Spontaneous combustion ... fact or fiction?

Question

I just ran across this, while surfin' ... please tell me this isn't fact, omg ... scary sh!t!!

Answer 1

Fact,..but i saw in discovery channel,...nobodt can prove it ,by intentionally burning some meat/fat.However,..its possible happening to any body under specialcircumstances.

Answer 2

Fiction. The physique is in basic terms too moist to burn spontaneously. you like an accelerant of a few type to make it burn - maximum situations of spontaneous human combustion have been shown that some thing else has brought about the preliminary conflagration.

Answer 3

Fact

Answer 4

The band Spinal Tap had a problem with drummers and spontaneous human combustion

Answer 5

It appears as though some people's chemistry adds up to extremely high tempature when it is subject to some sort of change in balance or composition.Many cases show the extreme heat to be quite localized.Fire itself is nothing more than a chemical reaction.

Answer 6

So far as everything I've read about it, it is fictionalized. That is, there are people who appear to have spontaneously combusted, but there is always a logical explanation to why it *really* happened.

Answer 7

I've read it too. Something like Firestarter. But that person would like to have microwaves coming out of him. Then he/she/it makes the particles of anything move faster and catch fire.

Answer 8

Fact. Believe it. Be careful, in the areas that they say.

Answer 9

It appears to be quite factual, though the jury is still out as to the exact cause.

Answer 10

Don't know, but read about the exploding trousers here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_trousers

Full text of report -

http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525%2Fah.2004.78.3.346

It's true!


(Later...)
Spooky, you've got 13 answers to this!!!!!