How the hell in this day and age you can believe that myth.
Someone die's usually of old age often in small place (small flat or one room apartment) in front of a heater, all the doors are closed, drafts are blocked because their old and feel the cold. They catch on fire and start to burn, the oxygen in soon depleted and they smoulder creating tremendous heat but little or no flame and the body burns just like a candle. Once body water is evaporated away what's left is fats and under these high temperature conditions we burn, often just leaving hands and feet because all the oxygen has been use up. When high heat is generated but no flame - plastics will distort and if they had been reading a paper that may not have caught fire.
Many documented cases and some have been outdoors but it takes the right conditions. - do your research and don't be gullible
Death by 'spontaneous combustion': fact or fable?
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"Michael Faherty, 76, was found lying face down near an open fire in his living room in Galway, Ireland.
Apart from his body, investigators could find no other damage in the house.
Dr Kieran McLoughlin, the West Galway coroner, said it was the first time in his 25 year career that he had returned a spontaneous combustion verdict, which is believed to be the first in Ireland."
"Spontaneous combustion occurs when an object – in this case a human – bursts into flame from an internal chemical reaction, apparently without being ignited by an external heat source. In most cases the victim is almost completely consumed, usually inside their home, while little to no damage is recorded to the property itself."
Death by 'spontaneous combustion': fact or fable?
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The body fat acts like the fat of a candle and when the body reaches a certain temperature clothing acts as a lit wick, hence a very slow burn.
People do not just suddenly burst into flame though.
Anything is possible...
The thought that a human body can turn to ash, but leave everything around it unscathed....Nothing is burnt or even chard by the heat? The heat necessary to turn a human body to ash is in the thousands of degrees, yet they don't burn the rest of the place down?
That's ridiculously freaky to say the least.
I have yet to hear a so-called logical explanation for this happening that makes sense...Especially when the person survives such an ordeal, and is able to give a first person account about how it feels to be burnt from the inside out, or bursting into flames...
Can you say FREAKY!
HOWEVER, "Spontaneous Human Combustion," where a living human being suddenly catches fire, is an urban legend, a total myth.
Maybe aliens LOL
beginning of spontaneous combustion,if it was to go further than blood boiling, just saying.