What is spontaneous human combustion, and is it real?

According to Wikipedia, spontaneous human combustion is the belief that a person can simply burst into flame from within, leaving the body burned to ash while the surrounding room barely chars. It is pseudoscience - but the cases behind the legend are real, and they have a grim, ordinary explanation. - Read the rest

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