My grand Mother and GDad had ghost or some thing in house for over 50 years, didn't think much of the stories when kid. Once in the middle of the night was a big commotion on front porch, GDad said was just a pony, what would you tell a young child. When was older and married had incounter with what ever it was again, it just made us aware it was there, found out later also their were no ponys around that area. My Brother stayed there when he was older and what ever it was, would travel thru the house, gave him bloody nose once.
I wanted to be a ghost detective when I was younger. I would think, also as Don Wan told Carlos, you need to be impeccable, probably a good ideal.
Before when having out of body experience, and doing things should not be doing, something would come around me very close and growl at me, like waiting for me to come out, I stayed in my body. I get those black shadow things coming around sometimes now, but they don't do much and will sometimes go away if I ask them to.

I was just talking to a member of my crew and he said that recent research indicates that these dark creatures may be intrusions of other creatures from nearby dimensions.
That is to say the area near your house may be that some kind of stress point or hinge point between dimensions.
If you still have that orb picture, do you think you could post it here on this forum?
I see a lot of orb pics that can be usually explained if you understand where the source of light comes from.
However, if that orb itself is giving of its own light that is an entirely new ball of wax.
I've only seen in my 10 years of investigation, one picture like that.  It was so creepy that it was enough to make even my skin crawl.

When I see or experience something strange or otherworldly I imagine that my natural fear response is my copilot.  The copilot is there to watch the instruments and make sure nothing creeps up on you while you are concentrating on something else.
I never let my fear control my decision-making process.
That's not his job.
That's my job.
as it has been said "fear makes an excellent servant but a terrible master."