According to Wikipedia, spontaneous human combustion is the belief that a person can simply burst into flame from within, leaving the body burned to ash while the surrounding room barely chars. It is ...

In 1725, a mysterious death in the northeastern French town of Rheims attracted considerable attention, both in the legal and the medical world. The burning remains of sixty-three-year-old Jeanne ...

A research team led by Prof. Shen Yan'an from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made significant progress in studying the sources and formation mechanisms of haze. Through ...

Bizarre cases through the years of humans spontaneously combusting and dying have led to questions and theories about these incidents. In the latest episode of TMZ’s "Strange and Suspicious," a panel ...

“Four feet distance from the bed there was a heap of ashes, two legs untouch’d, from the foot to the knee, with their stockings on,” wrote Paul Rolli, a fellow of the British Royal Society, describing ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Life'sLittleMysteries.com Can people suddenly and inexplicably explode into a ball of fire? It sounds like something in a horror film, ...

When a woman gets on the bus to go to the hospital in the Fringe episode "The Road Not Taken," things get hot—literally. Her breath steams up windows and a newspaper on the seat in front of her starts ...