Hey earthykindred, you can read a very good article on the subject by clicking on the color photo. It’s by Mark Benecke, Ph.D, and it’ll tell you everything about it. It’s not mysterious, just creepy.
I just checked out that link, and didn’t find it very satisfying at all. (1) SHC is not a matter of “if?” but “how?” I did not find anything “creepy” in the explanation, as the author basically just chalked all perceived cases up to people being reckless with matches or fireplaces.
(2) The author gives contradictory causes for the fires depicted in figures 1 and 3. At first he claims that it was concluded that she had Parkinson’s and inadvertently dropped a match on herself (while seated?). The later he states that forensics determined that her hair caught fire first, spread down to her back, then around her torso and down. Now, I’m no detective, but how does one “drop” a match, subsequently igniting their hair?
Hey Shane. Good comments. I personally find Benecke’s explanation satisfactory. Still, to burn to a crisp, leaving nothing but a foot in a slipper? That’s creepy no matter how you slice it. The families involved must hate the topic.
The one seated leaves a lot to wonder about. even if the hair had ignited somehow there is a lot of the body missing. if turned to ash then where is all the rest of the ash? also as a firefighter I have seen many people incinerated and can tell you that bone does not turn to ash under normal fire conditions. If the hair had ignited and caused all this damage then the body would have to had been wrapped in phosphorus or magnesium to create enough heat to char bone. but in doing so the entire room would have been charred as well. But still there would have been enough ash to cover the area the body burned at. or would be covering all the items in the room if perhaps a window had been open and a breeze had blown the ash around.
It’s not hard to imagine a “high frequency” object (human body) filled with “fat” to reach the burning temperatures of a “super candle.” Change the “oscillation rate” (vibratory rate) of the object and add a little pork for dinner, and “poof” you are gone. (pfft, -Buck Owens, Hee Haw) Don’t set up camp near a microwave tower, either.
So in theory, each case has a logical explanation and stops bein (Spontaneous), either a cigarrete, a fireplace, burning ashes, matches etc? does anyone have a theory that gives me a second thought about this rare events, I mean, isnt weard enough that most of the victims burned and only the legs or a leg was left for starters…?
It is possible for a human to spontanously combust but they would have to be intoduced to tens or hundreds of degrees and by then they would have been cooked to death first
I would like to know how this happens…
Hey earthykindred, you can read a very good article on the subject by clicking on the color photo. It’s by Mark Benecke, Ph.D, and it’ll tell you everything about it. It’s not mysterious, just creepy.
Ok thanx! I’ll have to check it out..
I just checked out that link, and didn’t find it very satisfying at all. (1) SHC is not a matter of “if?” but “how?” I did not find anything “creepy” in the explanation, as the author basically just chalked all perceived cases up to people being reckless with matches or fireplaces.
(2) The author gives contradictory causes for the fires depicted in figures 1 and 3. At first he claims that it was concluded that she had Parkinson’s and inadvertently dropped a match on herself (while seated?). The later he states that forensics determined that her hair caught fire first, spread down to her back, then around her torso and down. Now, I’m no detective, but how does one “drop” a match, subsequently igniting their hair?
Hey Shane. Good comments. I personally find Benecke’s explanation satisfactory. Still, to burn to a crisp, leaving nothing but a foot in a slipper? That’s creepy no matter how you slice it. The families involved must hate the topic.
My name is Jeremiah Bentley and I am looking for anny info. on my great grandfather Dr. John Irvin Bentley died December 6, 1966 in pennsylvania.
Well, there’s Wikipedia, which you probably already know. There’s a nice article in the Endeavor News. After that, I don’t know.
The one seated leaves a lot to wonder about. even if the hair had ignited somehow there is a lot of the body missing. if turned to ash then where is all the rest of the ash? also as a firefighter I have seen many people incinerated and can tell you that bone does not turn to ash under normal fire conditions. If the hair had ignited and caused all this damage then the body would have to had been wrapped in phosphorus or magnesium to create enough heat to char bone. but in doing so the entire room would have been charred as well. But still there would have been enough ash to cover the area the body burned at. or would be covering all the items in the room if perhaps a window had been open and a breeze had blown the ash around.
my mistake, I forgot to state that I was referring to the bathroom picture or number three if you please. Please append to my recent post.
notice how half of them are next to or near a fire?..dumb asses if you ask me!!
It’s not hard to imagine a “high frequency” object (human body) filled with “fat” to reach the burning temperatures of a “super candle.” Change the “oscillation rate” (vibratory rate) of the object and add a little pork for dinner, and “poof” you are gone. (pfft, -Buck Owens, Hee Haw) Don’t set up camp near a microwave tower, either.
So in theory, each case has a logical explanation and stops bein (Spontaneous), either a cigarrete, a fireplace, burning ashes, matches etc? does anyone have a theory that gives me a second thought about this rare events, I mean, isnt weard enough that most of the victims burned and only the legs or a leg was left for starters…?
If you’ve already read the link found in the color photo above, then you might try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGYGrpab7s
It’s a link to an episode of The Unexplained, a TV show dedicated to mysteries.
It is possible for a human to spontanously combust but they would have to be intoduced to tens or hundreds of degrees and by then they would have been cooked to death first