ESP in Dogs and a Secret Program to Locate Landmines

Today's article: the strange story of Tessie and Binnie. They were two dogs secretly "hired" back in the 1950s by the U.S. military to determine if our best friends could psychically locate landmines. This isn't one of the dogs (LOL), this is my good buddy, Bailey!

Get A Room...

There's a new 2-part article from me at Mysterious Universe, on a weird saga of hotel-room secrets, government agents, the military, and ESP...

Here's part 1.

And here's part 2.

The story begins...

"There can be no doubt that strange things go on in hotel rooms. But, they don’t get much stranger than something that went down in the Arlington, Virginia, Marriott Hotel – on U.S. Highway 1 – in August 1957. It’s a bizarre story of paranormal phenomena (or, perhaps more correctly, alleged paranormal phenomena), a couple of teenage psychics, an employee of a local railway company, and the U.S. Intelligence community! Yep, it’s time for one of those “stranger than fiction” accounts.

"It all began on July 16, 1957. That was the date on which Alan H. Belmont, the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Domestic Intelligence Division, prepared a document with the eye-catching title of “Extra Sensory Perception.” It was a document circulated to senior FBI personnel, including Assistant Director Cartha DeLoach. Belmont wrote: “One of our agents attended a private exhibition of extra sensory perception given by Mr. William Foos at American Legion Headquarters in Washington, D.C.”

ESP, Animals and the Pentagon

In my new post at Mysterious Universe, I tell the weird story of how the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency secretly dug deep into the controversy-filled topic of psychic powers, ESP and more of a paranormal nature in the animal kingdom...