Terrifying hypothesis about the mysterious phenomenon of 'self-igniting' like a fireball

The phenomenon of "self-igniting" is quite familiar to us through the famous Hollywood movies, does in fact this strange phenomenon exist?

The term " Spontaneous People " (SHC) has emerged and became popular since the 1800s in famous novels. And historically, there have been some cases of "self-igniting" people who die without detecting signs of being burned by an external heat source. So far, science still cannot give a satisfactory explanation for this strange phenomenon?

Cases of "self-igniting" have been recorded

The first case was described by a Danish doctor, Thomas Bartholin, in a book about strange diseases in 1470. Polonus Vorstius, an Italian knight after drinking some strong alcohol, started vomiting. burn.

In 1972, a Parisian landlord discovered his wife, Mrs. Millet, a chronic alcoholic who burned into ash on the straw pad. The special thing is that the straw pad and all the wooden furniture around her is not burnt, still intact. All of her remains were skulls, some vertebra and leg bones. Everyone at the time believed that her mysterious death was due to " God's punishment ". Jonas Dupont, a French author, recorded this bizarre case in his book on Self-Igniting.

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On July 5, 1835, James Hamilton, an American professor of mathematics who was reading a book, suddenly felt his left leg hurt badly. Before he could decide, he was startled when he saw his left foot burning like a torch in a flame as high as 10cm. Too frightened, he hurriedly used his hand to not put out the fire on his leg and then was taken to the hospital by his family members for treatment.

The next case occurred in 1982 in England, the victim was Jeannie Saffin. One evening, after preparing a meal for the family, sitting in the kitchen, her body suddenly started to fire. The strange thing is that Jeannie Saffin herself does not have any feelings of pain and reaction when the fire envelops her body.

Her father discovered the incident, quickly using cold water to extinguish the fire to save her daughter from the strange fire. When the fire was extinguished, Jeannie Saffin awoke and felt pain and fear. She was taken to hospital in severe burns.
Police quickly proceeded to investigate the incident but did not obtain proof that she was fired because she sat away from the gas stove to 1.5m. After a week in the hospital, she fell into a deep coma and suffered from pneumonia.

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The case recently recorded is on December 22, 2010 in Ireland. The body was engulfed in the fire of a man named Michael Faherty discovered in the living room in his apartment. Another neighbor heard the fire alarm ringing and was terrified to see Michael Faherty's entire body burning violently, except for his legs. Through the investigation, the police did not detect any fire signals and eventually they recorded the cause of Michael Faherty's death as a self-igniting fire.

Explain the cause

Historically, there have been 200 recorded cases of human fire. Victims of self-igniting are usually middle-aged women, addicted to alcohol for many years, burning bodies with unpleasant odors, and the surrounding furniture is not damaged.

Without any witnesses witnessing this incident, this strange phenomenon occurred. At the scene, the police did not detect any flammable substances. Therefore, the reason why the victims of self-igniting to death is still a mystery without satisfactory explanation.

There are many hypotheses to explain the strange phenomenon that has occurred such as fat in flammable body, static electricity, acetone accumulation, bacteria, methane, even because of God's punishment.

The hypothesis that received the most conclusions was the " wick fiber effect ". According to this hypothesis, the human body is like a candle with candle wax is the body fat. Hair, clothes are wicks. If the clothes are not sewn, fire hair will burn the skin. The fat under the skin flows out, penetrates into the clothes and becomes fuel for burning.

Fiber effect wick.(Photo: Acient Origins)

This explains why the human body's middle part burns, the limbs are less burnt. But it cannot explain why "self-igniting" cases happen only indoors but do not occur in outer space. Moreover, this strange phenomenon only happens to humans, but there has been no recorded case in animals. In addition, the fact that the victim did not react in the process of being burnt, the furniture around was still intact and there was no reasonable explanation.

On the other hand, wanting to burn a human body to ash requires a temperature of over 1,600 degrees Celsius. While the temperature in the crematorium is only about 982 degrees Celsius.

All the hypotheses to explain the phenomenon of "self-igniting" are not convinced. This is still one of the mysteries of human riddles.