everyone who lived before 1890 is dead, whether they believed in a God or not.
you saying that God did this or that without any knowledge is just the kind of blind pointless assertion we've come to expect from religious people
sounds like normal human imagination coupled with misinterpreting sensory feedback. we have millions of nerve sensors in the skin and hair that the brains normally filters out. your friend is just focusing on certain sensations and misinterpreting them as something mystical