William Thomas Stead sent his secretary up with a note saying merely he was very sorry to hear what had happened, and added, “Be sure and bring the man’s umbrella on Wednesday.” She wrote in reply, “I am very sorry you know anything about it. I had made up my mind to tell nobody”.
The woman’s decisiveness not to tell anyone about the incident, witnesses in favor the assumption, that not only the telepathic message may be subconscious, but it may be in direct contradiction with the intentions of the mind.
The phenomenon of telepathy exists not only in the human society. Among the most remarkable may be the example of telepathic communication between a human and an animal, which was described by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, in Journal of S.P.R., in October 1904. It was the night of July 7>th, 1904, when Missis Haggard, his wife, heard her husband was making strange sounds, as if he had been a wounded beast. After he woke up, Sir Henry Rider Haggard told her about his dream, when he felt some sore feeling of oppression as of asphyxiation. He mentioned also he saw the world through the eyes of his dog.
“I dreamed that a black retriever dog, a most amiable and intelligent beast named Bob, which was the property of my eldest daughter, was lying on its side among brushwood, or rough growth of some sort, by water. My own personality in some mysterious way seemed to me to be arising from the body of the dog, which I knew quite surely to be Bob and no other, so much so that my head was against his head, which was lifted up at an unnatural angle. In my vision, the dog was trying to speak to me in words, and, failing, transmitted to me mind in an undefined fashion the knowledge that it was dying”.
Four days later, the Haggards’ dog was really found dead lying in water with the skull crushed and legs broken. A train hit him and threw him into the water. A collar with blood traces was found on a bridge the next morning after the owner had his weird dream.
In his book “How Animals Talk” William J. Long described multiple cases of telepathic communication among beasts, in particular, in a horde of wolves, where wolf cubs obey silent signals emitted by their mother.
In the middle of the XX century, when popular press was highlighting the theme of “paranormal phenomena”, Zener cards were widely used as a method for testing extrasensory perception.