Phil Collins says he's still in touch with his dead father

This is funny. Maybe if I said I was a medium and told him his grandfather wanted him to give me half his money he'd do it..

 

It's funny about the blanket pulling, though. I knew a guy who said this happened to him as a kid, and later I read other accounts of kids experiencing the same thing. I can't figure out if this is some kind of common sleep paralysis hallucination like the Hag, or what.

Regardless, if Phil jumped to the conclusion this was his father's ghost I wonder if he's asked why he would manifest himself in this scary way? Seems cruel.

 

Yeah, kids never kick off their blankets while they're asleep. It must be a ghost.

 

The guy who told me this happened to him said he was completely awake at the time, and that his blanket was ripped off of him from the foot of the bed.

 

Ok, but a second-hand memory of a sleep-related event from many years ago is weak evidence, IMO.

Convincing enough for your friend, I'm sure. Anyway, I think empirical evidence would be tough to come by on this and we're stuck with anecdotes.

 

You have mistaken my story as an attempt to present evidence that the phenomenon exists. I merely was presenting evidence that reports of it exist, outside the Phil Collins report. I was, additionally, clarifying that it is a more complicated situation than people waking with their covers off and jumping to the whacky conclusion a ghost pulled them off. Kids who experience this report being fully aware while the covers are being removed. I find it intriguing when disparate people report the same atrange things. In my mind it usually is an indicator of a similarity in the way peoples' minds work that we weren't aware of before. I reminds me strongly of the sleep paralysis "Hag" phenomenon.

A very gullable man, he was. This served as the basis of his lifelong belief in ghosts

Which, as they stand, tend to point along the line of one of the many versions of sleep disorder. I would be interested in finding more of these stories (bankets being pulled off) to see if there is any way to account for disparate people having an hallucination with the same basic content.

 

Things that cannot be explained readily in terms of known phenomena definitely happen.

 

You see dead people.

 

Do other people see them, or only when you're alone?

 

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In my mind it usually is an indicator of a similarity in the way peoples' minds work that we weren't aware of before.
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thanks for the clarification, zoob
I too, find that fascinating.

 

At the beach?

 

Is his crappy music not enough of a crime, without this nonsense?

 

What do you get when you combine a fake medium with pretend musicians?

 

And they deserve to get Frank Sinatra, Jr.

 

Or Donny Osmond.

 

Dang.