People Keep Catching On Fire And We Don't Know Why
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I had a real phobia of this as a child after finding it in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not book, to the point I had practice runs from my bed to the bathtub so I could put myself out if I ever woke up to find myself on fire.
A sprinkler system for your baloon-knot area may have set your mind at ease.
@@TenFalconsMusic my...what?
I think I read that same book and was weirded out by Spontaneous Human Combustion as well. I never took it so far as to practice bathtub drills, though.
@@prepper_nation_h Qq1
Mid 50's and read a very similar book found at a book fair. Terrifying to an 8-10 year old. Where was all the censorship todays kids enjoy. Kidding, I'm glad to have learned from mistakes, which is a downfall of todays kids.
Diabetic ketoacidosis (which is basically extreme ketosis that leads to a build up of ketones) is more likely. Unlike ketosis, ketoacidosis is not super common - it’s a medical emergency. And since ketoacidosis often leads to coma and death without immediate treatment, that could explain why these people are incapacitated.
More importantly, one of the main symptoms of ketoacidosis is, in fact, “acetone breath.” Fits pretty damn well!
Thank you Sherlock ❤❤
Supercalifragalisticexpealidocious is the obvious.
Although it's quite precocious.
Plus when you die you release gas..... those farts would fuel the fire
Sounds legit enough. Youd figure the man who did the acetone burning experiment would have came across this. Or this would have easily led to them investigating the medical conditions of these people who combusted. But they didn't. Strange.
I used to have a huge phobia of this when I was a kid, I was genuinely scared this would happen to me
I mean, if it happens it happens, it's sudden and out of our control. May as well not fear it and just embrace it.
It still can friend
For what it's worth I consciously lived with this fear for two decades or more. As a teenager my metabolism was so sped up and I suffered from insomnia terribly. I never needed coffee or Mountain Dew. I would say I was "naturally sped up". But, I was also a victim of every type of abuse imaginable since infancy and that probably played a big factor. Although at that time I never put it together, I was just concentrating on surviving. It always felt as if I was going to burst into flames at any time. My skin was always hot and my B.P. was thumping fast. I couldn't shut off my brain. My thoughts were rapid and broad. Sounds crazy but I'm not. After graduating I worked and always complained to my folks that I work hard all day and can't sleep all night. My dad said, "Nobody ever died from lack of sleep". That condition permeated my very existence. Continuosly. For decades. Sometime maybe ten years ago it leveled off. I could finally sleep peacefully. I could finally get tired and yawn and pass out. You just don't know how good that feels after a life of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Your dad kinda sounds like a jerk. You can absolutely die from a lack of sleep. Look up Fatal Familial Insomnia.
But even without that particular rare condition, if you go without sleep for long enough, theoretically, you will die. I’m not sure if it’s actually physically possible, because after a certain amount of time, your body forces you into what’s called “micro sleeps”, short, unrestful, unconscious naps that you fall into without realizing it when you’re sleep deprived. It’s your brain’s way of rebelling against the damage that that you’re doing to it by not sleeping. A self-preservation mechanism, essentially.
@@dewilew2137 He's been dead for thirty years.
❤🙏❤sounds like a thyroid issue
Sounds like mania to me. I deal with it myself. You feel like a superhero until the depression kicks in. Luckily I only suffer the depression stages in the winter months until all the holidays are over. Sorry about your trauma. I deal with PTSD as well. You are not alone. You are important. And Jesus loves you.
Hypomania.
The main thing I took away from this was: To save the family money on cremation, try to enter an extreme ketosis state right before I kick it to maximize the levels of acetone in my tissue - that way they can just light the fuse with a $2 BIC lighter and get it all done in the backyard instead of thousand dollar crematoriums
for real
Underrated pro tip. I don't have diabetes yet, but I'm double fisting Coke rn so it shouldn't be long.
Maybe you'll be lucky enough to not splurge on the $2 lighter😮
Or just pour nail polish remover all over the dead body and light that sucker up!
We love a diy hack
One thing still remains. Even with acetone and extreme flammability, you still haven't explained the bones being consumed. Like you said, even in a crematorium, 90 minutes and the bones are still there. Also remember that the house doesn't burn down, the chair is damaged but not gone, and nothing that is just a few feet away is destroyed.
