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From: andrew@orca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: ESP
Message-ID: <609@orca.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 20:44:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 19 20:44:11 1984
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	"I used to know a guy down at school who once told me in
	passing that he often knew that the phone was going to ring
	before it actually did so."

When I lived in west Los Angeles, I also had this power.  I would pick
up the receiver just before the phone would ring, and talk to the
calling party.  This amazed my friends.

It turns out that, for many of the GTE lines in west LA, a low power
pulse would precede the ring signal by about a second.  With sensitive
hearing, I could detect the slight murmur of the ringer and know that
the phone was about to ring.

It is certainly possible that a person could become attuned to this
signal at the subconscious, rather than conscious, level, and actually
believe that he had the power to predict phone calls.  Major world
superstitions have been founded on less.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)      [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)  [ARPA]