The Cat Who Predicted 83 Deaths — Doctors Made Him an Official Protocol

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]A grey-and-white cat in Providence has correctly predicted 83 human deaths — and hospital staff started using him as a clinical tool.

[00:00:09]Oscar lives at Steere House nursing home. He ignores patients all day — then selects one, curls on their bed, and within two to four hours, they die.

[00:00:19]Staff called it coincidence. Then Dr. David Dosa of Brown University tracked it and published the data in the New England Journal of Medicine.

[00:00:29]Oscar isn't affectionate. He hisses at staff who try to move him. He isn't seeking warmth — he's detecting something.

[00:00:37]Biochemists believe he smells ketones: volatile compounds flooding the air as cells begin dying — completely undetectable to humans.

[00:00:47]Staff stopped second-guessing him. When Oscar chooses a patient, nurses call the family immediately. A cat became the most reliable prognostic tool in the building.