| The Story of Chris Psychic World of Animals? Chris is a dog 10 yrs old. One day a friend of his master brings his dog to visit Chris. This dog could count and do math problems. How is it that another dog can not only learn that but take it to the limits? After the Visit Within days, Chris pawed out 1 to 10 and did simple arithmetic. In months, he was able to solve more difficult problems. Mr. Wood even brought some engineers to the house to prove that his dog could do math. Soon Chris knew the alphabet and gave correct answers to questions when neither of the Woods knew the answers. He spelled out the letters by using the number code with his paw. Reporters interviewed Chris and wrote about him in newspapers. He appeared with Garry Moore on his popular 1950s TV show. Any fees Chris earned were given to charity, such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Once Chris told a friend of the family which horses would win the daily double at a nearby racetrack. He pawed the post position numbers of the horses on her arm after she asked him. The woman bet two dollars and won eighty-four. Surprised and amazed, she called in professors from Rhode Island College and the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University to run tests on Chris. He was tested hundreds of times with the Zener cards, the main test for ESP. There were twenty-five cards in all, five each of circles, crosses, wavy lines, squares, and stars. One person would look at a card. Chris, in a different part of the house, would identify the symbol on the card by pawing on a second person's arm. The cards were always packed in a special order in a closed box by the researchers. The two helpers used in the experiments would switch places every so often and start at different parts of the deck each time. They did this to prove there was no trickery and that they weren't giving Chris the answers or answering for him. Although he didn't do as well when tested by strangers, his scores were always extremely high. |
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