Final Verdict on Human Combustion

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So it could have been in a GCC textbook, it could have been on rottenot com. I don't know, but I remember this image Rotten Christ. If it was in my GSC textbook, God knows why We may never know how that particular image made it onto the national curriculum, but I for one, have never forgotten it absolutely stamped onto my brain I'm going to describe it for you It's a lonely leg. that looks like So half a calf. And that's on the floor, and then there's what I now understand to be the frame of an armchair that's just metal and on the floor And there's a bit of a dark spodgy patch next to the leg and under the frame of the chair. And also a toilet and a bath in the background Who's gone armchair in the bath Wow people who set on fire for no reason Still Haunted by the possibility that I might go on fire at any moment. But I never bothered to learn who the leg owner was. todayoday, We're going to change that for all of us That famous lonely leg. belonged to sixty seven year old Mary Reesa who met a very unpleasant end Indeed On the second of july nineteen fifty one, Mary's landlady noticed that the doorknob to Mary's Floridian home unusually hot We'm not sure exactly how she discovered that, presumably through some sort of home alone reenactment situation. How's a landlady like going around checking? That's pretty nosy. Taking your thermometer and sticking it into people's doorknobs, What are you doing? Maybe she just touched it and was like, o Too much, too hot. But unlike McCally Culkin, The landlady opted not to face whatever was on the other side of the door alone, and she called the police smart Good work, landlady Now once the police arrived, they discovered Mary Reese's remains were reduced to a pile of ash All except, of course, for her lonely leg. they take too a picture of what they found The chair that Mary had presumably been sitting on was also destroyed saave again for the metal frame that you can see in this infamous picture I believe she must just have an armchair in the bathroom. Maybe it's like a commode W she an old lady, wasn't she? She's sixty seven, but she wasn't particularly mobile. So it's not unreasonable to assume that she may have just put an armchair in the bathroom for ease.ure Everything else in the house though, apart from the armchair, was totally intact. ly marry been engulfed by the bllaze How is that possible? How can a fire not have spread throughout her whole house And on top of that, no one could figure out what had caused the fire in the first place. It really seemed as if Mary been the source of the fire herself So friends, is it scientifically possible for a human body living or very recently deceased too set a light with no external source of ignition Are we all? Tranquil as a forest. with a fire within This is the sizzling shorthand When you u Google spontaneous human combustion You will be told to see also, Exploding Animal, pyrokinesis and fan death. Thank you very much, Wikipedia. I most certainly will be seeing also. Do you know about fan death? Oh that what a ceiling fan falls on you No It is a belief in South Korea and I believe in other parts of Asia If you sleep with the fan on, it will suck all of the oxygen out of the room and you willll suffocate in your sleep No, I've never heard of that before And death is taken very seriously in South Korea. Let me tell you that. But it's a place that gets hot? What are they doing? just not having fans? Is this spread by air conditioning companies? What's going on I think it is spread by Big Aircon, because it's obviously not true. But it's yeah, people won't sleep with fans on. Oh my go, I can't sleep without a fan on. It's my favorite thing. This is atrocious. So anyway Faced with the baffling puzzle of Mary Resa's passing, the FBI denied that the cause of Mary's death was spontaneous human combustion SHC, if you're nasty But it wouldn't be the very first time they were full of shit now, would it? No, Don't believe a thing the FBI say. No. Spontaneous human combustion does seem impossible, but what if it isn't Unlike our potential ancient GCSE textbooks that maybe Hannah and I are both having some sort of Mandela induc hallucination about. We are going to tell you once and for all If it is If you really could just go up in flames. Spontaneous human combustion isn't a term one can just fling around willilly nilly It's very specific. And it's used in reference to a body, a human body that has had significant portions of its middle section reduced to ashes. with less damage to the head and orower extremities and minimal damage to the environment in which the body was discovered which is exactly what had happened to Mary Resu. Those all have to be present. All of those parameters have to be present for a death to even be considered. Sure as a potential spontaneous human combust understood, understood So yes, Mary is far from the only suspected human combustor to have lived though Let's have a trickle through some others for you In nineteen seventy, eighty nine year old Margaret Hogan was found to have burned almost totally away only leaving behind her little legs And like a lot of the suspected spontaneous human combustion victims we're going to tell you about, Margaret lived on her own. So we will never for sure know what actually happened