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

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.

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 ...

That set our curiosity ablaze: what is combustion, anyway? How is it different from ignition, which can also be spontaneous? And what about . . . human spontaneous combustion? First, a quick note ...

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.