Spontaneous Human Combustion: Burning of a person's body, allegedly without any external source of ignition

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the burning of a person's body, allegedly without any external source of ignition. The combustion may result in simple burns and blisters to the skin, smoking, or a complete incineration of the body. The latter is the form most often 'recognised' as SHC.

There is much speculation and controversy over SHC. It is not a proven natural occurence, but many theories that attempt to explain how SHC may happen also attempt to prove that it exists.

Of these theories, the two most common explanations offered to account for apparent SHC are the non-spontaneous "wick effect" fire, and the rare discharge called static flash fires.

Resources about Spontaneous Human Combustion

Anomalies Article: Spontaneous Human Combustion
For as yet scientifically unknown reasons, times occur when an unsuspecting person can just burst into flames and be incinerated...

Spontaneous Human Combustion
The ability of the human body to blister or smoke or otherwise ignite in the absence of an external identifiable known source of ignition. In classic spontaneous human combustion the body burns itself more completely than can normally be achieved at a crematorium. The fires are internal in origin.

Castle of Spirits.com: Spontaneous Human Combustion
Spontaneous Human Combustion is a phenomenon where a living person suddenly bursts into flames for no apparent reason. The first reported case was thought to have been in 1763. A Frenchman named Jonas Dupont published a collection of Spontaneous Human Combustion cases..

Spontaneous Human Combustion: Thoughts of a Forensic Biologist by forensic biologist Mark Benecke, Ph.D.
Forensic scientists very rarely, if ever, mention the (alleged) phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion (SHC). After reading an article on the subject in BILD, Germany's most famous tabloid newspaper (circulation four million daily), I started to wonder about this.

The Shadowlands: Spontaneous human combustion
The mysterious phenomenon of a person bursting into flame for no apparent reason. The flames burn very hot and are very localized. They destroy most of the body but leave objects in close proximity to the person relatively unburned.

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