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Is spontaneous combustion fact, theory, or myth?

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Is spontaneous combustion fact, theory, or myth?

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It certainly depends on who you ask and where you look. Here are some sites on both sides of the subject. You will have to decide for yourself. Many contend that Spontaneous Human Combustion is first documented in such early texts as the Bible, but, scientifically speaking, these accounts are too old and secondhand to be seen as reliable evidence. The first reliable historic evidence of SHC appears to be from the year 1763, when Frenchman Jonas Dupont published a collection of SHC cases and studies entitled De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis. Dupont was inspired to write this book after encountering records of the Nicole Millet case, in which a man was acquitted of the murder of his wife when the court was convinced that she had been killed by spontaneous combustion. Dupont’s book on this strange subject brought it out of the realm of folkloric rumor and into the popular public imagination. http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/ga00003.shtml The physical possibilities of spontaneous hum

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