Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
Oscar the cat doesn't like to be put out in the hall when a patient is dying.
His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine
Dear Vijay There are supernatural phenomenon always.. My wife used to work in a hospital..where the staff see the vision of a lady in a pink cardigan next to a cot they know for certain that child will die....Story is she is young nurse who loved children and died young...
In GH in the middle of the night you will hear Clickety clock of a matrons shoes noise in the night...Nurses always stay together in the night...they get woken up by a matronly figure if a patient is bad....
kalki loved these supernatural phenomena. he wrote about a lot of dead people visiting the living. also past life memories. like kunthavai explaining as vitta kurai thottta kurai
3 of kalkis stories'
solaimalai ilavarasi, idintha kottai mohini theevu deal with these phenomena.
Idintha Kottai is my favourite. I can think of very few authors who managed to capture the spirit of the paranormal with its full eerie flavour. Kalki was a past master. If only he'd lived long enough for a full-fledged ghost story! The moonlight descritpions of Mohini Theevu were rivetting. Not to mention the superior artwork.
Incidently, all those stories that involve the title "irulil oru alaral" are my favourite as well. :)
Going by this... is Nandhini's vision of Veerapandiyan's head real or made up.
There have been many paranormal activites in the US too recorded in books.
White noise is a film that delves into this (X Files has a lot of fiction on the topic too), however termed fiction, it does have some scientific explanations. Early Chinese did believe in this primarily and we also have the pitru lokam and ammavasai where the belief on the doors to the parallel world open.
Hi Pavithra idintha kottai is my favourite too so similar to O. Henry's last leaf short story. in this too a master story teller weaving his masterpiece story which will be his last.