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Paranormal visitors or camera tricks
May 12, 2010
TV NZ

Weddings often attract a few onlookers who are not necessarily on the guest list, but just there to witness the magic. It is not often, though, the bridal party includes visitors from the paranormal.

Steve and Brooke Carr told TVNZ's Close Up if they take a random photo in their back garden, they come out filled with orbs. They are hoping the mystery guests are part of the magic when they have their wedding in their backyard.

Sceptics might say it is camera tricks, but the Carrs insist they are not altering the photos.

" It's just the luck of the draw really isn't it. We've asked them to turn up," says Steve.

From January 1 this year, the couple started seeing something unusual in their photographs.

"First two or three weeks we tried shooting ourselves down," says Brooke.

But they kept on taking photos, mostly at night, and always with a flash.

"We were a bit worried that if we stopped taking photos it might go away. Well it's not going to happen," says Steve.

Thousands of photographs and four months later, they are convinced something paranormal is happening on their patch of dirt.

But photo expert Sean Aickin says it can be explained in the mechanisms of the camera.

The flash is firing, hitting some dust ... bouncing back and recording on the sensor."

Aickin says the closer the flash is to the lens, the more dust appears as light.

"I am a believer in spirits and all that kind of stuff, but in this instance I also know cameras and how they operate and my feeling is it's more recording specks outside of the camera," says Aickin.

But Steve and Brooke say they have already tested the dust theory - and their conviction remains.

"There's definitely something out there, I'm in no doubt at all."