First things first - yes, it turns out that spontaneous combustion of humans might actually be a real thing. I know what you're thinking: no, it's not. It's just a fire no one caught, or something ...

When a substance takes fire in the atmosphere without being exposed to intense or high heat, the action is called " spontaneous combustion." Phosphorus is the only common substance which is ...

Spontaneous combustion is a sometimes mysterious and often misunderstood or misdiagnosed combustion of flammable materials. I am sure that many fires have been blamed on spontaneous combustion ...

Last month, a barn near rural Jackson, Michigan, caught fire in a suspected spontaneous combustion. The culprit is wet hay, which is counterintuitive if you don’t know much about the underlying ...

These blazes are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and one coalmine fire that could have arisen from spontaneous combustion, the Centralia Mine Fire which ignited in 1962, still burns today.

That mysterious action known as spontaneous combustion, which has been the cause of so many disastrous fires both on and and sea, was very clearly explained in lecture on fire risks, by Ernest Cook.

Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a term used to describe combustion in a human body without any external source of ignition. Throughout history, there have been accounts of people who have ...