Once again, the voices of so-called “reason” have missed the point entirely. See the comments associated with this flickr photo which was taken/posted by Johnkit.
Every once in a while, something comes along in the field of psychic research that really blows the doors off our pre-conceived ideas. This is really one of them.
The dog in the video, at some point during the day, goes to lie down at a different place in the house. A place that the family that owns the dog have identified as the place where the dog goes to “wait” for the return of a family member. As you can see from the video, just before mommy comes home, the dog goes to that spot.
Quite compelling, isn’t it?
I look forward to them actually conducting a trial with some form of scientific rigor. For example, can they demonstrate that Tommy the dog really is using that spot in the hall as a waiting spot? If the wait had been longer, would Tommy have left? Were the departure time and return times really randomly controlled? Is there proof the returning family member was where they claim they were? Can the dog repeat this behavior in a neutral location – that is, detect their owner coming to them when they aren’t at their home.
We used to have a dog that did exactly this same thing. We just (mistakenly, it would seem) assumed that he was moving to different spots in the house based the shifting temperature. He’d always go to the hall and “wait” on the cool tiles when the house started to get warmer.
That just goes to show that psychic phenomena may be around us all the time and if we aren’t predisposed to look for it, it could go by undetected.
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