Testing the validity of telepathic communication, three men conducted three telepathic trials with Hunter, an Australian Shepherd, at the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District in Calabasas, California. This 40-acre fenced facility was the perfect place for Hunter to show off the effectiveness of telepathic communication. Hunter easily found the 3 men via telepathic signals when no other sense data was available.

Trial 1: John Zhao, Dir of Facilities and Ops, hid on the property. Hunter ignored the scent trail and made a beeline to John with no scent information needed. John shows the route he took to get to his hiding place. The route the dog took to find him is completely different and much more direct.

Trial 2 – Fred Grainsville puts Hunter into a truck and covers it up. Then he dons a hazmat suit and hides on the property. Hunter is asked to find Bob through telepathic communication. No scent is said to be detectable with the hazmat suit on.

Trial 3- Charles Santos – Fred and Hunter are in the truck and unable to see when Charles hides on the 40-acre facility. Hunter is derailed at first because the human throws him off, but he’s soon back on track.

Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, 232 Las Virgenes Rd #1994, Calabasas, CA 91302

“The most important event took place last Saturday where we had access to a large, fenced area to investigate 1) how dogs find their way home from long distances and 2) to find out if perceptions other than scent play a role in search and rescue operations.

“The purpose of the tests is to show that SAR operations can be more effective if someone close to the lost person interacts with the search dog and the handler before the search begins: The goal is to increase the odds of success at finding someone who is lost and in danger.

October 23, 2021 – The Las Virgenes Municipal Water (LVMWD) District hosts 5 off-leash SAR experiments 

The test procedures used at LVMWD were designed to eliminate any possible explanation that scent was the principal driver of the dogs finding on that day.  The five tests went beyond “hidden scent.” The tests were designed without any possibility that the two dogs would have scent available when the test began. There was no contact with the person hiding, no scent article presented to the dogs, and two of the people hiding wore a Hazmat suits.

Moonlight Productions took videos of the five off-leash tests at the water district’s 40-acre maintenance facility. The following area community leaders participated with me in the five important successful experiments:

•       John Zhao, P.E., is the Director, Facilities and Operations at Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
•       Charles Santos is the principal engineer at Santos Planning & Permitting
•       Gail Lowe is a Coldwell Banker Realty real estate agent serving Malibu, CA

The videos are available on youtube

Oct 23 LVWMD Part 1 (Hunter is the Hero)

Oct 23 LVWMD part 2 (Frazier is the Hero)

The participants wrote a story about their experience at LVMWD, click here if you want to read them.

Bob and Hunter