Spontaneous Human Combustion

monster • Sep 29, 2011 2:25 pm
Not just for your tales from the paranormal TV show -an official cause of death ruled in Ireland recently

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20112379-10391704.html
DanaC • Sep 29, 2011 2:33 pm
*chuckles* I like this bit from the guy who's been investigating this stuff:

"To say that we don't know what the cause of the fire was but its' spontaneous human combustion," Nickell opined, "Why don't we say it was a ghost playing with matches?"
Sundae • Sep 29, 2011 2:39 pm
Snicker.
Chalk it up to another thing I don't believe in.

Monnie and I can have it on our TV show.
classicman • Sep 29, 2011 3:18 pm
Google it. There are some cool pics.
DanaC • Sep 29, 2011 3:21 pm
Don't need to thanks. Know all aout the old SHC. We had the complete set of 'The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space, & Time' magazines when I was a kid. I had a morbid fear of spontaneous human combustion.
Trilby • Sep 29, 2011 3:23 pm
It's Yeti.

Yeti sneaks into your grandmaw's house and sets her alight (she's usually sitting in her big, chintz-covered easy chair, eating candy and watching The Price is Right) steals her twix and then hot-foots it out of there. There's never any forensic evidence because Yeti is that good.
DanaC • Sep 29, 2011 3:24 pm
Yetis, using crystal skulls.
Trilby • Sep 29, 2011 3:28 pm
DanaC;759461 wrote:
Yetis, using crystal skulls.


HA! Yes! Yetis, using crystal skulls and triangulating grandmaw's position with floating orbs.
DanaC • Sep 29, 2011 3:41 pm
Damn straight. And they call us crazy.
footfootfoot • Sep 29, 2011 3:44 pm
Laugh all you want, it almost happened to a friend of mine.
Sundae • Sep 29, 2011 3:45 pm
Awwww, I missed out!
The only stories Nanny told about human combustion were from The Blitz.

I want Yetis and spectral locomotives rocketing past the farm and all that stuff.
I had a deprived childhood :(
Perry Winkle • Sep 29, 2011 3:46 pm
At least it's not an undead Nazi ninja Yeti.
DanaC • Sep 29, 2011 3:46 pm
Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.
Perry Winkle • Sep 29, 2011 3:55 pm
DanaC;759484 wrote:
Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.


I had one in my closet. He phoned home along ago.
BigV • Sep 29, 2011 4:53 pm
Perry Winkle;759483 wrote:
At least it's not an undead Nazi ninja Yeti.


I've seen that movie. Heck, I own that movie. It's one of our decadent favorites.
limey • Sep 29, 2011 5:39 pm
In this most recent case, Retired professor of pathology Mike Green said "he doubted explanations centred on divine intervention.

'I think if the heavens were striking in cases of spontaneous combustion then there would be a lot more cases. I go for the practical, the mundane explanation,' he said."
Trilby • Sep 29, 2011 5:42 pm
Sundae;759482 wrote:
I had a deprived childhood :(


Depraved childhood, darling, depraved.
HungLikeJesus • Sep 29, 2011 6:40 pm
footfootfoot;759481 wrote:
Laugh all you want, it almost happened to a friend of mine.


Which part?
ZenGum • Sep 29, 2011 9:39 pm
Come on, cellar.

You insensitive bastards, my grandmother spontaneously combusted on 9/11.


What, no recipe?
HungLikeJesus • Sep 29, 2011 10:10 pm
I've heard that spontaneous combustion is primarily due to people not using shampoo.
HungLikeJesus • Sep 29, 2011 10:11 pm
ZenGum;759561 wrote:
Come on, cellar.

You insensitive bastards, my grandmother spontaneously combusted on 9/11.


What, no recipe?


Meals - Ready to Eat.
Pete Zicato • Sep 29, 2011 11:18 pm
HungLikeJesus;759569 wrote:
I've heard that spontaneous combustion is primarily due to people not using shampoo.

Made me laugh.
ZenGum • Sep 29, 2011 11:42 pm
I guess the oil could build up and then you think too hard and your brain overheats and WHOOF!!!