Printer Friendly Version Spontaneous Human Combustion: Known Reports in Chronological Order "Spontaneous Human Combustion" is the name given to those events in which humans appear to have burst into flames with no external ignition source; in short, events in which people appear to have unnaturally self-ignited. The known claims of evidence for Spontaneous Human Combustion are listed here in chronological order. Dates Unknown or Unsure: pre-1672: French Fiery Death pre-1809: Mrs. Peacocke's Fiery Death pre-1832: A.B.'s Supernatural Fiery Death pre-Mar. 11, 1891: Thin Woman's Fiery Death Dates Known: 1725, Feb. 20: Millet's Fiery Death 1731, Apr.: Countess Cornelia di Bandi's Fiery Death 1744, Apr. 10: Grace Pett's Combustion 1749, Feb.: Madame De Boiseon's Fiery Death 1770, Dec. 31: Hannah Bradshaw's Fiery Death 1772, Mar. 2: Mary Clues' Fiery Death 1802, Mar. 16: Massachusetts Woman's Fiery Death 1822, Sep. 5: Renateau's Burning Hands 1827, Apr. 19: M. Dessimont's Flaming Hands 1829, Dec. 25: Marie Bally's Fiery Death 1847, Jan. 6: Unknown Man's Fiery Death 1847, June 13: Countess of Goerlitz's Fiery Murder 1852, July 29: John Anderson's Combustion 1853, Nov. 1: Mary Ann Sturgeon's Evidential Death 1860, Mar. 16: Elizabeth Pully's Fiery Murder 1864: Unnamed Woman's Evidential Death 1866: Englishman's Fiery Corpse 1867: Andrew Nolte/Note Fiery Death 1869, Aug. 1: Paris Woman's Fiery Death 1885, Dec.: Mrs. Patrick Rooney's Fiery Death 1888, Feb. 19: A.M.'s Fiery Death 1908, Mar. 22: Wilhelmina Dewar's Fiery Death 1916, Dec. 24: Lillian Green's Fiery Death 1919, Apr. 7: J. Temple Thurston's Fiery Death 1930, Jan. 22: Mrs. Stanley Lake's Fiery Death 1938, Aug. 27: Phyllis Newcombe's Combustion 1943, Nov. 18: Madge Knight's Mysterious Burns 1951, July 1-2: Mary Reeser's Strange Death 1953, May: Esther Dulin's Fiery Death 1957, May: Anna Martin's Fiery Death 1959, Jan. 31: Jack Larber's Fiery Death 1959, Dec.: Billy Peterson's Fiery Death 1960, Nov.: Pike County Fiery Deaths 1963, Nov.: Dr. Gee's Investigation 1964: London Fiery Death 1964, Oct.: Olga Worth Stephens' Combustion 1966, Mar. 13: John Greeley's Combustion 1966, Mar. 13: George Turner's Combustion 1966, Mar. 13: Willem ten Bruik's Combustion 1966, Dec.: Dr. John Irving Bentley's Fiery Death 1980, Jan. 6: Blackwood Fiery Death 1982, Aug.: Chicago Fiery Death Unverifiable Accounts: 16??: English Woman's Fiery Death pre-1654: Deposition to the Academic Senate of Copenhagen pre-1654: French Woman's Fiery Stomach 1904: Gladys Cochrane's Fiery Death 1914-1938: G.A. Shepherdson's Combustion 1936-1962: London Man's Combustion 1949, Dec.: Ellen Coutres' Fiery Death pre-1976: Englishman's Fiery Death 1980, Oct.: Jeanna Winchester's Combustion False Leads: 1468-1476: Polonus Vorstius' Fiery Death 1938, Oct. -or- Oct. 1955-1959: Maybelle Andrews' Combustion

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