The Road to Damascus

True Story: One of the people living in my summer home here, Scott, had a dog, a yellow lab. His family had owned it since Scott was a boy and the dog a puppy. Now Scott is working here in Jersey, so he doesn't see much of the dog or his family.
Yesterday he took a walk through town. Along the way he saw an old yellow lab that looked exactly like his. The dog turned its head to look straight at him, and he felt an eerie premonition. Arriving back at the house here, he called his parents and said, "Molly died, didn't she?" It was true; his mother confirmed that their 14-year-old dog had just passed away.

I've been reading a lot of ancient Chinese tales of the supernatural lately, and they have the exact same structure of what happened here yesterday. So it's a thrill to think that yesterday I had the kind of ambigous experience that I imagine must be the way many of those stories got started.