is sensitivity to spiritual beings and paranormal and the willingness to give george $60.00.

You give the G W Adams Educational Center, a 501 (C)(3) public charity, $60.00, not George. Our books are open to public review and our 990 is posted on the website. Every penny earned goes to the maintenance, upkeep and restoration of the estate. My personal money comes from other sources like eBay, Dr. Spector and various day jobs. If anyone thinks otherwise, believe me my little sports cars would be done by now if I had the Center's income LOL

People seem to think you're automatically making money if you run anything whether it be for-profit or non-profit. That's not the case and in fact it's far from reality. I always joke with people that owning my own business only means that I have more bills than they have. Sometimes finances are good and sometimes they are bad in any kind of organization. When it's non-profit your first mission is to make sure you're there next year then after that maybe look into some kind of expansion.

I actually have a lot of respect for people who start non-profits because they work hard all year just so something can exist and not for personal gain. Eventually I'll probably be rewarded for my for profit business activities financially but as a non-profit exec that isn't the case.

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	Anonymous wrote:
	I agree, all you need is sensitivity to spiritual beings and paranormal and the willingness to give george $60.00.

I figured you were saving all that for a European vacation George.
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