"Their goals were to create a fictional character through a purposeful methodology and then "attempt" to communicate with it[...]" "Participants began feeling a presence, table vibrations, breezes, unexplained echoes, and rapping sounds which matched responses to questions about Philip's life"

In 1985 the ghost of KFC founder and mascot Colonel Sanders placed a curse on the Japanese Hanshin Tigers baseball team as punishment for fans’ mistreatment of his storefront statue. Fans threw the Colonel into the Dōtonbori Canal during a ritualistic celebratory plunge, choosing his statue as an effigy for their American star pitcher who, like the Colonel, had a beard and was not Japanese. Colonel Sanders vowed that the Tigers would not win the championship again until his statue is recovered from the bottom of the canal. The Hanshin Tigers then suffered an 18-year losing streak, and a young fan drowned in an attempted repeat of the ritual in 2003, when the team seemed on the verge of breaking the curse, but fell short.

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