Внезапное самовозгорание людей

kilativ — 21.12.2022 На самом деле, таких случаев было немного, но их реально задокументировано несколько сотен за последние 500 лет. Люди вдруг загорались вроде как бы без внешних источников огня и сгорали таким образом, что оставались только "рожки да ножки": ступни и кисти рук. Оказалось, это просто эффект свечного фитиля. Такие люди загорались от естественных причин (сигареты, к примеру), но, будучи закутанными, например, в одеяло, выгорали полностью сами, как свеча с фитилем, а ноги и руки, в которых мало жира, оставались.
Чего только не узнаешь!

In December 2010, a 76-year-old man burned to death on his living room floor in Ireland.

Nearly a year later, a coroner officially ruled that he'd died of a peculiar phenomenon, the Irish Independent reported – spontaneous human combustion.

This phenomenon, as it has been understood over the centuries, involves a body suddenly bursting into flames without being ignited by an external source.

Coroners typically walk into a scene where the victim's hands and feet are intact, while the torso and the head is burned to ashes, Roger Byard, a pathologist at the University of Adelaide, told Insider. Nearby furniture is often minimally damaged.

But if spontaneous human combustion is a real phenomenon, Byard added, why doesn't it happen more often? He said approximately 200 reports of such events have occurred in the past 300 years.

"The reality is that people combust – but not spontaneously," Byard said.

In the 17th century, a Danish anatomy expert described the first known case of spontaneous human combustion.

It came from Italy sometime in the late 14th century, when a knight called Polonus Vorstius drank wine one night before bursting into flames.

The idea of a human suddenly enveloping into flames was often associated with the excessive consumption of alcohol.

Charles Dickens fed the flames of the myth by writing about it in his 1853 novel "Bleak House". In it, a character named Krook, who was an alcoholic, spontaneously catches fire and burns to death.

Charles Dickens' Bleak House, MacMillan and Co, New-York London 1895 page 402

Others over the years have attributed the phenomenon to a visitation from God, obesity, or intestinal gases.

But Byard said these theories don't hold much scientific weight.

While human combustion is plausible and accurate to several accounts, he said, the idea that it happens spontaneously is a misnomer: "Yes, people's bodies burn, but there's absolutely no proof that it occurs as a spontaneous combustion."

Practically every account has involved an external source of flame, Byard added. The most common culprits are lit cigarettes, lamps, or candles.

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