Spontanious human combustion

[spitfire]

It’s still going strong on the politics board

 

[Helmerroids]

Gone to the same realm as Spangles and white dog poo

 

[42]

Isn't it something to do with something called the 'wick effect'?

Aye, your body fat works in a similar way to candle wax

 

[Skylon]

Still got that book with the picture in . Arthur C Clarkes Mysterious World

I've got that book. It's class. Lightning balls are scary in that book n'all

 

[BigPete]

Happens to crack heads with a dodgy lighter

 

[wschmidt]

Isn't the consensus in the scientific community that there's no such thing?

 

[errant]

It’s still going strong on the politics board

conveyor belt of subs bench posters too...

Isn't the consensus in the scientific community that there's no such thing?

no. we're sick of experts in 2024. its a fact. a gove style fact at that.

 

[SAFCOldie]

Repeating photons in the matrix would be my best guess. Very rare stuff

 

[Sneech]

It’s still going strong on the politics board

And pure football

me too dunno where it is tha. Post the pic please

Me too, if it's the same one the picture of the nun with stigmata absolutely f***ing haunted me as a bairn

 

[Jasper]

Isn't it something to do with something called the 'wick effect'?

Wicker man effect?

 

[Lord Potts]

Isn't it something to do with something called the 'wick effect'?

Yes the idea that someone can suddenly explode in to flames was debunked years ago. I think that the main reason its no heard of occuring these days due the the fact that few people have open coal fires. It was anyway a very rare event when openl fires were commonly used and it depended on a very precise set of circumstances taking place.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Yes the idea that someone can suddenly explode in to flames was debunked years ago. I think that the main reason its no heard of occuring these days due the the fact that few people have open coal fires. It was anyway a very rare event when openl fires were commonly used and it depended on a very precise set of circumstances taking place.

They had to have spilled a slow burning substance on themselves as well as knocking themselves out next to heat source iirc.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

me too dunno where it is tha. Post the pic please

Google Mary Reeser.

 

[shadowplay]

There was an apparent case of it in Whitley Bay years ago

 

[Wansbeck Viking]

Arthur C Clarke had a photo of a bont out pair of shoes

That photo proper haunted me as a bairn.

 

[turnthetide3]

Just in case I'm going to buy and carry round a 9kg dry powder extinguisher.

 

[Gobuchul]

I've got that book. It's class. Lightning balls are scary in that book n'all

I remember that book. Just ordered a s/h copy for £3.50.

The Unexplained magazine as well.

I went to Newcastle Odeon in 1981 or so, to watch a filum about all that stuff, Bermuda Triangle etc. I think it was presented by Arthur C Clarke but can't find anything on the internet?

Absolute hogwash but very entertaining.

 

[ftm1971]

Wicker man effect?

Aye that's it

Yes the idea that someone can suddenly explode in to flames was debunked years ago. I think that the main reason its no heard of occuring these days due the the fact that few people have open coal fires. It was anyway a very rare event when openl fires were commonly used and it depended on a very precise set of circumstances taking place.

Can you remember why it's usually the feet that remain?