We can only tell you the state her house was in after she burned to death in it Some plastic flowers had melted on a table and so had the TV that was twelve feet from Margaret's armchair, the one that she had burned in. But the rest of her house on Prussia Street in Dublin was left totally undisturbed According to a friend who had been over the day before A small coal fire was burning at Margaret's house the previous day No connection between this fire and Margaret's death could be found An inquest didn't help either. So Margaret's cause of death was recorded as death by burning. but the source cause of the fire was listed as unknown giving oldld Marge an official mystery death I don't know how you don't connect a fire and person burned in house. Maybe there's no like trail from the fire to Margaret's body. Maybe she was really far away from it Sure, but it seems like That's quite a big Quite a big clue. Y On Christmas Eve, eighteen eighty five, the same fate befell another woman, Matilda Rooney And her husband, Patrick actually suffocated fromr the flame fumes in another room No unsuspected foul play a farmh who knew the couple well. and had spent a few hours drinking whiskey with them that night, Didn't see anything out of the ordinary The blaze stayed confined to Matilda's whiskey soaked corpse never spreading throughout the house And we've got even more examples from the annals of combustion In nineteen eighty, seventy three year old Henry Thomas's charred leg nubs and skull were discovered in his Southwalian council house Henry's feet and little legs were still clothed, but the rest of him was totally incinerated As was the chair he'd been sitting on when he burst into flames And exactly like Matilda Rooney's house, the rest of Henry's home was completely untouched by the blaze The fireplace was still lit and no flames had migrated nor were there any accelerants at the scene As far as I could find, there is only one case that has been officially certified as death by spontaneous combustion And it's surprisingly recent The death belongs to a poor bastard called Michael Flagherty who in twenty ten was elderly and he lived alone and he left almost nothing of himself behind Dr. Kiiran McGLaghlin made this statement during the inquiry into Michael's death This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion for which there is no adequate explanation Wow. Doctor Medical examiner said that, Wow. M hm. And so, the coroner wrote spontaneous human combustion on Michael's death certificate. In twenty ten. Bousers W this burnt trousers. Ta always makes me rethink what I'm reaching for in my daily wardrobe Lighter fabrics, better materials, pieces that just feel good the moment you put them on And that's why I keep coming back to Quint They focus on high quality essentials, like breathable linen, soft organic cotton, washable silk Without that luxury price tag Quint works directly with ethical factories and cuts out the middleman so you're paying for quality instead of pointless brand markups So the great news Everything at Quince is priced fiftycent to eighty percent less than similar brands. Their lightweight linen sets have been a lifesver for me in these warmer months, and with prices from just thirty two dollars for a one hundred percent European linen You honestly can't go wrong. 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Collect one of nine legendary cups with a FIFA World Cup meal. participating McDald's for un limited time whilew suppies last Allighteserve twenty six McDonald's FF Wor Cup twenty six The only damage left behind by old Michael's death were soot marks on the ceiling and the floor vertically bookkeending the exact spot he burned alive. No way Yes way twenty ten way. Oh my God Other than this confirmed one, cases like Mary Reesea, her Rd hot doorknob and all of the rest that we listed are suspected SHC cases because no source of external ignition can be identified at the scene Hence the spontaneous bit. Most of the time, the cause of the fire was listed as unknown, and in all cases after the combustion, A foul odd oily residue was left where the person's body bits once were. Paor Roowley, a fellow of the Royal Society, was the first bloke to come up with this concept person could just burst into flames with no outside help. In seventeen forty six He wrote an article called Philosophical. Tansactions All about the mysterious death. Countess Cornelia Zangaroo Bandy To whom, all of the above death descriptors, very much applied Italian noblewoman just idn't get up one day And when her maid went to check on her, she found a room full of soot, a couple of legs, a head, A pile of ashes and a layer of stinky oil. As it turned out, Bandy loved a brandy and was even known to rub camphorized brandy on her body to relieve pain. I had to look up what that means. Camphorized means like in wax. So she's like Turning brandy into like wax to like, oh go lube up with So The Point being, she's absolutely covered in fucking boos. High proof Brilli She turn us off into a fucking brandy Yankee. Yes In his article, Paul Rowley suggested that all of this booze loin and booze rubbing all over herself could have caused the Countess Cornelia to go up in flames like a Christmas pudding. And naturally, the slightest chance that that may have actually happened caught the imagination of creatives the world