Similar chilling incident is not rare in history.Most often the victims of spontaneous combustion were full of women addicted to wine.Therefore, even 300 years ago, many believed that it is God's punishment for errant lifestyles.But sometimes fire punished and no innocent people.
first officially recorded case of spontaneous human combustion occurred February 19, 1725 in a small Parisian hotel.Alcoholics wife host Jacques Millet went down to the basement, taking with him a bottle of wine.My husband fell asleep without waiting for the couple.He was awakened by the smell of burning.Jacques Millet hurriedly dressed and rushed down.There, his eyes appeared a terrible picture: a chair on the smoldering remains of the unfortunate woman.
Court tried to blame the innkeeper in the murder, but was saved from the execution of an innocent one amazing fact: his wife was burned from the inside!Clothing was the victim neopalennoy.A doctor by the name of Le Sha, who was at the hotel that night, was able to prove to the judges that no mortal is able to burn a human body without damaging surrounding objects.
American Jack Angel, completely sober, 12 November 1974 went to sleep in a camper.He woke up only after four days and saw with horror that his right arm was burned to the ground.And burned large areas of skin on the back.In a survey of accident anything intelligible could not tell.He was able to recall only "strange like an explosion in his chest."Neighbors in the camping, came to the rescue to help with amazement found on Jack Angel intact pajamas.Forensic medical experts also were very surprised - the victim's hand was burned from the inside.This was evidenced by preserved places skin and bones into ashes.Specialists for more than two years to disassemble and assemble Jack van, trying to find the causes of the strange phenomenon, but to no avail.
In 1985 in England was several cases of spontaneous ignition of people.Since January 28, a young student, go down the hall College Widnes in Cheshire, suddenly flashed in front of shocked friends and soon died.The other victim was an elderly widow, Mary Carter, found dead in the hallway of his apartment on Ayvorroud, Sparkhill, Birmingham County.Matches next to the corpse was found.Where did the fire, could not understand.
month later, on May 25, at 19 years of a computer operator Paul Hayes broke his stomach when he calmly walked to Stephen's Green in London.He managed to get to the hospital, where doctors saved him, because the fire burned about 30 seconds.
In 1988 a woman in England in '71 survived the self-ignition, but her husband was seriously burned while saving his wife from the flames.
In April 1990, 14-year-old boy from Hunan Province (China) inadvertently flashed several times.Small streams of flame erupted from dilated pores on his skin.
May 29 of that year in Los Angeles (USA), 26-year-old Angela Hernandez, patient medical center, suddenly ignited on the operating table and died.
Such cases are known in Russia.One of them took place in November 1990 in the Saratov region.Two shepherd accidentally wandered into the hillside, which, according to local beliefs, you need to get round.Feeling tired, one of them sat on a stone, and the other went to reassure frightened by something sheep.When he returned five minutes later, a shepherd found the burnt corpse of his partner.Before the arrival of the doctors and the police shifted the corpse on a cart.Witnesses testified that his clothes had not been damaged by fire.However, when the body is removed from the cart, the bottom of her appeared charred.The case on charges of arson shepherd partner closed for lack of evidence.
amenable to an explanation strange cases of spontaneous combustion "?
According to South African Professor Jackie Van build, there may be several hypotheses.
most plausible is the following: in our body contains chemical elements (eg, phosphorus) that are in contact with each other or the air may ignite spontaneously.Probably, under certain conditions, the resulting net unknown way phosphorus reacts with oxygen and explodes.
next assumption is based on what may ignite and other substances, flammable gases given off by the body, as well as fats, which are especially numerous in the body of fat people.Theoretically, the spark that can ignite the combustible mixture can be formed by an electrical potential difference of viscera.In the XIX century was a popular hypothesis of the spontaneous combustion of drunkards, whose bodies prospirtovany so break out of any spark, even when smoking.
These hypotheses can not yet explain why, in most cases, remain intact surrounding objects, and sometimes the clothes of the victims.
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