Spontaneous Human Combustion

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780709084020
• ISBN10: 0709084021
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Robert Hale

Summary

Jenny Randles and Peter Hough, both experienced researchers in the field of paranormal happenings, have explored the entire subject of spontaneous human combustion rationally from withininterviewing everyone from fire officers to victims who have survived this horrific experience. They assess the evidence in an objective manner and pose searching questions, uncovering a disturbing pattern of fear, hidden evidence, and attempted suppression of scientific mystery. Does the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion represent a natural energy force unleashed within our modern world? Can it unexpectedly relate to nuclear fusion, pollution, ecology, or even enigmas such as crop circles? The answers are as amazing as they are shocking.

Author Biography

Jenny Randles has been a prolific investigator into the unexplained for three decades. Her previous titles include Beyond Explanation?, Abduction, Sixth Sense, Phantoms of the Soap Operas, Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved, The Paranormal Year, Aliens: The Real Story, Star Children, Something in the Air, Supernatural Pennines and Supernatural Isle of Man. Peter Hough has investigated many real-life mysteries and is the author of Supernatural Lancashire, and together with Jenny Randles he has written six previous books on a range of unusual phenomena.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
Prologue	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
The Evidence
A History of Incineration	p. 17
The Burnings at Sowerby Bridge	p. 29
Heated Exchanges	p. 31
Q.E.D.	p. 37
The Truth About Mary Reeser	p. 52
A Fireman's Story	p. 64
A Blazing Row	p. 69
A Rather Unusual Death	p. 76
A Fireman's Investigation	p. 84
Who Flamed Roberta Rabbit?	p. 92
The Survivors	p. 98
The Theories
Chemical Reactions	p. 113
A Shocking Suggestion	p. 120
Bolts From the Blue	p. 130
Balls of Fire	p. 139
May the Force be Within You?	p. 157
The Kundalini Fire	p. 172
Conclusions
Fire Patterns	p. 179
References
Case Abstracts: An SHC Database	p. 187
Sources	p. 212
Figs	p. 216
Acknowledgements	p. 218
Index	p. 220
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