Lady Wonder
| Lady Wonder | |
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| Gender: | mare |
| Year of birth: | 1924 |
| Year of death: | 1957 |
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| Trainer: | Claudia D. Fonda |
Lady Wonder (1924–1957) was a horse that was given psychic abilities. Over 150,000 people paid three dollars to ask her a question. It is alleged that Lady Wonder helped the Massachusetts Police Department find the body of a missing boy. She is said to have predicted that Jack Dempsey would win against Jack Sharkey in 1927 , and she is said to have helped find oil.
Lady Wonder was bottle-fed by her instructor CD Fonda. The horse could operate a device that showed letter cards with the help of levers.
The parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine examined the horse and believed to have found evidence of extra-sensory perceptions between humans and horses. In contrast, the magician Milbourne Christopher was of the opinion that Lady Wonder was directed by Fonda. Lady Wonder could only answer questions correctly if her owner knew the answers. According to Christopher, " Lady was trained to move her head back and forth over the letter board. When she was over the correct letter, Fonda made a small movement with his stick to show her to lower her head and use the correct lever." Art historian Joe Nickell wrote that "Lady is a well-trained but not a telepatic animal."
See also
- Clever Hans
- Rico , a dog who understands more than 250 words
- Koko , a gorilla who learned sign language
- Alex , a gray parrot who could use words sensibly
Web links
- Richmond Then and Now . Reports on Lady Wonder from the Richmond Times dispatch.
- Lady Wonder: A Mind-Reading Horse . Essay by Abraham Kovoor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lady Wonder; "Mind Reading" Mare Baffles Scientists . In: Richmond Times-Dispatch . Richmond Then and Now. July 18, 1927. Archived from the original on July 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Gardner, Dick, 1962, The Impossible , 1962, Ballantine Books. P. 94
- ^ Joe Nickell (2002). "Psychic Pets and Pet Psychics" , Csicop.org
- ↑ Milbourne Christopher , 1971, ESP, Seers & Psychics . Crowell, pp. 39-54, ISBN 978-0-690-26815-7
