Is spontaneous human combustion real?

ive found this really strange too. But i think it has happened.. mithbusters did an episode on a farmers pants blowing up spontaneously, from a mixture of chemicals on his pants. Ive also heard of people spontaneously bleeding from their hands were the nails were put when jesus was nailed to the cross. i dont buy that at all though haha.

I don’t th….SPLAT.

No.

Fire does not behave like that. Debunked.

Wiki says it’s unproven. I don’t think it’s real. I think it is a made up topic to sell magazines like the National Enquirer etc.

@eponymoushipster Wait, I thi..

Has anyone heard of the wick effect?

SHC has been documented as happening and has many theories as to why, but none are proven.

@FiRE_MaN Stigmata is real, I have it. But it only happens in the palm, not on the back of the hand, and on the top of the feet, but not the bottom. The Doctors cannot tell me what causes it to happen every fall.

Anything can spontaneously combust if it reaches a high enough temperature… so what’s strange is where the temperature increase is coming from. (Assuming it’s real.)

You know, I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but the truth is that I spontaneously combusted the other day. I swear. It was the weirdest thing. One second I was merrily riding my bike down the street, and then, for about a second, I felt this searing pain, and then I was gone.

I can’t tell you much about the gone time. I remember the searing pain, and then nothing. I only know that I burned up because there were witnesses who claimed they saw it. There are scorch marks on my bicycle seat, too. Also the handlebar tape got a bit blackened.

You’re probably wondering how I can be writing this, if I was all burnt up. I have to tell you, I have no idea. I woke up a few mornings after I suppoesedly burned up, and there I was, in my bed, wondering how I had gotten from my bike on the street to the bed.

My wife came in from the bathroom, and my God, I have never heard such a frightening scream in my life! I bolted right up. What the hell? At first she backed away like I was the devil or something, but as soon as she calmed down, she came over, saying, “are you real? Are you real?”

I thought maybe she’d had some kind of fit. As far as I knew I was real, but then, I didn’t understand how to explain the gap in time. Maybe some kind of epileptic fit?

Anyway, to cut a long story short, she eventually decided I was real, and then a lot of people came to see me, and then they sent me to a bunch of shrinks, and then the cops wanted to talk to me, and there were a bunch of skeptics, myself amont them. But it’s a mystery. And there are those witnesses. And the scorch marks on my bike.

@daloon – Haha :P

All the spontaneous combustion cases that I have heard of usually involve the person handling something that is known to burn rapidly. Meaning that they pore gasoline on them selves light a cigarette, shove it up their bum and then wonder why they are very hot and smell bacon.

@Mtl_zack Interesting! Aaaaand, kind of disgusting.

From what I read a few years back, it is theoretically possible, though most cases of “combustion” simply involve some old fat guy with a belly full of alcohol dropping his cigarette on his lard-covered sofa while he’s fallen asleep in front of the TV. Not very spontaneous.

@DrBill wow thats really strange… its not just dry skin that cracks badly enough to bleed is it? Before it happens are your hands normal or can you feel something before it happens?

Spontaneous human combustion is not real, there is no spark of fire created inside of people that could ignite one’s internal gases.