what are orbs??

Basically, an orb is a ball of light, or energy. Since spirits are said to be made of energy, they can "show" themselves as an orb, I guess.

But, most "orb" pictures turn out to be only dust or a bug in front or on the camera lens. This site can be really helpful to explain how dust can be seen as an "orb": link

Oh, and in response to your picture, I don't see any dots at all. Sorry.

In essence all of you are correct. An Orb is a suppossed ball of energy that appears when it is said that a spirit or entity is trying to manifest itself. Most photos of orbs are or can be debunked by the usual means that it is dust, bugs, glare from the camera lens. There are those photos that can not be explained by any of the above however. In my experience, I have seen alot of photos of orbs through my pictures and other pictures. I do not put alot of faith in orbs just because they can be so easily de-bunked, however, video of orbs is another case. On video, dust appears as falling snow, bugs appear more like bug behavior, and when you catch an orb on video, it can sit in one position, float slowly around, etc. One video that I have from an investigation, you can see an orb, that begins to manifest into man like features, arms legs, etc, untill the spirit runs out of energy apparently and the orb slowly floats out of camera range. I hope this answers your question?

i dont know what they truely are but i do know that they are usually found where there is ghost activity. so in other words there may be ghost in ur basement but i cant be sure. ^-^

In photographs, spirits manifest themselves as orbs of light, but this was taken in your basement, so i'm guessing that it's just some lingering dust.

well orbs are a some sort of erie glow..its a type of energy that ghosts produce....im not to sure about this picture.
Ive seen orbs before...this might just be the camara creating a flashing effect