Sparkles: Unexplained Electrostatic Discharge (UED): Legitimate Paranormal Phenomena?

I've run across several reports of "sparkles" as a paranormal phenomena. Basically, these are what I can only describe as what looks like "tinfoil confetti" that appears in the air for less then a second, usually followed by some other sort of possible paranormal activity, e.g. EVPs, EMF, the sighting of an apparition.

I had first read about this phenomena once on Fionna Broome's Web site, www.hollowhill.com. (They have a free on-line ghosthunters course for those of you who are interested.)

Of course, I figured this was a common visual/photographic anomaly--an artifact of perception--that was simply the eye being tricked. For example, the strobe from a camera flash lighting up dust particles in the air that happened to correspond with other paranormal activity going on at the same time.

That is, until I experienced an UED for myself at a famous unnamed New England inn, and was able to rule out the above as an debunking explanation as I wasn't taking a photograph at the time it occurred. Subsequently, I had the distinct feeling something materialized and I recorded a class A EVP on two different audio sources simultaneously. The audio of the event is available here.

If any of you readers out there have experienced this phenomena, drop us an e-mail and I'll include your account in this article.

Below are a few links that mention this phenomena that were found on a google search on September 22, 2010.

http://www.coastghosts.com/ghostgabs.html

http://www.psychic-experiences.com/real-psychic-story.php?story=933

http://www.simplyghost.com/terms/

http://www.hollowhill.com/guide/sparkles.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Paranormal-Phenomena-3278/2009/9/f/sparkly-feeling-presence.htm


Bobby Elgee; Sights Unseen Paranormal