In 2010, Michael Faherty burned to death on his living room floor in Ireland from what the Irish Independent reported was spontaneous human combustion. The 76-year-old man’s case was one of the ...

Scientifically speaking, spontaneous combustion is a real phenomenon, and not just a plot device in novels. CREDIT: Jose A. Bernat Bacete via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

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 - ...

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.

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