EEEEK... MY ORGAN'S HAUNTED!

copyright March 2003 by Stephen D. Smith

Here are a couple of sections of some digital pictures of a pipe organ that I took recently. In the top left corner of photo "A" and in the bottom right corner of photo "B" are shapes that have appeared on a number of pictures snapped at Borley. In the past, I have speculated that these Borley "blobs" - as they have been called - may simply be moisture in the air, rather than anything supernatural.

The organ in my pictures is housed in a warm, dry building and this can cause problems for the instrument's mechanisms (splitting wood, etc). To overcome this, there is a humidifying system that sprays a very fine mist of water onto the organ.

This mist is visible at the (dozen-or-so) nozzles - where the water comes out of the pipe - but, a few inches further away, it cannot be seen at all. The part of the organ in these two pictures is about six feet from the nearest nozzles and, at that point, it is impossible to either feel or see the water/mist (otherwise the organist would get very wet while playing!).

Nevertheless, the mist _is_ in the atmosphere around that area and the "blobs" seen in these photographs are almost certainly moisture "caught on camera" but "invisible to the naked eye".

I'm not trying to labor the point about the Borley blobs also being moisture caught on film but these two pictures certainly seem to reinforce the theory that moisture can cause this effect on photographs.

With best wishes to all,
Stephen D. Smith