To anyone who has seen the early Peter Jackson film The Frighteners, didn't this remind you of the scene where Michael J. Fox puts on a show and pretends to be "busting ghosts" for a living? If you don't know, the movie is about a man who can see ghosts, and works with two of them who go into a house and create chaos, then leave when he puts on a little show pretending like he is exorcising them.


I was wondering if maybe we, as an audience are only shown the dead people being spoken to on certain occasions (like Charlie last ep), while other times we might not see them for the sake of mystery or drama. Is Miles basically doing the same thing in that bedroom by communicating with the teen boy as Hurley was doing by talking to Charlie?

I think they went out of their way to show this as a different type of encounter than Charlie. If anything, it made Charlie seem less like a ghost and more real. I don't think Miles was pretending because he was alone in the room. I kept expecting the spirit of the kid to appear and I was relieved when we didn't see him because it shows this is not the same as Hurley's encounter. I'm still banking on the theory that says Charlie is not a spirit.

I agree. What Miles did definitely seemed real. He could have just silently sat there for ten minutes before going down again, the grandmother wasn't there after all. And he seemed to be having some sort of conversation in which he also received answers. And something fell from that shelf.
So it definitely seemed like the real deal to me, though I have no clue how exactly Miles' gift worked.
But it seemed like a different kind of encounter than Hurley's meeting with Charlie. Or any of the dead-people encounters we've seen on the island so far, and I agree with pacejunkie that this was probably done for a reason.

was anyone reminded of the movie The Frighteners during Miles' flashback? the movie stars Michael J. Fox as a psychic con artist who can see ghosts, and uses two of them to help him scam people into paying him to exorcise their houses of these hauntings. kind of like how Miles used his ability to get the kid's drug money.