Lady Wonder

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Lady Wonder was a horse that was purported to be telepathic. The horse correctly predicted that Jack Dempsey would defeat Jack Sharkey in 1927. Most observers agree that C. D. Fonda, the simple Virginia farmgirl who owned the horse, sincerely believed in the horse's psychic powers. Over 150 thousand people came to consult the horse at the price of three questions for one dollar; it has been suggested that many of the questions had to do with betting on race horses. Dr. J. B. Rhine investigated the horse and concluded that there was strong evidence for telepathy between human and horse. Lady Wonder is purported to have helped the Massachusetts police to find the body of a missing girl and to have helped discover oil. Some have suggested that the horse used a form of cold reading like another famous horse, Clever Hans, was shown to do.^[1]