But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and potentially as many as 200, depending on who you ask) were reported or described ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Spontaneous Combustion and Fires ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 13 No. 28 (March 1858), p. 221 doi:10.1038 ...

Science, technology and news site RedOrbit.com, based in Nashville, Tenn., reported on the spontaneous combustion of mulch in August 2007, after wood chips on an Arlington, Texas playground burst ...

The idea of spontaneous human combustion in a medical context originated in the 18th century. Paul Rolli, a fellow of the Royal Society in London, the oldest scientific academy in the world ...

In 2010, Michael Faherty burned to death on his living room floor in Ireland from what the Irish Independent reported was spontaneous human combustion. The 76-year-old man’s case was one of the ...

In a gut-wrenching series of TikTok video, @revivedbyvashti shares a personal tragedy, spotlighting spontaneous combustion from mulch. Does Mulch Spontaneously Combust? Yes.

The first known case of spontaneous human combustion happened in the late 14th century in Italy, when a knight drank wine one night before bursting into flames, ...