
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The History of Human Combustion
In 17 forty five, an article was published in the. philosophical transactions of london, england, written by mister paul roley,. which presented three unusual deaths by fire. Most commonly in these cases, the torsos are destroyed, but outer limbs are not. So how will we proceed to investigate this mystery? Since most of the reported cases are very similar, i don't want to tell you a whole set of disturbing stories that are substantially the same. Instead, the real meat of the mystery is what might possibly explain these cases. So we'll turn to the possible explanations and start evaluating them.
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Transcript

Every so often, there are reports of people bursting into flames for no apparent reason, reducing most of their body to ashes, but with little or no fire damage around them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what we should make of these reports of spontaneous human combustion and what could be causing them.
