A VIDEO showing scores of inexplicable bright orbs darting around a room has emerged online.

The strange video is said to have been filmed at a Portslade home at around 10pm on Saturday night.

The short clip by Tracey Howell shows several, almost translucent objects flitting about in the room.

The 47-year-old said: “I receive messages all the time from spirirts but they seem to be always in my lounge and my small room.

“They are sometimes in my bedroom too.

“Once I saw a grey haired man's face in my partners face.

The Argus:

“I got the impression this male doesn’t like us being here on this piece of land.

“Most of these spirits are probably the the souls of the people from the hospital that was once here many years ago.”

Many paranormal investigators claim these orbs caught on camera are the spirit of a dead person, or even the first manifestation of an actual ghost.

But sceptics disagree.

An article on skeptoid.com about the phenomenon said: "Orbs, formally called Spirit Orbs, are those semi-transparent white balls seen floating around in many photographs taken in ghostly locations.

"Orbs are among the class of paranormal phenomena that are visible only to cameras, and not to the naked eye.

"The usual hypothesis presented by believers is that orbs represent spirits of dead people, though some support variations on that.

“The science behind this hypothesis is not clear.

"For example, there are no plausible hypotheses that describe the mechanism by which a person who dies will become a hovering ball of light that appears on film but is invisible to the eye.

"Orbs most often appear on camera when a piece of airborne dust, an insect, or a water droplet is close to the camera, outside of the depth of field, and the flash source is no more than a few degrees away from the axis of the camera lens.

"This causes the object to be brightly light but way out of focus, resulting in a semi-transparent whitish circle."

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