Thank you!! I left a comment pointing out this exact hole in all the theories. I’m still waiting for anyone to offer any kind of explanation for this!
bones are actually flammable!
however; they need to be brought to a high temperature first, and have direct contact with fire (typically, anyways) in order to catch fire, an example of this is chucking say, a deer skull (as an example, not exclusive to skulls.) into a bonfire. This skull will eventually be lit on fire, and if you have enough bones you can fuel a fire with it. The reason they don't burn in a crematorium is either A, its not hot enough or B, it's not close enough to fire. (I'm not a crematorium expert but I believe they are like really big ovens) likely the answer is b, as a crematorium is 1000 degrees (Celsius) as the video said, which is noticeably more than a campfire's temperature of ~820-900 degrees Celsius, with a general maximum temperature of ~1100 degrees Celsius. so most likely, it requires direct contact with fire, typically to ignite bones.
or they just don't have bones idk, not an expert on burning human corpses. :)
Why not? On 9/11 tons of Steel Was melted with only Kerosin! And if my friend smoke his bong, all what's left behind is also only Ash and some strange oily res...
It's a strange world out there.. 😏
What if acetone has time to fill all the bores and hollow parts in bones? So it's not just acetonic fats burning around the bones but the bones themselves getting hot enough if not completely burn, at least disfigure or melt so it seems like even the bones were burnt away? I don't know if adding fuel fixes this mystery.
@@MrDUneven Why is it that chair or sometimes even the Bed still in good condition?
I was first introduced to spontaneous human combustion in a horror story book I checked out of my school library when I was 8 (I think it was scary stories to tell in the dark but I don't remember). After I initially read the story, I wanted to sleep in a tub full of water and was very upset that my mother refused.
It's been almost 40 years since I checked that book out, and I'm still terrified of succumbing to this.
I saw it on Unsolved Miseries
I love how Thoughty 2 builds it up , and then in great detail , breaks it down .... Very awesome channel
It's because we hold in our farts. Randy Marsh proved this
bro you never heard of randy marsh?
Lolol he is making. South Park reference.
Randy marsh is an idiot
Although, I do believe holding in your farts is bad for you
@@hyperchord Randy marsh is a world renowned geologist
Oh yeah! 'Farty' Marsh to his friends!
😂🤣 the south park reference
Along with quicksand, I was led to believe, as a child, that this would be a much more common, and serious issue. You don't really hear about it that often anymore, though.
The reason this doesn't happen anymore is because forensics have advanced to the point where you can't fake this anymore. You're welcome.
I would add to these, getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
@@slartybartfast6526 oh hell yeah
The whole stop drop and roll thing had me terrified as a kid. I thought people would just burst into flame based on the number of posters in my school with screaming cartoon kids on fire....
@@slartybartfast6526 also people swinging on chandeliers
There have been a handful of people who survived this. One man had a flame come out of his leg a few times and he lived just fine.
I was tripping on LSD once in a room with two other people who were talking to each other. I was sitting there quietly, feeling weird and alone, when the thought that spontaneous combustion is a real thing entered my mind, and I began to laugh so hard that I couldn't breathe. That is pretty much the whole story....it was weird.
If you'd like to spice that up a bit for your friends, you can tell them that I laughed so hard that I burst into flames lol.
In the early 1970s, the hospital that my mom worked at had a patient suddenly combusted in a hospital bed! Died instantly and burned the bed to dust, but didn't spread. It was weird, and never solved. Scared us to death!
for real, your mum actually saw this? was it covered on the news? where did it happen? Im not questioning your honesty, I just want to know more. thanks
@@martinmorrissey5647 No. don't believe everything you see on the internet. "Scared US to death". Like she would be at work with her mother when it happened lol. Don't be a sucker.
@@martinmorrissey5647
My mom worked in admitting patients into the hospital so she only went into patients room to admit them if it was an emergency or there were things to be signed off on, I dont think she saw any of it, but I did see a photo of the burned out bed in the Palo Alto times. Mom told me it was confounding everyone how it could have happened and they kind of locked down and told everyone to keep quiet, which I think they did, because the whole town was built around Stanford hospital and university so you didn't want to piss them off! Mom said it was spontaneous combustion because the woman went up like a torch and just the bed, it would have spread because it was so hot, but didn't. Stanford did have automatic hallway doors that slammed shut if there was a fire or earthquake. I was there during a small quake once, and all these huge hallway doors started slamming shut. It was creepy! I wish I knew more, it might be on Google, not sure. I'm going to try and find it...
