Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?
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old.Tohtori
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The theory behind it is valid i guess.
I think it could happen, the amount of possibility is a different question though.
I think it could happen, the amount of possibility is a different question though.
yes, there are more things in heaven and earth my dear nerds than we could ever hope to explain and tbh why does it have to be explained or proven? Weird shit happens (usually to me...) every day and there is no rational explaination for it (just as the guys who live opposite me and just saw me dancing to 'hunka burnin love') it just happens.
and, think of all the wonderfully juicy oddness that happens and no one has ever seen it?
and, think of all the wonderfully juicy oddness that happens and no one has ever seen it?
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I will people to combust sometimes, does that count?
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A human body will burn like a candle in the right conditions, if the body is wrapped in damp bedding for example. The spark and initial fuel can come from anywhere. It could well be static electricity causing the spark and alcohol, hair spray or any other house hold flammable causing the initial fire. The fat in the body producing the rest of the fuel.
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This happened to a girl who went to my local college back in the 80's sometime.
Can't recollect much, but she was just walking down the corridor when she just burst into flames for no reason.
Spontaneous Human Combustion reports from england, scotland and wales, from the paranormal database small handful of incidents of Combustion there.
A bit more in detail after i curiously had a look around..
Can't recollect much, but she was just walking down the corridor when she just burst into flames for no reason.
Spontaneous Human Combustion reports from england, scotland and wales, from the paranormal database small handful of incidents of Combustion there.
A bit more in detail after i curiously had a look around..
However, in the winter of 1985 there was a dreadful incident in Cheshire, which was investigated at
first hand by police, fire officers, a forensic chemist working for the British Home Office, and by the
prestigious Shirley Institute in Manchester. A seventeen-year-old student, Jacqueline Fitzsimon, was
walking down some stairs with a group of friends at Halton College of Further Education, Widnes,
when she suddenly burst into flame. Although three staff members quickly arrived on the scene and
smothered the flames, Jacqueline subsequently died.
Witnesses under oath at the inquest described the events of that February morning in apocalyptic
terms. Two girls, Carina Leazer and Rachel Heckle, had passed Jacqueline on the stairs. Carina told
the coroner that she noticed a strange glowing light above Jacqueline's right shoulder. It appeared in
mid-air and then seemed to fall down her back. Two men, both mature students, were also on the
stairs.
John Foy, aged thirty-four, who worked for a chemical manufacturer, described hearing Jacqueline cry
out. They turned to see her on fire. 'She was like a stunt man on TV,' he said. 'The flames simply
engulfed her.' He and his companion, Neil Gargan, had seen no sign of smoke or smouldering as they
passed the girl just a few seconds before. They helped put out the fire. Jacqueline herself only
complained that she had burnt her finger trying to put out the flames, though there was melted nylon
all over her back. She died in hospital.
Initially there seemed to be a fairly simple explanation. Jacqueline was a cookery student and had been
working in the cookery room where a number of gas cookers were in use. She had finished her work
early and had stood about talking to friends. The assumption was that she had perhaps leaned against a
cooker where the gas ring was still on, her white catering jacket had started to smoulder and then,
when she went out to the stairway, the increased oxygen and air-flow had fanned it into flame.
Slowly, however, doubts began to build up about this straightforward theory. There had been plenty of
people about and no one had noticed any sign of scorching or smouldering on Jacqueline's back.
Indeed, she had walked down the stairs linking arms with two friends, and they had not noticed
anything. Then the cookery lecturer, Robert Carson, swore that all the rings had been turned off an
hour before the end of the study period. 'In any case,' he told the coroner, 'in twenty years I have never
seen a catering jacket on fire.'
Next, the Home Office chemist, Philip Jones, described how he had been unable to make a
smouldering catering jacket burst into flames, even when it was exposed to a strong air-flow. The
Shirley Institute report also acknowledged that they could not get a smouldering catering jacket to
flame. If it was directly ignited the whole thing burned within twenty-five seconds. Yet all the
evidence indicated that a considerable time - several minutes - had elapsed between Jacqueline's
departure from the cookery room and the fatal conflagration on the stairs.
The jury's verdict was 'misadventure'. But few people, either among the witnesses or among those who
had attended the inquest, felt that they had heard a satisfactory explanation of why a seventeen-yearold
girl should, without warning, be consumed by fire while walking downstairs arm-in-arm with
friends one February morning.
first hand by police, fire officers, a forensic chemist working for the British Home Office, and by the
prestigious Shirley Institute in Manchester. A seventeen-year-old student, Jacqueline Fitzsimon, was
walking down some stairs with a group of friends at Halton College of Further Education, Widnes,
when she suddenly burst into flame. Although three staff members quickly arrived on the scene and
smothered the flames, Jacqueline subsequently died.
Witnesses under oath at the inquest described the events of that February morning in apocalyptic
terms. Two girls, Carina Leazer and Rachel Heckle, had passed Jacqueline on the stairs. Carina told
the coroner that she noticed a strange glowing light above Jacqueline's right shoulder. It appeared in
mid-air and then seemed to fall down her back. Two men, both mature students, were also on the
stairs.
John Foy, aged thirty-four, who worked for a chemical manufacturer, described hearing Jacqueline cry
out. They turned to see her on fire. 'She was like a stunt man on TV,' he said. 'The flames simply
engulfed her.' He and his companion, Neil Gargan, had seen no sign of smoke or smouldering as they
passed the girl just a few seconds before. They helped put out the fire. Jacqueline herself only
complained that she had burnt her finger trying to put out the flames, though there was melted nylon
all over her back. She died in hospital.
Initially there seemed to be a fairly simple explanation. Jacqueline was a cookery student and had been
working in the cookery room where a number of gas cookers were in use. She had finished her work
early and had stood about talking to friends. The assumption was that she had perhaps leaned against a
cooker where the gas ring was still on, her white catering jacket had started to smoulder and then,
when she went out to the stairway, the increased oxygen and air-flow had fanned it into flame.
Slowly, however, doubts began to build up about this straightforward theory. There had been plenty of
people about and no one had noticed any sign of scorching or smouldering on Jacqueline's back.
Indeed, she had walked down the stairs linking arms with two friends, and they had not noticed
anything. Then the cookery lecturer, Robert Carson, swore that all the rings had been turned off an
hour before the end of the study period. 'In any case,' he told the coroner, 'in twenty years I have never
seen a catering jacket on fire.'
Next, the Home Office chemist, Philip Jones, described how he had been unable to make a
smouldering catering jacket burst into flames, even when it was exposed to a strong air-flow. The
Shirley Institute report also acknowledged that they could not get a smouldering catering jacket to
flame. If it was directly ignited the whole thing burned within twenty-five seconds. Yet all the
evidence indicated that a considerable time - several minutes - had elapsed between Jacqueline's
departure from the cookery room and the fatal conflagration on the stairs.
The jury's verdict was 'misadventure'. But few people, either among the witnesses or among those who
had attended the inquest, felt that they had heard a satisfactory explanation of why a seventeen-yearold
girl should, without warning, be consumed by fire while walking downstairs arm-in-arm with
friends one February morning.
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