During World War II, it was observed that animals often sensed the proximity of enemy bombers' raids in advance - long before the radars knew of their approach. And the cats before the air raid began to show all signs of anxiety: their hair stood on end, they bent their backs and hissed in the direction from which the planes carrying death were supposed to appear
Moreover, some of them, setting an example to people, without expecting the sound of sirens, fled straight to the bomb shelters. Noticing this, the British from the very first days of the war began to look closely at the behavior of cats, and this saved many lives. As a token of gratitude and recognition of the phenomenon in England, even a special medal was established with the inscription: "We also serve the Motherland." This medal was awarded to those cats that especially showed themselves as living locators.
You can imagine that an animal perceives an event that is approaching, in much the same way as, say, a driver who, while driving, noticed a log lying on the road. It represents reality to him as soon as he saw it - before he touched or collided with it physically. In the same way, for a cat, an air raid that has not yet occurred, but which she feels, mentally sees, is just as real. Like a driver on the road, without waiting for an event, she reacts to it as to reality. It can be assumed that the dolphin, who was ahead of the team, perceived the segment of the future in the same way, where he saw himself performing certain actions. Obviously, the dog felt the same way and hurried to bring the owner his leash for a walk. By the way, dogs are obviously capable offeel the future no less than cats.
In the early days of the war, when the Germans were just beginning their raids on England, a London family, like many, dug for themselves a shelter in the garden. Over the course of time, this structure, due to the underground waters, turned out to be unusable and was abandoned and forgotten. Every time during the raids, the family hid in the house, in the kitchen, under a special steel ceiling. This has continued since 1941 and has become customary. In the summer of 1944, on June 30, the Mary Spaniel, the dog who lived in the family, suddenly disappeared. They found her by accident in an abandoned bomb shelter in the garden. During the day, the spaniel was brought into the house several times, but each time the dog immediately stubbornly returned back to the shelter. It ended with the fact that that night everyone moved there, to the old shelter in the garden, and at the same time invited the family of neighbors there.
“Why we decided to do this is difficult to explain,” she recalls. “From our side, it was a completely unreasonable act.” Nevertheless, for the first time in many years, they spent that night in an abandoned shelter, in the garden where their dog had taken them.
A high-explosive bomb fell right in front of their door. Only ruins remained from the house, as well as from the house of their neighbors. If they had spent that night in the house, as they had done before, none of them would have been alive.
In Germany, which was no less exposed to raids, animals also often warned and rescued people. In memory of this, a statue of a duck was erected in the city of Freiburg. In 1944, a few minutes before the raid, so sudden that the sirens did not even have time to announce it, the ducks on the city pond raised the alarm and commotion. The inhabitants understood this correctly and rushed to the shelters. It saved hundreds of lives.
There are too many such evidence collected to explain everything by chance, coincidence, or just a coincidence. The misfortune that lies in the future, animals often sense in advance and try to save humans. This is especially evident when natural disasters occur, usually completely sudden for a person.
On the night of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, the officer, the owner of the shepherd dog, was suddenly awakened by his dog a few minutes before the shock. The shepherd jerked open the door, rushed into the room and pulled the blanket off the sleeping man. When he did not wake up, the dog jumped on the bed, began to howl and bite the owner's legs, and then barked out the door. As soon as the owner, bewildered, left after him, the house behind him began to fall to pieces.
Here is another story, also from Ashgabat. At night the whole family was awakened by the furious barking of the Pinscher. With a shriek and growl, he pulled the blanket off the owner's little son, then rushed to the door and with a howl scratched his paws into it. The boy got out of bed and opened the door. The dog rushed into the darkness. But as soon as the child lay down, the pinscher began to cross at the door and bark, asking to come back. As soon as the father opened the door, the pinscher rushed to the boy straight into bed, grabbed him by the hem of his shirt and pulled him out of bed. Moving backwards, with jerks, the dog began to drag the boy to the door. At that moment, when the pinscher dragged the boy out of the threshold, the light suddenly went out and the floor went shaking.
Another similar story. Spitz woke his mistress with a loud bark about an hour before the disaster. He began to whine, lick his face, trying in vain to pull her out of bed. This went on for some time. Not understanding what he wanted, the door and the gate were finally opened for him. He was about to rush into the street, but immediately returned, grabbed the hostess by the robe and pulled her away from the house. Not understanding what was happening, the woman followed him onto the sidewalk, and then the ground trembled under her feet.
The approaching earthquake was felt by literally all animals. The only person who did not guess about anything and did not know about anything was a man. Here is an eyewitness account that he made in those days. Two hours before the earthquake "… at the Ashgabat stud farm, the horses literally went berserk, broke off the leash, kicked, and whinnied. The horses were caught and put in place. But fifteen minutes before the disaster, they still smashed the stable gates and fled. The stable collapsed from the underground. push ".
The animals behaved just as alarmingly before the 1969 Tashkent earthquake. A few days before him, tigers and lions in the zoo stubbornly refused to go to the open-air cages for the night and slept on the ground under the open sky. This has never happened before or since.
The birds also foresee future catastrophic events. Traveling in 1835 on the ship "Beagle" off the coast of South America, Charles Darwin watched as two hours before the Chilean earthquake birds in large flocks rose into the air and flew hastily inland. Witnesses of other seismic catastrophes also tell about the disturbance of birds before the earthquake.
In this connection, one can also recall rats. It is said that on the eve of the 1971 earthquake in San Francisco, hordes of rats were seen in the streets of the city, fleeing from areas that soon turned into ruins.
Even the ancients knew about the ability of rats to foresee future misfortunes in advance. If, before the ship sailed, it was noticed that rats were fleeing from it to the shore, this was considered a bad sign - the ship would certainly sink or be thrown onto the reefs. This was known in all ports of Phenicia, Greece, Rome. This sign is well known to sailors at all times. Knew about it and Soviet sailors during the Second World War. At that time, large sea caravans made regular voyages across the North Sea between Murmansk and British ports. These ships, Soviet and British, carried food and weapons to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. Their dangerous path was marked by disastrous encounters with German submarines and aircraft, so that not everyone managed to safely reach the port of destination.
For some time now, the naval authorities in Murmansk began to notice that during the stops, the sailors of one or the other ship tried with all their might to transfer to any other, even worse protected and less fast one. An undercover investigation was carried out. It turned out that the sailors were trying to transfer from the very ships from which the rats had fled while staying in the port. All efforts to convince people that rats cannot know the future and be smarter than humans, and even smarter than their bosses - all these efforts were frustrated by the personal observations of the sailors themselves and the testimony of other eyewitnesses. The sailors claimed that whenever rats left the ship on the eve of a voyage, it never returned to port.
Obviously, the knowledge of future misfortune or catastrophe gives animals some chance of salvation. Of course, they cannot prevent the event itself. They can only try to leave its zone themselves. And - to bring, to save a person when he is able to obey the beast.
But, obviously, there are situations of final predestination, when they cannot do anything for a person. Then the only thing left to them is despair. Dogs that howl on the eve of the death of their master are known among all peoples. Even Ovid wrote about this (1st century A. D.). This sign has long been well known in Russia.
In recent years, since phenomena of this kind began to be studied, a sufficient number of such facts have been recorded. When the owner, who is hundreds of kilometers away from home, suddenly dies, relatives sometimes find out about this by the fact that the dog begins to howl inconsolably and sadly.