How many people did Bill Wilson founder of AA claim to Channel ?

Question

I know Billy the flim flam man claimed he could channel the spirit of a long dead Priest from Spain and that he claimed to get info about some historical figures in the town he newly visited...
How many times did Billy pretend he was Edgar Casie channeling info... How many years did he play this game?

Answer 1

Four that I know of:

"An account published in the official A.A. history book, PASS IT ON, tells of a pre-breakfast conversation that Bill said he had with three ghosts during a visit to Nantucket in 1944, ghosts whom Bill Wilson said were the spirits of "three distinct long-dead Nantucket citizens". (See P.I.O., page 278.) "
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-funny_spirituality.html#Nantucket

And of course Boniface, a Benedictine missionary:

"All that Bill Wilson had to do was go to either the public library in New York City or the library at Columbia University, and find an old manuscript or book of the sermons of Boniface, and memorize a few paragraphs from it (in Latin), and then recite them during a séance. He recited them letter by letter, so he didn't even have to get the pronunciation correct.

"And how was the message verified as coming from Boniface? By a scholar or minister looking it up and finding it in an old book about Boniface."

"Bill enthusiastically wrote to his Catholic Priest friend, Father Ed Dowling, telling about the help and guidance he was receiving from spirits of the dead while writing his second book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (July 17, 1952)......Father Dowling's response was far less enthusiastic. He felt that Bill was messing with lying evil spirits from the dark side:

"Boniface sounds like the Apostle of Germany. I still feel, like Macbeth, that these folks tell us truth in small matters in order to fool us in larger. I suppose that is my lazy orthodoxy."
Letter from Fr. Ed Dowling to Bill Wilson, July 24, 1952,
The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S.J. and Bill Wilson in Letters, edited by Robert Fitzgerald, S.J., page 59."
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-heresy.html#Boniface

Answer 2

That is what you call a perpetuated urban legend.