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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.