home in December 2010, may have spontaneously combusted. Also, there may have been cases in which the eyewitness accounts were tainted. Because fires normally burn upward instead of outward, there is nothing paranormal or strange about finding a victim in one part of a room burned to death while the rest of the room has little more than smoke damage. For well over a century, some have claimed that people can suddenly and inexplicably explode into a ball of fire. The father and son-in-law stated the flames were around her face and hand and it may have lasted a minute. Some claim that burning often seems to begin in the chest or stomach area, leaving the grisly remains of legs and hands intact. The room the person was in did not show any signs of a fire, and there is often a sweet, smoky smell present. Though there is no scientific evidence that SHC exists, now and then a case makes the news when officials cannot find another explanation. In the 1970s, a quasi-Freudian explanation came into vogue suggesting that a person's depressive emotional states could somehow cause him or her to become enflamed. Petersburg, Florida in 1951 became a victim of SHC. ( please feel free to write your own thesis topic, or help me correct mine) (all suggestions appreciated) Thanks a bunch!

"In Germany the common people had great faith in liquid manure as a preventive for spontaneous combustion." (Bondeson 7). Nikolai Gogol employed this mode of death for characters in several of his novels, including.

A woman in Paris was consumed by fire and smoke while she was sleeping but her mattress was untouched. Yet all these explanations are pseudoscientific, and there is no evidence for any of them. Why wouldn't cows, dogs, elephants, birds or other animals suddenly, randomly and inexplicably explode in a ball of flames now and then? Also, like Conway, the chair she died in was virtually burned away, while the rest of her apartment suffered little or no damage. "Jimmy Finn was not burned in a calaboose, but died a natural death in a vat of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion." "d in Cohen 192). The phenomenon is called spontaneous human combustion (SHC and it has been described in many popular books on mysteries and the unexplained. But it's a whole different matter to claim that people can suddenly burst into flames for no apparent reason.

Essays about spontanious human combustion