Stephen’s father Geoffrey received a powerful psychic message while driving to work one morning.
It was a typical morning in the spring of 1976. The whole family was living in their Southern California home and Geoffrey was working as a self-employed contractor.
Irene had jury duty fairly far away and had to leave home early.
The kids and Geoffrey fed and watered their many animals, and then Geoffrey saw all the kids off to school. He put their Doberman Pinscher Dutchess out in the backyard, then buttoned up the house and left for his job site at about 11 a.m.
As he was driving to work on the 101 freeway, a very unfamiliar feeling came over him. He felt extreme anxiety and fear just shy of panic, and he heard a voice in his mind say “you’ve got to turn around.”
The premonition of trouble was strong enough for Geoffrey to act upon it. He exited the freeway and headed for home.
When he arrived at the house, he discovered Dutchess in the kitchen with a large gash on the inside of her right, back leg. The wound was bleeding profusely and blood was smeared all over the kitchen. Dutchess had tried to get back into the house by jumping through the backdoor window. She successfully broke the window and managed to get into the kitchen, but the broken glass in the frame had given her the gash.
Geoffrey said she was barely alive when he got to her. He put a quick tourniquet on her and put her in the truck. Fortunately, their vet was only a half mile away and he was able to stitch her up quickly and then transfuse her.
When Stephen arrived home from school at about noon, he found the kitchen covered in blood and he saw the broken backdoor window. He frantically searched for Dutchess, and not finding her, surmised that she had been injured. He called the vet’s office and found that Geoffrey and Dutchess were there. He rode his bike over and that’s when Geoffrey told him about the premonition.
Dutchess fully recovered. When asked why she jumped through the window, her eyes responded, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
