Spontaneous Human Combustion: Do People Just Burst Into Flames? | 145
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
You know the old saying, “nothing can ruin your day like spontaneously catching on fire”? We don’t either, but if it isn’t a quote it should be because…ouch. Reports of Spontaneous Human Combustion span history and continents. While situations and backstories change, many constants can be found between the cases. Is it possible that a rare set of circumstances could present itself where a human being would spontaneously catch afire? Could it be something more sinister like purposeful fires set via Pyrokinesis or something equally as morbid…big tobacco? We throw on our firefighter gear and go searching this week. Plus, Conspiracy Bot is triggered and it’s because of your morning bagel (I guess everyone has their thing), the fellas talk Fire Marshall Bill (because how could they not), and Ryan Cassell makes his triumphant return to the Lower 4th (and is promptly schooled in the art of Jim Carrey – you’ll see). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never caught fire spontaneously, but we think we saw it happen once at a rave in college - Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IV
Books
ABLAZE! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion | Larry E. Arnold
Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions: The Science of the Unexplainable | Louis Proud
Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception | Gerald N. Callahan
Videos
Real Scientific Cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion - https://youtu.be/aAAZYtivMGk
The Spontaneous Human Combustion Of Mary Reeser - https://youtu.be/4hVrSEWrKDY
Websites
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion
How Stuff Works - https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/shc.htm
Popular Mechanics - https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a4317/4316466/
Mirror - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/bizarre-video-first-ever-genuine-7217149
History - https://www.history.com/news/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real
Hysteria 51 - http://hysteria51.com/
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| 0:00.0 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 0:02.0 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:05.0 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:08.0 | You tell me, fools, I'm not crazy. |
| 0:11.0 | With hysteria. |
| 0:12.0 | You can't handle the truth. |
| 0:15.0 | This brain is gone. |
| 0:17.0 | This is hysteria 51. |
| 0:20.0 | Here here. |
| 0:21.0 | The truth is out there. It you won't find it here. |
| 0:26.0 | They're coming for you. |
| 0:27.0 | Look, there comes one of them now. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome in Hysteria Nation to the podcast that's never caught fire spontaneously, |
| 0:38.3 | but we think we saw it happen at a rave once in college. This is Hystaria 51. |
| 0:47.0 | Rest in peace. |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, yeah, he did. he passed away. Firestarter. Good clip there too because that's the one that came to mind Seabot so well done. Well done. We are |
| 1:00.2 | Sorry that felt dirty. That was weird. |
| 1:04.0 | We are broadcasting from the Lower Fourth Dimension, otherwise known as Chicago. |
| 1:07.8 | We are your hosts and chief fire investigators. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm John Gohforth and this is Brent Hand. |
| 1:13.0 | That's right, John. |
| 1:14.0 | This week we're talking spontaneous human combustion. |
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