An inexplicable process in the human body from the point of view of science, leading to its death and complete combustion of the body in a short time - sometimes not more than five minutes Often, only the person himself burns out, and his clothes and surrounding objects remain unharmed. Dozens of cases of spontaneous combustion have been reliably recorded.
Testimonies of a century or more
The "Encyclopedic Dictionary", published in Germany 170 years ago, mentions spontaneous combustion in 1725 in France of the wife of a certain Melle. The man was suspected of murder and an attempt to hide evidence, but it was revealed that the body itself burned from the inside. A priest from the Italian village of Filetto, named Bertoli, fell victim to spontaneous combustion in 1789. According to the description of the local doctor, when people ran into the room at the cry of the priest, he was sprawled on the floor, and his whole body was on fire, which went out very quickly. Bertoli died, his clothes decayed, but only the top and the bottom were unharmed. There were no burns on the skin, but it was easily separated from the body when touched.
Testimonies in the 20th century
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In the USA, in 1960, the bodies of five people were found on a suburban highway in a car at the side of the road. It was found that the bodies were exposed to high-temperature exposure from the inside. Some of them retained their clothes, and their limbs did not lose their shape, which would have been impossible if the clothes had been pulled over already burnt bodies. In 1985, in London, right on the street, a certain Paul Castile was in flames. Fire scorched his face, neck and arms. Castile survived as the flame suddenly disappeared by itself.
Devil's lair
In 1990, a case of spontaneous combustion occurred in the vicinity of the city of Zhirnovsk, Volgograd region. Two comrades (according to other sources - two brothers) were herding sheep, one sat on a stone, the other went up to the sheep. When he returned, he found the charred body of a comrade. The clothes were not touched by the fire, there were no traces of torment or horror on his face, which indicates that he died almost instantly. This place is included in the boundaries of the anomalous area of the Devil's Lair, where various malfunctions in the operation of equipment are also observed, unexpectedly hurricanes fly in, cattle and people disappear.
Versions of the causes of spontaneous combustion
There are many versions of the causes of spontaneous combustion: from UFO rays to curses and poltergeists. There is a scientific version of the extreme degree of instant aging, the mechanisms of which have not been studied. There is also such an assumption: the oxidation processes in the body differ from combustion only in a slower course, and if you speed up the time, then these processes from the inside will "burn" a person. How to speed up time? This can be facilitated by temporary anomalies that are caused by powerful curving or vortex underground currents. It is possible that spontaneous combustion occurs precisely in the places of such temporary anomalies.
