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Amazing Psychic World of Animals

© 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.