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Posted: 21-11-2005 23:19 Post subject:

I turned on half way through - which is an unfortunate occurrence that's dogged me throughout this series. What I saw was Snagsby and Miss Flite were out and remarking on a greasy soot that was falling in the area, I think they also said it had an odd smell too. Guppy finds Krooks body and, if I'm not mistaken, the body still had a small blue flame. The coroner's court put it down to SHC which was caused by Krook's liquid diet.

I was particularly gutted to not see all of this episode as I was curious to see how this was handled myself.

Posted: 22-11-2005 08:19 Post subject: Fire Poltergeists

[quote="intaglioreally"] "I wonder if SHC has anything to do with Polt activity? Could those who suffer it have experienced poltergeist phenomena when teenaged?" [/quote]

The enigma of the "Fire Poltergeist" seems to have been with us for centuries. I personally consider Fire Poltergeists so closely related to Spontaneous Human Cremations/Combustions that I keep FP and SHC accounts together in the same file.

The most interesting case transpired in a suburb of Paris, France, in 1907 (if memory serves). Fire danced back and forth between TWO houses for approximately a week, pretty much leaving both buildings calcined wrecks. While the houses were nearest neighbors there was quite a considerable yardage between them.

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A possible?

Posted: 24-05-2006 19:56 Post subject:

It was added to the TV reminders but I thought I'd drop more details in here:

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Posted: 25-05-2006 16:39 Post subject:

Don't forget his collection of codpieces. Wink

Posted: 27-05-2006 02:12 Post subject:

*I'm* gonna combust in a minute if you don't shut up... Wink

I came across this story in the newspaper the other day and wondered if it might potentially be a case of Spontaneous Human Combustion?
The first story below tells how a 47 yr old woman who lived alone was found dead, but the second says that she died of "accidental burns", from a fire for which investigators could find no cause. It seems odd to me that there was no mention of the fire damaging her house. Other than the missing charred body (or remaining foot etc), this sounds a lot like a classic SHC case to me, and I was just curious what others thought about it. I have seen no further media reports on the case since then.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3761643a11aT,00.html

Police name dead Hamilton woman
11 August 2006

Police have named the 47-year-old woman found dead in her Hamilton home this week.

Caroline Mary Jeans was discovered in her Nawton house on Monday.

Ms Jeans, who lived alone, was last seen alive on Friday.

Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Page said the investigation into Ms Jeans' death was continuing, with police and ESR scientists examining her property.

"We are not actively seeking anyone else at this stage in relation to the death," Mr Page said.

"The scene examination will help us determine the inquiries we have to make to establish the course of events that led to Ms Jeans' death."

Mr Page refused to say what forensic tests were being done. There were "a number of things we have yet to sort out and a number of issues we have yet to resolve".

Police expect to be at the house for at least another day.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10395733

4.25pm Friday August 11, 2006

The Hamilton woman found dead in her home earlier this week died from accidental burns, say police.

Caroline Mary Jeans, 47, a part-time kitchen hand who lived alone in Baverstock Road, in the Hamilton suburb of Nawton, was found on Monday.

Hamilton police said they were satisfied she did not kill herself and no one else was involved in her death.

Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Page she had burns from an accidental fire in her home but they were not sure how the fire began.

"We are satisfied no one else was involved. She died as a result of burns and police are treating it as accidental," he said.

He said they were still trying to find the cause of the fire.

"We are still working through that. That is one of the issues for us."

He said the police examination of the house was due to finish today.

- NZPA

Posted: 20-10-2006 12:56 Post subject:

Found a nice article about SHC in the Journal of Forensic Medicine. Can't remember if I've already mentioned it.

Posted: 23-10-2006 05:52 Post subject:

The recurring bit about the flames coming from the abdomen got me thinking, and I checked to see what the corresponding chakra was there. It's the manipura which, funnily enough, has fire as its associated element. Razz

Posted: 06-11-2006 23:26 Post subject:

I heard this today. It happened to a workmate of someone I know very well and trust. This person has known the workmate for 30 years and trusts him too. The workmate, Bloke A, has just had 3 months off work with burns.

A, who is 51 and sporty, was on a British beach in the summer with a group of friends. It was evening and he was wearing jeans. They were having a barbecue.

Suddenly, A screamed that his leg was burning. It felt as if it was on fire. One of his mates bodily grabbed him, carried him to the sea and chucked him in. A couple of blokes then dragged his jeans off.

The skin of his entire leg came away with the jeans, which were not burned or damaged in any way.

The burn was so deep that A needed skin grafts. If he had not been helped so quickly, it seems that he may have died.

How did this happen?

There was barbecue lighting fluid present, although A says he had no contact with it.
No flames or smoke were seen by him or anyone else, and as I mentioned, the jeans were undamaged. That is, they were not singed - one leg of the jeans did have all the skin off one leg stuck to the inside where it sloughed off.

A reckons this was some kind of bizarre barbecue accident. But how could his leg catch fire inside his jeans, which remained intact? He himself is baffled by this.

I wonder if A can be persuaded to describe his experience to a paranormal investigator. Wink

Posted: 07-11-2006 00:06 Post subject:

The undamaged fabric could, I suppose, have acted as a wick*. Bright sunlight may have made a flame invisible. If he hadn't come near the fuel, could there have been some solvent on the fabric already? Just guessing. Confused

*I know the wick-effect usually evoked in SHC cases is a long burning thing which involves the body-fats of the victim. I'm thinking of a flame playing over the surface of this man's jeans with some kind of fuel on the surface.

Posted: 07-11-2006 09:10 Post subject:

On the inside of a pair of jeans, though. And just the one leg.

Wonder what happened to the jeans? How tactless would it be to ask to see them, d'you think... Wink