over, and spontaneous human combustion started showing up in fiction as well as in medical journals Most famously Dickens killed off alcoholic merchant and landlord Mr. Crook in his novel Bleak House with a case of the Combostos leaving behind a quote dark greasy coating on the walls and ceiling In later editions Dickens actually defended this death decision in a preface to the novel citing several famous cases and support of eminent physicians writing, I shall not abandon the facts, until there shall have been a considerable spontaneous combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received. Niolai Gogle and Herman Melville made use of the human combustion mystery in their works too And they too used it to expel moral judgment on fat alcoholics that no one liked The moral of Bleak House, Redburn, and Dead Souls being Don't be a chubby alcoholic, or you will burst into brandy inspired flames and die And you'll probablyper deserve it A couple of hundred years down the line There was a more medical interest In the nineteen thirty eight edition of the British Medical Journal specifically article by L. A. Perry. teended to agree in all known cases of suspected spontaneous combustion There were all of the things we know. No external ignition, hands and feet left behind. No damage to items surrounding the victim horrible Stinky, Grease, etcera. But also They were always chronic alcoholics And usually Old ladies This was explored further by scientific investigator Joe Nickeel and forensic analyst John Fisher. They spent a couple of years studying thirty historical cases of suspected spontaneous human combustion starting in seventeen twenty five, all the way up until nineteen eighty two And they published a two part report in nineteen eighty four And they found that most of the time the burned cadavers had actually been found next to plausible ignition sources like a candle or a lamp, or an entire fireplace and those details were just conveniently left out of the contemporary reports Another correlation between cases was intoxication or incapacitation of the victims, which meant that they were careless, perhaps, and then once they were in trouble, they were too fucked up to do anything sensible about it And then in cases where the victims' bodies were not too badly damaged, the fuel for the combustion usually came from clothing or a blanket or something like that and now a significant damage to the deceased body. They deduced that it was down to something cool And this is disgusting The Wick effffect In alleged SHC cases where extensive additional fuel sources were the cause upholstery, floor coverings, chair stuffing, etc Because materials like that retain melted fat So when the fat old drunk woman sets herself on fire with maybe a forgotten fagant She melts into the fabric surrounding her which is collected by the fabric raising the temperature of the fire, meaning More fat gets melted and help The low and slow circle of life means that very little damage happens to the bodies all the surroundings and the fire is contained to the body is the Wick effect. So basically Buying the wrong carpet can mean that you could die whilst becoming an actual human torch So fire, like my understanding is that most things in the natural world don't go out of their way. They'll take the path of least resistance, right? So the fire isn't spreading because it doesn't need to because the fat keeps melting. And then the fat keeps melting into the chair or the upholstery or the blanket or whatever And then it holds it there so the fire gets hotter, but melts more fat, and then that gets stuck into the chair as well. So it's all contained into the human candle and it doesn't spread to the rest of the house becausecause it doesn't need to The good news is For your fat to melt One does already have to be dead So it's not happening while you're alive. Okay, few. And a tear in the skin has to happen for the fat to run out onto the surrounding fabrics But It really does seem like that just can't happen without an external flame. According to Roger Byrard, a pathologist at the University of Adelaide The reality is that people can bust but not spontaneously If people could spontaneously burst into flames, you'd be down at Walmart and suddenly the little old lady beside you pushing the trolly would explode And that just doesn't happen So in what we perceive to be cases of spontaneous human combustion The argument is It's usually a cigarette that gets dropped Because that burns with it, there's no evidence that that will be left behind U Summer always makes me reink What I'm reaching for in my daily wardrobe Lighter fabrics, better materials, pieces that just feel good the moment you put them on And that's why I keep coming back to Quint They focus on high quality essentials, like breathable linen, soft organic cotton, washable silk Without that luxury price tag Quince works directly with ethical factories and cuts out the middleman, so you're paying for quality instead of pointless brand markups So the great news Everything at Quince is priced fifty percent to eighty percent less than similar brands Their lightweight linen sets have been a lifesver for me in these warmer months, and with prices from just thirty two dollars for one hundred percent European linen You honestly can't go wrong. 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