An Apprehenion of Danger

One day in 1955, five-year-old Joicey Hurth of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, came home from a birthday party to find that her father and two brothers had gone to a movie without her. The theater was only a block and a half away, so the little girl dashed out to join them.

Shortly after the child left, her mother was washing dishes at the kitchen sink whensuddenly, inexplicably, she knew her daughter had been in an accident. Withouthesitation, Mrs. Hurth ran to the telephone and dialed the theater. "My little girl was on the way to the theater", she told the woman who answered. "She has had an accident. Is she badly hurt?"

"How did you know?" stammed the confused theater employee. "It, the accident, just happened."

Indeed, it turned out that the child, in rushing to join her father and brothers, had run into the path of a moving car just outside the movie house. After begin hit, she had bounced off a fender and landed on the pavement, but she was not badly hurt.

"I did not see of have a mental image of a car hitting Joicey", the mother recalled, "but I did have the impression so strongly that I did not question it or hesitate to call the theater."

Recounting the episode some years later, the daughter said that just after she was hit by the car she ran to the side of the street, crying and calling out in her mind, "Mama, Mama, Mama!" She was, she believed, screaming inaudibly.

Since Mrs. Hurth neither heard or saw anything that could have alerted her to her daughter's mishap, parapsychologists studying the case attributed her knowledge of it to telepathy - direct mind to mind communication occuring without the five senses.