But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and potentially as many as 200, depending on who you ask) were reported or described ...

Author and biology boffin Brian Ford says spontaneous human combustion (SHC) would burn you like an incendiary bomb, singing your nerves in mere seconds. Jump directly to the content.

Spontaneous human combustion has claimed the life at least one member of the nobility; Countess Cornelia Di Bandi. The Countess, who lived in the 1700s, ...

But spontaneous human combustion is real and we think we can show how it happens. Now, that feature was written by a man named Brian J. Ford. He's a biologist who researches spontaneous combustion.

She admits that the title of the talk may well have contributed to the event’s popularity: Women on Fire: Medicine, Murder, and Spontaneous Human Combustion. “By the time Le Cat made this assertion in ...

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 ...

The cause of death in these mysterious cases has, at one time or another, been reported as spontaneous human combustion—but there was often a more realistic explanation.

Spontaneous human combustion is probably not real. Yes, approximately 200 reports of such have occurred in the past 300 years. But in 1998, scientists in U.K. came up with a more plausible ...

Spontaneous human combustion has been around for 400 years and was especially common at the end of the last century. But despite advances in science, we are no closer to knowing what causes it ...

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 ...