Ep. 117 - The Fire Within

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Throughout history there have been numerous cases where people have mysteriously burst into flames for no apparent reason, leaving behind little more than piles of ash, and many questions. In this episode we discuss the history of spontaneous human combustion, and talk about the many theories why this may or may not occur. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.history.com/news/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-realhttps://www.livescience.com/42080-spontaneous-human-combustion.htmlhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8200790/spontaneous-human-combustion-real-burns-incendiary-bomb-scientist-claims/https://allthatsinteresting.com/spontaneous-human-combustionhttps://www.amazon.com/Ablaze-Larry-Arnold/dp/0871317893https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/spontaneous_human_nonsense/ Music: Dexter Britain, "The Tea Party" https://dexterbritain.com Kai Engel, "Mist and Clouds", "Morbid Imagnation", "December", "January", February", "March", "April" "Difference", "May", "Rejecting the Sirens", "Moonlight Reprise" https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	judges go easy I'm pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you. Starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow
0:25.3	Lawrence and Bella Ramsey. Time. Watch on BBC I Player It was Christmas Eve, 1885, and Patrick and Matilda Rooney were feeling in a festive mood.
0:44.4	They were a farming couple in their 70s who lived just outside Seneca, Illinois.
0:50.0	That night they invited their farmhand, John Larson, to knock back a few drinks with them.
0:55.0	Rooney had picked up a jug of good whiskey earlier that weekend,
0:58.0	and as the night wore on, they were all feeling full of warm Christmas cheer.
1:04.4	Larson got pretty drunk that night, right alongside his employers who both knew their
1:08.0	way around the bottle as well.
1:11.2	Late that evening, Larson finally called it quits knowing full well that Christmas or not, he'd
1:16.3	after to get up early the following morning to work the farm.
1:20.7	So he wished the Rooney's a Merry Christmas, and then he stumbled upstairs to sleep it off.
1:27.0	Sometime in the middle of the night John Larson woke with a coughing fit.
1:32.0	He didn't know what was making it so difficult to breathe but eventually whatever it was passed and he was able to roll over and fall back asleep.
1:42.0	He awoke again in the wee hours that Christmas morning. It was still dark outside.
1:47.0	Despite the throbbing in his head and the scratchiness of his throat, he knew he had to get up and start work.
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