But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and ...

Some people say that spontaneous human combustion is just a regular fire that people can’t be bothered to find the cause for, that could have been avoided through basic fire safety. Others say ...

Spontaneous human combustion is a situation when a human body is found with significant portions of the middle parts of the body reduced to ashes, much less damage to the head and extremities ...

The inconclusive circumstances of her demise led Rolli to an unusual diagnosis: spontaneous human combustion, the first such case in scientific literature. Many investigators have since examined ...

A character in Charles Dickens' Bleak House burns to death without any apparent reason. Human spontaneous combustion is a belief which has been around for centuries but does it really exist? Viewers ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.