Spontaneous Human Combustion: Tales That Turn To Ash!

Spontaneous Human Combustion: Tales That Turn To Ash!

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach may just burst into flames!

In this episode walk through one of the strangest forensic mysteries on record: the 1951 death of Mary Reeser in St. Petersburg, Florida, where investigators found a small burn zone, a greasy smoky odor, a clock stopped at 4:20 a.m., and roughly 10 pounds of ash where her chair once sat. 

From there, we zoom out into the unsettling pattern behind spontaneous human combustion reports, including historical cases like Countess Cornelia Bandi and modern controversies like the Irish ruling that officially recorded spontaneous human combustion as a cause of death.

Listen now, share it with your most skeptical friend, and leave a review if you like our weird little shop. What’s your best theory for spontaneous human combustion?