In 2013, the mystery of the self-igniting son of an Indian woman, Rajeshwari from the city of Chennai, made doctors break their heads. A three-month-old boy named Rahul was taken to the hospital several times. According to medical workers, in his short life, the boy caught fire without an external source of ignition at least four times.
Doctors examined Rahul, but they could not find the cause of his strange ailment, which greatly complicated the diagnosis. Doctors put forward a variety of versions, but the largest number of adherents was gained by the theory about the evaporation of gases through the baby's skin.
Rajeshwari's neighbors and relatives were sure that the mother herself was setting fire to the child. Therefore, at 22, she was kicked out of the village with her son, husband and eldest daughter, and she found refuge in the Kilpauk Medical College (KMCH) in Chennai. After this spontaneous combustion of Rahula ceased (or the mother did not report them any more).
And now, a little over a year later, the same Rajeshwari had a second son and soon also ended up in a hospital bed with burns of unknown origin.
Second son got burns on both legs
They write that the fact of spontaneous spontaneous combustion, which is a suspicious and paranormal matter, happened to the baby on the 6th day of life, - as explained by Rajeshwari, who again brought a "sensation" to the college grounds. Where, before finding out the truth, the parent had to be sheltered. This time, the unnamed Indian's legs suddenly burst into flames below the knees.
Five doctors monitor the health of the spontaneously ignited boy and his mysterious mother at the hospital at Kilpauk College: pediatricians, a psychiatrist and plastic surgeons. The hospital's management announces that it has taken many samples for analysis, some of which have been sent for testing somewhere higher, the results are expected in the next few days.
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Spontaneous human combustion: a phenomenon or a cheat?
Unexpected ignition "from the inside", allegedly without visible external causes, in a number of documented cases was officially recognized as the cause of death of a person. Researchers managed to study about 200 such cases when the body was found burnt and could not establish where the fire came from and why it did not go out.
In most sensational cases, the victims of spontaneous combustion were elderly or sick people, or even under the steam of alcohol. This explains why they were unable to escape the fire in a short time.
But in a number of "self-immolations" the fact of the death of the victim could not be explained otherwise than by the intrigues of the dark forces. And at the end of the 20th century, some smart people even paid attention to the so-called "human candle" effect.
"Candle Man"
The "candle" is supposedly arranged like this: a person's clothing is a wick, and his fat is a combustible substance that supports the flame. After a fire and fire, the victim's lower limbs may remain unharmed, possibly due to the fact that below the waist, the person's body temperature is lower, and therefore there is a temperature gradient that protects the legs from fire. And for the occurrence of a flash, it is enough, they say, and a discharge of static electricity.
However, a number of experiments staged in support of the theory of the "human candle" were recognized years later as falsification. Therefore, lovers of mysticism continue to search for an excuse for the "phenomenon of spontaneous combustion" already in space - where scientists have been before them and, of course, have not found any mysticism. So they looked badly …