The burnt body of a pensioner was found in a completely unharmed room. The Ministry of Emergencies still finds it difficult to explain the reasons for the death of a person
A mysterious story happened yesterday on Metalist Avenue. At about one o'clock in the afternoon, residents of house no. 82 felt a strange unpleasant smell in their apartments. After a while he became unbearable, it became clear that something was burning. Firefighters were immediately called.
The firefighters who arrived had to determine which apartment was the source of the fire, because there was no smoke. Finally, the door to the desired apartment was broken open and a strange and ominous picture opened in front of the firemen. An almost completely burnt body lay on the kitchen floor. 95% of the skin was burned, but no visible traces of a fire could be found in the two-room apartment. So far, experts find it difficult to name the cause of the death of the 78-year-old pensioner.
Perhaps, for some reason, a person doused himself with gasoline or came too close to the gas stove, say the information and public relations department of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in St. - Forensic experts will be able to deliver their verdict only in a few days.
The spontaneous combustion option is not considered in the Ministry of Emergencies However, it is not clear why the apartment was not damaged by the fire. Mystical cases of spontaneous combustion have happened in history. By the way, elderly people are very often affected by this phenomenon.
Human spontaneous combustion is a rare phenomenon, often described as a paranormal phenomenon, as a result of which a person can ignite without an external source of fire visible. This phenomenon was first discussed in 1951, when on July 2In her own apartment in the American city of St. Petersburg, Florida, 67-year-old Mary Reaser was discovered, or rather, what was left of her - a pile of ash, a skull and a left foot completely untouched by fire in a slipper. Nothing else suffered in the apartment. Then there were reports of similar cases.
In May 1953, 30-year-old Esther Dublin was found in Los Angeles. The fire burned out she and the chair on which Dublin was sitting, but everything else in the house remained unharmed.
On January 31, 1959, 72-year-old Jack Larder self-ignited in a nursing home.
In November 1960, five charred male corpses were found in a car on the road to Pike County, Kentucky, sitting in free positions. Investigators noticed that there were no traces of the victims trying to get out of the car.
In October 1980, in Jacksonville, Florida, a strange incident happened to the American pilot Gina Winchester. She was driving in a car with a friend when she was suddenly engulfed in flames. The companion behind the wheel tried to extinguish it, and the car lost control. A moment later, the car crashed into a pole, and the fire that blazed on Gina went out. The pilot received severe burns, but survived.
One of the last cases of STS in Russia occurred in Tomilino near Moscow (April 2004)with 25-year-old Vladimir Yakovlev. He accompanied his girlfriend. Saying goodbye to his beloved, the young man got into the elevator. And it began to burn. At the moment when the doors opened, and people were crowding on the first floor, Yakovlev was rapidly melting. The body of the young man burned with an invisible fire, and the clothes remained intact. Yakovlev was taken to the Ukhtomsky hospital, and then to the Vishnevsky. A few days later, the young man died. His legs suffered the most. In the hospital, he could not utter a word. I did not answer questions. Investigators considered the only official assumption about the cause of death … exposure to acid. But there is no evidence for this. In the elevator, except for the victim, the witnesses saw no one.