Spontaneous Human Combustion

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

*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?"

Snicker.
Chalk it up to another thing I don't believe in.

Monnie and I can have it on our TV show.

Google it. There are some cool pics.

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.

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.

Yetis, using crystal skulls.

DanaC;759461 wrote:

Yetis, using crystal skulls.

HA! Yes! Yetis, using crystal skulls and triangulating grandmaw's position with floating orbs.

Damn straight. And they call us crazy.

Laugh all you want, it almost happened to a friend of mine.

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 :(

At least it's not an undead Nazi ninja Yeti.

Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.

DanaC;759484 wrote:

Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.

I had one in my closet. He phoned home along ago.

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.

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."

Sundae;759482 wrote:

I had a deprived childhood :(

Depraved childhood, darling, depraved.

footfootfoot;759481 wrote:

Laugh all you want, it almost happened to a friend of mine.

Which part?

Come on, cellar.

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


What, no recipe?

I've heard that spontaneous combustion is primarily due to people not using shampoo.

ZenGum;759561 wrote:

Come on, cellar.

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


What, no recipe?

Meals - Ready to Eat.

HungLikeJesus;759569 wrote:

I've heard that spontaneous combustion is primarily due to people not using shampoo.

Made me laugh.

I guess the oil could build up and then you think too hard and your brain overheats and WHOOF!!!