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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
What Happens When a Person's Body Catches Fire?
01:48 • 2min
Missus Reezer's Apartment Burned to the Ground
03:23 • 3min
The Earliest Reports of Spontaneous Human Combustion?
06:53 • 2min
The History of Human Combustion
08:46 • 4min
Join the StarQuest Patrons and Help Us Continue Jimmy's Mysterious World
12:26 • 2min
Is There a Supernatural Cause for Ontaneous Human Combustion?
14:11 • 2min
Is It Created Spirits That Cause This?
15:57 • 3min
What Can We Say About Spontaneous Human Combustion?
18:47 • 2min
What Is the Normal Explanation of Fire?
20:38 • 2min
The Fuel Source of Human Combustion
22:34 • 3min
Do You Qualify for Driving Under the Influence?
25:45 • 2min
How Does One Proof Water Compare to Actual Alcoholic Beverages?
27:23 • 2min
What Is Burning?
29:22 • 2min
Why Is It Important That People's Clothing Catch Fire?
31:35 • 2min
The 'Candle Effect'
33:24 • 2min
Why People Burn to Death
34:55 • 2min
Is Asitone Inflammable?
36:37 • 3min
Is Asitone a Cause of Human Combustion?
39:11 • 2min
Is Smoking a Cause of Suicide?
41:23 • 5min
Is There Evidence for More Exotic Causes of Inflammation?
46:37 • 2min
The Sub Atomic Particle That Starts Fires in Human Tissue
49:06 • 2min
Is Norepinefrin a Mass Cell Mediator?
50:42 • 3min
A New Theory of Human Combustion Explained by John Emsley
53:54 • 2min
Mary Reezer's Shrunken Skull
55:31 • 4min
What's the Best Source of Evidence on the Problem of Human Combustion?
59:02 • 2min
What Causes the Zodiacal Light?
01:01:03 • 3min
Jimmy Aken's Mysterious World on Star Quest
01:04:12 • 2min



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.