Somebody died of spontaneous combustion in Ireland...
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Hmmm, well I think there is some pretty wierd stuff out there, and honestly Spontaneous Human Combustion isn't one of the odder things I've heard about over the years. At a time when we're finding out that Einstein might have been wrong about physics (if CERN is to be believed) I don't think there is much that should be immediatly discounted.
The way I look at this is warped to some people, because I'm fairly rational for the most part. I believe that blaming the paranormal/supernatural for things is ridiculous because the odds of running into anything like that is minimal. 99% of what people believe is an occurance like that is something else. On the other hand there are cases where we've literally thrown every expert we can produce at something and found no real satisfactory answer, even if some people believe they found one, or have a solid theory.
Ghosts are ridiculous right? Well consider that legally speaking they exist. In most of the US there is a requirement that people have to be informed by a realtor if a house has a "history" due to people literally buying haunted houses blindly and then having all kinds of messed up stuff happen. If the legal system has been forced to acknowlege the existance of haunted houses after many years of dealing with the reports, it makes you wonder what else there might be out there.
It was decades ago when I took Criminal Justice, and I'm being simplistic, but I was a bit surprised when I found that little tidbit out, since I guess it's not really well publicized.
Spontaneous human combustion has apparently been documented for centuries, and does not always happen when someone is alone. While I'm sure there have been explanations missed in a number of occasions, I don't find it any more ridiculous than some guy winning in court against a real estate agent because something went "bump" in the night really loud and convinced him to do research and found out that people died in the house.
The way I look at this is warped to some people, because I'm fairly rational for the most part. I believe that blaming the paranormal/supernatural for things is ridiculous because the odds of running into anything like that is minimal. 99% of what people believe is an occurance like that is something else. On the other hand there are cases where we've literally thrown every expert we can produce at something and found no real satisfactory answer, even if some people believe they found one, or have a solid theory.
Ghosts are ridiculous right? Well consider that legally speaking they exist. In most of the US there is a requirement that people have to be informed by a realtor if a house has a "history" due to people literally buying haunted houses blindly and then having all kinds of messed up stuff happen. If the legal system has been forced to acknowlege the existance of haunted houses after many years of dealing with the reports, it makes you wonder what else there might be out there.
It was decades ago when I took Criminal Justice, and I'm being simplistic, but I was a bit surprised when I found that little tidbit out, since I guess it's not really well publicized.
Spontaneous human combustion has apparently been documented for centuries, and does not always happen when someone is alone. While I'm sure there have been explanations missed in a number of occasions, I don't find it any more ridiculous than some guy winning in court against a real estate agent because something went "bump" in the night really loud and convinced him to do research and found out that people died in the house.
I watched a documentary on Spontaneous Combustion ages ago, it was really good cause it had Bruce Mother Fuckin' Dickinson of Iron Maiden doing the presenting.
while writing this i found the whole thing on youtube, i will link the first part as it is relevent to this topic and a must see for Iron Maiden fans really http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYuFGcx2Kss
while writing this i found the whole thing on youtube, i will link the first part as it is relevent to this topic and a must see for Iron Maiden fans really http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYuFGcx2Kss
It was on either Unsolved Mysteries or Sightings. I remember that interview/story.Optiluiz said:
Well this is just silly, I mean it doesn't even make se-GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH I'M BURNING! I'M BUUUURRRNNNIIIINNNNGGGG
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
I have followed stories on this phenomena for many many years now (about 10+) and it is truly something that happens but there is no real reason for it. There is one story of a person swinging on a swing and being left for about a minute and upon return they found the person had been reduced to ashes cept for their feet with only minimal burn damage to the swing and grass and shoes (socks remainded). Bear in mind it takes temperatures capable of melting steel to reduce bone to ash (look it up, Cermation is a hot business).
I am sure one can find a number of other cases online, but the above was part of an investigatory documentry into the phenomena so is about as truthful as you will get in the case of rare occurances. If this doctor ruled it to be as a result of Spontanious Human Combustion he needed to be extremely sure about it as it basically says that this phenomena is now scientifically accepted (legally wise anyway).
