Psychic Sally Morgan: Ryan Thomas’ Late Father Uses Pigeon as Spirit Messenger

Psychic Sally Morgan has confirmed that Ryan Thomas’ late father Dougie has reached out to him from the spirit world in the form of a pigeon. 

The actor’s dad Dougie James died in 2020 aged 72, and earlier this week, Ryan stunned followers when he claimed that his dad had been reincarnated as a bird. 

He revealed the feathered friend had paid several visits to him in recent days, saying he could sense his father and that he felt ‘so connected’ to the bird.  

In a bid to get answers, Ryan contacted Sally – a psychic medium – for an explanation. 

Now Sally, 73, has told Daily Mail that she agrees there is a connection between Dougie and the pigeon, saying: ‘This is really interesting, because you get messenger pigeons and I think the pigeon is a messenger from his dad.

‘The Thomas’ are such an incredible family, very close, and they loved their dad so much. It’s just amazing that the bird keeps turning up, it’s saying, “I’m with you, wherever you are, I’m with you.” 

Sally continued: ‘I just know in my heart. It was so lovely when Ryan said, “do you think that could be my dad?” You’ve got it on there, it’s your dad.’ 

She added that she felt the bird was responding to the kind energy of the Thomas’, noting: ‘I think that his dad’s energy is around his children, and around all the cousins, all the children, all the family. It’s a wonderful thing to think.’

The notions of birds being connected to the spirit world is not new. 

For a long time, robins have been linked to deceased loves ones, hence the phrase: when robins appear, loved ones are near.

Sally noted that signs can appear in all forms, saying that she knows when the energy from her late husband John is around because she’s able to smell him. 

 ‘It’s a very pleasant smell and I trust it. I say to myself, “I know that’s you, John. Say it out loud. That’s you, John.” And the energy comes back.

‘Our energy, I say that we are all attached by this invisible umbilical cord of love, and when we think of a loved one, the memory of them, it transcends our dimension.’

Sally’s call to Ryan brought him much comfort on Wednesday, and shortly afterwards he was seen enjoying an emotional reunion with the pigeon. 

He explained how the connection came about, stating: ‘You are not going to believe this. I’ve gone out with the kids all day today. Lucy’s [Mecklenburgh] been at home.

‘She calls me at 5 o’clock and she says, “I could hear tap tap tap tap tap at the back window.” I said no, please tell me you’re lying.

‘And she sends me a video of my dad [the pigeon]. My dad came back. He was trying to fly into the windows, try and get in.’

Ryan, 41, continued: ‘I said, you’ve got to feed him. Feed my dad now, because I need to see him when I get back. I’m not into all this, but now I’m fully invested.

‘I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, I don’t know how I’m supposed to make Dougie come back, but I need advice on – what sort of home do they stay in? What do I do? I’ve not seen my dad yet, so I’m hoping he’s back tomorrow.’

The Coronation Street star went on to share a snap of Dougie the pigeon set to the music of his late father’s song Still. 

He captioned the snap: ‘Don’t know what’s going on here but I’m so connected to him, so weird [heart emoji].’ 

Ryan also pointed out that Dougie the bird’s markings, joking: ‘It’s even got a moustache like me dad’. 

The father-of-three then shared a video telling son Roman, five, that the bird had flown back so ‘daddy’s home’. 

Ryan’s fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh also offered her thoughts on the scenario, revealing that on Monday the family had driven five hours from their home in Essex to Manchester, after identifying the pigeon’s owner. 

However, once they arrived, the pigeon promptly flew off – only to return to their home in Essex the following day. 

She explained: ‘We spent five hours in a car with a pigeon that when we arrived flew away anyway! 

‘Ryan and Roman are going to be actually buzzing about this, I don’t know how I feel about this, assuming now this makes it our pet.’ 

Lucy later clarified: ‘I can’t keep a straight face –  loads of people are asking me why we haven’t returned him to his owner. 

‘That was the plan, we tracked him down and there’s a vet that lives next to door to us in Essex and he tracked him down in Manchester.

‘We rung him and he didn’t seem that bothered – maybe because he’d been gone for a while or he was bit I’m not sure it is mine so we let him out the cage and then he flew away but now he’s back. 

‘So what do we do? Do we ring the owner again? Do we keep him? Do we keep putting food out for him? I just don’t see myself as someone with a pigeon enclosure in my garden.’ 

Lucy then revealed she’d left food out for Dougie the pigeon, who was happily making himself at home in their garden.  

It’s been five years since Ryan announced his father, Seventies music legend Dougie – who was the lead singer of Dougie James And The Soul Train – had died. 

Dougie was also father to Ryan’s twin siblings, Emmerdale actor Adam and Love Island contestant Scott. 

At the height of their fame, Dougie’s band toured with The Jackson Five and his sons inherited his love of the spotlight. 

‘It’s always been in our blood – we’ve always wanted to entertain,’ Adam previously shared. 

Dougie split from the boys’ mum when the twins were born, leading to a bitter divorce, and the family explored their feelings about his absence on their show, Mancs In Mumbai.

Adam told Star TV magazine how his father was not always around in the brothers’ youth, saying the Mumbai trip became ‘quite emotional’ for them.

He said: ‘My dad left us for years when we were younger and then he came back into our lives and we never really talked about it.

‘There were a lot of unanswered questions, which we touched on and I think we needed to. It got quite emotional.’

The month-long journey saw the Thomas brothers retrace the footsteps of their grandfather Nolan, who immigrated to the UK from India in 1947.

Ryan shared: ‘He always referred to his dad as his hero. And the moment it hit him was when he went to where our granddad went to school. I said, “Dad, this is the exact same playground that your dad played in when he was a child.”‘

Scott, who is Adam’s non-identical twin, said the trip put things into perspective for the brothers and their father, adding that it has brought them closer together.

The brothers visited the Dharavi slum which is the most populated place on earth with 700,000 people living in just 0.8 square miles.

They travelled from chaotic Mumbai to the beaches of Goa while also meeting long-lost relatives for the first time and felt an instant kinship.