Welcome to the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

Now get ready for another episode of Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren.

The thoughts and opinions expressed by the host are thoughts and opinions only,

and do not necessarily reflect those of I Heart Media, I Heart Radio,

Coast to Coast AM, employees of premier networks, or their sponsors, and associates.

You are encouraged to do the proper amount of research yourself,

depending on the subject matter and your needs.

Get ready to be amazed by the wizard of Weird. This is Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren.

I am Joshua P. Warren, and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new mind-blowing

content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more on this edition

of the show, more paranormal animals. Do you know that Oscar, the death-sensing cat,

is still alive? He lives at the Steer House Nursing and Rehab Center in Providence,

Rhode Island. He's been there since 2005. He came to public attention in 2007 when he was

featured in an article by Dr. David Dosa in the New England Journal of Medicine,

and according to Dosa, Oscar appears able to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients

by choosing to nap next to people a few hours before they die.

He, the cat there was the subject of a book that Dosa wrote in 2010 called Making Rounds with Oscar,

the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat. So they say that Oscar, the therapy cat,

is in this 41-bed facility, and he has been described generally as a luth and quote,

not a cat that's friendly to people, in quote, sometimes hissing at people when he wants to be left

alone. Why is it that things named Oscar are always grouchy? It says after Oscar had been at

Steer House for around six months, staff noticed that Oscar often chose to nap next to residents

...