ShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion
6/30/202623 min
People who seem to have suddenly burst into flames – leaving just a pile of ash, a foot or skull, and a puddle of strange grease – have left biologists and police stumped for hundreds of years. And as recently as 2010, a medical examiner in the UK was forced to write ‘spontaneous combustion’ on a real death certificate.
But there are some very strong scientific theories, and they are… unpleasant. Join us to find out why we think people go WHOOMP – and the very disturbing ‘human wick effect’.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 30:38
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Hannah Maguire· Host0:59
[rock music] We all have the image of that lonely foot burned into our teenage brains. I hope I am not alone. Do you remember it?
Suruthi Bala· Host1:22
No. Yes.
Hannah Maguire· Host1:23
No. Yes.
Suruthi Bala· Host1:24
Yes, I remember.
Hannah Maguire· Host1:25
Oh, okay. Thank God- [laughs] ... because my intro doesn't work. [laughs] If you're not familiar