Podcasts · Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within

· 37 min · Episode 15

Episode Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within

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For nearly three hundred years, people have been found burned almost to ash in rooms that barely show a scorch mark: from Countess Cornelia di Bandi in 1731 to Michael Faherty in 2010, whose death an Irish coroner officially attributed to spontaneous human combustion. The pattern is always the same: torso gone, extremities intact, surroundings untouched, and no obvious source of flame. Modern fire science offers a compelling explanation, but a handful of cases still resist easy answers.

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