Last month, a barn near rural Jackson, Michigan, caught fire in a suspected spontaneous combustion. The culprit is wet hay, which is counterintuitive if you don’t know much about the underlying ...

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, and ...

Many investigators have since examined the phenomenon and gathered that spontaneous human combustion is simply pseudoscience. Often, a more mundane but no less tragic explanation of the victim’s ...

Dickens is unequivocal in ascribing the death to spontaneous human combustion (SHC), the alleged burning of a person's body with no identifiable source of ignition. "It is the same death eternally - ...

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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.

The first known case of spontaneous human combustion happened in the late 14th century in Italy, when a knight drank wine one night before bursting into flames, ...