Archive for: December 2008

Did this woman die from spontaneous human combustion or is there a more logical explanation for her death?
Phyllis Newcombe and her fiancee were leaving the dance floor of a Chelsmford, England, ballroom on the 27th. August 1938 when suddenly her …

Priests and clergyman may be particularly vulnerable to spontaneous human combustion
This clergyman apparently became a victim of human spontaneous combustion during a visit from his native England to New York City during the Victorian age.
While away from his parish in …

Some victims of human spontaneous human combustion may be in a state of unusual combustibility, as this victim appears to have been
The charred remains shown here are of ‘a slim lady, 85 years old, who was in good health’ when …