Spontaneous human combustion is not a recent phenemenon. In a contemporary illustration from Bleak House by Charles Dickens, William Guppy and Tony Weevle discover the smoking ashes that were once the evil Krook. Some people, however, have survived SHC. In 1974 Jack Angel lost his right arm after a fire. Some believe that the fire started internally!
On the night of November 12, 1974, he parked his trailer, which he had converted into a traveling showroom, at a Ramada Inn in Savannah, Georgia. He made up the bed, changed into his pajamas, and went to sleep.
Four days later, Angel woke up. He noticed that his right hand was black from the wrist to the fingertips. “It was just burned, blistered,” he told Arnold.” And I had this big explosion in my chest. It left a hell of a hole. I was burned … on my ankle, and up and down my back, in spots.”
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by MrGhaz.
But long story short, in 1975, he claimed to have been sprayed by scalding water after trying to repair his motorhome's water pressure.
Spontaneous Human Combustion is an interesting notion, but most times there is a completely valid explanation (whether you want to believe it or not) or it is a hoax.
I don't know if that was a combustion or not. But to me it is the only explanation for that incident...
That will forever be a mystery... just like how people manage to get those sandwhiches to fold properly.
look for a program from the BBC called Supernatural Science : Spontaneous Human Combustion.