Email Interview with "Orb Seer" Tabitha Holland
 

By The Night Watchman

"Part One - Discovering the Ability"

Tabitha's Story:  When my boyfriend and I first started dating, I was over at his grandmother's house where he lived at the time. It was the first time I'd been there. His grandmother was the only one there and I didn't ask about anyone in his family or about his other relatives.

We were in his room, sitting on the bed and talking when, all of a sudden, I saw this pink bubble appear out of nowhere. There were no windows open, no fan, no electronics, central heat or air.

This pink bubble appeared in the back of the room, swooped down and disappeared. My boyfriend was facing away from it.

Suddenly, I had an image of a man in my head as if a memory, but I didn't know at all who this man was. It was like trying to think of a person's name or something, and then when you forget about it and stop trying to remember, later it just hits you like a ton of bricks.

It seemed so strange, so on a hunch, I asked my boyfriend... "Did you have a grandparent pass away?" This man looked to me like he was old. My boyfriend said yes. I said, "A Grandfather?" He replied yes again.

Then, I described what the man looked like to me. "Did he have black hair, blue eyes, heavy weight big man, and did his name start with an E?"

My boyfriend looked at me with tears in his eyes and said his grandfather's name was Earl and that I'd just described him to a tee.

"How did you know that?" he asked me.

"He was just in this room," I replied.

I had this overwhelming feeling to tell my boyfriend, for no reason of my own, that he shouldn't blame himself and that his grandfather was proud of him.

Now why the male spirits are pink, I have yet to figure out, but I see these things all the time and get a mental picture of what they looked like when they were alive.

The Night Watchman:  First of all, your story of seeing the Orb at your boyfriend's Grandmother's house is really fascinating... and quite touching. I was wondering, when did you first start seeing the Orbs and what were your thoughts when you first began seeing them?

Tabitha:  Let's see... when I first saw that orb, I was a sophomore in high school, so I was about 15 years old.

I can't recall the first one I actually saw and that's probably because I didn't know exactly what it was that I was seeing.

My first thought was that maybe I was seeing stars like when you're little and get dizzy from spinning around or doing a lot of cartwheels. This causes little spots in front of your eyes. These, of course, are small and look like tiny, tiny lightning bugs swirling around and what I was seeing  was much bigger - like the size of a 50-cent piece. It was also a different color. It looked like a bubble that was just floating.

I just shrugged it off and didn't give it much thought.

I began to see more, and at this time, I was doing research on ghosts, spirits, and things of that nature. I slowly began to wonder if this was what I was seeing - the things called Orbs.

But, at the same time, the only ones I had ever seen before this were the pictures on t.v. and videos which were "caught on film". I hadn't read or heard of anyone being able to see them with just their eyes.

So, when I saw one while I was sitting in English class, and a truly unusual circumstance occurred, I realized that these bubbles of light were, in fact, Orbs.

My brother goes to Methodist College in Fayetteville, North Carolina and his best friend was lifting weights with him. All of a sudden, my brother's friend collapsed. He was rushed to the hospital to see what was wrong. The doctors ran tests and discovered that he had a brain aneurysm. The guy slipped into a coma. My brother called and told us what had happened to his friend and the terrible news that the outcome looked grim.

Approximately two to three days later, in the early morning, I was sitting in English class. School starts about 8:15 and classes last for an hour and a half. The classroom I was in had windows and a few were half open.

In the middle of class, I looked up because, from the corner of my eye, I saw something float into the classroom from the very top - not just straight through the middle.

It came in slowly, not like a butterfly or a bee. I looked up and saw a pink bubble. It looked like a bubble that you can blow through a bubble wand except that it was pink and see through, but clearly had some kind of light to it.

I watched as it floated about a foot away from the ceiling in a kind of slow, snake-like motion, then it faded until it was gone.

My brother's friend just popped into my head. He was lying in his hospital bed. I had only seen the fella once. I looked at the clock and wrote down the time placing a bubble beside the note to kind of document it for myself.

Immediately after I saw this thing, I looked around the room at all the other students and no one else seemed to have noticed anything. I am sure if someone had seen it they would have said something or at least have had a weird look on their face like I'm sure I did. Instead, everyone appeared half asleep.

I was sort of confused about the color of pink. I thought it could have been the guy that was in the hospital or his spirit, but wouldn't it have been blue or something instead of pink?

Later that afternoon, my brother called to tell us that his friend had passed away that morning. He said the guy came out of his coma long enough to give his parents the thumbs up sign and then he passed away. I was curious so I asked about what time he'd died and it was the exact time that I had seen the strange bubble and had the picture of him so clear in my mind.

I believe that it was then that I realized that what I was seeing was the spirit of a person.

I saw a couple more after this, but nothing popped into my mind like that again.

Whenever I would see one, I would try to clear my mind thinking that maybe my mind was too cluttered and that was why I couldn't tell on these other occasions who the spirit was.

Then, when it happened at my boyfriend's house, I knew without a doubt that it had to be Orbs I was seeing. I couldn't explain it other than that.

Since then, I have seen a few more, but I don't know who they are. I only know by the color if they are male or female. Then, I'll either get a sense that I am old or young, and if I feel myself, I can tell how old the spirit was when they passed on.

Now that I know what it is I'm seeing, it's not at all scary. I just wonder sometimes why I can see these things when most people can't. Then I remember that maybe it's a way for a passed loved one to try to let us know, or me know, that they are still around in some form.

I don't know if these spirits need my help, or if they are just trying to get me to pass a message along to a loved one that is here among the living, but whatever the case is, it is reassuring that there is existence beyond the physical world. That even after we pass on, we can always be with our loved ones and family, looking after them.

Maybe Orbs are a form of an angel... not the common image that we are used to seeing, but they are without a doubt, the spirit of a person that has passed on.

So, with knowing this, for me it's proof that life after death really does exist and displays the power of the human spirit which is so much greater than our physical being. When we die, we really just "shed" our bodies and become like a butterfly that was once a caterpillar that has gone through the change. We become our true selves - our core - which is our spirit.

Maybe the reason we are put on this earth in flesh form to begin with is training. Like love and affection. Hard important lessons that we learn, knowledge and growth of the soul, spirit and mind, all linked to physical learning. We all learn these things through our senses. Everyday we touch something, we feel something, and we learn so much. So, when we do pass on, we have learned all that we need to know so that the next step is, maybe, spiritual growth and enlightenment.

Almost like going to school. We have to start in kindergarten and work up through the grades to gain the knowledge we need to survive in the world... the knowledge to become whatever we want to be.

This is just my theory of things. Who really knows what is the beginning  and how many steps or phases we go through to get to the final stage of knowledge, or enlightenment, or whatever the future holds when we pass.

I would like to say that I believe in Heaven and God, but this is one of the many mysteries that life holds. It is one for loved ones who have passed to know and for us, the living, to find out.

At first I was lost about what I was seeing, but with time, it has become quite clear. I still wonder how it is possible, and why I have this unique ability, but I also believe that I am not the only person that can see Orbs with the naked eye.

However, telling someone that you can is quite scary. The fear of being called crazy, possessed, or labeled insane is something no one wants.

Everything happens for a reason and one day I will discover why.