Hello friends!
Most people in our modern world would probably like to know at least a little bit about their
future, about how their life would turn out. Will they be rich? Will they be poor? Will
they meet the love of their life? Or will they make the wrong choice?
But I have just one question for you: Would you like to know the date you’re going to die? And
how would you feel about it, if it weren’t even a person who would make that prediction for you, but
a regular cat? And believe you me, this isn’t a joke…
The most ordinary cat named Oscar lives in a hospice in Providence, USA… But he only
looks ordinary. Like most other cats, he loves to eat and sleep well. Oh, and no one really
knows where he came from. All they know is that Oscar came to the hospice as a little kitten.
He grew up and lived there all his life, while the compassionate staff took care of him.
And although Oscar is loved by all the patients and doctors,
he’s still a loner. He’s so independent that he rarely even allows people to pet him.
Of course, the furry fellow wasn’t allowed to walk the hospital halls
or go into the wards, but all that was until this incident happened…
One day the on-call doctor noticed Oscar standing at the door of a ward. He didn’t
know how the cat got there. Oscar scratched at the door, meowing plaintively. At first,
the doctor wanted to take the cat back to his place, but out of curiosity he decided to check
why the cat was so determined to go into that particular room. When the doctor opened the door,
Oscar came in and stood in the middle of the room for a few seconds, after which he quickly jumped
onto the bed of one of the patients. Oscar sniffed the man for a few seconds, and then just went to
sleep right next to him. This kind of behaviour was very strange, but what can you do about a cat?
As I mentioned before, Oscar was a loner, but for some reason he came to this stranger.
And this was just the beginning. A few hours later,
a red button flashed, informing that a patient had passed away.
Imagine the doctor’s surprise when he found out that the person that died
was that same man who Oscar slept with. Was it a coincidence? Probably. But then there was more …
After this strange incident, the cat was allowed to walk into the wards, while the doctors decided
to watch him. And to their surprise, he would go into the room and sniff the patients,
getting into bed and falling asleep at the feet of those people who would pass away in a few hours…
This cat’s strange sense could only mean one thing - Oscar could predict death.
Since then, the hospice staff began to trust Oscar so much
that when they saw him sleeping on someone's bed,
they’d call the patient's relatives, so that they could come in and say goodbye.
But there were also cases when the cat refuted the doctors' prognosis. One day, they brought
Oscar to a patient who they thought was going to die soon. Oscar, however, didn’t stay near
the patient for more than a couple of seconds, but rather went to sleep in the bed next to him.
The first person lived for several more weeks, while the second one died three hours later.
When the cat's abilities became widely known,
doctors began to fear that relatives would move their loved ones to different institutions,
but it was rather the opposite. Thanks to Oscar, people were able to say goodbye to their loved
ones, and everyone knew that the cat would stay next to the patient until the very end. But one
question remained - what did the patients feel when Oscar came to sleep with them?
Elderly residents of the Steere House, who the cat decides to stay with, begin to tell him
about their lives: difficult decisions they had to make, good and bad things that happened to them,
things they regret - a sort of confession, which makes leaving this word easier for them…
The cat usually jumps onto the windowsill and sits there for hours, or curls up into a ball
on the patient’s bed and lies there until the very end. The hospice doctors say that he has already
supported over 500 people in their last hours, and they see Oscar's presence in the ward as a sign.
Most relatives were grateful to the cat for the warning, but one day
it was decided to make Oscar leave the room. Imagine their surprise when he began
running back and forth at the ward door and meowing loudly, thus expressing his protest.
Many scientists have even tried to explain the Oscar phenomenon.
They speculated that it was a common feline sensitivity,
suggesting that cats can pick up on special chemical reactions. But then the question arises:
"Why can’t other cats do this?" And this question still hasn’t been answered.
Oscar is such an unusual cat that he even became the prototype of a cat predicting
death in one of the episodes of the famous TV show, House, M.D.
"He's never wrong," said Brown University professor David Dosa, who has been researching
the cat phenomenon. “No matter what we say, he clearly knows exactly what will happen next."
Be that as it may, but for fifteen years now the cat has been slowly wandering the halls
of the third floor of this center. He’s not only a mystery for modern science, but also
a best friend for patients, who accept their fate easier when the furry buddy is with them.
The relatives of the patients who have already passed away admit that they’re very grateful
to Oscar for being with their loved ones till the very last minutes of their lives.
There are many myths about the unique paranormal abilities of
cats - and most of them have long been debunked by science.
But the scientists haven't been able to reach a consensus with regard to this cat.
So friends, do you think this is just a coincidence
or does this cat actually have a superpower? Be sure to write your
opinion in the comments. And that’s it for today. Rate our video and see you soon! Bye.