Spontaneous Human Combustion

[casebro]

This may be naive of me, but I always assumed that there's sources of oxygen in operating rooms that make a greater fire risk.

I'm more surprised about the bucket of water, actually.

First word of the article answers a lot of questions- "Romania...."

 

[Mojo]

Have there ever been reports of spontaneous combustion in non-human mammals?

 

[autumn1971]

First word of the article answers a lot of questions- "Romania...."

******* Dracula?!

Of course!

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Fuel and an ignition source is not "spontaneous".

 

[shemp]

Woman goes up in flames during surgery – dead


https://www.en24.news/2020/01/woman-goes-up-in-flames-during-surgery-dead.html



Insane...

Must have been quite a shock for everyone involved. I mean a human body being completely on fire in a matter of seconds. All the people standing around waiting for the surgery to start, and all of a sudden you are standing right in front of a big fire.

A fire is probably one of the least things any person would expect to happen in an operating room.

I dunno. In a operating room I'd expect a fire more than I'd expect a unicorn to materialize. But the important thing is, when you least expect it, expect it!

 

[shemp]

This may be naive of me, but I always assumed that there's sources of oxygen in operating rooms that make a greater fire risk.

I'm more surprised about the bucket of water, actually.

They were operating in the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West.

 

[Venom]

del

 

[Sideroxylon]

Snap!

I spent many a happy hour reading and re-reading that book as a kid. I must admit I was quite unhappy to flick through it again recently - so much of it is actually garbage, or at least very pro-paranormal (in the spooky section, at least). Very uncritical.

Ah well, it doesn't seem to have done any lasting harm (if you discount the occasional nervousness re: werewolves - that picture of the werewolves lining up against that wall in Brittany scared the life out of me

Yes, the mutation of the story is quite an eye-opener. The writers really worked quite hard on the article, I think.

Was a childhood favourite.

 

[JimOfAllTrades]

I remember one of the crime procedural shows in which a man was murdered in his hospital room while recovering from surgery. To conceal physical evidence, the killer inserted the victim's oxygen tube into the surgery incision, gradually filling the body cavity with oxygen, and left behind a lit cigarette. When a fire started, the oxygen in the body and that had leaked out turned the corpse into a pyre.

NCIS, Season 2, episode 8.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0657997/