But spontaneous human combustion is real and we think we can show how it happens. Now, that feature was written by a man named Brian J. Ford. He's a biologist who researches spontaneous combustion.

This article was originally published with the title “ Spontaneous Combustion and Fires ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 13 No. 28 (March 1858), p. 221 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...

A Framingham firefighter suffered heat exhaustion while battling a fire on Bishop Drive. The fire, caused by spontaneous ...

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 ...

Spontaneous Combustion. Share full article. May 19, 1895. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 19, 1895, Page 15 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Dickens is unequivocal in ascribing the death to spontaneous human combustion (SHC), the alleged burning of a person's body with no identifiable source of ignition. "It is the same death eternally - ...