Amazing Psychic World of Animals

May 23, 2005 - © Jill Stefko

Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, one of the fathers of modern parapsychology, the scientific study of
psychic phenomena, psi, coined the term, "anpsi," to refer to psychic ability in animals.

Parapsychology is studied in the laboratory and the field in controlled conditions. There is much
documentation from people who have witnessed anpsi. British parapsychologists studied
telepathic ability in animals and found that the animals exhibited this psi. Experimenters would
try to control animals' movements by thought processes. Their findings demonstrated that the
experimental animals responded, at a higher level than chance, to the commands of the scientists'
thoughts.

Dowsing is the ability to locate an object underground. In 1952, U. S. Army personnel asked Dr.
Rhine to ascertain if dogs could be trained to locate mines buried underground. The experiment
was a classified secret. Testing was done at a California beach. Rhine's colleagues buried
wooden boxes to represent the mines. The dogs had been trained to sit when they detected one of
the boxes. Their handlers did not know where the boxes were buried, eliminating the possibility
of telepathy.

203 tests were run during three months. The dogs were successful over 50% of the time, which is
above what chance would account for, however, the animals performed more accurately at the
start of the testing than they did at the end.

The Army concluded the accuracy was not consistent enough. Another problem was that the
canines could not be trained to seek the mines independently; they needed a trainer present. The
idea was abandoned.

Animals can sense when a loved one is in danger or facing death. The night that Lord Carnarvan
died in Egypt after his discovery and excavation of King Tutankhamen's tomb, his dog, who was
in England, howled during the night and it died the next day.

My parents had a friend who died unexpectedly. The neighbor's dog howled the night before. I
was fifteen then and was told this was "superstition," and a coincidence, however, I have read
about and been told too many incidences of animals' strange behavior when a loved one's death
was imminent.

There have been documented cases when animal's have acted strangely during the moments
when their owners have been in danger.

A researcher experimented with two boxers, a female and her male puppy. One "threatened" the
pup with a newspaper. The mother dog, in another room being observed, was noticeably upset
when her pup felt scared.
Animals can sense the arrival of a loved one.

There was a soldier stationed in Viet Nam during the war. He was released from combat early
and wanted to surprise his family. The family dog went to the soldier's room and brought some
of his possession to the door. This was something the animal did right before his "buddy" would
return home, even prior to the young man's enlistment. The dog's behavior was an accurate
prediction of his arrival. So much for the soldier's surprising the family....

A French author had a cat who, shortly before the writer came home, would beg to go outside
and greet him.

Animals have been accurate predictors of natural and manmade disasters.

There is a monument to a flock of ducks in Freiberg, Germany, a town near the Black Forest.
During World War II, the ducks behaved in a strange manner shortly before bombers approached
the village. The monument was erected in appreciation for the birds' "warning."

There was a mother cat, who, before an earthquake struck in California became agitated and
moved her kittens. Had she not moved her litter, she and they would have been killed.

Martinique, a Caribbean island, has a volcano, Montagne Pelee which erupted and caused a
major catastrophe over a century ago. People noticed the strange behavior of the animals,
including snakes, shortly before the disaster.

In the 1970s, the Chinese noticed that animals behaved strangely before earthquakes occurred.
Throughout January, 1995, people noticed animals acting weird. Birds flew into trees. Pigs and
other animals exhibited bizarre behavior. On the morning of February 4th, Haicheng was
evacuated. A major earthquake struck early that evening.

Many animals have a better sense of hearing, smell, feeling vibrations and other senses than we
do, and it is possible the behavior could be due to the acuity of their senses, but until this is
proven and it is also proved which physical senses are involved, this is, technically, in the realm
of anpsi.

Birds, fish and other animals exhibit the homing instinct by returning to their home, be it
Capistrano swallows or salmons spawning.

Bobbie was a collie who was separated from his family while on vacation in Indiana. Charles
Alexander wrote a book about him, "Bobbie: A Great Collie of Oregon," in 1926. The dog's trek
was well documented. People remembered feeding him and offering him shelter. It took six
months for Bobbie to travel 3,000 miles to his Silverton Oregon home.

Psi trailing is when an animal finds its family after they have moved into a new home.
A California family owned a cat named Sugar. In the early 1950s, they moved to Oklahoma,
1500 miles away and decided that the trip would be too much for her. They found her a home
with their neighbors.

One day, the couple were in their barn and a cat jumped through the window onto the woman's
shoulder. They immediately saw that the cat looked like Sugar, but did not believe it was
possible. The distance was too far, months had passed and the cat had never been out of
California.

Sugar had two distinguishing physical characteristics, one of which was an rare hip deformity.
The cat had both of these deformities. There was no doubt it was Sugar. A call to the former
neighbors confirmed the fact that the cat disappeared about the time the family moved.

Animals react to psi. There was a haunted room in a Kentucky house. A parapsychologist took
four animals into the room to find out if they would react.

The dog whimpered and ran out of the room. The cat hissed at an empty chair and ran out of the
room. The rat had no reaction. Perhaps it was not endowed with anpsi. The rattlesnake coiled and
assumed strike position in the direction of the same chair the cat hissed at.

Psi can be accompanied by cold and warm spots and it is possible that the animals sensed the
change in temperature, but, why would the cat and the snake both choose the chair as the target
of their behavior?

Medical science has finally discovered that certain dogs can be trained to detect seizures in
humans before they occur. There are theories that try to account for this, ranging from electrical
cues to scent. Or, could this be another example of anpsi?

There is much research continuing in the field of anpsi. For the most part, it is dogs, cats, rodents
and fish. Until we know, beyond any doubt that animals react to events with the traditional five
senses, the phenomena falls under the world of anpsi.

Fate Presents: Psychic Pets & Spirit Animals. ISBN: 1-56718-299-2

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