9: Spontaneous Human Combustion

Oddity by Oddity

Sep 15, 201713:14Society & Culture

In this episode of Oddity, we examine the hotly debated phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion. For hundreds of years, there have been reports of people bursting into flames, seemingly without being set alight by any...

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