Archive for: May 2008

Some early pathologists theorised that spontaneous human combustion was in certain circumstances caused by the body producing gases that combusted or `caught fire’  on exposure to quantities of oxygen.
The distinguished scientist Baron …

Workmen are seen here clearing away the remains of the chair in which a suspected spontaneous human combustion victim died.
Mrs Mary Reeser, a widow of 67, …

One of the most amazing coincidences occured during World War 2 when the Allies were planning the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
Every aspect of the invasion was a …

It’s been suggested that Hitler and other high ranking Nazis were obsessed with the occult, or `black magic’, and that they were even `black magicians.’
But if this is true, …

Probably the earliest reliable report of spontaneous human combustion was reported in Verona, Italy, in the 18th. century.
According to a statement by Bianchini, a prebendary (clergyman) of Verona, dated 4 April …