The following facts are common to all SHC cases (but I haven't found REAL cases )
Eighty percent of the victims are female
Most of the victims were overweight and/or alcoholics
The body is very badly burned, but the room the body was found in is pretty much intact except for a fine layer of soot
A yellow, foul smelling oil is usually surrounding the body
The torso, including the chest, abdomen and hips tend to be totally consumed, sparing portions of the extremities and the head - the clothing can also be intact
The victim was always on their own - no shouts or screams could ever be heard
The victim had usually been drinking heavily prior to the death.
Dogo wrote: Bainaman wrote: Can you imagine your sitting down....watching TV......and you burst into flames!!!! Well.....It can happen.... It's called Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) I've read about it for years now..... I'm still waiting for someone to burst into flames infront of me!!!! It depends on who you ask though You're right!!! I believe it can happen. Again.....no one has ever seen it happen.......I believe there are some survivors that have only had a limb internally combust.....but i'm not sure....... I'd have to look it up.
Based on what though? i mean how? I've seen a few reports on this... it's all speculation Nothing ever proven... it defies the laws of physics. I never heard of any survivors either
Or have you seen something on this lately?
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Dogo wrote: Bainaman wrote: Can you imagine your sitting down....watching TV......and you burst into flames!!!! Well.....It can happen.... It's called Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) I've read about it for years now..... I'm still waiting for someone to burst into flames infront of me!!!!
It depends on who you ask though
You're right!!!
I believe it can happen.
Again.....no one has ever seen it happen.......I believe there are some survivors that have only had a limb internally combust.....but i'm not sure.......
I'd have to look it up.
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Can you imagine your sitting down....watching TV......and you burst into flames!!!! Well.....It can happen.... It's called Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) I've read about it for years now..... I'm still waiting for someone to burst into flames infront of me!!!!
It depends on who you ask though
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On July 2nd 1951 remains were found of a 67 year old widower named Mary Reeser. Her burnt smouldering remains were found by her Neighbor and some house painters. She had been sitting in an easy chair when the incident happened. Her left foot still wearing a slipper remained intact and only the corner of the room and the chair she was sitting in had been burnt. Firemen, police and pathologists examined Mrs. Reeser's remains and also found her liver which was fused to a lump of vertebrae and her skull which had been shrunk to the size of a baseball by the unusually intense heat. LEFT: Firemen mop up Mrs. Reeser's remains
The the walls of the apartment were covered with a greasy substance, plastic switches had melted along with two candles which the wicks had been left unburnt. There was only a small circular burn area which encompassed the remains of Mrs. Reeser and her chair. For such a cremation experts say that a temperature of 2500 degrees is necessary. A cigarette accidently dropped whilst asleep would never of caused such heat. The true cause of the burning death of Mrs. Reeser is still unknown. She is the most famous case of 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. The belief in SHC continued on well into the 1800's, Charles Dickens used SHC in his novel "Bleak House" to kill off a character. It was generally believed in the 1800's that SHC was caused by alcoholism. They believed that the accumulation of alcohol in the body tissues would dramatically increase the combustibility of the body. It was also thought that the body metabolized alcohol to produce hydrogen and other inflammable gases which were then stored in the body tissues. A spark produced by the body's own electricity would then ignite the body. However as more knowledge of the metabolism of the body was discovered this theory was soon dismissed as they discovered that you would die of alcoholic poisoning before you would get to the stage of being saturated with alcohol.The public interest in SHC lost all it's appeal until 1951 when the Reeser case became public knowledge.
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the alleged burning of a person's body without a readily apparent, identifiable 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 'recognized' as SHC. There is much speculation and controversy over SHC. It is not a proven natural occurrence, but many theories have attempted to explain SHC's existence and how it may occur. 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". Although physically it can be shown that the human body contains enough energy stored in the form of fat and other tissues to consume it completely, in normal circumstances bodies will not sustain a flame on their own.
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It depends on who you ask though You're right!!! I believe it can happen. Again.....no one has ever seen it happen.......I believe there are some survivors that have only had a limb internally combust.....but i'm not sure....... I'd have to look it up. 
"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission."
