Hello, already welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

As always, I'm your host Simon, one of my writers, this case, Katie.

Thank you, Katie.

It's written me a script, the bizarre phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion.

Is it real or is it a myth? Wasn't there like an X-files about this?

Or like a CSI or something and there was like a burned body and they were like put those

no marks anywhere and I think it was CSI and then they come across like a totally reasonable explanation.

People don't just catch on fire, right?

I mean I'm open to this one. Maybe there's some science there.

Maybe there's some cool examples. Let's just jump in. I didn't give my inevitable devise too much thought as a child, but when I did, I presumed

I would go out in one of three pretty specific ways.

1. Death by swallowing gum.

I don't remember who told me this, but I was pretty certain as a kid that if you swallowed

chewing gum or bubble gum you would die?

What the fuck?

No one to have told me this?

It was always like, oh, if you swallow that, it'll be in your tummy for like seven years.

That's what everyone said, and that turned out to not be true at all. People swallow gum all the time.

Nowadays if I'm in a pinch I'll swallow gum because I know I'm going to poo it out real soon.

It's not I've got like years and years of gum in my tummy.

I feel like tummy is quite a childish word for it isn't it.

That's what I call like we've got two kids and it's like, in your tub tub.

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