@@Saxxin1
I was at the hospital every day after school, since I walked there from Palo Alto HS to the hospital and my mom got off at 4 pm and we'd go to the store after or go to the mall and then go home. I used to sit in the lobby and do homework till she was ready to go. Neither of us saw the woman, because they'd never let you check out a room that was possibly a crime scene, etc. It would be locked. I did see a photo of the burned up bed, but of course not the woman. Do not disbelieve everything' you come across. It's just as foolish as believing everything you see. I'm just talking about an incident that happened where my mom worked. Why would you find that so incredible? Yes, it's a crazy incident but I saw and heard a lot of crazy stuff that actually happened there. I cannot believe the stuff I used to hear of in the nurses lounge, they'd forget I was there and really spill the gossip, you have no idea!!! Nurses have seen it all!!
@@Saxxin1 well I think they meant the concept scared them to death. Still sceptical though
I am a smoker, and have known a few people, and read about hundreds of others, who smoke in bed...then die in house fires.
For this reason, I don't smoke tired, and I never smoke in bed. Simple to avoid really lol.
I live in 2024 and my bed is flame retardant .
So I smoke in it .
Just ask the ladies
I can always count on Thoughty2 to give me a phobia of circumstances I would've otherwise never considered.
My great grandmother gave me a book on human oddities, written in the early 1900s.
It included a chapter on spontaneous human combustion cases.
In every case, the fire only affected the immediate area of the victim.
Even their bones were incinerated.
For that to occur, the fire would have to burn for days, at very low heat, or a few minutes, at extremely high heat, and extinguish itself immediately.
People can throw ideas of how they reason with the science of it.
But, I don't see any that can prove that sometimes, it just happens.
My Aunt Carol burst into flames back in 1984! True! In her recliner chair, She didn't drink alcohol, she didn't smoke cigarettes!
Just burst into flames! 90% was gone in ash, just like here only her feet we're left! Only had a cup of tea on her table with a lamp on it...crazy nuts!
I’m so sorry about your aunt! It’s a crazy phenomena…I’m thinking perhaps it has something to do with physics that humans don’t yet understand, though I know most people would probably call me crazy for that loose theory…our universe is so vast and wild though.
What a load of a Granny Ash.
I first heard about this as a very young child. Don't remember where I heard about it just that I was probably five or six. That's a pretty impressionable age. I spent YEARS terrified I was just going to burst into flames to the extent of severed panic attacks over it. Thank goodness it got better as I got older and was able to understand more scientific things.
I remember a TV show back like in the 1980s discussing this issue. One strange thing was that there was a guy on the show that claimed he was sitting around the house and his arm suddenly combusted. From what I recall, he got the fire out, but did have severe burns. I don't recall him being a senior/elderly person. The show might have been "In Search Of" with Leonard Nemoy.
i remembered that one as well
I have watched you since WAY back now (my husband died week before last and I’ve been reminiscing) him and I, being a gay couple… we sorta turned the CZcamsrs that we constantly watched our family because you all were there with through so much … and I find myself wanting to say something only realizing you have no idea who we are …. So now I’m sitting here on my birthday and I needed something to occupy my mind so I decided to write this anyhow to let you know that John suddenly died and Joey is trying to manage… thanks for all of your hard work and amazing times you spent entertaining and teaching us!
I’m sorry about John, I’m sure y’alls love was a beautiful thing! Also, I hope Joey was able to enjoy his birthday at least in some way
Sorry for your loss
That's so sad. I'm really sorry. 💜
@@mermaid_at_heart213 thank you … I appreciate the sentiment…. I have always known that we were codependent and I would endure this pain 1000 times worse just to have 2 more minutes with him … we added it up and in total over 13 years … we were apart for 14 days. And I try to stay positive but it’s just so so so hard .
@@basedblueboy8770 thank you .. I appreciate it
Similar to when a kid learns about death stats and ratios to go along with it, this is one of those things that if I had learned about it when I was younger, I would have gone the rest of my life terrified thinking I could burst into flames at any given moment lmao.
I’m 34 years old and I am terrified!! 😳
So now my question is:
Has there ever been a recorded case of Spontaneous Animal Combustion?
That's an excellent question.
This! My dog died from ketoacidosis, was he flammable?
Yes, according to Google. Spontaneous combustion applies to people, animals, and objects that are not normally flammable.
