248: Spontaneous Human Combustion

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Spontaneous human combustion is the phenomenon of people seemingly going up in flames from the inside, leaving the surfaces around them unscorched. But is it real? And did the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre kind of make a movie about it? It's going to get gross, everyone. For full sources and links, visit our website. Video version here. Support GTTU on Patreon! Depending on the tier you choose, you get one, two, or FOUR full bonus episodes per month, a private Discord, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/gttupod Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0	That's all I can go with. That's all we have to work with.
0:03.0	What do you want me to do?
0:04.0	Hello, welcome to guides the unknown.
0:11.0	I'm Kristen.
0:12.0	And I'm her little brother William. And this week we are taking on an off requested topic.
0:17.3	Spontaneous human combustion. Now this is something that's come up before and that people have asked us to talk about, but there was a particular outcry for it after we covered an episode of Unsolved Mysteries over on our second podcast in the Netherworld Dispatch that's exclusive to
0:35.6	Patreon members at Patreon.com slash GT to you pod an episode of
0:40.8	Unsolved mysteries that covered spontaneous human combustion and is fully awesome.
0:45.6	Oh, it's amazing. I honestly, I think after that episode, much of the requesting,
0:49.6	much of the outcry for covering this topic came from me.
0:52.8	Yes, but no, there were genuinely people too who were like...
0:55.9	I was enchanted.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:58.2	It is such a strange topic.
1:01.0	For those of you who may not know what spontaneous human combustion is or the popular belief of it,
1:07.0	the idea is very simply that you, anybody, might suddenly burst into flames seemingly from the inside out.
1:17.0	Right.
1:18.0	Right, with no cause, with no external, you know, fire or no external force you just burn and all of a sudden you're a pile of
1:26.6	ash very cartoonishly people who have or who are victims supposedly of spontaneous
1:31.9	human combustion are indeed reduced mostly to a pile of ash and other things in the room almost
1:40.0	seem untouched by the fire. It doesn't spread everywhere. It doesn't burn the house down. It
1:45.2	burns you and only you, but so violently as if you were cremated.
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