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Most ghost web sites, including this one, give the definition of an orb as the soul of a once living person or animal that appears in photographs as a spherical shaped light. Most often, when orbs are captured on film, one will automatically draw the conclusion that the location is haunted. I'd like to expand a little on the definition of an orb and on what I feel should be taken into consideration when an orb is captured in a photograph.
Before we can get into the definition of an orb, I think that we first need to look at the difference between a ghost and a spirit. Both are the souls of a once living person or animal, therefore they both fall under the definition given for an orb. A ghost is a soul who is earthbound and when it appears as an apparition, it will appear as it looked on the day that it died. This would include the manner in which it was dressed, wounds it may have received and the age it was at the time of death. A ghost will usually make it s presence known by creating noises, moving objects and other mischievous acts which are signs associated with a haunting. A spirit is a soul who has already made the crossing into "The Light" and can appear in apparition form in any type of clothing and at any age it desires. A spirit will be surrounded by a glow of light and will not participate in the mischievous acts associated with a haunting. When these two entities appear in apparition form, there is a difference in the way that they appear. But what about when they appear in their lowest energy form, which is the controversial orb? They would both appear as a spherical shaped light.
A spirit can be anyone from a deceased relative to someone just passing through. When we consider all those that have come and passed before us, wouldn’t it only seem to reason that these spirits would be everywhere around us at any given time or location? Is each and every orb captured in photographs a ghost? In my opinion, most are not. They are most likely a spirit that is either visiting or passing through. They may even be angels who also can appear as spherical shaped light.
Some investigators discredit photographs that contain orbs as being dust particles, reflections, or camera flukes and go to great lengths to prove their theories. They will shake dusty rags or stir up dust (which does create orb-like images) but these tests do not prove their theories for photographs taken under normal conditions. I feel they are restricting the definition of orbs to ghosts and overlooking the possibility that these orbs could be spirits and/or angels. Before I learned what an orb was, I never saw them in my photographs. It was only after I became aware that they started appearing and I've gone back through my old photographs to double-check. I attribute this to the fact that since I now know what they are, they choose to make their presence known because they will be acknowledged. I can buy this concept more than I can buy the concept that I m suddenly stirring up more dust in my home or that my camera suddenly started malfunctioning when I learned what an orb was. Other investigators take orbs to the opposite extreme and insist that a location is haunted if they photograph an orb there. Orbs are everywhere. Spirits and angels are everywhere. Photographing an orb does not make a location haunted..... 
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