@@abethepunk You look like the type of person to try and smoke him. Did you try?
on my bbq
I knew someone who asked me about spontaneous human combustion. He assumed because I went to college, I knew something. The guy had been a military policeman with the United States army during the Korean war. He was actually in Japan at the time. He, and another M.P. had subdue a drunk who running around naked . When they got there, a crowd was surrounding a naked man laying in the snow. The crowd was throwing snow on him, and the guy was smoking. They brushed the snow off, and they could see blue flames coming out of holes in his body. The man was screaming the whole time. They him in the jeep and drove him to a body of water, a carried him in. He still burned. He said, the one leg was mostly burned, and his lower body had holes where flames came out. He started coughing smoke, and he died after that. They left the body in the water, and the fire went out long after that. He said the one leg burned free of the body and the lower half of his body was gone. There wasn't even bones. They were told the man was drinking deicer, and that's why he caught fire. He bever believed it. He just wanted to know what happened before he died. I looked into it. I told him no one understands it. I talk to to many people.
A type of weapon?
Too many patterns to ignore.
@@philyeary8809 I don't know. It was an old guy asking me because he thought I might know.
Since the bones are also destroyed it seems like a chemical reaction goes wrong. It might be incredibly rare for the circumstances to be just right but is like a very bad luck lotto. Maybe some random particle hits just right and starts a chain reaction. I seen a random slow burn fire on some grass before. I dumped water on it but it kept going, in place. I thought for sure it had to be a gas leak and called the fire department. They put it out but were baffled at why it was so hard to put out because it was green grass only in that small foot area and no gas leak! It was windy and should have spread but didn't. It was just a random arse patch of fire right there that was hard to put out for no reason known. It looked like a glitch in the matrix or something haha...
That is really bizarre.
Perhaps it was a root fire?
Energy weapon test
My daughter is convinced it’s aliens doing it just to confuse us 🤣
She's right, research proves anal probes can have serious consequences... 🥁
@@deadmanriding1118 🤣😆🤣🤣I’ll tell her
Think about it tho they're probably shooting us with a laser type gun that disintegrates us
Thoughty2 and Simon Whistler both making spontaneous combustion videos on the same day? You guys are blowing up!
Yeah but Simon debunked it while thoughty2 thinks it's real
@Caleb Lockhart who to believe??
Simon debunks everything! 😂
Spontaneous Human combustion, so hot right now 🔥
@@helenbunnehmummeh5154 lol he doesn’t trust anything lmao.
I read an article once, probably 30 yrs back, about SHC that was fascinating. There are several instances of people seeing others with flames, but they managed to put them out before serious burns set in. It's a phenomenon that I don't think we'll ever have proof, one way or the other, on exactly what happens. Great clip!
I love thoughty2, these videos have become part of my daily routine😊 Can’t get enough. Thank you!
you’re so good at finding topics that aren’t in vogue and 5 other big content creators are making videos on the same thing within a week of each other 😂
and even when you cover something I have lots of exposure to, yours is more entertaining, and I always learn something new!
hats off to ya chappy
A creator I watch just posted a video about SHC yesterday 😂 wild coincidence.
Simon Whistler did at the same time roughly lol
@@shuruff904 Simon was the creator tho whom I was referring! Factboi fans unite!
@@AidanPatko yeah it's really weird if it was coincidence...I watch Simon alot
lol that’s funny, SHC was not on my radar, never has been. not surprised tho.
the “big 5” on my subscriptions/recommends did not cover it, but the internet/youtube is a big place. there’s prolly 1,000 channels world wide that constitutes different ppl’s big 5. the algorithm sorting hat just tosses us to different ones I guess
I’m hopelessly addicted to your videos, Thoughty2! Thanks for the upload.
“Stick a Flag in It” is a delightful read
Thank you for pinning your review, think I'll buy it, cuz I have been always in doubt
My neuroscience professor in college was convinced that spontaneous human combustion was due to a horrible malfunction of the brain. Where the brain fired off at its full capacity of electrical charges all at once. He said he was absolutely certain if the brain were too self-destruct as it were you would be reduced to ash very quickly.
I promise you I will watch the whole video if you put the ad read in first because going from "oily substance coated the entire ground floor" to huel is such a mindfeck
there aint no way this releases as I am watching Fire Force
Me too bro 😂
dude same! I'm watching S2 lmao
I literally just finished season 2 a few days ago then this comes up
Omg 3rd generation irl possible???
