Spontanious human combustion

[TrishFF2]

i read about this a few years a go and tried to find my books i had on it. (packed away somewhere)


ive found a site which is quite good on mysteries etc of this sort, i will post it in the links section as it also covers lots of other stuff too.

Anyone else read or know anything about this and the whicker effect the body is supposed to have..

[pixi]

I've seen quite a few photos and I think I remember reading something to do with it being your bady fat getting too hot??

But not really sure, will have to check!!

Haven't heard of the other one tho ?

[MrOrb]

I'm scared this will happen to me and all that will be left are a pair of MrO's shoes with smoke coming outa them.

lol

Eddie

[TrishFF2]

the way the body burns pixie is called the whicker effect.. as burns like a candle sort of lol

[pixi]

OMG!!!!

It sounds really horrible!!

[cam]

I have seen pictures and a documentary.

Scary.

[DragonMaster]

im gonna have nightmares now

[JDS]

I seem to recall that none of the experiences of SHC have remained as unexplained. It has been proven (proved? sp?) that even a normal house fire can be contained to a very small area and be amazinly hot for a few minutes then just die out which explains why you see the pictures of a completely burned body the the bottom part of the shin and foot in perfect condition.

Thinking about it, we are made up of around 75% water and the only thing about us which might be fuel for fire would be our hair. (so my arms would go up lovely but my head would be pretty much ok! Hee hee!).
Even the nasty stuff, stomach acid, isn't flammable and only has a PH value of approximately 7. Our skin is PH 5.5 I think so stomach acid wouldn't add fuel to the fire, so to speak...


I did a school project on the Paranormal when I was in secondary school so got quite familiar with a lot of stuff like this and the explanations for it all...

[DragonMaster]

but what about the body fat ? That goes up in flames doesn`t it.

[DragonMaster]

Spontaneous human combustion is still unexplained due to people that have actually witnessed these types of events. even on themselves and lived.

Read this..

Spontaneous Human Combustion is a phenomenon in which a human body purportedly catches fire as a result of heat generated internally by some type of chemical reaction. This phenomena has been reported for hundreds of years. Indeed, belief in the past was that if a person possessed too much anger or drank too much brandy, he or she might burn to death internally - literally combusting into ash within a matter of minutes!
In 1996, several of the world's top fire experts came together to investigate some of the most renowned spontaneous human combustion cases. The most amazing factor in these cases was the fact that though of the bodies of the victims were burned almost completely (give or take a few intact limbs), the items surrounding them were left untouched and undamaged.

In a crematoria, where temperatures reach from 700 to 1,000 degrees, human bones are not destroyed - making cases of spontaneous combustion an even more mind-boggling phenomena. In the 1980's Dr. John de Haan reported that this phenomena is likely caused by the melting of body fat. This is known as the "wick effect," which makes human body fat literally burn like a candle. Because pigs have similar fat content to humans, Dr. Haan experimented by using a dead pig, wrapping it in a blanket with a small amount of petrol poured onto it, and placing it in a controlled indoor environment. He then set fire to it to simulate a human body being burned. Within 5 hours, the charred remains were identical to those in the spontaneous human combustion cases, with items placed in the same room untouched, other than a nearby television, which was warped from the heat - but not from the fire itself.

Dr. Haan's experiment revealed that a small flame can indeed consume a body through the help of burning fat. This study purportedly demonstrated how a person who has been knocked unconscious, unable to extinguish a flame, could be burned almost entirely through natural processes without attracting any attention to passersby or igniting anything else in the vicinity. The remaining limbs that may be left were reported to be due to the fat content in them not being as rich as the rest of the body, thereby making them less likely to burn.

The problem with this experiment - though it was quite innovative - was the fact that it completely disregarded the cases in which people have actually witnessed these types of events. There are records of people who experienced them first-hand and lived to tell their stories! These stories completely contradict the scientific explanation of the wick effect, in essence leaving this bizarre phenomenon an unsolved mystery!

So what this is saying is,,,It is the fat on and in the body that gets rid of all the remains, bones inc,.

But still the scientific world can`t explain why this happens to people at all.

so it is Still an unexplained phenomenal matter to this day.

[pixi]

I found this...

Theories about Spontaneous Human Combustion:


- Alchoholism - many Spontaneous Human Combustion vicitms have been alcoholics. But experiments in the 19th century demonstrated that flesh impregnated with alcohol will not burn with the intense heat associated with Spontaneous Human Combustion.

- Deposits of flammable body fat - Many victims have been overweight - yet others have been skinny.

- Devine Intervention - Centuries ago people felt that the explosion was a sign from God of devine punishment.

- Build-up of static electricity - no known form of electrostatic discharge could cause a human to burst into flames.

- An explosive combination of chemicals can form in the digestive system - due to poor diet.

- Electrical fields that exist within the human body might be capable of 'short circuiting' somehow, that some sort of atomic chain reaction could generate tremendous internal heat.

No satisfactory explanation of Spontaneous Human Combustion has ever been given. It is still an unsolved mystery.