St. Paul's Capel - Ground Zero

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These photos were taken at St. Paul's Capel directly opposite where the twin towers stood. The church was not damaged on 911, none of its windows where smashed, the waterford crystal chandeleers was untouched, yet the building beside it was bdaly damaged including over 2000 windows smashed - I can understand why its gotten the name "the Miracle Church"
A CNN news transcript with the story of the church during 911 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/11/se.02.html



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Very warm dry night, no rain that day or day before but cant rule out dust as its Ground Zero and they are building, still I would have expected all the pics to be pretty much the same .... did i catch them off guard in the first one?

btw my sceptical (and beautiful, hi babe) wife was amazed when she saw this pic staright after it was taken, and she's not quick to believe things!

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stormkeeper

Definately very interesting

Not related to paranormal, and semi-off topic, but when I was at that church the one thing that disgusted me is that inside the Church there was a stand selling collectables .. something about that just made me feel angry.

6th

ah its not a catholic church anyway, but it does have a little touristy shop, all money goes to a 911 charity and because of its role during 911 i think its ok. Most churches sell stuff, admittedly its usually mass cards etc but those are usually making a small profit.

Back to the orbs thought, I am used to be very single minded when it came to orbs thinking they were pretty much all dust/moisture but having read a bit more on possible paranormal causes for "some" orbs I have been looking at them in a different light.

In the case of the first phot i would have expected those results if it was raining or had been in the previous day but as i said it was a very dry night.

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Zombrex

Not to get too skeptical, but ...

If you look closely at the top picture you can see that the "circles" are actually made up of a number of straight or ever so slightly curved lines that form the shape of a circle. This is probably because the inside of the lense looks like that, it is a number of plates that slide open or close depending on the aperture of the shot.

This would imply that the shape of the orbs is actually out of focus light reflecting in the lense itself.

Of course, you can take any explination for what is causing this light in the first place. Without knowing the set up of the scene I couldn't comment further, i would be guessing as much as anyone else.

6th

Well having studied photography and seeing its a part of what i do for a living I'm well aware of what could cause orbs, however as you said what may or may not be affecting the light etc which is creating the orbs is the question.

But I dont want to turn this into a debate on what orbs are, as it never goes anywhere.

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