Làtom lol
The biggest mystery of all is why the fire only consumed the body and not the rest of the environment...things like chairs and beds remain completely untouched.
Probably because water leaked out of human body and the environment was wet due to fluids from blood and muscles. But body and bones got burnt due to ketones.
@HanCock lol😂😂😂
Maybe someone burned them and place the ash there ? Idk ?
Another top job, been watching for years never disappoint. Thanks for your videos and the work you put into them 👏👏👏
Great video, Thank You.
This video really pleases me. I have always thought spontaneous human combustion to be more than an urban myth, and now I do think that last theory really could be the answer. As you say, with who knows how many new camera's being installed every day, sooner or later there should eventually be a clear video of the phenomena.
It makes 0 sense lmao, you can have a lit cigarette throw in a cup of premium gasoline and it wont even combust or ignite.
To say someone (a human, made up of over 60% water) spontaneously catches fire.
Its just… no, wont happen. They got murdered.
@@chazbarns1410 Water can burn ferociously when certain chemicals are in the water, that is a ridiculous argument.
Well with cameras, it would never be labeled "spontaneous human combustion", just "old lady lights herself on fire by accident"
@@maozedong8370 yours is even dumber buddy.
Thank you for staying rationally skeptical. The time to believe something is when there is evidence sufficient to justify it, and not one moment before. Anyone who cares about whether or not what they believe is true should operate under this "rule" ALL. THE. TIME.
The problem with science it does not consider the paranormal as our ancestors used to, it only considers what it can view, while knowing that it only views a very small part of reality.
I appreciate you clarifying all this , great job👏🔥💛🤞
It truly is a Miracle, the more we discover about the phenomenon, the less sense it makes.
My problem with the theory is this: if it was a dropped cigarette or stray ember that burned them alive, why does nothing else burn?? Especially with a sudden fire burning hot enough to even incinerate bones, which even cremation doesn't do, you'd think it wouldn't be so localized, that any fire burning that hot for that long would burn the entire place down around them, but it doesn't, doesn't even burn up the furniture they were resting on or in, n even leaves lower limbs n the clothing n shoes untouched by the flames??? That seems ridiculous no matter how the fires started...
You're trying reasoning with people who believe every UFO can be explained by lens clouds and metheorological ballons
Reasoning with dishonest fools is a waste of time
Agreed, it's a stupid idea, the combustion is more likely undiscovered radiation, a microwave energy weapon, akin to crowd control devices, or murder cults.
I remember being like six reading books on Spontaneous human combustion as well as seeing stories of it on unsolved mysteries and such. This is a nice refresher course lol
You sure do a good job making these videos. Knowing that you love doing it makes it all the better. Thanks!
This…this is utterly terrifying.
It’s one thing to die with your body or bones still intact. But it’s another thing entirely being incinerated within hours into an unrecognizable pile of ash. It’s such a terrible way to die.
I'm 47, at 29 I had to have an emergency C-section. Not long after that I had to have a hysterectomy removing my uterus and cervix only. I tell you all this because I've been in perimenopause for about five years now and I swear that during one of these many many hot flashes I'm going to spontaneously combust. I'm not sure which one's going to push me over the edge but one of them is going to see either me burst into flames or me generate so much heat that my clothing will spontaneously combust. Ask any post-menopausal woman and I'm sure she feels the same 😂😂😂😂
True! Now I'm scared! 😂
I married my wife of 37 years when she was in her early twenties. When she turned 50, she suddenly got hotter, not only metaphorically. Winters are great, but summers are utter hell, literally.
@@thembadube9589 goddddd
i'm a 37 year old male. i have diarrhea all the time and i'm always hot even in cold weather. my skin doesn't glow anymore and i have new cavities in my teeth. Am I going through manapause?
@@diarrheapool no, your case is just extreme
The flame is the soul's breath... The black smoke is the soul's release... Ashes thou wert and art... May thy soul return to the great flame of fire. Latom.
This made me laugh so hard lol
Làtom
Thank you for making this vid. I swear to GOD I would hear about this all the time in the 90's even on the news. Then all of a sudden nothing.
I knew this when I was a child on a book. It so scared to me!! Even today I can't imagine if I or my schoolmates suddenly catch on fire without any warning!
