i think i have an explanantion on "spontanious" combustion , and its RF radiation (radio frequency radiation) , coz 4 watts of 1 ghz frequency could fry you like a chicken and make 3rd degree burns so maybe someone with a pretty powerfull emitter like maybe 6 ghz and alot of power on it maybe like 100watts could have emitted the radiation on the combusted person , and that would fry the person but not hte furniture or surroundings , just like a microwave oven cooks dinner .

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-alvin-

Hmm, interesting concept. So are you saying someone is going around with some sort of transmitter killing all these people?

Or are you just saying that transmissions have somehow caused the Spontaneous Combustion effect?

It sounds logical, really, but we didn't really have RF a couple of hundred years ago did we? People have been spontaneously combusting for quite a few hundred years.

It's an interesting theory, like I said, but I think it has a few loopholes.

EDIT: Just thought of something...

Keeping alone the same lines as a frequency, since everything in this world has some sort of vibration or sound (I like vibration better); there does appear to be the possibility that some vibration on another level eminating into this level (world, realm, whichever)... or even from the earth itself... could cause the spontaneous combustion itself.

That would also explain why they haven't figured out what it is just yet, because it's based on phenomenon that most scientists tend not to follow, it's shrouded in history, one of the mysteries of the world.

i donno, i heard that spontaneous combustion is a load of crap and has never actually happened to anybody. i don't remember where i heard that though.

Yeah it might be total crap , i havent heard alot about it , i only saw a documentary on the discovery channel on it once , it showed pcitures of burned people and surprisingly everything around is intact even cloth , wood , tissues ... it m ight be one of those other myths that re untrue and that wait to be busted by the myth busters

-alvin-

I think its totally true! In fact I heard from a friend of a friend...
sorry couldnt help myself.

I dont think its actually real, but seeing someone just explode would be kinda awesome. It would suck for them, though.

I tend to think it can happen. There are a million and one things that scientists don't know about the human brain/body combination. It's totally possible for it to happen, many things go on that they cannot explain, maybe we have some sort of self-destruct thingy going on heh..

Or maybe the people who combust are actually alien drones?

Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 Yeah it might be total crap , i havent heard alot about it , i only saw a documentary on the discovery channel on it once , it showed pcitures of burned people and surprisingly everything around is intact even cloth , wood , tissues ... it m ight be one of those other myths that re untrue and that wait to be busted by the myth busters -alvin-

So far, the most likely explanation for spontaneous combustion is that it's not, in fact, spontaneous... instead a small portion of the person catches fire, and the fire spreads to fatty tissue rather than clothes, hair, and such... which burn more quickly but not as hot as fat would. The person's fat then burns slowly and very hot, like a candle.

Support for this explanation is that people who are claimed to have spontaneously combusted are often overweight (more fat to burn away), intoxicated, comatose, or otherwise unconsious (when they catch on fire, they don't flail around and spread the flame to clothes and hair), and they are often found in bathrooms or other rooms with tile, concrete, or linoleum floors (no place for the fire to spread, so it stops when the body is consumed.)

However, there have been lots of cases that fit outside this theory, particularly cases where the body burned in an area where the fire almost certainly should have spread- in beds, chairs, on wood floors and so on.

(Why yes, I have done too much research on this...O_o)

I heard a rumor one time that is was a matter of static that had built up in humans over the years and that is was rare on account that many people can just defuse said eletricity from they'e body but touching metal. But it was something along the lines of feeding upon the eletrical implus' within the brain and heart.

Has anyone else heard this one before? Curious.

One of the more bizarre photos depicting how it can just consume a body and nothing around it.


Kind of hard to see, but yes those are calves and feet...where the rest of them went is anyone's guess.

Posted by HauntedPA One of the more bizarre photos depicting how it can just consume a body and nothing around it. Kind of hard to see, but yes those are calves and feet...where the rest of them went is anyone's guess.

I remember seeing that specific photo on a documentary about SC.

It was rather interesting. This old woman in the pic above burst into flames not harming a single thing around her. How nasty would that be to walk in and find only a pair of calves left.

Posted by HauntedPA One of the more bizarre photos depicting how it can just consume a body and nothing around it. Kind of hard to see, but yes those are calves and feet...where the rest of them went is anyone's guess.

Isn't that a fireplace she fell into?

Posted by Slickis Isn't that a fireplace she fell into?

Interesting...it does look like a fireplace. Too bad there's not a better quality shot of it out there.

Posted by HauntedPA Interesting...it does look like a fireplace. Too bad there's not a better quality shot of it out there.

If I remember the story correctly, that is a fireplace, but it had nothing to do with it. There were no smoldering fires, nothing was left burning, and the ashes were only human remains (with clothing of course).

Posted by wingedkamui So far, the most likely explanation for spontaneous combustion is that it's not, in fact, spontaneous... instead a small portion of the person catches fire, and the fire spreads to fatty tissue rather than clothes, hair, and such... which burn more quickly but not as hot as fat would. The person's fat then burns slowly and very hot, like a candle. Support for this explanation is that people who are claimed to have spontaneously combusted are often overweight (more fat to burn away), intoxicated, comatose, or otherwise unconsious (when they catch on fire, they don't flail around and spread the flame to clothes and hair), and they are often found in bathrooms or other rooms with tile, concrete, or linoleum floors (no place for the fire to spread, so it stops when the body is consumed.) However, there have been lots of cases that fit outside this theory, particularly cases where the body burned in an area where the fire almost certainly should have spread- in beds, chairs, on wood floors and so on. (Why yes, I have done too much research on this...O_o)

And for the ones who were in the living room or bedroom? I heard on the documentary that the small fire caused by a cigarette or other external ignition source would consume its supply of oxygen and die down before it has a chance to burn the surrounding area. It loses enough heat so that when the door is opened for that famous gulp of air, there's not enough heat to re-ignite. That would make it look like the person ignited spontaneously, burnt away completely and left the surrounding area intact.

Might be an interesting thing to turn in to Mythbusters, but how would they test it? I don't think too many people would volunteer for a research project that might make them spontaneously burst into flame.

Posted by Watcher Might be an interesting thing to turn in to Mythbusters, but how would they test it? I don't think too many people would volunteer for a research project that might make them spontaneously burst into flame.

Hmmm, That's an awesome idea.

Posted by Watcher I don't think too many people would volunteer for a research project that might make them spontaneously burst into flame.

I'm sure Buster will be up for it.

Oops... already been done, or at least Presented as an idea, see here:

http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=6941912904&f=9701967776&m=148109254