Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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Well... let me start off by saying I personally don't believe in it... but I am sitting here watching this show called The Unexplained, that is focusing on the subject of Spontaneous Human Combustion.

It's going through quite a few cases where there have been mysterious deaths that are exceptionally macabre. They even show the actual photos of the rooms and stuff. I'm sitting here looking at these piles of ash, sometimes with unburned human legs that are next to them. Very gruesome, and rather freaky. One thing seems to be the same throughout them... despite the fact that the bodies were completely incinerated, their surroundings were not even harmed. However, throughout the houses, certain items would be melted. In one instance, there was a TV in a bedroom away from the room the fire started in. While nothing around it was damaged, the TV was completely melted, and this little figurine doll beside it was partially melted, but the very flammable clothing that was on it was unharmed.


In another case, it was spooky, as very horizontal surface in the house was covered with a black soot, and in the bathroom the tub was filled with what appeared to be water colored black, and they described it like black paint. In the refrigerator, the butter dish and butter inside was all melted.

It just seems so strange, that all these people that are usually depressed, are burnt alive without any seemingly external sources, and the flames barely damage anything around them at all.

Weird.
 
I saw this one with this older woman, burned from her ankles up. Ashes piled onto the chair she was sitting in. The chair was fine I believe.
 
Top Secret said:
I saw this one with this older woman, burned from her ankles up. Ashes piled onto the chair she was sitting in. The chair was fine I believe.

Yeah, I saw the pictures of that. And another woman too.
 
yeah, ive seen similar shows. truely is a strange phenomena. off to wiki it to read more...
 
Top Secret said:
I saw this one with this older woman, burned from her ankles up. Ashes piled onto the chair she was sitting in. The chair was fine I believe.
Maybe this is some chair-induced plot to sieze control of the planet?
 
complete rubbish, i'm really open to anomolies but this one is certainly bullshit.

One weird anecdote about all "combustion" victims

all overweight, elderly, smoker/drinkers. ODD! An ash probably ignites the insides and the body acts similarly to a candle, insulating the fire as the insides and then the outsides simply melt away.. it's not spontanous at all.. it's just combustion.
 
spookymooky said:
Maybe this is some chair-induced plot to sieze control of the planet?

I know it's mine. I keep trying to gain control of Earth through the incendiary firing of the planet's loners. For some reason, I keep feeling the deep, yet hollow victory that a successful plan brings without any obvious advancement of my nefarious plots.
 
babyheadcrab said:
complete rubbish, i'm really open to anomolies but this one is certainly bullshit.

One weird anecdote about all "combustion" victims

all overweight, elderly, smoker/drinkers. ODD! An ash probably ignites the insides and the body acts similarly to a candle, insulating the fire as the insides and then the outsides simply melt away.. it's not spontanous at all.. it's just combustion.

Well. Those are things they have talked about. And spontaneous human combustion or not(which I also believe is a myth)... these deaths are real, and they completely baffle fire detectives that work on the cases.
 
its true, it happened to me. isnt it because of some crazy flammable chemicals that form in the digestive tract from eating too much fried chicken, whereupon you ignite because of static electricity?
 
I'm not sure if it's real or not. It would be awesome though!
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Hehe, just kidding. :thumbs:

That's why I don't drink...just to be on the safe side(and it's against my standards)

Post some pictures!
 
I hear it might have to do with something in the cells, there's a cell called the pyro-something cell or some shit and it ignites you.

My theory has been that there wasn't enough mucus(which keeps the acid from burning yo ass up son!) in their tum tums so their stomach acids burnt the shit out of them.
 
It's kinda like the Human Torch except the power can only be used once and then you die, so you never learn to be able to control it.
 
gh0st said:
its true, it happened to me. isnt it because of some crazy flammable chemicals that form in the digestive tract from eating too much fried chicken, whereupon you ignite because of static electricity?
When it happens to you again, videotape and post it here. I'd love to see, or YTMD!
 
lol
This makes me remember that episode of Red Dwarf............
 
It's simple realy. Just never, ever, give the devil the finger.
 
Skaadi said:
Oh shit, too late.
Quick! Put me in your will!


Anyway, I read a news story a while back about a guy that built up enough static electricity to burn the carpet he stepped on and almost combusted, without knowing it. I think the story was posted on here a while back. It's possible that these people could just be somehow building up a massive charge of static electricity.
 
Wikipedia said:
Due to the high temperature yet localized nature of the fire, hot air exposure can damage objects high above the fire.

A possible reason while something in a bedroom upstairs might be damaged.
 
mortiz said:
A possible reason while something in a bedroom upstairs might be damaged.

Why would a TV set melt, but a doll beside it(which also partially melted), not have its little flammable cloth dress affected? They were about the same altitude from the ceiling, RIGHT beside each other. You'd think if something could melt those things, they'd seriously affect the flammable cloth.
 
I can't remember where it was explained, but it's not a random explosion, but rather someone accidentally setting their clothes alight. They then act like an inside-out candle, with their body-fat acting like wax.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Angry Lawyer said:
I can't remember where it was explained, but it's not a random explosion, but rather someone accidentally setting their clothes alight. They then act like an inside-out candle, with their body-fat acting like wax.

-Angry Lawyer

Yep, That was one very plausible theory.
 
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