Love the channel! I've always thought spontaneous human combustion was so fascinating. 🤯
Well it's not real so...
I like that Exploding Head Syndrome you got there at the end of your sentence, some say that’s real too maybe it’s somehow linked to this one too? It think some that do experience this one thinks it feels like he just awoke from a Nuke or something… oh maybe hell that’s more prefer by me if so… 🤔🔥👉🤯
In pharmacy, we dont give people who use oxygen any petroleum or paraffin based emollients to avoid combustion accidents. People with COPD who still smoke (jfc) but use oxygen are high risk for combustion.
Older clothing and stockings pre-90s were also more flammable. Alcoholism is another.
Honestly how more people DONT combust might be a bigger mystery.
“pardon me while I burst into flames” 😂
Excellent summary of the theories behind (for me) one of the world's most disturbing mysteries. I used to be fascinated by the mysteries of the world as a boy. When I was 13 I exchanged a book voucher for the World Atlas of Mysteries which simply fed that curiosity more. Although I wish they had left out Spontaneous Human Combustion and the accompanying photos! For years scientific explanations for the one mystery I found most terrifying were pretty thin. As you grow older and apply more rationale to the world you see there is often more than one simple cause for rare occurrences. That's often why they are so rare. Here, quite possibly a combination of factors, the wick effect sometimes, high presence of keytones in other instances but in both situations combined with other factors too. A perfect storm of conditions.
I'm right at the beginning of this episode right now, so I'm really curious if your video will come to the same conclusion as what happened to my great-grandmother. My great-grandmother, Ivy, was one of very few confirmed cases of spontaneous human combustion in Washington state, found as a pile of ash on her bed, which was singed but nothing else in the house was at all burnt. The key ingredients to this case according to authorities was that she was a heavy drinker, chain smoker, and morbidly obese. As the story goes, she must have drank enough to pass out while smoking her cigarette, which caught her nightgown on fire and between the fabric of her gown and her immense fat reserves, she smouldered like a candle until all that was left was ash. As a smouldering fire can be intensely hot, it's quite possible for a human body to completely burn up and once the fatty "wax" is gone, the fire dies out, leaving everything around the body perfectly fine if not simply singed.
I was in seventh grade when my science teacher brought up spontaneous human combustion, and upon coming home and sharing this with my mum, she informed me of the story of Ivy as how she lost her grandmother. On one hand, I'm sad to not have met my great-grandmother, who seemed to be doing well for the prospect of meeting her great-grandchildren, but on the hand of accepting reality as it is... it's kind of cool to be able to say I have family ties to this phenomena.
If there is an outside source, like a cigarette, then the cigarette is the cause of the fire and not "the human spontaneously combusting".
That's simply because "spontaneous human combustion" isn't real.
The definition of spontaneous combustion rules out an outside source of the fire like a cigarette or an ember from an open flame.
Humans don't "spontaneously combust" without an outside source to ignite the fire.
@@JimmyHey you didn’t read what he wrote.
The coroners decision was that she was drunk and fell asleep, smoking a cigarette as she was a heavy smoker. So, yes.
That is a cool story, but sorry to hear about your great grandmother. What you’re describing is not spontaneous human combustion though. The slow burning of somebody with a lot of alcohol in their system and morbid obesity is called the “Wick effect“. This means that instead of the fire going everywhere, it slowly burns the individual like a candle.
You say the coroner decided that she must’ve been smoking a cigarette and that’s what started the fire.
But that is not “spontaneous“. In cases of “spontaneous human combustion“ the idea is the fire just starts within the person with no accelerant ::poof::. It’s a supernatural phenomena.
Most people don’t believe in that, and would say that what happened to your grandmother, is the true explanation of spontaneous human combustion.
@@Saffron-sugar No, I read it. I'm just saying the exact same thing that you're saying.
It wasn't spontaneous human combustion in this case.
How do you tell me that I didn't read what he wrote and then continue to say the same exact thing I told him in another comment? lmao
"The definition of spontaneous combustion rules out an outside source of the fire like a cigarette" What I wrote.
"You say the coroner decided that she must’ve been smoking a cigarette and that’s what started the fire.
But that is not “spontaneous“. In cases of “spontaneous human combustion“ the idea is the fire just starts within the person with no accelerant " Wgat you wrote.
YOU didn't read what I wrote.
