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Spontaneous Human Combustion
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Posted By:
Glamcat
Feb 18, 2005
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Does anyone know anything about Spontaneous Human Combustion? I've always wondered if it was a real phenomenon or if it was just an urban legend.
Here's one article on it but there are lots more I'm sure.
http://www.crystalinks.com/shc.html
It just seems to me that if it's a real thing, how come they have such trouble proving it?
And how come clothes and the other objects generally don't burn, just the bodies? Also, they say that 80% of the victims are women, and it usually occurs after the person has been drinking. Go figure. Any thoughts?
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Glamcat
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 | 07:28 PM
I tried the Spontaneous Human Involuntary Invisibility, but I'm not sure if it worked. You can't see me, can you?
Hey, maybe it did work.
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Myst
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 | 10:27 PM
Hmmmm OK Get husband out of the house for the day and drink the bottle of Irish Creme in the fridge. Drag feet across the carpet then touch metal to see if I spontaneously combust. I wonder, would pets being here effect the outcome?
Oh and I can still see you Glamcat. |
Glamcat
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 | 06:17 AM
Sounds like a plan, especially the Irish Cream part! Maybe I'll try it too. How do you get the husband out of the house for the day though? Hmmmm
After drinking a bottle of Baileys, if I didn't spontaneously combust, I think my stomach would burst! Is there a term for that? Not to mention the guilt of all those calories. I think I would hope it worked at that point.
Keep us posted on your experiment Myst. I think it's a worthy task. We will report your findings to the scientific community.
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ted2
in some picture
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 | 12:25 AM
Oh cool, the submit word was 'fire'. Hmmm, might be prophetic.
The first documented cases where in France. So much for Mr Randi theory. |
Rachel Drapeur
in Chester, UK
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 | 02:11 PM
Human beings are always producing heat in each cell in the body. Maybe SHC is caused by a malfunction where the body keeps producing heat until it burns itself up. Just one of my theories.
Is that your cat you're holding Alex in San Diego? Can't quite see what you're holding in that picture. |
Alex
in San Diego
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 | 02:32 PM
Rachel, no, that's not even me in the photo. I'm much younger than that. The photo is of Snowball the Monster Cat:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/snowball.html |
Glamcat
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 | 04:48 PM
I wonder if Snowball was rubbed hard and fast enough on the carpet if he would spontaneously combust? He certainly has the fat content to burn!
(I'm sorry Snowball!) |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:35 AM
I have a book called The Unexplained by a chick called Jenny Randles who touches on this briefly. There are three other theories outside of the wick effect. They are atomic chain reactions inside the human body causing enormous amounts of heat, short circuiting electrical fields of the human body and most interestingly, a deadly cocktail of chemicals that form in the stomach which becomes flammable. This is due to the poor diet of many westerners and explains why non english speaking people never SHC and also why animals are not known to SHC.
interesting wot? |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 07:01 AM
What's in this deadly cocktail? I don't want to drink it by accident!
Myst, are you still there? |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 08:38 AM
Myst! OMG! Myst! Are you OK? Are you still there!!! For the love of God, please answer!!!
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Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 11:19 AM
Friends, Hoaxers, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Myst, not to praise her.
The evil that women do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones:
So let it be with Myst. The noble Glamcat
Hath told you Myst was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Myst answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Glamcat and the rest,-
For Glamcat is an honourable woman;
So are they all, all honorable women... |
Sharruma
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 01:37 PM
I've yet to see a cow burst into flames
And I've heard they are far more combustable |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 01:44 PM
Sharruma,
Try throwing one on the grill... they'll burst into flames quite easily.  What might not be so easy would be throwing a whole cow on the grill, that's why you piece it down first.  |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:05 PM
You will need two things to cook a cow on the grill. A ramp and a lawyer. Instead of carrying the cow, let it walk, I recommend not killing the cow yet, they walk much easier when alive. Next, lead it up the ramp on the heavy duty grill you bought at The Home depot. Then, when the cow isn't looking, just as the moon is full, (They sleep standing up), sets the cow on fire. Hopefully the cow won't notice this.
Now, when PETA shows up during your meal, get the lawyer, he can hold them off for a while while you enjoy your meal. This and other strategic recipes on request!! |
Myst
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:26 PM
I'm still here, Glamcat. After dragging my feet across the carpet a few days ago I realized how dirty my carpet was, I thought maybe that may have been reducing the static build-up so I shampooed my carpets.
I was going to attempt my experiment again today, but after reading about the deadly cocktail I have decided to add something else to the experiment. I am going to fix a big pot of beans. I will then eat the beans and drink a full bottle of Irish Creme. Should be interesting, full of beans, drunk and dragging my feet across the carpet. *Poof* |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:29 PM
I'm not sure burning a cow on a grill is quite the same as SHC. Me thinks we've strayed a bit off the path.
Still no word from our beloved Myst! Should we alert the scientific community? Did she combust? Did she prove the the static electricity theory??? I can't stand not knowing!!!
Have there been any other posts from her recently? Oh Myst!!! I'm sorry I encouraged this madness!! Please come back to us!!!
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X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:34 PM
Well, The lawyer would have to tell PETA that it wasn't I that burn't the cow, but it was spontaneous. See, it fits. Anyway I heard that the way it happens has to do with Methane gas and a "Compost" effect. After that, I'm clueless. |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:40 PM
Oh Myst!!! I'm so glad you're OK! What a relief. I like your new idea. I think it's worth a try. If you don't combust I think you'll definitely explode.
Worst case scenario, you'll end up drunk and farting a lot but at least your carpets are clean!
(Unless of course, you explode)
If we only knew what was in that deadly cocktail.......  |
Myst
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:44 PM
Thanks for the epitaph, Charybdis, I think.
I'm not evil. 
Honest!
Really, I'm not. |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 | 02:45 PM
Hmmm, methane and compost. Myst's idea just might be crazy enough to work!! Mwahaha (evil laugh)
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