Robbie Williams reveals mega-hit Angels is about hanging out with ghosts as a child

ROBBIE Williams used to spook his dad out by speaking to dead people – inspiring the hit song “I’m loving angels instead”.

The singer, who has quit the next series of The X Factor, said he had been attracted to “unusual phenomena” all his life.

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Robbie Williams has told of his strange obsession with ghosts which started as a child[/caption]

Robbie, 45, said: “When I was a kid I used to talk to dead people.

“I freaked my father out when I was three, four and five and they were people that had passed on.

“I had lucid dreams. There’s been UFOs, one close enough I could throw a tennis ball.

“I used to call them ghosts but I don’t anymore as I don’t know what they are.

“I’ve seen things that I can’t explain that have influenced my life and the path that I’m constantly on.

“The phenomena has been constant so there hasn’t been a moment of my life when I haven’t been aware of the presence of something unseen.

“The very first song I wrote was Angels and it’s about actual Angels.

“People think it’s about my mum or think it’s about somebody I loved but it’s actually about angels. That’s been my biggest hit by far.

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Robbie recently quit as a judge on The X Factor alongside his wife Ayda Field[/caption]

“If it wasn’t for my belief or semi belief or trying to understand what it is I see and feel every now and again I wouldn’t be where I am.”

He claims he saw a UFO as he wrote his 2009 hit Arizona while living in the San Fernando Valley in LA.

He said: “I’m in my old house and we started to write this song called Arizona which is about alien abduction and while we were in the process of producing I look up and there was a golden globe in the sky.

Robbie spoke out to plug a new documentary he’s starring in called Hunt for the Skinwalker which follows scientists investigating a Navajo reservation in Utah, US.

But Robbie admits non on his fellow celebs share his passion, adding: “There’s nobody in my circle that has this strange obsession that I have.

He added: “The only mainstay throughout my life has been unusual phenomena, soccer and so far, my current wife.”

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