Let’s hope it doesn’t run in the family ;)
Wouldn't nearby furniture also catch fire? If you are on fire in your bed, you'd assume the flames will spread to the duvet/pillows and so forth? Seems weird to be contained to just the body when surrounded by other combustables
I imagine the 60% of water in the human body is too much and they just melt away. more like lava, which does not spread much.
Most modern furniture is flame retardant, you can put a lighter or a match to it and it won't burn.
I explaind this in a separate post, all cases happen in poorly ventilated rooms, the flames quickly use up all the oxygen and smouldering takes over and the body burns more like a cigarette so doesent burn surrounding items. The fire brigade debunked this ridiculous myth decades ago and go into great detail explaining how it happens.
@@MattyEngland is flame what?😅
@@SmithsMobile Oh, you just explained how a cigarette can't burn anything else. Wonderful
I love the world according to scientism
“In other words, he wasn’t the tragic victim of a house fire, he WAS the house fire.”
Fascinating how this involves the victim turning into a house.
I used to work for Susquehanna Township School District 20 plus years ago where I met a gentleman named Larry Arnold who drove a School Bus Part Time... He was a very interesting and intelligent individual to say the least... Anyhow, he is considered one of the World's foremost Experts on Spontaneous Human Combustion... He has studied this and has written books on the subject.... Great guy!...
The use of fabric softener makes fabric more flammable than fabrics that have not been coated with fabric softener.
All the spontaneous people be scared for their life now 😅
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for that comment. I got a kick out of it.
The acetone explanation actually does make a lot of sense, especially in the case of that lady, who's breath was on fire: people who suffer from diabetes have a breath smelling of acetone, due to their inability to get rid of the ketones in their blood. Older people typically also have a higher risk of developing diabetes, especially when they are obese, also explaining the oily residue.
Good onya Thoughty. Way to raise more questions than answers 🙃
Srsly 🫤
Always look forward to these😁
You never mentioned it, but as you grow older, your body contains less water and more fat. In turn making you more flammable?
Yeah he did dummy
We were made for Spontaneous Human Combustion
Not forgetting, humans tend to have a higher sugar content in their diet - hence sweet sickly smell ! 🤔
Well made video. I really enjoyed watching this.
amazing channel and presenter thanks
Would love to see some more paranormalish / cryptid type stuff but everything you do is great.
I'd listen to you talk on stage ✌️
he did a lot of that content years ago
maybe they weren't human????? A bit on the the Paranormal side when you think about it like that
I didn't know how much I looked forward to the cheeky wink until I was deprived of it. I may just need to watch this again, and have an old wink ready in another tab.
I was all fired up for this one.
I have always been fascinated about SHC ever since I read of it at age 6. Perhaps I should have developed an interest in a lifetime research of the phenomenon
Man I love this channel, these vids are so good
i'm sorry I know the entire video is dedicated to providing a solution as to why this isn't just a random thing but I think the idea of some divine figure snapping their fingers and a random person on earth exploding out of the blue is just too funny
This happened to a 17 year old girl at college in front of a lot witnesses in England in the town where I live! The people around her doused the fire out but she died in hospital some days later. It's been hushed up here because of the upset to her family. A lot of paranormal investigators, reporters etc. She was attending catering classes so there would of been hobs and ovens. Although the fire took place when she was not in the kitchens but on a flight of stairs going to or from her class with her friends. Whatever the cause its very sad for all.
Lmao I love that you and Simon covered the same topic
I actually enjoy getting the same topic from both of you
Facts are always better than opinions, I like your content because at the end, you present the facts and we can form our own opinions to to best of our knowledge. You are an awesome lad and for tat I thank you very much.
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Very interesting video sir. Although I doubt that I will ever have to worry about spontaneous combus -- 🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥
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Love it! Get to watch Mr. Thoughty and FactBoy opine on the same subject, one after the other. Which illustrates the "double" effect of two auteurs creating similar content at the same time--something that Simon JUST remarked on in a recent video. What a small cozy world.
Blown away!
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The suspicious part is that there is only spontaneous human combustion and never a single case of spontaneous elephant combustion or spontaneous hedgehog combustion.
Sonic would be in constant ketosis🤔 maybe he's blowing himself off by running so fast🙃
Rather than elephants or hedgehogs I would be more interested in cases of spontaneous combustion of domestic or farm animals
the elderly also use Vaseline and lotion and baby oils on their bodies, im surprised non of those items have come up in some of the theories of the wick effect. asper creme, Bengay stuff like that
Exactly the reason not to use petrolatum based products there’s plenty of others out there on the market that are just as effective without it
Me: hi.
