The Human Spontaneous combustion
How can you explain the phenomenon of a human body that catches fire and becomes ash in a very short time... it's not science fiction, but reality!!! numerous cases in England and the United States seem to confirm that human cells can go crazy, releasing energy such as to incinerate the body of a man of average constitution in a few minutes!
To find an answer to this strange and distressing phenomenon, we have to start from one of the first events cataloged under this category. The event dates back to 1980 and involves a seventy-three year old men resident in Wales. The poor man died in shocking circumstances to say the least. The officers who arrived at the scene of that man's death only saw:
<<[...] a pile of bright white ash at the end of which were the feet of a male individual wearing a pair of white socks . At the other end the blackened remains of a skull were visible>>
The armchair on which the poor man was sitting was partially burnt, the whole room was invaded by a reddish light due to the deposits of burnt organic material deposited on the lamps in the room.
Nothing else in the room had burned and the medical examiner declared that the armchair had burned on contact with the body, extinguishing itself when it collapsed, allowing the body to fall to the floor.
The room was almost devoid of oxygen, as it was equipped with anti-cold seals... but then how could the body have burned until it was reduced to a pile of white dust? How was it possible to reach such high temperatures in a room as to reduce an entire body to ash, when not even crematorium ovens can completely incinerate bodies?
Another case dates back to 1986 when a 58 year old man was found completely incinerated except for a few bones: to reduce a human body in such conditions the fire would have to reach 2500° while a normal domestic fire rarely reaches 300°. In seeking an explanation for this phenomenon, scholars hypothesized the so-called wick effect: if a man is obese and dressed in several layers of flammable materials, these can act as a wick, allowing the fat to burn like candle wax. If contact with the flame is prolonged and there is a good amount of oxygen in the environment, then the individual does not need to be obese.
Internal combustion is a combustion that starts from inside the body, at the level of the mitochondria, which are organs that supply cells with energy. If one of these malfunctioned, it could release large quantities of energy, exploding hydrogen and oxygen and triggering a chain reaction that in a few minutes would reduce the bones, flesh and muscles of a human body to a pile of ash devoured by a blue flame.
A firefighter, who intervened at an abandoned farmhouse, found inside the body of a man who had a gash in the abdomen from which flames were coming out with unprecedented violence.
A 62-year-old woman was engulfed in a sudden flame that quickly led to her death before the eyes of her incredulous father.