*For the information, I have read also of a case where someone combusted in front of a crowd at movie theatre. In less than a minute their torso was gone. The fire left their clothes minimally damaged (cept for where the fire had ashed the body). Another few cases where elderly have been found burnt with no damage to surrounding material, and only minor burns to the wood floors, and with extremities intacts (sometimes with clothing) but nothing remaining of the areas that ignited. As stated above, it takes immense temperatures to burn bone, and house fires, even the hottest ones the burn down the wole house, always leave bones and teeth, cause they don't get hot enough.
You have all now been informed, there is really no plus to this picture. Sponatinous human combustion is a scary thing and there is not enough known to predicit it at all.
I have followed stories on this phenomena for many many years now (about 10+) and it is truly something that happens but there is no real reason for it. There is one story of a person swinging on a swing and being left for about a minute and upon return they found the person had been reduced to ashes cept for their feet with only minimal burn damage to the swing and grass and shoes (socks remainded). Bear in mind it takes temperatures capable of melting steel to reduce bone to ash (look it up, Cermation is a hot business).
I am sure one can find a number of other cases online, but the above was part of an investigatory documentry into the phenomena so is about as truthful as you will get in the case of rare occurances. If this doctor ruled it to be as a result of Spontanious Human Combustion he needed to be extremely sure about it as it basically says that this phenomena is now scientifically accepted (legally wise anyway).
*For the information, I have read also of a case where someone combusted in front of a crowd at movie theatre. In less than a minute their torso was gone. The fire left their clothes minimally damaged (cept for where the fire had ashed the body). Another few cases where elderly have been found burnt with no damage to surrounding material, and only minor burns to the wood floors, and with extremities intacts (sometimes with clothing) but nothing remaining of the areas that ignited. As stated above, it takes immense temperatures to burn bone, and house fires, even the hottest ones the burn down the wole house, always leave bones and teeth, cause they don't get hot enough.
You have all now been informed, there is really no plus to this picture. Sponatinous human combustion is a scary thing and there is not enough known to predicit it at all.
'' He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney. ''
Hurr, i wonder how these people cought fire
Hurr, i wonder how these people cought fire
I swear spontaneous human combustion has been proved impossible by all scientific studies, and has never ACTUALLY happened before in nature? All the time they thought it was SHC it turned out to be a completely unrelated issue. Hmmm.
But then again, Irish police are hilariously bad at policing.
But then again, Irish police are hilariously bad at policing.
Hmm in all honesty this reminded me of a CSI Miami episode where this man was siphoning gasoline out of his boat and later on started drinking milk to cure his aching stomach from so much gasoline intake. Then his phone rang and the moment he answered it some static set off an internal combustion and BAM!Abedeus said:
I laughed at such a hilarious and bullshit scenario....yet it had me worried a bit.
There has to be some reason though. He might have been drinking, smoking or something. To simply look at the open fire place and disregard it as evidence seems very incompetent of them to say the least.
I F*CKING LOVE YOU FOR POSTING THAT VIDEO!!!HardkorSB said:
OMG I suddenly feel like I'm ten years old again when I played Parasite Eve on that old Playstation Demo Disc
I've heard of this before - the human body (due to fat cells or something?) can burn so slowly it doesn't catch anything else on fire, and essentially leaves behind a pile of ash. If I recall correctly, some experiment was done with pigs, where they wrapped a pig corpse up in clothes and ignited it with something like a cigarette or ember, and the body burnt without burning the clothes.
Not quite spontaneous combustion, but interesting.
Not quite spontaneous combustion, but interesting.
It probably went down like this, old guy falls asleep smoking on chair, drops cigarette onto shirt, it catches on fire, he wakes up trys to get up, has a heart attack and then falls on the ground, body catches on fire. Burns for a while untill enough of the evidence of the ignition is gone.
Makes me think of all the times other cases of spontaneous combustion turned out to be the person having a heart attack and their cigarette then slowly burning their corpse into ash.