My neighbour: hi.
Me: *spontaneously combusts*
Something he should have emphasized a bit more is that the very chairs that the people were sitting in or the rug etc around them we're not burned. If a human burst into flames enough to reduce it to ash, you really think something else would be burnt also. As for the feet not burning because they don't have enough fat in them, neither does the head nor the hands. And for the old age bit, the woman with the father and the brother-in-law wasn't old. It truly is a mystery, considering how much we know about how many scientific things nowadays. No one theory so far covers everything. Not even one case of spontaneous combustion no less all of them. Fascinating!
Spontaneous human combustion is practically a scientific mystery. No one knows for sure what causes it.
My votes for DKA as well. Clothing made of synthetic materials like polypropylene may also provide enough initial heat to get things going if lit.
The one thing that wasn't really mentioned in the theories is the fact that the furniture isn't consumed by the fire
I have caught on fire many times with no flame, nobody smoking, nobody around that drinks, and no fire source whatsoever nearby not even a lighter. In 2014 I was walking down the hall of a Gov ran facility and a hole was burned into my leg with no fire source whatsoever in the building. I was sitting in the vehicle with someone once again no fire source and my sweatshirt spontaneously combusted. I made him replace it right then. Another day I was sitting in the room hanging out with 4 kids under the age of 5. Their dad had went outside to smoke. None of us had a lighter then miraculously a hole appeared through 4 or more layers of clothes ruining them all. The Gov has material that heats up or gets cold as they so choose they switch your clothing out with plus they have mastered invisibility. Every single time I have had witnesses present. I was standing in a circle hanging out with my children, their children, as well as a few other people at the mall 5 of the 7 of us double knot our shoes and all of our shoes came untied at once. We are in a Matrix of sorts or multiverse is the only plausible explanation. I was shopping in the same mall with my daughter and granddaughter looking for a shirt to decorate for her bent down to tie my shoe and both of them vanished into thin air with no entrances or exits anywhere nearby. I just figured oh well and finished my shopping. I searched every store then as I was about to just leave them they appeared again. Everyone around points out objects, vehicles, and people vanishing and will ask if I saw what they saw. I got to a point I just say nah even though I actually did see it as well. I only feel bad when it's a kid I deny what they saw. Sometimes a lot actually especially if I'm having any sort of fun at all my clothing randomly heats up or it will feel like someone placed a heat pad on the back of my head. I stripped down one day, went in the kitchen and grabbed our laser thermometer and my clothes read 126° off my body so I turned on tbe oven and sure enough the temperature was entirely accurate. People are not spontaneously combusting. They are being set on fire.
As a kid I used to be terrified that this would happen to me
this and quicksand
One of the cases I had watched there had been an oxygen concentrator & a box of matches in the room & both were completely untouched.
I just don’t understand with this is how the persons house doesn’t catch fire, if the flame is so hot it can destroy our bones to ash, how does the fire not catch the couch/chair they are sitting on , on fire? How does the fire not spread to the rest of their house? These examples were all put in peoples houses, so I’d assume the house will go up into flames with them
i, personally, died by random human combustion whilst watching this
I’ve believed in this but never really had a clue as to how it would start. We have in our bodies everything that could start a fire, only it’s all separated from each other. Electrical impulses in our brains, methane from gas, the fat (like he said also) burns damn well. But I am starting to lean towards the supernatural. It’s just too hard to prove. And a big reason for this another point he made, they’re always alone.
I've heard about burn out from work. It must be quite the job to combust spontaneously. 😂
And none of this has identified why NOTHING else, other than the body and slight margins of the surrounding materials, is destroyed. How can a fire this apparently hot not spread?? There has to be something “special” about this fire that it doesn’t burn everything.
Spontaneous combustion is what would really happen to that Fantastic Four member when he yells, "Flame On!".
It could be that multiple phenomena with similar outcomes are being conflated... maybe the wick effect can work under the right circumstances, and maybe the acetone theory applies in some cases, and maybe some of them are murders.
Great, new fear unlocked...😬🥴
Oh my gosh you had me on the edge of my sofa! How interesting you are and your content. 💜
Love your work brother, you and the why files should collab