Jenny Randles and Peter Hough, both experienced researchers in the field of paranormal happenings, have explored the entire subject of spontaneous human combustion rationally from within--interviewing everyone from fire officers to victims who have survived this horrific experience. They assess the evidence in an objective manner and pose searching questions, uncovering a disturbing pattern of fear, hidden evidence, and attempted suppression of scientific mystery. Does the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion represent a natural energy force unleashed within our modern world? Can it unexpectedly relate to nuclear fusion, pollution, ecology, or even enigmas such as crop circles? The answers are as amazing as they are shocking.
Offers authenticated examples of spontaneous combustion and challenges everyone to look again at theories which hitherto have been considered freakish, weird and crackpot.
She was all burned to ashes except her skull and the extremities of her fingers... This Victorian account of spontaneous human combustion encompassed a moral dimension: they believed hellfire itself consumed the victim.
In this text, Heymer, a retired police officer, looks at spontaneous human combustion (SHC).
What causes normal, apparently healthy human beings to suddenly blaze to death? To the Victorians, it was the ultimate proof that drinking was wicked: hellfire itself seemed to claim the...