Ladies, gentlemen, misfits, creeps and weirdos, here at the Circus of the Freaky I, the Freak, plan on telling you as many freaky and disturbing TRUE stories as possible. So, along with all the strange news, I'll also be going back into time and posting about past events. So to kick start this off, here's a true story about Spontaneous Combustion! It's getting hot in here.
Everyone knows what Spontaneous Combustion is (and I'm not talking about Tobe Hooper's terrible film of that name) but no one knows for sure why and how these incredibly disturbing events happen, leaving everyone hot under the collar. Here's one particular story that provides a lot of unanswered questions for, unlike the majority of SC cases, this one involved more than one person at once. In fact, six people went up in flames! Eeek.
Smokin'!
It all took place towards the end of December, 1976, Lagos, when a family of seven were involved in this tragic and spooky event. Out of the seven members, six of them burst into flames for no apparent reason, leaving only one person (the mother) to live with the horror that she witnessed for the rest of her life. The majority of Human Spontaneous Combustion reports center upon one person, but this case confused the whole phenomenon even further. An on the spot investigation after the event found six ex-humans burnt to cinders. Firstly, the heat required to burn a single person is very...hot. In fact a human cremation requires the body to be burnt several times and then the bones and all that remains to be crushed into a powder. So for a fire to engulf and reduce a living human to dust in just a matter of seconds would require an unbelievable (some may say unholy) amount of heat. Let alone to burn six individuals! And like most SHC cases the objects in this room appeared to be untouched, even the highly flammable cotton mattress which laid untouched next to the reduced bodies.
Upon further investigation, no traces of foul play including the ignition of petrol, etc was found.
Very creepy.
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