Local Pooch Knows When You're About To Die

http://www.nbc10.com/health/14248253/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

WCAU-TV [Philadelphia]
2 Oct 2007

Local Pooch Knows When You're About To Die

SINKING SPRING, Pa. -- When Libby the 14-year-old therapy dog enters the room, folks light up.

It's when Libby plants her feet firmly on the ground and refuses to enter a room that things get more complicated.

Her owner says the therapy poodle knows when someone is about to die, NBC 10 medical reporter Cherie Bank reported. [...]

Dog Senses Death; Devil Bites Breasts

http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/inside_stories/story.aspx?storyid=885

Inside Edition [Syndicated American TV news show]
14 Aug 2007

The Dog Who Can Sense Death

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 8/14/2007

Scamp is the live-in pet at an Ohio nursing home, but the Schnauzer doesn't just bring companionship to the lonely. He has an eerie gift that also allows him to bring comfort to the dying.

Scamp can somehow sense when the end is near for one of the old folks. He then waits loyally by their bedside in the final hours. [...]

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http://www.examiner.com/a-882942~Is_all_that_we_have_seen_of__Poe_Toaster__but_a_dream_.html

Baltimore Examiner
15 Aug 2007

Is all that we have seen of 'Poe Toaster' but a dream?

By WILEY HALL, AP

BALTIMORE - The legend was almost too good to be true.

For decades, a mysterious figure dressed in black, his features cloaked by a wide-brimmed hat and scarf, crept into a churchyard to lay three roses and a bottle of cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

Now, a 92-year-old man who led the fight to preserve the historic site says the visitor was his creation.

"We did it, myself and my tour guides," said Sam Porpora. "It was a promotional idea. We made it up, never dreaming it would go worldwide." [...]