Seems like it made the news with some regularity for awhile back in the day and then dropped off the radar. Was it an urban legend?? Medical phenom with no explanation??
2007-08-19 15:38:16 · 12 answers · asked by landlocked 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
They decided that it was a "wicking" effect that burnt the people very slowly like a candle. google it.
2007-08-19 15:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It shows up in the tabloids every now and then, along with sightings of elderly Elvis and a 200 lb baby born to 80 year old mom. Just the usual BS.
2007-08-19 22:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't heard about it since the 1950s. A farmer near my home town spontaneously combusted. Major mystery at the time. Speculation he'd been lightning struck.
I think it was a one-time event, doubt seriously it's ever happened to anyone since. But they did describe it as spontaneous combustion, and several witnesses observed it.
2007-08-19 22:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I asked the same question of some friends in the media. They answer they gave me was, "There's no answers so there's no point in broadcasting mysteries we can't answer. Anyway, a lot of audience wrote in saying we were faking it and a few said the media was burning dead bodies for money and they would go to hell for it."
Stupid and dumb, but that's why the media is what it is nowadays.
2007-08-19 22:52:27 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, while it's not S.C. of a person, there was security video on CNN last week about a play ground that spontaneously went up in flames.
2007-08-19 23:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by beeze 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you see the playground in Texas that spontaneously combusted?
http://kutv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_226124519.html
Video surveillance shows the whole thing. If the conditions are right, it can happen; with playgrounds or maybe even with humans.
2007-08-19 23:42:34 · answer #6 · answered by Mark G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember seeing a special about it and it was very interesting! Nothing was burned except the body itself......and it was pretty much dust!
2007-08-19 22:45:34 · answer #7 · answered by ~MEEEOW~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess after the Fantastic Four movie, it was "old news".
2007-08-20 09:08:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To many other headlines for something like this to make it.
2007-08-20 04:35:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It went up in smoke.
2007-08-20 00:20:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