The Christmas Combustion of Martha Rooney

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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"All-in-all, it was a really wonderful Christmas eve," thought John Larson as he laid his head on the pillow, still a little typsy.

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0:00.0	By the time his head hit the pillow, it honestly seemed like a pretty good Christmas Eve.
0:10.7	John Larson, who had mostly been an itinerant farm worker, had recently been hired to handle the manual labor around the Rooney Farm.
0:18.2	His employers invited him to a big dinner with plenty of whiskey to go around.
0:22.9	After filling their bellies with food and beverage, the three parted ways and went to bed.
0:27.7	Larson would recall being disturbed in the night with a feeling of being unable to breathe,
0:32.8	but eventually he drifted back off. Christmas morning left a disturbing present for John and the residents of Seneca, Illinois.
0:40.2	One of the most disturbing and well-documented cases of spontaneous human combustion in history.
0:47.1	One that, taken in context, may just shift your thinking on the phenomenon.
1:03.0	Yeah. shift your thinking on the phenomenon. Featuring Jerry Swaney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
1:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
1:14.5	Okay, all right.
1:16.1	Sign us on, Joe.
1:17.6	All right.
1:20.0	Hey there, welcome to a special, a very special Christmas edition of The Shocking Details.
1:27.4	Starring me, Joe, also starring Vincent Calderney. special Christmas edition of the shocking details.
1:32.0	Starring me, Joe, also starring Vincent Caldoni.
1:35.6	And as Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, my cat.
1:37.4	George, say hi.
1:39.1	Oh, he's asleep.
1:39.4	Okay.
1:41.1	All right, where are we at here?
1:46.3	Oh, yeah, let's talk about this weird, spontaneous combustion thing that happened on Christmas.
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